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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Woody, for Coach; Rebecca, for Diane
* [[The Teaser]]: The show always opened with one.
* [[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".
* [[Theme Tune]]: A particularly catchy one.
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: After hurting his back at the Cranes' house Norm gets very comfortable there in "The Norm Who Came in from the Cold". He eventually brings the whole bar there.
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