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  • Growing the Beard: The show's early years with Ross Shafer as host, while popular at the time, are now nearly forgotten.
  • Memetic Mutation: A not-inconsiderable number of the local stereotypes on the show were invented for the show, thanks to John Keister knowing every nook and cranny of the city. They are now, to varying extents, firmly attached to the real-life locations.
  • Retroactive Recognition:
    • Bill Nye and Joel McHale got their start here.
    • Several of the rockers from the "Lame List" made some good names for themselves in the era of Grunge rock, including Kim Thayil of Soundgarden.
    • In the voice acting variation, David Scully joined the show in its last two seasons. He would later go on to be better known as the voice of Sergeant Johnson.
    • Pat Cashman is also the announcer in the Japanese and English releases of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and the narrator/"camera voice" on Bill Nye the Science Guy.
    • Lauren Weedman, later Horny Patty on Hung and Doris on Looking, was a featured player at the end of the 14th season and a regular for the 15th season.
    • Joe Guppy, a writer/performer in the show's early seasons, was part of the cast in the 1989 revival season of Not Necessarily The News. Wife Nancy was also a NNTN writer and bit player before rejoining Almost Live! in 1992.
    • Early host Ross Shafer would later host the 1990-91 revival of Match Game on ABC (the role was intended for Bert Convy, but he fell ill and had to be replaced).
  • Tear Jerker: No, seriously. Funny as this song is, if you grew up in Seattle in the 1980's and early 1990', odds are it might make you a little misty-eyed. Becomes a double-whammy if you were a regular viewer of the show at the time it was announced KING5 would not be renewing the show, as a rerun of the episode with that song as the opener was the first episode shown after the announcement. "The show, it ain't a changin'", indeed.

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