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This was the first episode to air on Monday night instead of Saturday
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Dave Allen was born in Naperville, IL (shout-out, I'm from Wheaton)
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Ben Foster would stay in character all day as Eli because it wasn't an easy character to get in and out of
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This episode was Judd's dream because it's all Billy Joel music, Glass Houses came out when he was growing up
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'Maureen' came from the name of Judd's assistant, 'Sampson' was Paul's best friend growing up
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Dave Allen really has experience as a guidance counselor (or maybe teacher)
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The store is based on Silverman's in the Lakeside Mall where Paul got all his clothes in the 70s
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They shot the rocket launch scene while the freaks were filmed getting in their car accident for a later episode a few streets over. Some rocket catalog was the greatest thing ever when Paul was a kid
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Paul's biggest concern about marriage when he was a kid was how do you lay next to her in bed all night without farting
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The scene where they distract Vicki with Eli was written ten minutes before they filmed it
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One of the guys on a fake ID was Brendan something, he worked on the crew. Linda added he's also on the crew of ER. Jason was going to get fake IDs from a real fake ID guy for the show, but he ended up blowing him off when they were supposed to meet somewhere so he was mad at him
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Kevin Corrigan (Goodfellas, The Departed, Big Fan (you should see that if you haven't)) improvised half his lines, he improvised calling Daniel "McMurphy". Daniel's trying to figure out how to make his own big fake license and Toby is trying to make it sound harder than it is. Franco loved him and was excited to work with him, was intimidated by him which worked well for the scene
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There was a restaurant called The Iron Horse Inn and it blew Paul's mind when he was a kid that they could do all you can eat nights
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Jason got uncomfortable when Toby was hitting on Lindsay because he liked her character so much that when she broke up with him it actually hurt
(It's weird that in the Halloween episode Harold goes "How about a roll in the hay" and Jean says "Not now" and Harold replies "When?" to himself. But then in this episode Jean says "No one's here, wanna have some sex?" and his reaction is "Sex?!")
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Pit is a real game Paul used to play, a lot of people on the show thought he made it up
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"David Koechner is going to be in Anchorman in July, you should check it out. Or, if you're listening to these a few years from now, it
