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* DirectedByCastMember: Allison Brie directs the Season 3 episode "Hollywood Homecoming." Accordingly, Ruth only appears in a single scene, asleep.
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* PromotedFanboy: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.

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* PromotedFanboy: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.co-star.
* WrittenInInfirmity: Kia Stevens' real life back problems are written into the show in Season 3.
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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above). You can also spot wrestlers [[Characters/WWEUniverse Alex Riley, Joey Ryan]], Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian at the wrestling show in episode five.

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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above). You can also spot wrestlers [[Characters/WWEUniverse Alex Riley, Joey Ryan]], Riley]] Wrestling/JoeyRyan, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian at the wrestling show in episode five.
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* PromotedFangirl: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.

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* PromotedFangirl: PromotedFanboy: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.
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* DawsonCasting: Britt Baron is in her mid-twenties but playing the 16/17-year-old Justine.

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* DawsonCasting: Britt Baron is in her mid-twenties but playing the 16/17-year-old teenage Justine.
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** Tammé (Kia Stevens) mentions that she used to work on ''FamilyFeud''. Stevens' mother worked on the show.

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** Tammé (Kia Stevens) mentions that she used to work on ''FamilyFeud''.''Series/FamilyFeud''. Stevens' mother worked on the show.

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* AscendedFangirl: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.



** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.embodies.
* PromotedFangirl: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.
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** Tammé (Kia Stevens) mentions that she used to work on ''FamilyFeud''. Stevens' mother worked on the show.
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** Mark (Rich Sommer) and Ruth (Alison Brie) co-starred together on Mad Men as Harry Crane and Trudy Campbell. [[spoiler:Unlike on Glow they never had any sort of romantic relationship during the run of the show, in fact they were largely never even in scenes together.]]

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** Mark (Rich Sommer) and Ruth (Alison Brie) co-starred together on Mad Men as Harry Crane and Trudy Campbell. [[spoiler:Unlike on Glow they never had any sort of romantic relationship during the run of the show, in fact they were largely never rarely even in scenes together.]]
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** Glenn assumes that Sam is Jewish, but Sam is annoyed and snaps that he's not. He's played by the very Jewish Marc Maron.
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* DawsonCasting: Britt Baron is in her mid-twenties but playing the 16/17-year-old Justine.
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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
** Completely defied with Marc Maron. Honestly, is there anyone more suited to play Sam?

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
** Completely defied with Marc Maron. Honestly, is there anyone more suited to play Sam?
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** Completely defied with Marc Maron. Honestly is there anyone more suited to play Sam???

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** Completely defied with Marc Maron. Honestly Honestly, is there anyone more suited to play Sam???Sam?
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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.embodies.
** Completely defied with Marc Maron. Honestly is there anyone more suited to play Sam???
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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
* TheCastShowOff: Both Jackie Tohn (Melanie) and Kate Nash (Rhonda) have prominent vocal parts in the musical numbers performed in the ShowWithinAShow eighth episode of Season 2. Tohn, who sang lead in the song "Makeover," was a former ''American Idol'' finalist, while Nash earned fame as a musician well before she began appearing as an actress.

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
* TheCastShowOff: Both Jackie Tohn (Melanie) and Kate Nash (Rhonda) have prominent vocal parts in the musical numbers performed in the ShowWithinAShow eighth episode of Season 2. Tohn, who sang lead in the song "Makeover," was a former ''American Idol'' finalist, while Nash earned fame as a musician well before she began appearing as an actress.
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* TheCastShowoff: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Jackie Tohn all get to sing at various points. [[IronyAsSheIsCast Ironically]], Kate Nash's musical performances in the show are mostly limited to terrible rap.

