Carla Tortelli

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Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec , commonly known as Carla Tortelli , is a waitress on the American television show Cheers , played by Rhea Perlman. Outwardly, at least, Carla is a bad-tempered woman who expresses contempt for many (perhaps even most) people. She had four children with her husband Nick when the series started and eight children with three different men when it ended.

Carla appeared in all 271 episodes of Cheers in 1982-1993 and guest starred in "Cheerful Goodbyes", an episode of the Frasier spin-off. He also appeared in "Cheers", an episode of St. Elsewhere ; "Fear of Flying", an episode of The Simpsons , and a pilot episode of the short-lived spinoff The Tortellis . Together with Sam Malone and Norm Peterson, he is one of only three characters to appear in every episode of Cheers.

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Casting

According to an interview by Ted Danson, Perlman was the first of all actors employed as part of a cast ensemble and then cast as Carla Tortelli, "a wise and cynical minister". Before she starred as Carla, she once worked as a waitress at a New York City restaurant, serving food such as spaghetti and fish. Also, he trained at Bull & amp; Finch Pub (now called Cheers Beacon Hill) by a waiter to prepare his character. Perlman previously appeared as a sweet and nice girlfriend Louie DePalma (Danny DeVito), in contrast to Carla's tomboy, at the Taxi.

I think Carla has a lot of things that I want. I do not like him, but he's the one who always gets jokes. I always think about something two hours later. But we're both understated and practical. We are survivors. The characters are well written, but you always put yourself into them.

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Cheers

Carla is "full of spirit", "worldly wise", and very superstitious. When the show premiered in 1982, he had four children to support, the father of his ex-husband Nick Tortelli (Dan Hedaya): Anthony (Timothy Williams), Serafina (Leah Remini), Gino (Josh Lozoff), and Anne Marie (Risa Littman). During marriage, he is a loser father and unfaithful, a husband who is unfaithful to Carla by having an affair with another woman.

As a Catholic, he does not exercise birth control or traditional beliefs about monogamous sex. In "Whodunit" (1985), as he learned, when he entered high school, he became pregnant. He considers himself the "most fertile woman who lives". In "Swearing to God" (1988), when Sam vows to trust God, Carla abuses Sam to avoid violating his oath and subsequent association to avoid superstitious events. Over time, she gave birth to four more children: Lucinda (Sabrina Wiener) father of Nick, Ludlow, nicknamed Lud (Jarrett Lennon), by Dr. Frasier's mentor. Bennett Ludlow (James Karen), and Elvis twins (Danny Kramer) and Jesse (Thomas Tulak) by Eddie Lebec (Jay Thomas). All children but one child becomes unruly, rotten, and spoiled. They are opposed to anyone who replaces their mother, Carla, including a babysitter, like Cliff Clavin, a bar protector who knows everything.

Carla was born from her father's Catholic family Benito and her mother (Sada Thompson), whose maiden name is Mussolini. She grew up in the Providence Hill section of Rhode Island and attended Saint Clete School for Wayward Girls. According to her mother, Carla was named after her grandmother's ass. Carla has siblings, including two sisters (the younger Annette (also played by Perlman) and Angeline) and two brothers (including Sal). Six older siblings.

In "The Cranemakers" (1989), according to Whitney Norris (James R. Winker), the representative of Carla's late grandfather's legacy, Antonio Lozuponi, Antonio left his wife in 1921, moved to Los Angeles with only his "lucky quarters" luck selling peaches and oil products. Feeling bad for leaving his family behind, he gave a surviving family, a testament of $ 20 million, which his illegitimate son, Paolo, "spent his entire wealth on a horse and a loose woman." The will was not found until Paolo's death in the previous month. Norris only gave Antonio "lucky quarter" to Carla, destroying it.

She also has Frankie's nephew, to whom Lilith and Rebecca are interested while she works as a temporary bartender for one time.

Servant

As a waiter, he is more experienced than his nemesis Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), who has a nice upscale personality and character, unlike Carla. In "Pick a Con... Any Con" (1983), Carla wants to be a bartend as a successor to Sam and an experienced coach, but Sam chooses Diane, who has never done bartending before. Then he became frustrated when Diane did too slowly to make Bloody Mary, especially with the instruction book. When Sam scolds Carla for not telling Diane that she has prepared a big pitcher of Bloody Mary, Carla replies that she is waiting to see Diane make vodka.

