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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** In the
** Also in the
** In the
** In the episode "The Paper Route", [[Edward Asner]] plays the publisher of the Orson Herald.
* [[The Character Died With Her]]: Aunt Ginny. At the end of the third-season episode "The Map", which had begun with the Hecks coming back from her funeral, there was an [[In Memoriam]] to Frances Bay, the actress who had played her until her death several months earlier.
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*** Sue does strain credulity a bit early in the third season when she tells Frankie she just had her first period, given that Eden Sher is, uh, quite a ''developed'' young lady.
* [[Edited for Syndication]]: ''The Middle'' is already a pretty family-friendly show, but Hallmark Channel for whatever reason feels the need to make it extra squeaky-clean, removing words like "damn", "piss", and "nipple" on an inconsistent basis.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Girl]]: [[Brooke Shields]] in "The Neighbor" and [[Betty White]] in "Average Rules".
** Not to mention ''the'' [[Almighty Janitor]] from ''[[Scrubs]]''... as the father.
** And Doris Roberts, Patricia's character's archnemesis from
** Apparently [[Glee|Sam "White Chocolate" Evans]] did a stint as an elementary school teacher while he was away from Lima.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Why is [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|Captain K'Nuckles]]/[[SpongeBob SquarePants|The Flying Dutchman]] running the car dealership?
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** Plots in two episodes are based on events from the actors' real lives. Atticus Shaffer once went out for Halloween as the same obscure Scottish World War I hero Brick did in the first Halloween episode, and Patricia Heaton's family once hosted a Japanese exchange student who didn't say a word to them for two weeks—just like what happens in "Foreign Exchange".
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Dick and Jerry Van Dyke really are brothers.
* [[Recycled Script]]: Season 7's "Survey Says..." has Brick taking an office store's online shopping survey too seriously... exactly like in Season 5's "The Wind Chimes" when he thinks his suggestion to a pretzel company's 1-800 number will make or break them. In both episodes, he incorrectly assumed that participation automatically made him an official employee.
* [[Write What You Know]]: Frankie's later retraining as a dental hygienist mirrors one of the show's creators, who formerly worked in that capacity herself.
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