History Trivia / BlackIsh

* AbsenteeActor: Laurence Fishburne misses some episodes due to also being in ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. To explain this, [[WrittenInAbsence the writers threw in an offhanded line about Pops being on vacation in Bermuda]]. This gets a LampshadeHanging in Season 2 when Bow rejects him as a guardian for the kids if she and Dre die as he's often gone for long periods, and asks if he's even still alive. Dre isn't quite sure.
* ActorAllusion:
** In "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Gun," [[Film/TheMatrix Pops (fake) teaches Zoey karate]]
** In 'Hope', he listens to Dre in a flashback waxing lyrical about civil rights while he rotates metal stress balls in his hand with an irritated look on his face like [[Film/BoyzNTheHood another Fishburne character]].
** Ruby alludes to dating James Ingram, at which the show cuts to an old picture of Ingram and Jenifer Lewis from when they were actually dating.
** Creator/DaveedDiggs enters the show having [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} just come back after years of living in France]]. Plus, Ruby comes into the room saying "What'd I miss?"
** Diane is embarrassed by Bow's attempts to protest a parody of Toys/AmericanGirlsCollection that only includes two highly stereotypical black characters. Marsai Martin played the live-action version of an American Girl character in ''Melody 1963: Love Has To Win''.

* PlayingGertrude: Laurence Fishburne is only eight years older than Anthony Anderson, and Jennifer Lewis is thirteen years older. This is helped a bit by having a Season 1 episode center around Andre's 40th birthday, making him five years younger than Anderson.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The episode "Juneteenth", which explained the significance of the day and why it should be more widely recognized, became this when Juneteenth was made a federal holiday about four years later.

** Diane is embarrassed by Bow's attempts to protest a parody of Toys/AmericanGirlsCollection that only includes two highly stereotypical black characters. Marsai Martin played the inspiration for an American Girl doll in ''Melody 1963: Love Has To Win''.

* RealitySubtext: Zoey is going to college at the same time that her actress, Yara Shahidi, is going to attend Harvard.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The episode on Juneteenth, which was made a federal holiday a few years later.

** [[http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20140915/fall-tv-abc-comedy-black-ish-tackles-cultural-identity Creator Kenya Barris is married to a doctor named Rainbow, who is also mixed-race]]. They also got married in 1999, which just happens to be right about the time Dre did.

* MissingEpisode" Season 4's "Please, Baby, Please". Touching on the anthem protest issue in the NFL, it was pulled from airing over creative differences. This was the final straw for showrunner Kenya Barris, who left the show and ABC after the season was over because he felt that the network was silencing him to appease Creator/DonaldTrump supporters that the network was now trying to attract. The episode finally aired in August 2020 when it debuted on Website/{{Hulu}}.

* MissingEpisode" Season 4's "Please, Baby, Please". Touching on the anthem protest issue in the NFL, it was pulled from airing over creative differences. This was the final straw for showrunner Kenya Barris, who left the show and ABC after the season was over because he felt that the network was silencing him to appease Creator/DonaldTrump supporters that the network was now trying to attract.

* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Due to California's Labor Laws involving infant actors Devante is plays by twin boys plus two other babies including [[CrossCastRole a girl]].

** Daveed Diggs enters the show having [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} just come back after years of living in France]]. Plus, Ruby comes into the room saying "What'd I miss?"

* TheCastShowoff: In 'Twindependence', Zoey speaks some Farsi - Yara Shahidi is half-Iranian and Farsi was one of the first languages she learnt.

* MissingEpisode" Season 4's "Please, Baby, Please". Touching on the anthem protest issue in the NFL, it was pulled from airing over creative differences.