Marilu Henner is driving home this sentiment.
The “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries” actress, 73, opened up about the beloved sitcom “Taxi,” which she starred in from 1978 to 1983.
“All due respect to the ‘Cheers’ cast, I always thought the ‘Taxi’ cast was a hotter cast,” Henner said while on the “Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan” podcast on Thursday.
“Taxi” ran for five seasons and followed a group of cabbies in New York. The series included Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, Tony Danza, Jeff Conaway, Christopher Lloyd, Randall Carver, Andy Kaufman and Jack Gilford.
Kaufman died a year after the show went off the air in 1984 from lung cancer at just 35 years old. Gilford died in 1990 at age 81 from stomach cancer.
Conway passed away at 60 in 2011 from a drug overdose.
“Cheers,” which took place at a bar in Boston, starred Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer and late stars George Wendt and Kirstie Alley.
Alley died in 2022 at the age of 71 due to colon cancer. Wendt died at age 76 in May.
The show stayed on the air for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993.
“We have an expression in my family,” Henner continued, “PF, it’s like BDE only it’s not size-ist and sexist like BDE is. PF measures the sexual quotient of people or things like, ‘Man, there was so much PF in that movie!’ or ‘God, I went to his new restaurant and…’”
“PF,” she detailed, “stands for p—y factor and penis factor.”
“So I always thought the ‘Taxi’ cast had more PF than most other casts,” confessed Henner. “Forget about ‘Cheers.’ Except for maybe ‘Friends’ later.”
“Friends” premiered in 1994 and ran for ten seasons until 2004.
The cast of six friends who live in the same NYC apartment complex were made up of Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc.
The main cast has only lost one star, Perry, who died in 2023 from a drug overdose at the age of 54.
In March, the cast of “Taxi” reunited in honor of DeVito, 80, as he received the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre.
Henner, Danza, 74, Hirsch, 90, Kane, 73, and Lloyd, 86 were all on deck for the celebration.
“Pictured are some of the friendliest celebs I ever did meet,” Rachel Dratch wrote on Instagram beneath a shot of the gang on stage.
But the cast is no stranger to get togethers. In May 2023, Danza shared a shot of himself, Lloyd, Hirsch and Kane out to lunch.
“Love this crew of old friends so much! #OldFriends #Taxi,” he sweetly wrote.
Last summer, Kane admitted that the bunch is still thick as thieves decades later.
“The fact is that we have kept each other’s company in a close and loving way for all these years since ‘Taxi,’” she told People at the time.
This past January, DeVito, who won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of cab dispatcher Louie De Palma on “Taxi,” revealed just how the role came to be.
“You audition all the time. I never looked at the log line [when auditioning for a role] like: ‘Audition for male, six foot four,’ you know, ‘250 pounds,’ I’d go for the audition,” the star told AARP. “I don’t care what the description is. Once I get in the room, I’m going to do what I’m going to do. Like with ‘Taxi.’”
“I walked in, they’re all sitting around, and I said with my script in my hand, ‘One thing I want to know before we start: Who wrote this s—?’ and I threw it on the table,” DeVito recounted about his audition.
He added, “It was almost like a nanosecond of ‘Did I screw everything up?’ They fell on the floor. Louie walked into their lives. The rest is history.”
