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** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
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** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} Guy''{{'}}s cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
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** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/Law&Order'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
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** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/Law&Order'' ''Series/LawAndOrder'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
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* ActorAllusion: During "The Soda Wars", the final scene before the episode's end credit blooper montage features Mo Tibbs (played by Omar Gooding) trying to pitch a new low-calorie soda to Colonel Bubble executives. His pitch goes well until he jumps off the table and injures himself. The CEO of the company promptly asks "does he have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr a brother]]?"
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** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/Law&Order'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
** During "The Soda Wars", the final scene before the episode's end credit blooper montage features Mo Tibbs (played by Omar Gooding) trying to pitch a new low-calorie soda to Colonel Bubble executives. His pitch goes well until he jumps off the table and injures himself. The CEO of the company promptly asks "does he have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr a brother]]?"
** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/Law&Order'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'s}} cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/Law&OrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.
** During "The Soda Wars", the final scene before the episode's end credit blooper montage features Mo Tibbs (played by Omar Gooding) trying to pitch a new low-calorie soda to Colonel Bubble executives. His pitch goes well until he jumps off the table and injures himself. The CEO of the company promptly asks "does he have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr a brother]]?"
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* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter in RealLife; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
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* DawsonCasting: DawsonCasting:
** ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter in RealLife; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
** ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter in RealLife; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
* PropRecycling: The pilot used the Matthews house and the John Adams High School classroom and corridor sets from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''.
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** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing.
** In "Stop the Presses," T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.
** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''Series/SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
** Played straight though in "Beating is Fundamental," which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.
** In "Stop the Presses," T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.
** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''Series/SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
** Played straight though in "Beating is Fundamental," which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.
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** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," Schoolgirl", T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing.
** In "Stop thePresses," Presses", T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.
** In "That's MyMomma," Momma", T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''Series/SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
** Played straight though in "Beating isFundamental," Fundamental", which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.
** In "Stop the
** In "That's My
** Played straight though in "Beating is
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** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
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** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''SportsCenter'' ''Series/SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
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** [[Series/BurnNotice Coby Bell]] (who ironically later co-starred with Tahj Mowry's sister Tia in ''Series/TheGame'') guest stars as Garret (a guy who was interested in Yvette) in "The Dating Game" and Anthony "The Hammer" Williams (a basketball player whom T.J. tutored) that same season in "Most Hated Man on Campus".
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** [[Series/BurnNotice Coby Bell]] (who ironically later co-starred with Tahj Mowry's sister Tia in ''Series/TheGame'') ''Series/TheGame2006'') guest stars as Garret (a guy who was interested in Yvette) in "The Dating Game" and Anthony "The Hammer" Williams (a basketball player whom T.J. tutored) that same season in "Most Hated Man on Campus".
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[Film/HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one of the computer company reps who pitches T.J. about which of their computers to select for Piedmont High's new computer system in "Brother, Brother".
** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/WildAndCrazyKids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one of the computer company reps who pitches T.J. about which of their computers to select for Piedmont High's new computer system in "Brother, Brother".
** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/WildAndCrazyKids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this TechnologyMarchesOn: Inverted as the technology featured in the show contained early appearances may be a bit ''ahead'' of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[Film/HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, oneits time (though not a lot of people may be aware that ''some'' of it had existed at the time of the computer company reps who pitches show's run).
** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," T.J. works with another student on a project aboutwhich of their computers Lizzie Borden through file sharing.
** In "Stop the Presses," T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette toselect print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for Piedmont High's new stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.
** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computersystem in "Brother, Brother".
** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see(since this was the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
** Played straight though in "Beating is Fundamental," which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from''Series/WildAndCrazyKids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few years later in pop culture references that date the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.show to the late [[TheNineties Nineties]].
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one
** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," T.J. works with another student on a project about
** In "Stop the Presses," T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to
** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer
** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see
** Played straight though in "Beating is Fundamental," which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical Ash]][[Film/HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/NayaRivera and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
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* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/NayaRivera and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
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Hey Its That Guy and Hey Its That Voice have been merged into Role Association. Current examples are to be removed. New examples are to be filed under Role Association. | For more information, check this thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1454613823001793300&page=1
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher Coach Gerber, during those lean years between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.
** [[Series/EmptyNest Marsha Warfield]] appeared as Principal Dowling in "The Code" and "Brother, Brother".
** Cirroc Lofton, the actor who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]], plays one of Marcus' friends in season one's "Lab Rats" and a friend of Yvette's who sneaks a kiss from her while working on a newspaper story in "Boomerang".
