Reba McEntire is all smiles behind the bar at Happy’s Place these days, but it was almost 20 years ago that she was saying goodbye to the series that first made her a bankable TV star.

The country music legend spent six seasons holding her fictional family together on The WB and later The CW’s Reba, a down-home sitcom about a Texas divorcee who is managing the chaos of her family, the remnants of her marriage, and the mistress who wants to be her best friend.