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The character kept audiences enthralled over the course of a lengthy plot arc: the will-they-won't-they romantic tribulations between Diane and Sam Malone ( Ted Danson).
Attractive, in a non-threatening way, Long was ideally cast. Frequently left looking on at Sam's bustier and scantily attired conquests, Long's contrast was compelling.
Diane found Sam's rugged and rather obvious charms, by turns, repulsive and magnetic. Sam was driven by his insatiable lust (as always) and was both maddened and drawn by Diane's ambivalence toward him.
Diane was also a persistent thorn in the side of her feisty barmaid peer Carla Lupozone Tortelli LeBec ( Rhea Perlman) who had little time for Diane's myriad pretensions, spending much of her shift bursting Diane's pomposity with rapier wit.
In comparison to the bar's general clientele, Diane Chambers seemed amusingly out of place, until she found a soul mate, of sorts, in the intellectual Frasier Crane - with whom she had some romantic involvement.
Long left the series in 1987 but made repeated special appearances up until the series' completion in 1993.
Chambers, Diane