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  • Between the first and second series, the house design and layout change massively.
  • Kris Marshall, who plays Nick, wanted to be killed off the series, but the writers decided it would be better for him to have moved away.
  • The series is taped in front of a studio audience.
  • The title is based upon a quote from William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" (Act I, Scene IV): "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
  • Ben opens a box of cereal and is pleased he gets the present in the box of Fruity Puffs. Nick, dressed as a gorilla, grabs it and says, "ooooh, Madam Hooch....I'll have that." Madam Hooch was played by Zoë Wanamaker in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
  • At the beginning of the episode Ben pulls a card out of a cereal box. Nick exclaims, "Ooh! Madam Hooch!" Zoe Wanamaker played Madam Hooch in the Harry Potter series.
  • After he is officially declared alive again, Ben can be heard singing a line from 'The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers', the theme song of Tigger from 'Winnie the Pooh'.
  • Diana Weston, who plays Charlie/Charlotte, was in a long-term relationship with Robert Lindsay (Ben), and the two have a daughter together, Sydney Stevenson. Stevenson has appeared in three episodes of 'My Family': 'Sixty Feet Under', as Claire, and 'The Second Greatest Story Ever Told' and 'Trust Never Sleeps' as Sophie.