Trivia / Fresh Off the Boat

• California Doubling: One episode shows Honey driving around the Orlando Airport and having a meltdown. The surroundings are very obviously the terminals at LAX.
• The Cast Showoff:
  • Jessica is frequently shown singing, first as a draw at Louis' steakhouse, then later sings a song to win back her friend.
  • Emery is shown to be a skilled tennis player and martial artist, skills he shares with his actor, Forrest Wheeler.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Eddie Huang has publicly taken less than kindly to the show's treatment of his book; see Disowned Adaptation below.
  • Constance Wu also appeared to resent the show to the point that she had a quite vitriolic reaction on social media once it was renewed in 2019. Ratings were low, and Wu was possibly expecting the show to get canceled, but for a number of potential reasons^note The show was produced by 20th Century Fox, which is part of Disney, which owns ABC, making the show an in-house production and thus cheaper to produce; the show also airing on Friday, a night with low overall ratings anyway; the optics of canceling the only network show with an Asian-American cast might have been something network executives wanted to avoid, this was not the case. Wu responded to the backlash from her comments by saying she still loved the show and harbored no ill will towards her fellow castmates but was simply ready to move on, and was upset because the renewal meant she had to turn down a role she was really excited about as her six-year contract meant she was bound to FOTB for another year.
• Dawson Casting: The producers deliberately cast grown men as 11 year-old basketball players to represent that one unusually tall kid every basketball team seems to have.
• Disowned Adaptation: Eddie Huang has been very vocal about his displeasure at how the series sanitized the darker aspects of his childhood down to fit the mold of a more traditional family sitcom to the point he no longer cared about the show's success because it didn't represent his actual experiences anymore. His grievances ultimately led to him quitting his job as narrator of the show.
• Fake Nationality: Randall Park is Korean-American, but he does pull off speaking the few Chinese words he's given fairly well. The actors who played Connie and Steve are also Korean-American. The writers were well aware of this trope in Park's case, and Park himself had reservations about it since he expected it to draw some criticism, but despite that, they specifically sought him out for the role.
• Only Barely Renewed: For the show's fifth season it was moved to the Friday Night Death Slot (in ABC's latest attempt to revive the TGIF block) and ratings predictably tanked, leading to much surprise when the show was renewed for a sixth season at the last minute. It is widely believed that this renewal only happened because the Disney buyout of FOX (which produced FOTB) had been completed before the decision for renewal had come up, making the show an in-house production. Notably, Constance Wu began seriously pursuing another role, possibly assuming the show would be cancelled, only to be forced to drop out when FOTB was renewed, and then reacted quite negatively to the news on social media. It's worth noting that the show was cancelled early in its sixth season, though the producers were informed early enough that a proper finale could be filmed.
• Real-Life Relative: Ian Chen's brother Max Chen plays Evan at 4 years old in "Very Superstitious" and "The Masters"
• Shoot the Money: The production actually went to Taiwan to shoot the Season 3 premiere and they did everything they could to fit in as many setting-appropriate Taipei landmarks as they could into the episode to show off where they were.