Woodrow
Tiberius Boyd (Woody to his family and friends) is a big-hearted innocent
making his way in a world filled with hard-hearted cynics. A man of humble
means, Woody was born and raised in Hanover, Indiana, a conservative farm town
known for its love of beer. He comes from a large farming family, comprised
mostly of his numerous uncles. He learned a lot about beer growing up in Hanover, and after high school Woody pursued his dream of becoming a bartender in the big
city by shot gunning his resume to various big city bars. One made its way into
the hands of Cheers’ bartender, Ernie "Coach" Pantusso, and after a time, the
duo struck up a correspondence.
The gang first meets Woody when he arrives at Cheers on a trip to meet his long
distance mentor. Sadly, his visit coincides with Coach’s untimely death. Sam,
seeing how eager he is, decides to give the kid a break, and offers him Coach’s
job. Although he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer -- and much like his
mentor, can’t always keep up with the boisterous barroom banter -- his
anecdotes of life in Hanover and chipper attitude make for easy admission into
the Cheers family. When he’s not working at the bar, Woody is busy
participating in community theater productions and working as an extra on a few
productions being shot in Boston, like Spenser: For Hire. His first big
“break” comes when he lands the part of "Veggie-Boy" in a vegetable
juice commercial.
Serially monogamous (unlike his boss), Woody’s first love is hometown sweetheart, Beth
Curtis. They try the long distance thing, but in time she marries someone else.
Next, Woody courts a widowed, older patron named Mary, even proposing marriage,
but she turns him down. Woody meets his future bride, Kelly Gaines -- the
pampered, sweet, dim daughter of wealthy Lillian VP, Walter Gaines -- when The
Lillian Corporation takes over the bar. He woos her by writing the infamous and
hilarious “Kelly Song” for her, but they don’t have an easy time of it as a
couple thanks to her interfering father, who thinks the simple farmer isn’t
good enough for his little princess. Love prevails, and Woody and Kelly marry
and have a child together.