Acting for Two: Cloris Leachman plays both Barbara-June "Maw Maw" Thompson and her 104 year old mother Norma June Thompson in "Mother's Day".
Actor Allusion: In the Episode "A Germ of a Story" when watching home movie from Virginia's childhood, Burt says Maw Maw looks like the neighbor from The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Cloris Leachman's character on that show.
Virginia calls the whipped husband played by Ethan Suplee from the episode "Baby Monitor", "...a skinny version of the dude from Mall Rats." Ethan Suplee did play that character in the movie.
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 My Name Is Earl...
Smokey Floyd returns in "Making The Band" with a list of people he's wronged that he is making amends to, complete with [1] theme music, he is joined by the actors who played Randy, Darnell, Joy and Catalina as well as TV's Tim Stack.
In the It's a Wonderful Plot episode, Maw Maw plays the angel. Cloris Leachman once played this role in It Happened One Christmas, a gender-flipped version of It's a Wonderful Life
in Yo Zappa Do, Brian Doyle-Murray appears as a president of a movie studio. Of course considering who appear next, it could of been the actual Mr. Savitsky.
Or for Burn Notice fans, psychopath Simon Escher apparently cleans pools. Still quirky and keen on mischief and self-interest though.
If you watched Life, you were probably wondering how a Russian mobster had such a convincing American accent before realizing he probably just faked a Russian one.
Fans of Garcia's last show, My Name Is Earl, will recognize Earl's gay friend Kenny and stolen goods fencer Jasper as the supermarket manager and a cop on TV, respectively.
And, to no ones surprise, Jason Lee (Earl himself) finally appeared... as washed up "rock star" Smokey Floyd.
Add another former Earl actor cameo, with Eddie Steeples (Darnell AKA Crabman) as the gas reader in the funny hat.
And the pizza man that had to repossess Burt's sausage.