** Blake Clark, best known for playing Shawn's father [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Chet Hunter]], also guest starred in "Boomerang" as shop teacher Mr. Petrasek.
** "A Little Knowledge" featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, an intellectual rival of T.J.'s that competes against him on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''-analogue game show ''Knowledge College''.
** "A Little Knowledge" also features [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} John]] [[Series/FamilyFeud O'Hurley]] as ''Knowledge College'''s Main/AlexTrebek parody Hugh Sterling.
** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/CityGuys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Brian]] [[Film/WaynesWorld Doyle]]-[[Series/TheMiddle Murray]] played Pete Gilroy, the panelist whom T.J. replaces on a political talk show in "Cross Talk".
** "Trial and Error" features [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Jenny O'Hara]] as Principal Whitfield and [[Series/SoLittleTime Taylor Negron]] as Mr. Bringleman.
** [[Series/TheWestWing Dule]] [[Series/{{Psych}} Hill]] played dance teacher Calvin Tierney in "Gotta Dance".[[note]]Besides choreographing that episode, Hill also co-choreographed the Destiny's Child music video seen in "A Date with Destiny".[[/note]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
** [[Series/EmptyNest Marsha Warfield]] appeared as Principal Dowling in "The Code" and "Brother, Brother".
** Cirroc Lofton, the actor who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]], plays one of Marcus' friends in season one's "Lab Rats" and a friend of Yvette's who sneaks a kiss from her while working on a newspaper story in "Boomerang".
** Blake Clark, best known for playing Shawn's father [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Chet Hunter]], also guest starred in "Boomerang" as shop teacher Mr. Petrasek.
** "A Little Knowledge" featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, an intellectual rival of T.J.'s that competes against him on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''-analogue game show ''Knowledge College''.
** "A Little Knowledge" also features [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} John]] [[Series/FamilyFeud O'Hurley]] as ''Knowledge College'''s Main/AlexTrebek parody Hugh Sterling.
** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/CityGuys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Brian]] [[Film/WaynesWorld Doyle]]-[[Series/TheMiddle Murray]] played Pete Gilroy, the panelist whom T.J. replaces on a political talk show in "Cross Talk".
** "Trial and Error" features [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Jenny O'Hara]] as Principal Whitfield and [[Series/SoLittleTime Taylor Negron]] as Mr. Bringleman.
** [[Series/TheWestWing Dule]] [[Series/{{Psych}} Hill]] played dance teacher Calvin Tierney in "Gotta Dance".[[note]]Besides choreographing that episode, Hill also co-choreographed the Destiny's Child music video seen in "A Date with Destiny".[[/note]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]] and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
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* YouLookFamiliar: [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]] Creator/NayaRivera and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[OneOnOne [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[PhineasAndFerb [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]].
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** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/Wild And Crazy Kids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
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** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/Wild And Crazy Kids'' ''Series/WildAndCrazyKids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
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*** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/Wild And Crazy Kids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
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** [[Film/BabyBoy Taraji]] [[Film/HustleAndFlow P.]] [[Series/PersonOfInterest Henson]] guest starred as Monique (one of the dancers in T.J.'s music video project) in "Big Picture," and as Leslie (one of Yvette's friends) in "Break Up Not to Make Up" and "Boomerang".
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** [[Film/BabyBoy [[Series/{{Empire}} Taraji]] [[Film/HustleAndFlow P.]] [[Series/PersonOfInterest Henson]] guest starred as Monique (one of the dancers in T.J.'s music video project) in "Big Picture," and as Leslie (one of Yvette's friends) in "Break Up Not to Make Up" and "Boomerang".
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** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/City Guys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
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** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/City Guys'', ''Series/CityGuys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
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* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young [[Creator/{{Beyoncé}}) Beyoncé]] guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
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* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young Music/{{Beyoncé}}) [[Creator/{{Beyoncé}}) Beyoncé]] guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
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* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young Music/Beyonce) guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter [[InRealLife]]; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter [[InRealLife]]; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
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* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young Music/Beyonce) Music/{{Beyoncé}}) guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter[[InRealLife]]; in RealLife; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter
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* NamesTheSame: [[Series/TheParentHood Reagan Gomez]] (then Gomez-Preston) and Tinsley Grimes play characters named Nina in different seasons (the African-American Gomez plays Nina Duperly, Marcus and T.J.'s love interest in "Love Letters;" Caucasian Grimes plays Nina [NoLastNameGiven], Yvette's best friend in several season three episodes).
