* ActorAllusion:
** During a dinner involving Max's ex & his new girlfriend/fiancé, Regine comments that she looks familiar and asks her where she went to school. When she mentions that it's a small private school called [[Series/TheFactsOfLife Eastland]], Regine quips that she's 'never heard of it' and shoots a quick glance to camera as she walks away.
** Later at dinner, while telling BlatantLies to make Max seem more successful to her ex-beau, its mentioned that Max has made partner at her firm, the first African American woman to do so, "because that [[Series/TheCosbyShow Clair Huxtable]] wasn't real."
** Melvin and Mario Van Peebles play a father and son in "Likes Father, Likes Son".
** In the episode where the girls get robbed, Khadijah puts out the idea of getting a gun for protection, to the consternation of everyone else; In ''Film/SetItOff'', Queen Latifah's character, Cleo, is the first to put out the same idea, [[HilariousInHindsight only this time to do the robbing instead of defending against it.]]
* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/JohnHenton was born and raised in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} just like Overton.
* DuelingShows: With ''Series/{{Friends}}'' - Both feature six friends living and working in New York, both have characters that are originally just shallow and fashion-oriented, both have formerly fat characters, both have characters seen in universe as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - and while Friends went on to, ultimately, be more popular it was, ''Living Single'' premiered first - a year earlier in fact.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Finally averted in 2017, ''ten years'' after the first season was released on [=DVD=]. The entire series has been released on DVD and is also set to be streamed on Hulu; it's also being aired on Bounce, [=TVOne=], and [=VH1=].
* RealLifeRelative:
** Khadijah's mother was played by Queen Latifah's real mother. Averted with her baby half-sister and her father.
** Regine's mother is played by Kim Fields' real mother Chip Fields.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally pitched to Creator/{{NBC}}, who rejected it. Yet, they ''did'' greenlight that [[Series/{{Friends}} other show in NYC about six single friends...]]
* WorkingTitle: ''My Girls''.
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