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  • Looking back at the Book Ends trope, remember also when Sam opened the bar? There was a kid/teen who walked trying to convince Sam he was old enough to buy a beer. Now go forward eleven years to the end where some guy try to walk in, but Sam says the bar's closed for tonight. What if that guy was the same kid from the first opening, now actually old enough to have a beer and finally enters in Cheer once again?
    • If the kid was 10 or above in the first episode, he'd be the right age in the finale.
  • In "The Last Picture Show", a former owner takes on Sam's duties for a night, and, upon meeting Woody, remarks "This must be Coach's boy." Bearing that in mind, is it not possible that, somewhere along the line, Pantusso DNA mixed with Boyd DNA and the result is that Woody is, in some small way, Coach's boy?
    • Consider the following: Their personalities are very similar, they are both thick as mud (bad genes perhaps), and the fact that Coach was the only person who wrote back when Woody was looking for a job may denote a correspondence between long-lost relatives.
      • Except that it's outright stated that Coach's dementia is not natural but due to taking one too many baseballs to the head.
  • It all takes place on a holodeck. Now, stay with me. See, all the characters drink all that beer and suffer no real ill-effects. It's obviously synthehol. Norm, is of course, Morn from Deep Space Nine visiting other friends. And Captain Bateson likes to play the part of a nuerotic psychatrist. And there's that long-lived Vulcan officer who took a turn playing the hysterical human woman who 'owned' the bar.

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