# 1961: Walter Patterson leaves as principal of Hillridge Junior High. [You're A Good Man, Lizzie McGuire]
# 1964: Sonny Reid, age 16, gets his first tatoo. [Gordo's Bar Mitzvah]
# Sam's baseball card collection includes Roberto Clemente's rookie card (1955, Pittsburgh Pirates), and a Willie Mays card from "the year he started putting chicken on the hill" (though this description actually applies to Willie Stargell, who played for the Pirates from 1962 through 1982). [First Kiss]
# As a kid, Sam apparently tried jumping off high places using umbrellas or sheets as parachutes, since he warns Matt that he has experience that it won't work. [Gordo's Video]
# Sam watched scary movies as a kid, and hid under his bed. [Over The Hill]
# Sam's dad frequently tried to get him to do things he didn't like because his dad liked them. [Movin' On Up]
# Sam became a hall monitor, and was stuffed in a garbage can. [Obsession]
# 1971: When Sam was 10, he wanted a "Quickie Bake Oven". [Xtreme Xmas]
# Sam had a "bad rope-climbing incident" as a kid (he's afraid of heights). [Party Over Here]
# Sam built a soap-box racer, decorated in red, white, and blue (perhaps a Bicentennial theme?). At some point, his mother drove it. [Scarlett Larry]
# Jo's career aptitude test supposedly revealed her to be fit for being "Rock & Roll Diva with World Renowned Shoe Collection". I doubt that's a category on real-life school-adminsistered aptitude tests, so she may be fibbing on this, though she didn't like it when Sam fibbed about his ancestors' achievements in another episode. [Jack of All Trades]
# Sam's aptitude test revealed him to have "untapped mechanical ability". [Jack of All Trades]