History PlayingWith / ConnectedAllAlong

** Alice and Bob share a distant ancestor.[[note]] hard to notice without a genealogist[[/note]]

** Then it’s revealed that Sylvia’s sister and roommate Louise is the actual mastermind.

* '''Zig Zagged''': In the story, Rita meets Maureen, Saul, Keith, Nike, and Jules during her journey. It turns out that Saul is Rita’s missing uncle whom she never met while Nike is a former classmate of hers. The rest are unconnected to her.

** Martin has an adversarial relationship with older co-worker Lawrence at an advertisement agency and occasionally complains about this to his mother Barbara. Later when Martin accompanies Barbara to her high school reunion and bumps into Lawrence there. It turns out that Barbara was a classmate of Lawrence in high school.

** Billy is dating Willow’s sister Frida, whom Billy knows from church.

* '''Downplayed''': Peter and Martin attended the same school for years and only became classmates that school year, though knew each other beforehand.

** Grant and Billy live in a very small town with less than 100 people and only a few major places. Grant and Willow work at the same department store, being one of the few stores in town, though had little meaningful personal interaction beforehand. Billy then met Willow at the local bar, another popular place in town.

** Lina lied about the president’s daughter.

** Lawrence and Barbara's relationship was limited to just high school classmates and thus there wasn't much reason to continue the friendship beyond that setting. Additionally, "Lawrence" is a common name, thus Barbara wasn't clue into the fact that both her ex-classmate and her son's co-worker were the same person.

** Grant and Billy live in a very small town with less than 100 people with only a few major places. Grant and Willow just happen to work at the same department store as it’s one of the few stores in town though had little personal interaction. Billy then met Willow at the local bar, another popular place in town.
** Lawrence and Barbara's relationship was limited to just high school classmates and thus there wasn't much reason to continue the friendship beyond that setting. Additionally, "Lawrence" is a common name, thus Barbara didn't conclude that both her ex-classmate and her son's co-worker were the same person.

** Grant and Billy live in a very small town with only a few major places. Grant and Willow just happen to work at the same department store as it’s one of the few stores in town though had little personal interaction. Billy then met Willow at the local bar, another popular place in town.

** Lawrence and Barbara's relationship was limited to just high school classmates and thus there wasn't much reason to continue the friendship beyond that setting.

** Martin works with Lawrence at an advertisement agency. Martin accompanies his mother Barbara to her high school reunion and bumps into Lawrence there. It turns out that Barbara was a classmate of Lawrence in high school.

* '''Downplayed''':

* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

** Charlie is not very close to Lina outside several classes and doesn’t follow politics and thus doesn’t know everything about the president, so
** Grant and Billy live in a very small town with only a few major places. Grant and Willow just happen to work at the same department store as it’s one of the few stores in town, while Billy met Willow at the local bar, another popular place in town.

** Rita does not know every member of Mabel’s family and is thoroughly surprised when she learns that Stan is Mabel’s cousin

** Sylvia transfers to school and becomes classmates with Jeanne. It turns out that they were classmates until the second grade when Sylvia moved away.

** It had been eight years since Sylvia moved away and Jeanne initially didn’t remember her since they were seven when they last met.

** Sylvia and Jeanne aren’t classmates.

** Then it’s revealed that Sylvia’s family are the new neighbors that moved next door to Jeanne’s family, though she hadn’t met them yet.

** Charlie is classmates and acquaintances with Lina at their mutual private school. When he and his Olympics-winning sports team are invited to meet the president, Charlie learns that Lina is the president’s daughter.

** Martin meets Lawrence at his mother Barbara’s high school reunion. Turns out Lawrence had a relationship with Barbara around the time Martin would’ve been conceived, thus making Lawrence the biological father of Martin.

** Lawrence and Barbara’s relationship didn’t last long and ended less than amicably with Lawrence moving to a different country and Barbara deciding to not tell Lawrence because the latter didn’t want children. By the time Lawrence learns of Martin’s connection to him, he hasn’t seen Barbara in about 20 years.
** It had been eight years since Sylvia moved away and Jeanne initially didn’t remember her.

** Martin is not Lawrence’s son according to Barbara. His actual dad is Barbara’s other ex, Rodney.

** Stan the salesman, on the other hand, is Mabel’s cousin and he briefly met Rita when he tried to sell a bike to her on her journey.

** Except Barbara lied and Lawrence is Martin’s father.

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* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':

* '''Enforced''':

--> '''David''': I guess everyone’s connected to everyone else in some shape or another.
* '''Invoked''':

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
--> '''Jamie''': Hailey finding her dad and telling him about it is just like in those movies where the dad is a slacker or something and has to adapt to responsibility.
--> '''Mindy''': You've been watching way too many movies, my dude.
* '''Played For Drama''':
* '''Played For Laughs''':

** Grant and Willow work at the same department store. Later, when his brother Billy invites him to meet his girlfriend, he learns that Willow is the one who is dating Billy.

** Grant and Billy live in a very small town, with Billy meeting Willow at a local bar while Willow Willow
* '''Inverted''':
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* '''Double Subverted''':
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--> '''Hailey''': Oscar, I have something important to tell you.
--> '''Oscar''': You're not going to tell me that you're my long-lost daughter or something, are you?