Trivia / 9-1-1

• Approval of God:
  • Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman themselves were the ones who decided that "Buddie" is the better ship name than for their characters than "Beddie" during the first weeks of Season 2's first airings.
  • Oliver himself went from "I don't know what will happen to Buck and Eddie so I'm gonna stop liking fan works about them" to a full-blown Buddie shipper starting from Season 5, liking fanarts about them while not promoting Buck's relationship with Taylor.
  • The show acknowledges Hen and Karen's ship name as they release Season 6's episode title placeholder "Henren Begins" even though they changed it to "Tomorrow."
• Channel Hop: Fox opted not to renew the show after the sixth season, leading to it moving to ABC for the seventh season.
• Dawson Casting: Season 6's "The Devil You Know" features a young Athena at 9 years of age in 1977, putting her birth year at 1968. Angela Bassett was born in 1958.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Christopher Diaz has cerebral palsy. He is played by Gavin McHugh, who also has cerebral palsy.
• Fake American: Oliver Stark (Buck) is British.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Like her character Maddie, Jennifer Love Hewitt was pregnant during season 4 but Maddie gave birth earlier than Hewitt. For the rest of the season, Maddie is shot from the waist up.
• Meaningful Release Date: Season 4's premiere date is scheduled for January 18th, which can be abbreviated to 1/18, which also happens to be the number of the firehouse the show revolves around. The show's social media takes advantage of this, saying that "the 118 returns on 1/18."
• Missing Trailer Scene: The promo for "Ghost Stories" includes a subplot about a ghost roomate that was cut from the episode proper.
• Out of Order: In season 5, two episodes air dated were swapped without a reason given.
  • 5x06 "Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1" was meant to air on November 8, 2021, but was switched with "Ghost Stories".
  • 5x07 "Ghost Stories" was meant to air on November 1, 2021, but was switched with "Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1"
• Produced by Cast Member: Angela Bassett (Athena) and Peter Krause (Bobby) are executive producers in addition to their starring roles..
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Gay operator Josh Russo is played by gay actor Bryan Safi.
• Real-Life Relative: Maddie's abusive husband Doug is played by Jennifer Love Hewitt's real-life husband, Brian Hallisay
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • The reason Maddie was Put on a Bus in Season 5 was due to Jennifer Love Hewitt going on maternity leave.
  • Michael was written out when actor Rockmond Dunbar refused to comply with the show's Covid-19 filming protocols.
• Shipper on Set: Both Oliver Stark (Buck) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (Maddie, Buck's sister) have voiced their support for the fan shipping of Buck and Eddie (Buddie). Oliver enjoyed liking and sharing fanart and other edits that fans sent him on both twitter and instagram. Ryan Guzman (Eddie) also commented on the matter, saying that he liked the name "Buddie" better than the alternative "Beddie."
• What Could Have Been:
  • Maddie's love interest on the show was initially planned to be Eddie. However, Jennifer Love Hewitt said no and suggested Chimney instead. Considering her instagram shoutout about shipping Buddie, this is probably one of her motivations.
  • On a photo of the manuscript for "Outside Looking In" is a rather hard to read list of characters appearing in the episode. What sticks out is that Lucy's family name was initially planned to be "Rios" instead of "Donato."
  • Albert was mean to have a major role in Season 5 and join the 118 station, but due to the actor's availability, those plans were dropped.
  • Buck's queer storyline in Season 7 was supposed to go to Eddie according to this interview with Lou Ferrigno Jr., but for some unknown reason the plan fell through and the switch was made afterwards.
    • Additionally, Buck being bi, according to Oliver Stark, was proposed to him earlier on in the series' run (and he agreed!), but it was shot down by higher-ups (many have assumed that this was FOX).

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