Carla treats regular customers with disparaging sarcasm and most negatives, including Norm Peterson, Cliff Clavin, and Frasier Crane. In "Woody Goes Belly Up" (1985), Carla constantly insults Frasier, who comments on Diane's loss, with comments. In the "Great Score of Cliffie" (1986), Carla refused at first to dance with Cliff to dance the ballroom until she promised him a VCR. Unfortunately, Carla was given a replacement for Cliff, a hippie. In the car, when Cliff accidentally told him that he was split between him and Diane, Carla tricked him into thinking that Diane was attracted to him. Moments later, Cliff tries to seduce Diane, but Diane kicks him out of the car and then leaves her stranded. In "Sam Ahoy" (1989), while Sam, Carla, and Norm are in danger of being killed by bombs planted on sailboats or sharks, Carla suggests a large man (implied Norm) is thrown into a shark, so he and Sam will be able to escape self. Norm responded with a frown, "I never liked you, Carla."

A devoted and often disappointing Boston Red Sox fan, he became friends with Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Coach Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto) during Sam's baseball days at least five years before the show began and began working for him in Cheers when Sam retires from baseball and then buys a bar for ownership.

Romantic and children

Nick Tortelli

In "Father Knows Last" (1983), Nick impregnates Carla with Lucinda, combined with Rhea Perlman's pregnancy (which occurs early in the first season). Since Nick can not raise her, leaving a baby without a father, Carla finally receives alms from a bar patron for her and her baby. In "Lil Sister Do not Cha" (1983), Lucinda was born. In "Battle of the Exes" (1984), Carla and Sam pose as a couple to insult Nick at his marriage with Loretta (Jean Kasem). Nick becomes jealous and then, after marriage, begs him to be a part of his life again. He refuses and then "prefers" Sam on it. When Nick leaves, Carla admits that she still has feelings for Nick. Then Carla and Sam finally embraced but finally felt embarrassed, so they assured each other that they were still friends.

In "Little Carla, Happy at Last" (1987), Carla allows Anthony (Timothy Williams) and his wife Annie (Mandy Ingber) to stay at her home after they are kicked out by Nick and Loretta. In "Slumber Party Massacred" (1988), Carla drove them out of the house for having children at their young age, making her grandmother. In "Loathe and Marriage" (1993), Serafina (Leah Remini), who previously rebelled at Unplanned Parenthood (1991), was pregnant with a fiancee's son, retired Pat McDougall (Dennis Cockrum) officer, and plans to marry him, Carla. At the wedding, Nick appears with his wife, Loretta, for his daughter, Serafina, who invites them, despite the nasty things Nick caused in the past. Carla wants to kick Nick out, but Serafina tells her biological parents to make a mistake with each other and not ruin the marriage. Nick and Carla decide to do it for Serafina.

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In the "detective story?" (1985), Carla becomes involved with Dr Bennett Ludlow (James Karen), Frasier's mentor, and later regrets becoming pregnant with Ludlow (incorporated by another pregnancy Perlman). Bennett proposed marriage, but Carla refused.

In "I Kid You Not" (1989), Bennett Ludlow, Jr. (Jarrett Lennon), and the bad in the sport, nicknamed Carla "Lud", befriends Frasier and Lilith and then enjoy matching activities, such as operas and foreign movies, with them. Feeling bad for taking time with Ludlow, Cranes invited him to dinner at a seafood restaurant. At the restaurant, Ludlow does not like food, so Carla tries to escort her, but Cranes does not agree with the hope that Ludlow will eventually love it. Ludlow burned Frasier's shoes, desecrating his relationship with Frasier. Carla was glad that Ludlow was a rotten Tortelli and then took her out for a hamburger, but not without making her apologize to Frasier. Ludlow appeared briefly in two episodes: "Unplanned Parenthood" (1991) and "Rich Man, Wood Man" (1992).

