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1. Seth Needleman?! It almost happened, as Schwartz revealed during an in-depth interview with Uproxx, "When I first wrote the script the Cohens were the Needlemans."
2. The first actor cast on the series was Peter Gallagher as Sandy Cohen, the patriarch of the central fam. C'mon, who could resist those eyebrows? "We wanted to send a very clear message that this was a show as much about the parents as it was about the kids, and we had this acclaimed film and stage actor in the lead role, heartthrob himself," Schwartz said. "And somebody who was a terrific actor who was going to ground the adult world with a lot of credibility."