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** Diane borrows money from Sam in one episode, and proceeds to spend it on apparently frivolous items before paying Sam back. This is a very common sitcom plot, used again in ''[[Frasier]]'' and many other shows.

* [[Star-Making Role]]: True for almost the whole cast, except for Kirstie Alley who got her big break a few years earlier with ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'', and arguably Bebe Neuwirth with her stage experience. Most dramatically true for Woody Harrelson, who went on to a very successful film career.

* [[Technology Marches On]]: In the Season 3 finale, everyone at the bar is impressed by Sam's new answering machine. In Season 4 Sam is jealous when Diane's boyfriend has a car phone.

** In "Where Nobody Knows Your Name", Frasier mentions the bar TV's "sixteen wonderful cable channels".

** As Cracked [http://www.cracked.com/article_19109_6-things-our-kids-just-plain-wont-get.html noted], the [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]], here personified by Cliff Clavin, is basically extinct. In an age of ubiquitous portable communication devices, anyone could smack down Cliff's BS. However, in ''Cheerful Goodbyes'', Cliff proved immune to corrections.

** Similarly to the above, in one episode the gang has an argument about what Sam Malone's big-league batting average was. Now they could just look it up on their phones.

** Rebecca's "very expensive calculator" in "My Son, the Father".

** More than one scene where the bar telephone rings, Carla or Sam asks "Who isn't here?", and everyone raises their hand. Remember when people could actually go out and not be always reachable by cell phone?

** Cliff totes around an enormous video camera in Season 11's "Sunday Dinner".

** In "Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure", Woody buys Rebecca "a portable, solar-powered phone".

** In "Those Lips, Those Ice", Frasier needs a ''briefcase'' to carry around his "portable cellular telephone".

** Acknowledged by Cliff in "Cheerful Goodbyes" that email has hurt postal mail, but dismisses it as a "fad".

* [[Throw It In]]: According to John Ratzenberger, he badly botched his audition for the role of Norm, and, figuring he had nothing to lose, asked if the cast included a bar [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|know-it-all]]. He proceeded to improvise for a few minutes as such a character, and the writers subsequently created the part of Cliff for him.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Joel Hodgson]] [http://www.whmpodcast.com/2012/01/joel-hodgson-whm-interview.html revealed in a recent interview] that he auditioned for the role of Woody Boyd.