Trivia / Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

• Acclaimed Flop: To the point that in spite of the good reviews, the show was cancelled when season 2 hadn't even finished.
• Defictionalization: James' spread in People, "If I were Sexiest Man Alive" in the Episode "Sexy People..." actually did appear in People's 2012 Sexiest Man Alive Issue.
• Dueling Shows: With 2 Broke Girls. Both have shows have a female blonde forced by economic circumstances into rooming with a very different dark-haired woman in New York City.
• Life Imitates Art:
  • In the "Sexy People..." episode June suggests Channing Tatum will be the next Sexiest Man Alive. Though the show was filmed before the actual choice came out, Tatum was actually chosen that year.
  • In 2019, James Van Der Beek announced that he really will be competing on Dancing with the Stars.
• Playing Against Type: A surprising number of the main cast:
  • Prior to his stint on Apartment 23, Eric Andre was better known for his cringe/shock humor antics on The Eric Andre Show. As Mark, he's a Deadpan Snarker Extreme Doormat Only Sane Man. While there's plenty of cringe humor in Don't Trust the B----, Andre's role involves reacting to everyone else's chaos.
  • Most people who know Krysten Ritter from her dark, dramatic roles on Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones (2015) might be surprised to see her in a comedy.
  • Dreama Walker jumped immediately from the terrified, victimized clerk in the dark psychological thriller Compliance to bubbly optimist June. It is also a refreshing change of pace from Walker's roles as assault victims in Law & Order.
  • And let us not forget James Van Der Beek, who went from being primarily known as wistful, old-fashioned teenage heartthrob Dawson Leery to a cynical, self-aggrandizing version of himself, a fact that gets lampshaded constantly.
    June: [watching as James makes an ass of himself] I used to have a poster of you.
• Screwed by the Network: Airing episodes produced for season 1 mixed together with episodes from season 2, creating serious discontinuities in the ongoing plots (June has a job and then doesn't, then does again; James is on Dancing with the Stars, then he's not for a long time ... then suddenly he is again) and dumping the show onto Tuesday nights where there were, that season, lots of other sitcoms trying to compete with each other on Fox and NBC, didn't do the show any favors and led to ABC's sudden decision to "remove the show from the schedule" in late January. The above mentioned completely random order was maintained for its UK screenings (although to be fair E4 also showed the eight episodes unaired by ABC).

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