*The license plate on Cameron and Mitchell’s car (2GAT123) is the same as Larry David’s on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2000).

*The characters, Mitchell Pritchett (played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet), are a gay couple, but in real life Stonestreet is straight.

*Phil saying he is “going to fix that step” is a running gag throughout the season.

*In a 2010 interview with “Out” Magazine, Jesse Tyler Ferguson said that the running joke that Jay kept “forgetting” that his son, Mitchell, is gay (and Mitchell had to come out to his father repeatedly) is drawn from Ferguson’s real life – he had to come out to his real father three different times over many years before his father actually believed it. When Ferguson told the show’s writers this story, they found it very funny and decided to add it to Mitchell’s backstory.

*Cam and Mitchell’s daughter, Lily, is played by a set of twins named Ella (a girl) and Jayden (a boy). They are not given an on-screen credit.

*Nolan Gould, who plays “dumb” Luke Dunphy, has actually been a member of Mensa since he was four.