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* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: In "The Girls' School" episode, the character Blair (the snobby rich girl, played by Lisa Welchel) can be seen puffing on a cigarette; this character trait would be dropped (Welchel is a non-smoker) by the time ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' made it to series.
** Twisted around in a 1984 episode, where Arnold and his buddy, Dudley, experiment with smoking cigarettes. They get a graphic lesson when Dudley's father reveals he is a chronic smoker and needs a lung operation; the fade-to-black scene showed the man lighting up in the hallway, just after leaving the Drummonds' apartment.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''[[The Facts of Life]]'', which spawned ''The Facts of Life''. The spinoff outlasted its parent show by two years, and had a year-longer run (nine seasons, vs. ''Strokes''' eight).
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Kimberly.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Adelaide Brubaker for Edna Garrett, then Pearl Gallagher for Adelaide.