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1	* ActingForTwo: Creator/ClorisLeachman plays both Barbara-June "Maw Maw" Thompson and her 104 year old mother Norma June Mayfair in "Mother's Day".
2	* ActorAllusion:
3	** In the Episode "A Germ of a Story" when watching a home movie from Virginia's childhood, Burt says Maw Maw looks like the horny neighbor from ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' -- Cloris Leachman portrayed Phyllis Lindstrom on that show.
4	** Virginia calls the whipped husband played by Ethan Suplee from the episode "Baby Monitor", "a skinny version of the dude from ''Film/{{Mallrats}}''." Ethan Suplee ''did'' play that character in the movie.
5	** Smokey Floyd, played by Jason Lee A.K.A Earl Hickey, calls Barney (Gregg Binkley) "Kenny" by accident. Guess the name of the character Binkley played in ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''.
6	*** Smokey Floyd returns in "Making The Band" with a list of people he's wronged that he is making amends to, complete with ''My Name is Earl'' theme music, he is joined by the actors who played Randy, Darnell, Joy and Catalina as well as TV's Tim Stack.
7	** Creator/StephenRoot plays Sabrina's eccentric, rich father, which brings to mind his role as [[Series/NewsRadio Jimmy James]].
8	** In the ItsAWonderfulPlot Christmas episode, Maw Maw plays the angel. Cloris Leachman once played this role in ''It Happened One Christmas'', a gender-flipped version of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. There was also a version of the ItsAWonderfulPlot when Leachman was on ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''.
9	** In "Yo Zappa Do", Brian Doyle-Murray appears as [[Series/YesDear a president of a movie studio]]. Of course, considering who appears next, it could have been the actual Mr. Savitsky. In the same episode, Virginia (Martha Plimpton) points out that child actors never last, that they appear in a [[Film/TheGoonies Steven Spielberg movie]] and then end up "as the mom on a wacky sitcom".
10	** "Credit Where Credit Is Due" features [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture a DeLorean and Christopher Lloyd.]]
11	** "Happy Halloween" reveals that Burt would routinely dress up in costume on Halloween ''just'' to scare Jimmy (so he'd come to him for a hug). Considering that Garret Dillahunt usually plays scary roles, and that Jimmy ''explicitly'' says that Burt tortured him by doing this...
12	** Jason Lee as Smokey Floyd, [[Film/AlmostFamous a cocky rock star getting told off by his disillusioned fan.]]
13	* CastingGag: Most of the main cast and supporting cast of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' appear in various smaller roles. Often it's done with a degree of irony, such as Juan Pope playing a straight laced police officer in this show, whereas in ''Earl'' he was the shifty black market dealer Jasper.
14	* TheCastShowoff: More of a guest-star showoff, but if Creator/KateMicucci (Shelly) is in an episode, she would likely be singing and playing the ukulele.
15	* FridayNightDeathSlot: When the fourth (and final) season was released, it was moved from its previous Tuesday's timeslot to Friday, at 9:00 PM. Needless to say, the fourth season ratings were the lowest that the TV show [[http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/sdsdskdh279882992z1/friday-final-ratings-shark-tank-last-man-standing-hawaii-five-0-unforgettable-dateline-hart-of-dixie-adjusted-down/251667/ ever had]].
16	* PlayingAgainstType: Garret Dillahunt, who is better known for playing sociopaths and other unsavory characters, as the loving yet dumb and harmless Burt Chance.
17	* RealLifeRelative:
18	** In the first season finale, we meet Lucy's first victim, who is played by Bijou Phillips' actual husband, [[Series/That70sShow Danny Masterson]].
19	** In the episode "Anniversary", the cowboy running the dude ranch is veteran actor Keith Carradine, Martha Plimpton (Virginia)'s father.
20	** In the third season premiere, Creator/MelanieGriffith plays Sabrina's mother as they gather for the funeral of Sabrina's grandmother, who is played by Griffith's real mother, Tippi Hedren.
21	** Creator/GregGarcia's sons appear on the show as well: Trace Garcia (credited as Trace!) plays the child version of Jimmy, Nathan Garcia (credited as Nathan!) appeared in the episode "Sleep Training"[[note]] as Hope's mouth[[/note]] and "Killer Hope" [[note]] as the paperboy[[/note]] and Camden played Barney's stepson Trevor in five episodes.
22	** Creator/RichardDeanAnderson and his daughter, Wylie, played father and daughter in Season 2.

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