Trivia / Mike & Molly

• The Cast Showoff: Katy Mixon has a beautiful singing voice and puts it to good use often.
• Dawson Casting: Cleo King is only seven years older than Reno Wilson, despite being hired to play his grandmother.
• Distanced from Current Events: The season three finale "Windy City" was originally planned to air on May 20, 2013, but was quickly pulled due to its plot of Chicago in the path of a tornado; and just that day, Moore, Oklahoma and adjacent areas were devastated by an EF5 tornado. The episode eventually aired on May 30.
• Executive Meddling:
  • The show did undergo a shift in focus when showrunners changed. It became much more slapstick oriented and rather than an ensemble, seemed to become The Molly Show... It seems to have shifted back somewhat to focus a bit more on the ensemble again rather than just Molly hijinks recently, though.
  • The final shift in the last season away from the Molly slapstick hijinks back toward what the show had been before was a conscience effort on the part of the showrunner, who acknowledged that the change had gone over poorly with the audience and contributed to a decline in ratings. The final season was much better received as a result.
• Fake Nationality: Samuel, a Senegalese immigrant, is played by Nyambi Nyambi, who is a Nigerian-American.
• Real Song Theme Tune: "I See Love" by Keb' Mo'.
• Screwed by the Network: Despite being a moderate success in the ratings (not as big as Chuck Lorre's The Big Bang Theory or Two and a Half Men, but still steady), CBS pulled the plug with a shortened sixth season and never even told the cast. Melissa McCarthy found out about it through a statement co-star Rondi Reed made to the press.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: Melissa McCarthy and Katy Mixon really do look like they could be sisters.
• Star-Making Role: Was this along with Bridesmaids for Melissa McCarthy.

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