In the final season, Woody Boyd is elected to what Boston body?

In the final season of Cheers, Woody Boyd is elected to the Boston City Council. The unlikely political turn begins when Frasier Crane conducts an experiment that unexpectedly boosts Woody’s public profile.

Woody, played by Woody Harrelson, arrives in season four from Hanover, Indiana, and becomes the successor to Coach as Sam’s principal bartender. His good-hearted innocence and frequent misunderstandings make him a comic contrast to the more cynical bar regulars. Politics initially seems completely out of character for him, which is part of the joke.

The election is not to the Massachusetts Senate, Boston Licensing Board or Boston School Committee. Those options sound plausible because the show often mixes local institutions with fictional comic situations, but the established storyline specifically names the Boston City Council.

Woody’s political ambitions are treated as an absurd extension of his sudden popularity rather than a serious career arc. In Frasier, the character’s future is exaggerated even further: Frasier imagines Woody eventually becoming president and using nuclear weapons in a comically misguided way.