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* {{Corpsing}}: During the increasingly-awful F.A.D.E. presentation in "Smoking," you can see some of the kids giggling in a couple crowd shots. Fortunately it's believable that a kid might actually crack up at ''how'' bad it is.
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* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Creator/OrlandoJones and Creator/TylerJamesWilliams are often mistaken for being related, so of course they cast Jones as Williams' father.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Ava is named after Ava Coleman, the show's executive story editor.
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* DescendedCreator: Quinta Brunson stars in the show. Kate Peterson, one of the staff writers of the show (who also worked with Brunson when they were at Website/BuzzFeed) plays a small part of Tina Schwartz in the first episode.

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* DescendedCreator: Quinta Brunson stars in the show. Kate Peterson, one of the staff writers of the show (who also worked with Brunson when they were at Website/BuzzFeed) plays a small part of Tina Schwartz in the first episode.Schwartz.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Played by Zack Fox, who is an accomplished and talented rapper in real life.

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Played Tariq, Janine’s wannabe rapper boyfriend, is played by Zack Fox, who is an accomplished and talented rapper in real life.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Played by Zack Fox, who is an accomplished and talented rapper in real life.
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* ActorSharedBackground: Comedian Reggie Conquest is known for playing Devin, the bitter cafeteria worker at Abbott. However, Conquest has actually incorporated his previous experiences working as a cafeteria worker into his stand-up. Specifically, his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJeQ5oJIhqs jokes describe]] how students would casually refer to him as “Lunch Lady Boy,” while parents would regularly use him as an AntiRoleModel to their failing kids.
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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.

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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[ https://www.[[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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Sorry. Kept confusing Reddit and Wikipedia pothole linking since it's been a while since I've done one here.


* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[training ground for Black child actors https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.

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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[training ground for Black child actors [[ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors]], com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[training ground for Black child actors|https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.

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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[training ground for Black child actors|https://www.actors https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors|training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.

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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[https://www.[[training ground for Black child actors|https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors|training ground for Black child actors]], com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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* BecomingTheMask: A meta-example with the show itself becoming something of a [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-21/abbott-elementary-cast-quinta-brunson-child-actors|training ground for Black child actors]], with some of the younger ones even coming to think of the adult main cast as real teachers.
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* ShoutOut: Brunson named Willard Abbot Public School after her favorite teacher Ms. Abbott and after fellow Philly native Creator/WillSmith.

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* ShoutOut: Brunson named Willard Abbot Abbott Public School after her favorite teacher Ms. Abbott and after fellow Philly native Creator/WillSmith.
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* ShoutOut: Brunson named Willard Abbot Public School after her favorite teacher Ms. Abbott and after fellow Philly native Creator/WillSmith.
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* DearNegativeReader: When some commenters questioned why a show set in an inner-city public school wasn't addressing or depicting shootings, Creator/QuintaBrunson took to social media to declare those people sick and that to even bring the idea up was beyond the pale.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The show is based on Quinta Brunson's experience with her own and elementary school that her mother teaches at. The character Barbara is even very closely based on her own mother.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The show is based on Quinta Brunson's experience with her own and experiences at an elementary school that where her mother teaches at. was a teacher. The character Barbara is even very closely based on her Quinta's own mother.
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* DarkHorseVictory: [[Creator/SherylLeeRalph Sheryl Lee Ralph's]] Emmy win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Season 1 was a surprise result, as [[https://www.goldderby.com/article/2022/2022-emmy-predictions/ the odds at the time]] largely considered it a three-way race between Creator/HannahWaddingham for ''Series/TedLasso'', Hannah Einbinder for ''Series/{{Hacks}}'', and co-star Janelle James for ''Abbott Elementary''.
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* DarkHorseVictory: [[Creator/SherylLeeRalph Sheryl Lee Ralph's]] Emmy win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Season 1 was a surprise result, as [[https://www.goldderby.com/article/2022/2022-emmy-predictions/ the odds at the time]] largely considered it a three-way race between Creator/HannahWaddingham for ''Series/TedLasso'', Hannah Einbinder for ''Series/{{Hacks}}'', and co-star Janelle James for ''Abbott Elementary''.
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* DescendedCreator: Quinta Brunson stars in the show. Kate Peterson, one of the staff writers of the show (who also worked with Brunson when they were at Creator/BuzzFeed) plays a small part of Tina Schwartz in the first episode.

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* DescendedCreator: Quinta Brunson stars in the show. Kate Peterson, one of the staff writers of the show (who also worked with Brunson when they were at Creator/BuzzFeed) Website/BuzzFeed) plays a small part of Tina Schwartz in the first episode.
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* DescendedCreator: Quinta Brunson stars in the show. Kate Peterson, one of the staff writers of the show (who also worked with Brunson when they were at Creator/BuzzFeed) plays a small part of Tina Schwartz in the first episode.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The show is based on Quinta Brunson's experience with her own and elementary school that her MO teaches at. The character Barbara is even very closely based on her own mother.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The show is based on Quinta Brunson's experience with her own and elementary school that her MO mother teaches at. The character Barbara is even very closely based on her own mother.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the original draft of the show, Janine was originally meant to be a very minor character and Barbara was the main character.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The show is based on Quinta Brunson's experience with her own and elementary school that her MO teaches at. The character Barbara is even very closely based on her own mother.

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