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* TheCastShowoff: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Jackie Tohn all get to sing at various points. [[IronyAsSheIsCast Ironically]], Kate Nash's musical performances in the show are mostly limited to incompetent raps and a solo on the [[StylisticSuck hilariously terrible rap.anti-kidnapping song]].
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* TheCastShowoff: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Jackie Tohn all get to sing at various points. [[IronyAsSheIsCast Ironically]], Kate Nash's musical performances in the show are mostly limited to terrible rap.
** Shakira Berrera and Sunita Mani get to show off their dancing skills in season 2.
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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.embodies.
* TheCastShowOff: Both Jackie Tohn (Melanie) and Kate Nash (Rhonda) have prominent vocal parts in the musical numbers performed in the ShowWithinAShow eighth episode of Season 2. Tohn, who sang lead in the song "Makeover," was a former ''American Idol'' finalist, while Nash earned fame as a musician well before she began appearing as an actress.

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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion (ironically, Chavo was also a behind-the-scenes wrestling trainer for the show before he was cast in front of the camera).

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Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion (ironically, Chavo was also a behind-the-scenes wrestling trainer for the show before he was cast in front of the camera).camera).
** Mark (Rich Sommer) and Ruth (Alison Brie) co-starred together on Mad Men as Harry Crane and Trudy Campbell. [[spoiler:Unlike on Glow they never had any sort of romantic relationship during the run of the show, in fact they were largely never even in scenes together.]]
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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion.

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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion.promotion (ironically, Chavo was also a behind-the-scenes wrestling trainer for the show before he was cast in front of the camera).

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The Jewish actress Alison Brie plays Ruth, who knows nothing about Judaism and spends an episode trying to figure out how to play a Communist Russian by ineptly crashing a Russian-American bar mitzvah. She never seems to realize that the people she's interrogating are the people who ''fled'' the Communists, but does eventually try to switch her character from a Communist to a kvetchy Orthodox Jewish babushka.

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** Professional musician Kate Nash plays Rhonda, who composes and performs a completely inept rap song to promote the show.
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* AscendedFangirl: Britt Baron for Kate Nash, she noted she was a fan of Nash's music and is now her co-star.
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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).

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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above). You can also spot wrestlers [[Characters/WWEUniverse Alex Riley, Joey Ryan]], Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian at the wrestling show in episode five.
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** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing a sympathetic TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down-on-her-luck ({{faux|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl who becomes less sympathetic once [[spoiler:she consciously sleeps with her best friend's husband]]. Still a MsFanservice character though.

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** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing a sympathetic TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down-on-her-luck ({{faux|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl who becomes less sympathetic once [[spoiler:she consciously sleeps with her best friend's husband]]. Still a MsFanservice character though.Sam also tells her that he can't decide whether she's attractive, though that turns out to just be his own peculiarity.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The Jewish actress Alison Brie plays Ruth, who knows nothing about Judaism and spends an episode trying to figure out how to play a Communist Russian by ineptly crashing a Russian-American bar mitzvah. She never seems to realize that the people she's interrogating are the people who ''fled'' the Communists, but does eventually try to switch her character from a Communist to a kvetchy Orthodox Jewish babushka.
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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster. The trailer heavily suggests that her character here is a SassyBlackWoman.

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** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster. The trailer heavily suggests that WrestlingMonster, but her character here is a SassyBlackWoman.an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion.

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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion.



** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down on her luck ({{faux|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl. Still a MsFanservice character though.

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** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing a sympathetic TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down on her luck down-on-her-luck ({{faux|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl.ActionGirl who becomes less sympathetic once [[spoiler:she consciously sleeps with her best friend's husband]]. Still a MsFanservice character though.
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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are actual professional wrestlers, with the latter coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).

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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with the latter Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).
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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are actual professional wrestlers, with the latter coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).

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* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are actual professional wrestlers, with the latter coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).
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* CastingGag: Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion.
* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are actual professional wrestlers, with the latter coming from a WrestlingFamily (see above).
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** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down on her luck ({{faux|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl. Still a MsFanservice character though.
** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster. The trailer heavily suggests that her character here is a SassyBlackWoman.

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