Trivia / Mad About You

• The Danza: Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman
• Edited for Syndication: Sometimes the tag to the third from last episode "Paved With Good Intentions", in which we see Ira stealing props from the apartment and telling a shocked Nat that "Mad About You will be airing its last episode a week from next Monday", is replaced with a generic New York skyline shot credit crawl.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Their next door neighbor Maggie (Judy Geeson) was married to a man named Hal (Paxton Whitehead). Early on, they switched the actor playing Hal (to Jim Piddock) in an implicit "Other Darrin" situation. Much later, they switched back, and retconned that they were two different Hals (Paxton-Hal was her first and third husband), thus un-Othering the Darrin.
  • Further, Jamie's parents were played by three different sets of actors, culminating in Carol Burnett and Carroll O'Connor.
  • Jamie's Boss was played by Alan Ruck (of Spin City and Ferris Bueller's Day Off) but inexplicably changes between seasons 4 and 5.
• Reality Subtext: Steve Buscemi appears in an episode in the first season, which was inspired by an actual incident between Paul Reiser and him. Before Buscemi began acting, he tried his hand at doing stand-up. One night, he bombed so badly, that another comic had to take his place. That comic was Reiser, and the episode pokes fun at the incident.
  • Mark has remarried in the revival. That's because Fran's actress Leila Kenzle left the show business to become a therapist.
• Star-Making Role: Helen Hunt became a star over the course of this show, winning four consecutive Emmys in addition to an Oscar for As Good as It Gets and starring in major blockbusters like Twister.
• What Could Have Been: Teri Hatcher was considered for Jamie Buchman, but lost at the final auditions.

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