Line #14 Trivia/OneDayAtATime2017


1	* ActorAllusion:
2	** A whole bunch for Rita Moreno:
3	*** Lydia's costume for Alex's movie looks straight out of ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. Later, she says [[WaxingLyrical "I like to be in America."]]
4	*** Lydia's handkerchief analogy for virginity is similar to the flower one from ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'', where Justina Machado and Creator/RitaMoreno both have recurring roles.
5	*** She says her CatchPhrase from ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'', "HEY YOU GUYS!"
6	** Creator/JoeManganiello has a brief appearance in season three as [[spoiler: Schneider's sponsor]], where he mentions playing D&D. Manganiello is a long time D&D fan, even appearing in a few web video games such as ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''.
7	* ActorSharedBackground:
8	** Much like the immigration office worker that interviewed Schneider, Creator/MindySterling is from New Jersey.
9	** Tony Plana, who plays Lydia's late husband Berto, fled Cuba with his family after UsefulNotes/FidelCastro took power, just like Berto.
10	** Creator/ToddGrinnell gave an interview where he explained that he was an alcoholic much like Schneider and helped come up with a large part of the arc for Schneider's recovery [[spoiler:and eventual relapse]].
11	* CastingGag:
12	** Ivonne Coll has a guest appearance as Lydia's romantic rival, while she and Rita Moreno are the grandmothers of the title character in ''Jane the Virgin''.
13	** Thanks to their roles as Latina cops on ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero guest star in season 3 as members of the Alvarez extended family.
14	** Mackenzie Phillips (who played the "older sister" Elena equivalent in the original series) as Pam, Penelope's group lead.
15	** Creator/LinManuelMiranda guest stars in the animated special as a conservative relative, and at one point dresses exactly like Alexander Hamilton in a fantasy sequence.
16	* TheCastShowoff:
17	** The show takes several opportunities to show that Rita Moreno can still dance in her 80's. The audience is very appreciative.
18	** In the Season 3 premiere, Moreno and a guest-starring Music/GloriaEstefan sing "Ave Maria" as a duet.
19	* ChannelHop: After being cancelled by Netflix, the show was picked up by Creator/PopTV (a cable channel run by CBS, the home of the original ''One Day'' series; in it's distant past, it was previously the scrolling cable listings channel known as the Prevue Channel) for a fourth season, making it the first series to begin on a streaming service and migrate to a broadcast or - in this case - cable network.
20	** It also counts as LoopholeAbuse -- typically, Netflix's contracts forbid shows moving to another streaming service if Netflix cans them. So instead, Sony struck a deal with CBS to move it to Pop TV, a traditional, linear cable network.
21	* DirectedByCastMember: "She Drives Me Crazy" from season three was directed by Todd Grinnell, who plays Schneider.
22	* EvolvingTitleScreen: From seasons 1 to 3, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tekbfDSjg the intro]] was a longer, ThroughTheYearsCredits montage featuring various moments of the Alvarez family from Lydia being in Cuba to Lupe being in the Army to Alex playing magic tricks to showing the family at home with Schneider, with credits being displayed at the same time. For season 4, there was a [[ExtremelyShortIntroSequence much shorter]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMK4SSm6hug new intro]] with [[CharacterInTheLogo the main characters in the logo]] and Leslie [[PromotionToOpeningTitles promoted to opening titles]], with [[CreditsPushback credits being pushed back to the first scenes of each episode]].
23	* FakeNationality:
24	** Despite playing a Cuban-American family, Isabella Gomez is Colombian, and Justina Machado, Marcel Ruiz, and Rita Moreno are Puerto Rican. Machado has talked about the weird feelings she had getting to work with one of her country's most famous actresses, but while both were playing another nationality.
25	** Todd Grinnell is American, not Canadian.
26	** Stephanie Beatriz, who guest-starred as Pilar, a relative of the Alvarezes, is Colombian/Bolivian.
27	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Quite a few jokes are made about Elena's lack of Spanish fluency, when the Colombian-born Isabella Gomez is fully bilingual, and actually knows more Spanish than Justina Machado.
28	* LifeImitatesArt: After Elena mentioned the [=ComicCon=] "Series/Supergirl2015 Supergay Meet-up", [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/00cb7bdfd11380b64a2b19c153aeade4/tumblr_p6tz52B9Q81wx55qoo2_1280.jpg a piece of fan art]] depicting Alex Danvers holding a Pride flag with Elena became popular. It may not be [=ComicCon=], but at the similarly-named [=ClexaCon=], Creator/IsabellaGomez and Creator/ChylerLeigh [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/1f936738cf1fbbba4eba324ecba6cc86/tumblr_p6u1imAXN21vi0gwjo1_1280.jpg made it happen]]. It's LIA example for both the fan-art and for Elena wanting to meet Chyler on the show.
29	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Justina Machado, Rita Moreno and Isabella Gomez voiced themselves in Season 1 of the Latin American Spanish dub.
30	* PlayingAgainstType: Ivonne Coll, best known as the perpetually kind and wise Alba on ''Jane the Virgin'', has a guest appearance as a catty rival to Lydia.
31	* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Elena's gay relative Pilar is played by Stephanie Beatriz, who had recently come out as bisexual at the time of her guest spot.
32	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/ToddGrinnell's wife Creator/IndiaDeBeaufort plays Schneider's love interest in Seasons 3 and 4.
33	* RealitySubtext:
34	** Lydia came to America during Operation Pedro Pan, like creator Gloria Calderon Kellett's parents.
35	** Elena is annoyed at passing as white, and though Penelope does say that not experiencing discrimination isn't a bad thing, there are some genuine reasons to be annoyed at this -- the [[{{Mayincatec}} Caxcan-native]] {{Mexican\|Media}} actor Froy Gutierrez is vocal about not erasing people of color, and in this show he plays Josh who could easily just be a white kid from Elena's school, but specifically has the last name Flores to establish Hispanic heritage.
36	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Alan Ruck, who plays Schneider's father, does indeed have a very similar facial structure to Todd Grinnell.
37	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was sadly one of the many entertainment casualties of the COVID-19 Pandemic shut down, so they were cancelled midway through their fourth season. A few months afterwards, Gloria Calderon Kellet revealed the fully scripted storylines that never got to be filmed, including:
38	** Lydia having a crisis of faith when her Catholic priest says that Elena’s marriage to another woman will never be blessed by the church.
39	** The family taking a road trip to Yale for Elena’s college interview in Schneider’s RV that he intentionally modeled after their living room. Valerie Bertanelli from the original ODAAT would have guest starred as a Yale admissions recruiter.
40	** Elena facing a decision between Yale and staying closer to home at UCLA, ultimately picking the latter.
41	** Schneider and Avery having their baby in the finale, a little girl they name Penny in honor of Penelope.

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