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  • The Cast Showoff:
  • Dawson Casting: Averted, as Amanda Bynes was the same age as Holly in the first season, and Jennie Garth is only two years older than Val is supposed to be. Wesley Jonathan is borderline, being closer in age to Garth than Bynes despite playing the latter's best friend. Tina meanwhile is meant to be the same age as Holly, but Allison Munn is actually the same age as Jennie Garth (a potential Teen Pregnancy being a minor plot point in her debut episode no less).
  • Hide Your Pregnancy: Jennie Garth was pregnant for half of the first season. They resorted to the usual tactics - shooting from the chest up, having her sitting down a lot, etc.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only the first season was ever officially released on physical media (though the entire series now streams on HBO Max). Both the season 1 DVDs and the streaming release replace the theme song due to licensing issues, so if you want to see the opening credits actually synced correctly to the music they were originally edited for, you'll have to either catch a traditional rerun or find somebody who taped the show off of TV.
    • Strangely, only the theme song was replaced; other licensed music remains on the HBO Max release.
  • The Other Darrin: Mr. Tyler was played by Peter Scolari in the pilot; when he came home to visit twice in the last season, he became Barry Bostwick. And gay.
  • Real Song Theme Tune: And Titled After the Song to boot. The first season used Lillix's cover of the song, and seasons 2-4 used a remix of that cover.
  • Throw It In!: The season 1 gag reel suggests that Bynes does this a lot.
  • Write Who You Know: Ben writes a romantic song about Holly and then a mean one after they break up. In the second one ("Holly Tyler Sucks"), he changes her name to "Molly Myler" when he performs it in public.
  • You Look Familiar: A couple former Beverly Hills, 90210 actors say this to Val.

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