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* 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."
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** Used - Katie Leclerc (Daphne) was born in 1986 and Lucas Grabeel (Toby) was too old for HighSchool [[HighSchoolMusical five years ago]].

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** 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]].
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** Emmett's mom is Creator/Creator/Creator/MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.

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** Emmett's mom is Creator/Creator/Creator/MarleeMatlin, Creator/MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.
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** Adrianna is also Santana's abuela on Series/{{Glee}}.

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** Adrianna Adriana is also Santana's abuela on Series/{{Glee}}.the ''abuela'' of [[Series/{{Glee}} Santana Lopez]] and [[Series/JaneTheVirgin Jane Villanueva]].
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** 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]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture mother]].

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** 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]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture mother]].



** "Ecce Mono" shows an AlternateReality with elements borrowed from ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part II'', 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''.

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** "Ecce Mono" shows an AlternateReality with elements borrowed from ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part II'', ''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''.



** [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.

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** [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.
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** 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.
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** 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.]]

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** 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 Musical}} Ryan Evans.]]

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* ActorAllusion: Bay says Toby will be played by [[HighSchoolMusical Zac Efron]] in TheMovie.

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** 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.]]



*** Not to mention that [[{{Family Ties}} Alex P. Keaton's]] mother played Kathryn's mother meaning they've both played mom to Michael J. Fox

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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.

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Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.switched.
*** Not to mention that [[{{Family Ties}} Alex P. Keaton's]] mother played Kathryn's mother meaning they've both played mom to Michael J. Fox
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** Lea Thompson played the birth mother of another couple's child in an episode of LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit.



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** Emmett's mom is MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.

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** Emmett's mom is MarleeMatlin, Creator/Creator/Creator/MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.
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** Adrianna is also Santana's abuela on {{Glee}}.

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** Adrianna is also Santana's abuela on {{Glee}}.Series/{{Glee}}.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.


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* ActorAllusion: 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.]]
** 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.]]
** 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.
** 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]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture mother]].
** In Season 2, Bay crushes on a guy with the same progressive/intermittent hearing loss as Katie Leclerc.
** "Ecce Mono" shows an AlternateReality with elements borrowed from ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part II'', 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''.
** 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.
** 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.
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** Used - Katie Leclerc (Daphne) was born in 1986 and Lucas Grabeel (Toby) was too old for HighSchool [[HighSchoolMusical five years ago]].
** Averted - Vanessa Marano (Bay) and Sean Berdy (Emmett) are both 17/18.
* {{Defictionalization}}: You can buy an ebook version of Kathryn Kennish's book about the switch.


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

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** [[TheClique [[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]]
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** Daphne works with [[BreakingBad Walt Jr.]] and Tank is also known as [[Series/{{Glee}} Dave Karofsky]].

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** Daphne works with [[BreakingBad [[Series/BreakingBad Walt Jr.]] and Tank is also known as [[Series/{{Glee}} Dave Karofsky]].
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** Daphne works with [[BreakingBad Walt Jr.]] and Tank is also known as [[Series/{{Glee}} Dave Karofsky]].
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** [[TheClique Layne Abeley]] was actually [[hottip: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. ]]

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** [[TheClique Layne Abeley]] was actually [[hottip:switched [[labelnote:switched at birth!: The 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]]



** Wilke's dad is also [[{{Psych}} Shawn Spencer's dad]].

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** Wilke's dad is also [[{{Psych}} [[Series/{{Psych}} Shawn Spencer's dad]].


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** The intern who is [[spoiler: sleeping with Senator Coto]] is better known as [[TheLizzieBennetDiaries Jane Bennet]].
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* RealLifeRelative: Elisa, who will appear in a future episode, is played by Zoey Deutch, Lea Thompson's daughter.

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* RealLifeRelative: Elisa, who will appear in a future episode, Elisa is played by Zoey Deutch, Lea Thompson's daughter.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BackToTheFuture [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's mother]] had her daughter switched.
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** Emmett's mom is MarleeMatlin, essentially the most famous famous deaf actress ever.
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** When Craig the Lawyer says he has a things for redheads he's not joking, considering he is married to [[ChristinaHendricks Joan Holloway]] over on ''MadMen''.

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** When Craig the Lawyer says he has a things for redheads he's not joking, considering he is married to [[ChristinaHendricks [[Creator/ChristinaHendricks Joan Holloway]] over on ''MadMen''.
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** [[ETTheExtraTerrestrial Elliot's mom]] is a former hospital worker who [[ConspiracyTheorist has a few screws loose]].

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** [[ETTheExtraTerrestrial [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Elliot's mom]] is a former hospital worker who [[ConspiracyTheorist has a few screws loose]].
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** When Craig the Lawyer says he has a things for redheads he's not joking, considering he is married to [[ChristinaHendricks Joan Holloway]] over on ''MadMen''.
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** Wilke's dad is also [[{{Psych}} Shawn Spencer's dad]].
** [[ETTheExtraTerrestrial Elliot's mom]] is a former hospital worker who [[ConspiracyTheorist has a few screws loose]].
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*** And this is [[ThoseTwoActors the second time]] his friend Wilke dated his sister, after ''Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure''.


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** Adrianna is also Santana's abuela on {{Glee}}.
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** [[TheClique Layne Abeley]] was actually [[hottip: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. ]]
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** This isn't the [[GilmoreGirls first time]] Bay's been curious about her biological father.

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