Fun Cheers fact: Sam Malone was so named to sound like “Sam Alone,” a prophecy on the upshot of his Lothario ways. The plan was to give the series a Citizen Kane ending, but the producers chickened out.

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Alternately they could have gone with Jones Malone, which sounds like "Home Alone" and the series could have ended with him torturing a pair of bumbling home invaders.