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ideas for Mackadocious to Mo through [[CuteMute whispering]] ("She doesn't say a word, but she won't shut up").
* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know You're White, Right?]]: Mackey, who is white, often tries to "act black" in an attempt to be cool. Played with further in "Sit In (a.k.a. Dawgburger Rebellion)," when he decides to do an oral report on Jackie Robinson like Marcus, Mo and Deion plan to do, only for them to object to it, and then when he gives the report at the end of the episode and receives complete silence unlike the applause that the others get. Both times, he exclaims, "it's because I'm white, isn't it?"
* YourMom: The dirty dozens are SeriousBusiness for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like a martial art, even bowing before and after a match. HilarityEnsues in "From A to Double D," when they attempt to instruct T.J.
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* [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know You're White, Right?]]: Mackey, who is white, often tries to "act black" in an attempt to be cool. Played with further in "Sit In (a.k.a. Dawgburger Rebellion)," when he decides to do an oral report on Jackie Robinson like Marcus, Mo and Deion plan to do, only for them to object to it, and then when he gives the report at the end of the episode and receives complete silence unlike the applause that the others get. Both times, he exclaims, "it's because I'm white, isn't it?"
* YourMom: The dirty dozens are SeriousBusiness for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like a martial art, even bowing before and after a match. HilarityEnsues in "From A to Double D," when they attempt to instruct T.J.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher, during those lean years between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. Also the actor who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]] (Cirroc Lofton) plays one of Marcus' friends in an early episode.
** A first season episode featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, a intellectual rival of T.J.'s competing against him on a game show.
** {{Scarlett Johansson}} appears as a goth genius in "A Beating is Fundamental."
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
** A first season episode featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, a intellectual rival of T.J.'s competing against him on a game show.
** {{Scarlett Johansson}} appears as a goth genius in "A Beating is Fundamental."
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
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ideas for Mackadocious to Mo through [[CuteMute whispering]] ("She doesn't say a word, but she won't shut up").
*HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher, during those lean years between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. Also the actor [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know You're White, Right?]]: Mackey, who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]] (Cirroc Lofton) plays one of Marcus' friends is white, often tries to "act black" in an early episode.
** A first seasonattempt to be cool. Played with further in "Sit In (a.k.a. Dawgburger Rebellion)," when he decides to do an oral report on Jackie Robinson like Marcus, Mo and Deion plan to do, only for them to object to it, and then when he gives the report at the end of the episode featured and receives complete silence unlike the applause that the others get. Both times, he exclaims, "it's because I'm white, isn't it?"
* YourMom: The dirty dozens are SeriousBusiness for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like ayoung Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, martial art, even bowing before and after a intellectual rival match. HilarityEnsues in "From A to Double D," when they attempt to instruct T.J.
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* ActorAllusion: During "The Soda Wars", the final scene before the episode's end credit blooper montage features Mo Tibbs (played by Omar Gooding) trying to pitch a new low-calorie soda to Colonel Bubble executives. His pitch goes well until he jumps off the table and injures himself. The CEO of the company promptly asks "does he have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr a brother]]?"
* BannedEpisode: Subverted with "Strangers on the Net". Creator/DisneyChannel initially excluded the episode from its rerun cycle, due to the "A" story involving T.J. and his friend Karen being contacted by a serial child predator on a chat room for kids. However, the channel reversed course on this decision due to the episode's internet safety {{Aesop}}.[[note]]Ironically, shortly after it aired, Disney Educational Productions released the episode on VHS for use in schools to educate children about protecting themselves online.[[/note]]
* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young Music/Beyonce) guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter [[InRealLife]]; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
** This also applies to many recurring cast members, such as J.D. Walsh (Mackey), Tinsley Grimes (Nina) and Arvie Lowe, Jr. (Deion), who were also in their early 20s during their runs on the show. It's pretty peculiar when you consider that the Disney-produced series that came after the show ended had ''most'' of the teenage characters played by young actors exactly or very close to the same age of their characters.
** Handily averted with T.J., as Tahj Mowry was the same age as the character.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher Coach Gerber, during those lean years between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.
