Trivia / The Brothers García

• Actor Allusion: Sonia is very familiar with people at the hospital, which seems to be a nod to Ada Maris's role in the sitcom Nurses.
• Actor-Inspired Element: The cast claimed that Jeff Valdez eventually started writing the characters based more off them, so by the second season they were essentially playing themselves.
• Adored by the Network: Nickelodeon constantly ran previews for the show and it was often shown in double bills in the UK. Then-network President Herb Scannell was a big supporter of the show as it reminded him of the Spanish language sitcoms he used to watch when visiting his extended family in Puerto Rico as a child.
• The Cast Showoff: Vaneza Pitynski sings in the Mysteries of the Maya movie.
• Follow the Leader: Nickelodeon produced Taina immediately after picking this one up. There are notably many similarities between Taina and Lorena's characters too.
• Genre Turning Point: Before this sitcom, you didn't see Latino protagonists in English speaking shows. This was in fact the first English-speaking sitcom to focus on a Latino family. The success of this undoubtedly lead to The George Lopez Show, Wizards of Waverly Place, Taina, The Ortegas etc.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Never released on DVD but the series has been uploaded to YouTube.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Carlos Lacamara tended to get cast as waiters, valets and bartenders. Ray Garcia by contrast is an educated college professor.
  • Ada Maris said years later that this was one of the only times she got to play a warm, caring mother figure.
  • Lupe Ontiveros was normally cast as maids, but here got to play Sonia's wise mother.
• Reclusive Artist: Although Alvin Alvarez returned for The Garcías, he does not have social media and has not given any interviews.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting:
  • Alvin Alvarez, Bobby Gonzales and Jerry Licon all look as if they could be brothers.
  • When Vaneza Pitynski resurfaced for the reunion, she had grown up to resemble Ada Maris even more.
• Those Two Actors: Carlos Lacamara and Ada Maris also starred together in the sitcom Nurses.
• What Could Have Been: Jeff Valdez took to YouTube in 2019 to state that he was in talks for a revival of the franchise, and asked the fans whether they would prefer a reboot set in the 2020s with a new cast as the Garcías or a sequel series following the original characters now as adults with kids of their own. The latter won out, resulting in The Garcías.
• Write What You Know: Show developer Jeff Valdez based the sitcom on his own experiences growing up. Sonia's in-home beauty salon was based off a business his sister ran.
• You Look Familiar: Lupe Ontiveros appeared in the pilot episode playing the star of Lorenna's novela. She later appeared as Abuelita in further episodes.

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