| 1 | * ChannelHop: Actually, more like a production company hop; the first season was produced by New World Television, and when they sold most of that division to Creator/{{Sony}}, they used that library to reactivate [[Creator/TriStarPictures TriStar]]'s TV division, which then produced the second season. |
| 2 | * Creator/CharlieKaufman wrote two episodes, as did Creator/BobOdenkirk. |
| 3 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/ChrisElliott and Adam Resnick were ''very'' disappointed with the direction the show took starting around the end of the first season. While Elliott and Resnick imagined a show more rife with extremely dark BlackComedy, show-runner David Mirkin and The Creator/{{Fox}} Network took the show into a LighterAndSofter direction. Elliott and Resnick basically threw their hands up in frustration and allowed Mirkin and Fox to do whatever they wanted, with Elliott only showing up on acting days. This is why Elliott and Resnick refused to participate in any of the commentaries or extra features when the show was finally released to DVD, since they sincerely felt that the show had been taken away from them and was nothing like what they originally wanted it to be. |
| 4 | * RealLifeRelative: Fred Peterson was played by Chris Elliott's real-life father Bob Elliott (of Radio/BobAndRay fame). |
| 5 | * RealSongThemeTune: "Stand" by Music/{{REM}}. |
| 6 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 7 | ** WordOfGod says the show started out as a pilot for an American version of Britcom ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', with Elliott in the Creator/RikMayall role. the pilot was shot, but was shelved for Mirkin and Elliott to come up with a new idea. |
| 8 | ** [[WordOfGod David Mirkin]] also said if the show had had a third season, "Chris would have moved out of Gus' garage and become a homeless drifter. And he would have [[WalkingTheEarth traveled the country]], in every place touching someone else's life and making it a little bit worse". |
| 9 | * YouLookFamiliar: Creator/BrianDoyleMurray played Ted Baines, runner of Handsome Boy Modeling Agency in Season One, and then showed up as forcibly-retired cop Gus Borden, Chris' landlord in Season Two. |
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