** [[Series/EmptyNest Marsha Warfield]] appeared as Principal Dowling in "The Code" and "Brother, Brother".
** Cirroc Lofton, the actor who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]], plays one of Marcus' friends in season one's "Lab Rats" and a friend of Yvette's who sneaks a kiss from her while working on a newspaper story in "Boomerang".
** Blake Clark, best known for playing Shawn's father [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Chet Hunter]], also guest starred in "Boomerang" as shop teacher Mr. Petrasek.
** "A Little Knowledge" featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, an intellectual rival of T.J.'scompeting that competes against him on a ''Series/Jeopardy''-analogue game show.
show ''Knowledge College''.
**{{Scarlett Johansson}} appears "A Little Knowledge" also features [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} John]] [[Series/FamilyFeud O'Hurley]] as ''Knowledge College'''s Main/AlexTrebek parody Hugh Sterling.
** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/City Guys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Brian]] [[Film/WaynesWorld Doyle]]-[[Series/TheMiddle Murray]] played Pete Gilroy, the panelist whom T.J. replaces on agoth genius political talk show in "Cross Talk".
** "Trial and Error" features [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Jenny O'Hara]] as Principal Whitfield and [[Series/SoLittleTime Taylor Negron]] as Mr. Bringleman.
** [[Series/TheWestWing Dule]] [[Series/{{Psych}} Hill]] played dance teacher Calvin Tierney in "Gotta Dance".[[note]]Besides choreographing that episode, Hill also co-choreographed the Destiny's Child music video seen in "ABeating is Fundamental."
Date with Destiny".[[/note]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in''Disney/TheLionKing''.''Disney/TheLionKing''.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[OneOnOne Pratt]], [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]].
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one of the computer company reps who pitches T.J. about which of their computers to select for Piedmont High's new computer system in "Brother, Brother".
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few pop culture references that date the show to the late {{Nineties}}.
* YouLookFamiliar: [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]] and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
** [[Film/BabyBoy Taraji]] [[Film/HustleAndFlow P.]] [[Series/PersonOfInterest Henson]] guest starred as Monique (one of the dancers in T.J.'s music video project) in "Big Picture," and as Leslie (one of Yvette's friends) in "Break Up Not to Make Up" and "Boomerang".
** [[Series/BurnNotice Coby Bell]] (who ironically later co-starred with Tahj Mowry's sister Tia in ''Series/TheGame'') guest stars as Garret (a guy who was interested in Yvette) in "The Dating Game" and Anthony "The Hammer" Williams (a basketball player whom T.J. tutored) that same season in "Most Hated Man on Campus".
** [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Bianca Lawson]] played Shirley in "Baby, It's You, and You and You" and Tracy, Mo's two-timer girlfriend in "It Takes Two". Coincidentally, in both episodes, her characters served as romantic interests of Mo.
** Jennifer Lyons plays Celia (a member on Yvette's cheerleading squad who is the first person T.J. meets on his first day of high school, whose character name is not said outright) in the PilotEpisode, and Lisa (who beat Yvette for the lead in a play, likely because of her new breast implants) in "From A to Double D".
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** A first season
* YourMom: The dirty dozens are SeriousBusiness for Mo and Marcus, who treat it like a
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* ActorAllusion: During "The Soda Wars", the final scene before the episode's end credit blooper montage features Mo Tibbs (played by Omar Gooding) trying to pitch a new low-calorie soda to Colonel Bubble executives. His pitch goes well until he jumps off the table and injures himself. The CEO of the company promptly asks "does he have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr a brother]]?"
* BannedEpisode: Subverted with "Strangers on the Net". Creator/DisneyChannel initially excluded the episode from its rerun cycle, due to the "A" story involving T.J. and his friend Karen being contacted by a serial child predator on a chat room for kids. However, the channel reversed course on this decision due to the episode's internet safety {{Aesop}}.[[note]]Ironically, shortly after it aired, Disney Educational Productions released the episode on VHS for use in schools to educate children about protecting themselves online.[[/note]]
* CelebrityStar: Destiny's Child (featuring a young Music/Beyonce) guest stars in the aptly-titled season three episode "A Date with Destiny," offering T.J. the opportunity to be in their music video and later the chance to go on a world tour with them.
