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  • The Cast Showoff
    • Not strictly, but Jackie seems to get into a lot of situations where she has to use a variety of accents.
    • Both Marty and Larry can sing and play the guitar.
  • Dawson Casting: The character of Reggie Jackson is in high school. The actor who plays him is almost thirty.
    • Jackie and Debbie watch Grease the Movie to get ready for Grease The Dinner Theatre Show.
    Jackie: "Those 30 year old teenagers have really won our hearts!"
  • The Danza: Max Charles (four-year-old Peter Parker and Sherman) as Max Weaver.
  • Friday Night Death Slot:
    • Good news: ABC granted you a second season! Bad news: Guess which night you're moving to...and they get canceled.
    • In the second season episode "The One With The Interspecies F-R-I-E-N-D-S"', a game of Taboo goes badly between the Weavers and Bird-Joyner Kersees.
      Marty: Hey, why don't we all just watch some good old fashioned network TV?
      Larry: On Friday night???!!! Bleech!!!
      • Interestingly three episodes later in We've Jumped the Shark (Tank) ! Larry gets obsessed with Shark Tank .... which airs on Friday Night.
  • Hey, It's That Sound!: The golf carts used as transportation by the aliens sounds like The Jetsons flying cars.
  • Only Barely Renewed: For its second season. And cancelled after that. Some fans have tried to get CBS interested in picking up the show with a more compatable lead in like The Big Bang Theory.

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