Eddie LeBec

In the two-part episode of "Never Love a Goalie" (1987), Carla meets ice hockey player Boston Bruins, Guy "Eddie" LeBec (Jay Thomas), who has an endless winning streak and a Canadian French background, and then begins dating her. However, because of their relationship, unfortunately Eddie will end. Because both believe in superstition, they end their relationship to avoid damaging Eddie's ability to play. Nevertheless, they reconciled soon afterwards and promised to split up repeatedly before every game to avoid a "curse". In "Home Is the Sailor", Carla is revealed to be a few months pregnant with Eddie's twins (incorporated by another pregnancy Perlman). In the two-part episode "Little Carla, Happy at Last", Carla and Eddie are married. He almost quit his job as a waitress because Eddie said that he would take care of it financially. However, Bruins freed him from his contract because his age and athletic performance declined, and he could not find any other team. In "Airport V" (1988), Eddie ends up as a penguin mascot for a traveling ice show in another state. Later in the 1987-88 season, Carla gave birth to their twin boys, named Elvis and Jesse.

In "Death Take a Holiday on Ice" (1989), Eddie was killed by resurfacer ice when he saved the lives of other members of the ice show. At the time of the funeral, it was revealed that she also had Gloria's wife with twins. Carla changed her family's name back to Tortelli to avoid confusion with other "Mrs. LeBec". The death of the character of Jay Thomas Eddie LeBec has been claimed to derive from Thomas's comment "about" Perlman in a radio show. However, Thomas denies this and states that he only refers to the character of Carla. Despite Ken Levine's praise on acting Thomas and Eddie and Carla's couples, Eddie was written out of the show because Perlman thought that the couple would make it "not part of the people at the bar."

Other men

In "Affairs of the Heart" (1983), Carla dated Hank (Don Amendolia), a sweet, intelligent man, though she was reluctant. However, he knows that Hank has heart problems and that any joy, like sex, will put him at risk of being fatal. He dumped Hank but later called him the "best" girlfriend he once had. In "Head Over Hill" (1991), Carla tries to pull back at John Allen Hill (Keene Curtis), upper-class rival Sam, owner of Melville's restaurant, and co-owner Cheers, on behalf of Sam. However, she ironically ended up sleeping with her. Since then, he had sex with John. In "Feelings... Whoa, Whoa, Whoa" (1992), she comes into terms of her feelings for John, but she and John find each other incompatible except in bed.

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Softer

In the only episode of Frasier , "Cheerful Goodbyes" (2002), according to him, two sons of Carla are imprisoned and his home is on the verge of foreclosure. He was relieved that Cliff would retire to Florida. However, at her retirement party, influenced by her friends' farewell comments - including Carla's scolding that she blamed as a sarcastic honor - Cliff decides to stay in Boston, much to her dismay. He tries to attack him with a harpoon but is constrained by others.

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Reception

Carla Tortelli was voted favorite character by eight percent of 1,011 people, surveyed in 1993 by the Times Mirror Center for People and the Press (now the Pew Research Center). He was ranked No. 66 of Bravo's The 100 Greatest TV Characters of all time. Steve Craig of the University of North Texas stated that he "lacks the charm, warmth, and seriousness of feminine ideals" and is a taunt of anti-feminism for his "disrespectful" association. Bill Simmons, who had previously been from ESPN, praised him in episodes that were less focused on him.

Heather Hundley noted that the series sent a "double standard" of men and women, engaged in promiscuity. He notes that the series portrays Sam Malone as a hero, who has never suffered the negative consequences of his promiscuity, while describing Carla as "nymphomaniac", who regrets his own association for unlawful pregnancies and mistaken lovers. He found the description of premarital sex series "negative and unhealthy", especially to eliminate other dangers of promiscuity, such as sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Rhea Perlman won the Emmy Awards as a Supporting Actress in Comedy Series in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1989 for her role as Carla. She was honored as Best Supporting Actress (Comedy) by Audience for Television Quality in 1985 and "Best Supporting Actress" by the American Comedy Award in 1989. Simon Cocks of Addictions Television website called her "show a link the weak "and" irritated [by] him [a] and his insensitive and uninteresting comments [.] "