History Trivia / SwitchedAtBirth

** Also, Bay's aunt, who died of a brain aneurysm in the 1980's and appeared only in an old photograph, was played by Creator/LauraMarano, Vanessa Marano's younger sister.

** Also, Bay's aunt, who died of a brain tumor in the 1980's and appeared only in an old photograph, was played by Creator/LauraMarano, Vanessa Marano's younger sister.

** Also, Bay's aunt, who died of a brain tumor in the 1980's and appeared only in an old photograph, was played by Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano's younger sister.

** Just another coincidence that in Lea Thompson's [[Film/Jaws3D film debut]], her character works at the same place as a character played by Bess Armstrong, who plays Professor Marillo in ''Switched''.

* DawsonCasting: {{Zigzagged}}. Katie Leclerc (Daphne) was born in 1986 (making the scene where she wants to get a fake ID so she can pass for being in her 20s an irony overload) and Lucas Grabeel (Toby) was too old for HighSchool [[Film/HighSchoolMusical five years ago]]. Vanessa Marano (Bay) and Sean Berdy (Emmett) werre both 17/18 starting out though.

** Meredith Baxter plays the mom to Lea Thompson's character. Both are most famous for their respective roles playing [[Series/FamilyTies Michael J. Fox's]] [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture mother]].

** In "Dance Me to the End of Love" Travis wants to learn to dance, and Toby sarcastically asks if he wants to win Dancing With the Stars. Angelo and Melody end up giving him a dance lesson, and both Gilles Marini and Marlee Matlin are both past contestants on Dancing With the Stars.

* DawsonCasting:
** Used - Katie Leclerc (Daphne) was born in 1986 (making the scene where she wants to get a fake ID so she can pass for being in her 20s an irony overload) and Lucas Grabeel (Toby) was too old for HighSchool [[Film/HighSchoolMusical five years ago]].
** Averted - Vanessa Marano (Bay) and Sean Berdy (Emmett) are both 17/18.

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: All the Deaf characters are played by actors with some sort of hearing loss in RealLife.
** RJ Mitte, who plays Campbell, is disabled in real life, although he has mild cerebral palsy and can walk normally, while his character was injured in a snowboarding accident and is in a wheelchair.

** Although Rachel Shenton is English, Lily Summers is an American brought up in England. Must have stayed there a '''really''' long time.

** Also, Bay's aunt, who died of a brain tumor in the 1980's and appeared only in an old photograph was played by Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano's younger sister.

** In a season 4 episode, When his mother asks him to help with her musical Toby comments that "Musicals aren't really my thing." Uh, huh. Sure, [[Film/{{High School Musical}} Ryan Evans.]]

* RealLifeRelative: Elisa is played by Zoey Deutch, Lea Thompson's daughter.

** "Ecce Mono" shows an AlternateReality with elements borrowed from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', including a Lea Thompson character in a loveless marriage. There's also a scene where Daphne and Bay look at [[spoiler:Regina's grave]] with flashlights, which is shot almost exactly like a similar scene in ''BTTF 2''.

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: All the Deaf characters are played by actors with some sort of hearing impairment in RealLife.

* DirectedByCastMember: So far Lea Thompson's called the shots on "Prudence, Avarice, Lust, Justice, Anger," "Your Body is a Battleground" and "Fog and Storm and Rain," while D.W. Moffett directed "Girl on the Cliff" and is slated to handle season four's "Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows."

** Toby's wife Nikki is American, but played by Australian actress Cassi Thomson.
** Although Rachel Shenton is English, Lily Summers is an American brought up in England. Must have stayed there a '''really''' long time.

** In a season 4 episode, When his mother asks him to help with her musical Toby comments that "Musicals aren't really my thing." Uh, huh. Sure, [[{{High School Musical}} Ryan Evans.]]

** In one episode, Toby tells Bay to "get your head in the game," which is a song from HighSchoolMusical. According to Lucas Grabeel's Twitter, it was a coincidence.

** Used - Katie Leclerc (Daphne) was born in 1986 (making the scene where she wants to get a fake ID so she can pass for being in her 20s an irony overload) and Lucas Grabeel (Toby) was too old for HighSchool [[HighSchoolMusical five years ago]].

** Bay says Toby will be played by [[HighSchoolMusical Zac Efron]] in TheMovie.
** It's probably a coincidence, but this isn't the first time Austin Butler has played a love interest to [[HighSchoolMusical Lucas Grabeel's sister.]]

** For [[HighSchoolMusical the second time]], a character played by Lucas Grabeel weighs his interest in both baseball and the arts, and is criticized for the latter.

** Similarly coincidental, but this is the second time Vanessa Marano's character is introduced when she [[GilmoreGirls does a DNA test to find her real father.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.
** Toby was in a few {{High School Musical}}s back in the day.
*** And this is [[ThoseTwoActors the second time]] his friend Wilke dated his sister, after ''Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure''.
** [[TheGeorgeLopezShow Angie]] is Daphne's hairdresser mom.
*** Toby's friend Wilke was the {{Romantic False Lead}} from season three of ''{{Zoey 101}}''.
** This isn't the [[GilmoreGirls first time]] Bay's been curious about her biological father.
** [[Literature/TheClique Layne Abeley]] was actually [[labelnote:switched at birth!]]The two series also have... ''odd'' similarities, Bay being an artist and rich, living in a big house. Letting Daphne and her mom stay with them like Massie's family has Claire and her family stay with them.[[/labelnote]]
** Adriana is also the ''abuela'' of [[Series/{{Glee}} Santana Lopez]] and [[Series/JaneTheVirgin Jane Villanueva]].
** Wilke's dad is also [[Series/{{Psych}} Shawn Spencer's dad]].
** [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Elliot's mom]] is a former hospital worker who [[ConspiracyTheorist has a few screws loose]].
** When Craig the Lawyer says he has a things for redheads he's not joking, considering he is married to [[Creator/ChristinaHendricks Joan Holloway]] over on ''MadMen''.
** Emmett's mom is Creator/MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.
** The intern who is [[spoiler: sleeping with Senator Coto]] is better known as [[TheLizzieBennetDiaries Jane Bennet]].
** Daphne works with [[Series/BreakingBad Walt Jr.]] and Tank is also known as [[Series/{{Glee}} Dave Karofsky]].
** [[Series/{{Hollyoaks}} Mitzeee Minniver]] went to America and became a teacher at Carlton, as well as moving into the same building as Toby. Can also count as HilariousInHindsight, since when Rachel Shenton left the show Mitzeee really ''was'' written out as moving Stateside.
** With the Broadway revival of ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'', musical theatre fans can recognize cast members a-plenty:
*** Frau Gabor is Melody (Marlee Matlin)
*** Moritz is Matthew (Daniel Durant)
*** Georg is Howie (Alex Wyse)
*** Ilse in Los Angeles is Serena (Lauren Patten)
*** Otto is the student punched by Travis (Miles Barbee)
*** Wendla is a receptionist (Sandra Mae Frank)

** Lea Thompson played the birth mother of another couple's child in an episode of LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit.

** Katie Leclerc's first TV role was a bit part on an episode of {{Veronica Mars}} in 2005 ... specifically, an episode that featured a character finding out that she was switched at birth.

*** Toby's friend Wilke was the {{Romantic False Lead}} from season three of {{Zoey 101}}.