Trivia / Undeclared

• California Doubling: Southern California (specifically, USC) doubling for Northern.
• Dawson Casting: Averted, with the exception of Gallo being 25 all of the characters playing 18-19 year olds were between 18-22 years old, some fresh out of high school themselves and out of their parents house. Gallo herself manages to pull it off being very youthful looking. In fact Jason Segel was supposed to be about 7 years older than Gallo, but he was 5 years younger.
• Executive Meddling: Par for the course. but it didn't help that Apatow essentially gave the network the finger late in its run because of how frustrated he was after Freaks and Geeks.
• Fake American: Canadian Jay Baruchel plays the American Steven.
• Missing Episode:
  • The second episode was originally named "Full Bluntal Nugity" and had a major subplot with Steven and Lizzie change to an outdoor movie showing instead of a Ted Nugent lecture because the network felt it didn't flow very well with the episode and the budding relationship and because FOX censors had issues with Nugent, though the original version of the episode was released on DVD.
  • A later episode was kept from airing. It focused on Steven getting religion and Lloyd getting depressed about faith after a philosophy class. It really wasn't all that controversial and became more infamous for being a missing episode than what it actually talked about.
• Screwed by the Network: FOX aired several episodes out of order, resulting in inconsistent relationships from one episode to the other. Steven would finally get together with Lizzie and the following episode she would still be with Eric. Same thing with Ron who spent an episode trying to woo a girl, an episode where Ron is still struggling with dating and then they are together again.
• Throw It In!: Improv throughout the series gave it a very relaxed and realistic feel.

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