Line #19 Trivia/Superstore


1	* ActorSharedBackground:
2	** Amy is mentioned to be of Honduran descent in season 2 ("Olympics"), like her actress Creator/AmericaFerrera.
3	** In season 5, Cheyenne and Matteo theorize that Dina is a serial killer and responsible for the severed feet. In real life, Creator/LaurenAsh has a True Crime-podcast called ‎True Crime & Cocktails.
4	*** In season 1, Glenn tells Dina that her Podcast is awful and nobody likes it.
5	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Myrtle dies off-screen in mid-season 5 due to the death of her actress in real life.
6	* TheDanza: Kelly Stables who plays Kelly.
7	* DawsonCasting: Cheyenne and Bo are supposed to be in high school at the start of the show, but Creator/NicholeBloom was in her mid 20s and Johnny Pemberton was in his ''mid 30s'' when they began playing the characters.
8	* DescendedCreator: Series creator Justin Spitzer appears in the last two episodes as a Cloud 9 customer.
9	* DiedDuringProduction: Myrtle's actress, Creator/LindaPorter, passed away in 2019.
10	* DirectedByCastMember: America Ferrera directed four episodes, Ben Feldman directed two episodes, and Mark Mckinney directed one episode.
11	* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/LaurenAsh confirmed on social media that those were real tears in Dina's last scene with Glenn in the series finale.
12	* FakeAmerican: Australian Josh Lawson plays pharmacist Tate, and Canadians Creator/MarkMcKinney and Lauren Ash play Glenn and Dina.
13	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine:
14	** In "Lowell Anderson", the titular Lowell Anderson is played by Dave Foley, who is part of the sketch comedy troupe ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' with Mark [=McKinney=] (Glenn).
15	** Creator/TonyPlana, again, plays Creator/AmericaFerrera's father, just like in ''Series/UglyBetty''.
16	** Creator/AnaOrtiz, who played Creator/AmericaFerrera's sister in ''Series/UglyBetty'', plays a corporate worker who wants to close the store Amy works at.
17	** Creator/JustinaMachado, who played Creator/AmericaFerrera's cousin in ''Series/UglyBetty'', plays Maya, Cloud 9 district manager who wants to stop a Union.
18	** Creator/JustinaMachado and Creator/TonyPlana played a married couple in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.
19	** Creator/JustinaMachado and Creator/TonyPlana played daughter and father in ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017''.
20	* OutOfOrder: "Olympics" aired well after the season 1 finale, during the actual 2016 Summer Olympics, but narratively fits somewhere into the middle of season 1 - for example, Cheyenne is still pregnant, and the Cloud 9 employees haven't gone on strike yet. Some on-screen TV guides listed it as "Season 2, Episode 1" even though it wasn't billed as a season premiere.
21	* QueerCharacterQueerActor:
22	** Nico Santos (Mateo) is openly gay, like his character.
23	** Creator/GeorgeSalazar is gay, and plays Eric, who is also gay.
24	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Amy's increasing good rep with corporate in Season 5 was the result of Creator/AmericaFerrera considering leaving the show. This plot thread ultimately culminated in [[spoiler:a job offer in California after Ferrera decided to leave]]; the writers acknowledged that there were several ways that plot line could have gone depending on her decision.
25	-->'''Jonathan Green:''' [W]e had other things that could have come out of Amy getting more and more noticed by corporate, which we had set in motion early in the season with district manager Maya coming in and noticing her, and putting in a good word for her at corporate and talking about the possibility of advancement. Even Amy getting the profile written about her in the “Zephra Cares” episode… all of that could have led to Amy getting attention from corporate in a way that didn’t necessarily involve [that].
26	** Season 6 takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic, and much of the season is dedicated to the effects of the pandemic on retail stores. The Cloud 9 staff must juggle confusing safety regulations, panicked customers, quarantines, supply shortages potential and actual infections on top of their "normal" absurdities. All of which is truth in television.
27	* WrittenByCastMember: Lauren Ash (Dina) wrote "Gender Reveal" in Season 3, and Creator/ColtonDunn (Garrett) wrote "Forced Hire" in Season 5 and "Conspiracy" in Season 6
28	* WrittenInInfirmity: [[spoiler:Amy getting pregnant again]] was the result of the actress's real life pregnancy.

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