Cougar Town Trivia | 30 facts about the series

“Cougar Town” was a comedy series that aired from 2009 until 2015 with Courteney Cox playing the lead role.

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1. Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that ran for 102 episodes over six seasons, from September 23, 2009, until March 31, 2015.
2. The first three seasons aired on ABC.
3. Then the series moved to TBS for the remaining three seasons.
4. ABC officially gave the series a full season pickup on October 8, 2009.
5. On May 8, 2012, ABC canceled the series after three seasons.
6. Two days later, TBS picked up the series for a fourth season.
7. The show was created by Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel.
8. It was produced by Doozer and Coquette Productions in association with ABC Studios.
9. Filming took place at Culver Studios in Culver City, California.
10. The pilot episode achieved 11.28 million viewers.
11. Season 2 premiered on September 22, 2010, with 8.35 million viewers
12. Season 3, consisting of 15 episodes, was originally slated to premiere in November 2011.
13. Because of ABC’s promotion of the ill-fated Man Up!, it premiered on February 14, 2012^.
14. Following the Season 3 finale, it was announced that TBS had purchased the rights to the series for an additional 15-episode season, to air in 2013, with options for additional seasons.
15. On March 25, 2013, TBS renewed the series for a fifth season of 13 episodes, which premiered on January 7, 2014.
16. On May 10, 2014, TBS renewed Cougar Town for a sixth and final season.
17. Season six premiered on January 6, 2015.
18. The series concluded on March 31, 2015.
19. In season 2 episode 21, Danny Pudi appears in the background. In the NBC show “Community,” Pudi plays Abed, who is a huge fan of “Cougar Town” and talked about being an extra after being invited to visit the set. In the season 2 finale of “Community,” the “Cougar Town” actors who play Laurie and Travis make a cameo in the background of a crowd scene.
20. In season 4, Jules takes her father to the doctor for a check up. In this episode, a sign for a private practice can be seen, which is owned by Doctors Dorian, Reid and Turk. Those three are all main characters from Scrubs (2001) (Dr. John Dorian = Zach Braff, Dr. Elliot Reid = Sarah Chalke, Dr. Chris Turk = Donald Faison)
21. In at least one episode, Jules (Courteney Cox) is watching Scrubs (2001). Bill Lawrence also created Scrubs, and his wife Christa Miller is in both shows.
22. The show is set in Florida. With the exception of the pilot and episode 1.19, all episodes are named after Tom Petty songs. Petty is a Florida native.
23. Sam Lloyd’s character from Scrubs (2001), Theodore “Ted” Buckland, also appears on Cougar Town (2009). The first time when the cul-de-sac crew travels to Hawaii to bring Travis back. Ted tells Jules that he came to Hawaii because his girlfriend Gooch, who was also on Scrubs (2001), left him for Hooch, a surgeon from Sacred Heart Hospital where Scrubs (2001) takes place.
24. Ted appears a second time with his band “The Worthless Peons”, who also appeared several times on Scrubs (2001).
25. In May 2010, the series’ creator Bill Lawrence announced that he was considering changing the series’ title. Among the titles considered were “Friends & Family,” “Friends & Neighbors,” “Neighborhood Jules,” “The Cul de Sac,” “The End of the Street,” “The Neighborhood,” and “Neighborhooding.” He almost settled on “Sunshine State,” but decided against it when Matthew Perry’s upcoming series was revealed to be titled “Mr. Sunshine.” Lawrence eventually decided to keep the original title
26. On 10 May 2012, news broke that the show would be leaving ABC and returning with a new season on TBS. Repeats of the first three seasons aired on TBS as well.
27. By their own admission, creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel realized after the first episodes that the central plot of the show (a woman on her 40s starts dating 20 year-olds) wasn’t working as much as they hoped, and also noticed that the ensemble scenes were a lot of fun to write and shoot. So they ditched the ‘cougar’ aspect and focused on the main group of characters.
28. In at least one scene, a sign for the fictional “Coffee Bucks” franchise can be seen in the background. Coffee Bucks was also featured in Scrubs (2001), which was also created by Bill Lawrence.
29. Christa Miller and Ian Gomez who play married on the show were formerly on the Drew Carey show together as co-workers.
30. In the pilot episode, the set of the cul de sac is different from the rest of the series.