Trivia / 'Til Death

• Directed by Cast Member: Joely Fisher directed two Season 4 episodes.
• The Other Darrin: Four different actresses play the Starks' daughter Allison. This is one of the aspects of the show that become subject to Doug's Medium Awareness.
• Out of Order: Big time. After the show was pulled early in season three, producer Sony Pictures Television kept producing episodes as if it was still on the air. The eighth episode of that season didn't see air until it kicked off a Christmas night marathon in 2009, fourteen months after the seventh episode and two months after the first three episodes of season four had already reached the air. Once the show landed in the 7pm Sunday timeslot in February 2010, most weeks featured season three and season four episodes airing back-to-back until the timeslot was scaled back to a half-hour in April. And then the series finale by production order was followed up by the last three episodes made for season three. And since the show was retooled in both season three and season four, the differences between these episodes are blatantly obvious (for example, all season three episodes include J.B. Smoove as Kenny, a grown man who first met Eddie after Eddie was inexplicably assigned to be his Big Brother Mentor. He was written out in season four in favor of promoting Doug and a recast Ally to series regulars).
• Referenced by...: Family Guy: Lois Griffin asks why all the horses are named after cancelled Fox shows, one horse is called Til Death in the episode Family Gay.
• Schedule Slip: Oh so much. The first lengthy hiatus (during season two; lasted about four months) is justified by the 2007-08 WGA strike. The second? Not so much, and a direct result of rapidly declining ratings. This one lasted just shy of a full year. Then a third hiatus started in mid-October 2009 after just three episodes (again, blame the ratings) and lasted until an infamous Christmas night mini-marathon that finished dead last among the big four despite the other nets being in repeats. One final hiatus of just over a month then ensued, until Fox went ahead and burned off all thirty remaining episodes in consecutive weeks^note only breaking off for the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Sunday for about five months.
• Stunt Casting:
  • Gilbert Gottfried as an annoying, rich-as-hell next door neighbor to the Starks during part of season four.
  • Also Martin Mull as a fellow teacher and friend of Eddie's, who winds up in a dom-sub relationship with the school's sadistic, revenge-seeking, clinically insane^note she hints she may have broken out of a mental institution shortly before taking the job principal.
• You Look Familiar: Look out for Kate Micucci as a server at a restaurant several episodes before she becomes Ally #4.