* DawsonCasting: ''Word up''. Marcus (not an egregious example, considering Jason Weaver was a couple of years older than Marcus), Mo (who fits as in the first season, Omar Gooding was playing 15-year-old Mo, while in his early 20s) and Yvette (her portrayer, Essence Atkins, is actually too close in age to John Marshall Jones – who plays Floyd – for them to be father and daughter [[InRealLife]]; there is only a ten-year age difference between the two). It's a bit odd that Gooding and Atkins play high schoolers in the show when you consider that Gooding's character in ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' (which ended a few months after ''Smart Guy'' debuted) was revealed to have graduated high school in the show's final season and Atkins played a college freshman almost four years earlier in the pilot episode of ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Saved by the Bell: The College Years]]'', before her character was written out.
** This also applies to many recurring cast members, such as J.D. Walsh (Mackey), Tinsley Grimes (Nina) and Arvie Lowe, Jr. (Deion), who were also in their early 20s during their runs on the show. It's pretty peculiar when you consider that the Disney-produced series that came after the show ended had ''most'' of the teenage characters played by young actors exactly or very close to the same age of their characters.
** Handily averted with T.J., as Tahj Mowry was the same age as the character.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher Coach Gerber, during those lean years between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''.
** [[Series/EmptyNest Marsha Warfield]] appeared as Principal Dowling in "The Code" and "Brother, Brother".
** Cirroc Lofton, the actor who played [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]], plays one of Marcus' friends in season one's "Lab Rats" and a friend of Yvette's who sneaks a kiss from her while working on a newspaper story in "Boomerang".
** Blake Clark, best known for playing Shawn's father [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Chet Hunter]], also guest starred in "Boomerang" as shop teacher Mr. Petrasek.
** "A Little Knowledge" featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, an intellectual rival of T.J.'s
**
** Season one's "Lab Rats" features Wesley Jonathan (months before he began starring in ''Series/City Guys'', and years before ''Series/WhatILikeAboutYou'' and ''Series/TheSoulMan'') as Yvette's boyfriend Tyler.
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Brian]] [[Film/WaynesWorld Doyle]]-[[Series/TheMiddle Murray]] played Pete Gilroy, the panelist whom T.J. replaces on a
** "Trial and Error" features [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Jenny O'Hara]] as Principal Whitfield and [[Series/SoLittleTime Taylor Negron]] as Mr. Bringleman.
** [[Series/TheWestWing Dule]] [[Series/{{Psych}} Hill]] played dance teacher Calvin Tierney in "Gotta Dance".[[note]]Besides choreographing that episode, Hill also co-choreographed the Destiny's Child music video seen in "A
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in
* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[OneOnOne Pratt]], [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]].
** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one of the computer company reps who pitches T.J. about which of their computers to select for Piedmont High's new computer system in "Brother, Brother".
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few pop culture references that date the show to the late {{Nineties}}.
* YouLookFamiliar: [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya Rivera]] and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".
** [[Film/BabyBoy Taraji]] [[Film/HustleAndFlow P.]] [[Series/PersonOfInterest Henson]] guest starred as Monique (one of the dancers in T.J.'s music video project) in "Big Picture," and as Leslie (one of Yvette's friends) in "Break Up Not to Make Up" and "Boomerang".
** [[Series/BurnNotice Coby Bell]] (who ironically later co-starred with Tahj Mowry's sister Tia in ''Series/TheGame'') guest stars as Garret (a guy who was interested in Yvette) in "The Dating Game" and Anthony "The Hammer" Williams (a basketball player whom T.J. tutored) that same season in "Most Hated Man on Campus".
** [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Bianca Lawson]] played Shirley in "Baby, It's You, and You and You" and Tracy, Mo's two-timer girlfriend in "It Takes Two". Coincidentally, in both episodes, her characters served as romantic interests of Mo.
** Jennifer Lyons plays Celia (a member on Yvette's cheerleading squad who is the first person T.J. meets on his first day of high school, whose character name is not said outright) in the PilotEpisode, and Lisa (who beat Yvette for the lead in a play, likely because of her new breast implants) in "From A to Double D".
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba in Disney/TheLionKing.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dann Florek in the thankless role of PE teacher, during those lean years between ''LawAndOrder'' ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. Also the actor who played [[DS9 [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake Sisko]] (Cirroc Lofton) plays one of Marcus' friends in an early episode.
** A first season episode featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, a intellectual rival of T.J.'s competing against him on a game show.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Jason Weaver (Marcus) provided the singing voice of young Simba inDisney/TheLionKing.''Disney/TheLionKing''.
** A first season episode featured a young Music/AshleyTisdale as Amy, a intellectual rival of T.J.'s competing against him on a game show.
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