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* [[Actor Allusion]]: |
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** In the Season 1 finale, Neil Flynn's character mentions a [[Scrubs|brain trust]]. |
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** Also in the Season 2 premiere, Frankie goes to meet Brick's new teacher. Playing the teacher? {{spoiler|Doris Roberts! Or Marie of [[Everybody Loves Raymond]]}}! [[Hypocritical Humor|She ironically accuses]] Frankie of [[My Beloved Smother|smothering her children]]. |
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** In the Season 3 premiere, the hiker played by Ray Romano tells Frankie "[[Everybody Loves Raymond|In an alternate universe]] you and I could have been very happy together." |
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** In the episode "The Paper Route", [[Edward Asner]] plays the publisher of the Orson Herald. |
** In the episode "The Paper Route", [[Edward Asner]] plays the publisher of the Orson Herald. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Girl]]: Brooke Shields in "The Neighbor" and [[Betty White]] in "Average Rules". |
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Girl]]: Brooke Shields in "The Neighbor" and [[Betty White]] in "Average Rules". |
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** Not to mention ''the'' [[Almighty Janitor]] from ''[[Scrubs]]''... as the father. |
** Not to mention ''the'' [[Almighty Janitor]] from ''[[Scrubs]]''... as the father. |
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** And Doris Roberts, Patricia's character's archnemesis from |
** And Doris Roberts, Patricia's character's archnemesis from ''Raymond'', as Brick's teacher. |
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** Apparently [[Glee|Sam "White Chocolate" Evans]] did a stint as an elementary school teacher while he was away from Lima. |
** Apparently [[Glee|Sam "White Chocolate" Evans]] did a stint as an elementary school teacher while he was away from Lima. |
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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Why is [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|Captain K'Nuckles]]/[[SpongeBob SquarePants|The Flying Dutchman]] running the car dealership? |
* [[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". |
** 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". |
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* [[Real Life Relative]]: Dick and Jerry Van Dyke really are brothers. |
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Dick and Jerry Van Dyke really are brothers. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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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* Brick (The actor) has Osteogenesis Imperfecta. |
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