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  • Acting for Two: Amy Poehler provides the voices for Duncan and Annie. Also overlaps with Crossdressing Voices.
  • Actor-Shared Background: Jing and her voice actress, Joy Osmanski, are both adopted and East Asian.
  • All-Star Cast: The cast list includes Amy Poehler, Ty Burrell, Rashida Jones, and Wiz Khalifa.
  • Crossdressing Voices: Amy Poehler provides the voice for Duncan.
  • Dawson Casting: Duncan and his friends and siblings are all voiced by actors in their thirties and forties.
  • Descended Creator: Series co-creator Amy Poehler provides the voices for Duncan and Annie.
  • Died During Production: In the Portuguese dub, Ana Lucia Menezes (who voiced Jing) died of a COVID-related stroke after Season 1. Starting with season 2, the character will be voiced by Bia Menezes, Ana Lucia's daughter.
    • Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins who voiced 'Squirrel Kid' died during production of "Born to Run (A Small Business)" and the episode was dedicated to his memory.
  • Out of Order: In terms of production, “Undercova Mutha” was the second episode.
  • Real Song Theme Tune: Uses the "Woo hoo" portions of "I'm Better" by IRONTOM for the theme song.
  • Role Reprise: Paul Fusco reprises his role as ALF in "Sister, Wife".
  • Screwed by the Network: Fox buried the third season in the 7:30pm time slot on Sunday nights in late spring 2022, later in the summer it surrounded by nothing but reruns of Fox cartoons. They didn't even bother airing the last six episodes and dumped them on Hulu.
  • Those Two Actors: Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones previously starred in Parks and Recreation.
  • Typecasting: Ty Burrell's character, Jack, is a father who is always trying to prove what a "cool dad" he is.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • In earlier promotional videos, Jing was shown with much more lighter skin compared to the rest of the family, the animators probably realized the Unfortunate Character Design and gave her the same skin tone as the Harrises.
    • The episode “Undercuva Mutha” was originally going to be titled “My Mom the Dick.” note 
    • Some jokes from promotional videos never appeared in the show, these include:
      • Duncan pronouncing spaghetti wrong.
      • Annie about to give chase and then exclaiming that she's "about to Days of Thunder it", Duncan then asks her when was the last time she saw a movie. This scene, minus the shot where she does "Days of Thunder it" was cut from the episode "Undercuva Mutha".
      • Jing missing Duncan if he goes to college which is followed by Kimberly and Duncan laughing implying that the latter will never make it to college.
    • Kimberly went through various character designs with her hair varying in length and color.
    • The episode "Party Like a Rocket Star" was originally titled "Kimberly's Party" back when it was originally set to air back in Season One.
  • Write What You Know: As creator and producer of the show, Amy Poehler stated in an interview that the characters and premise are based on her experiences as a mother with two sons.
  • Write Who You Know: Amy Poehler also mentions that Annie is largely inspired by her own mother.

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