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• The name of Nancy and Andy's "fakery" is Breadsticks and Scones. The cap that bakery employees wear shortens the name of the bakery to "BS" as a joke.
  
  
• Many of the exterior shots of the show are filmed on location in and around the bedroom community of Stevenson Ranch, California and Santa Clarita, California.
  
  
• The aerial photo during the intro is of Calabasas, California.
  
  
• Due to product placement deals, Nancy often carries an "It's a Grind Coffee House" beverage. A Starbucks in Calabasas, California, fills in for "It's a Grind," in the opening credits.
  
  
• The theme song "Little Boxes", was sung and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962.
  
  
• During the second and third seasons, the opening credits were again accompanied by the Malvina Reynolds song "Little Boxes," but sung instead by a different individual or group each time. Artists who provided covers for openers included Elvis Costello, Death Cab for Cutie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle (who sang the song in French), Regina Spektor, Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, Randy Newman, Angélique Kidjo, Donovan, Billy Bob Thornton, The Shins, Joan Baez, The Decemberists and Linkin Park.
  
  
• The book Rejuvenile by author Christopher Noxon has appeared several times on the show. Noxon is married to series creator Jenji Kohan. Noxon was also the music supervisor for season one and appeared in the pilot episode as a bear hunter.
  
  
• Three of the regular actors on "Weeds" share the same birthday, November 18th: Elizabeth Perkins (Celia), Kevin Nealon (Doug) and Romany Malco (Conrad).
  
  
• The fictional coastal town of Ren Mar near San Diego introduced in Season 4 gets it name from Renmar studios in Los Angeles which is where the series is shot.
  
  
• FX's _"The Shield" (2002)_ is mentioned as a favorite show among some of this shows characters and several guest stars from "The Shield" have had guest appearances on this show, including U-Turn and Guillermo.
  
  
• Regular cast members Alexander Gould and Elizabeth Perkins voiced characters in Finding Nemo (2003) as title character Nemo and Coral, Nemo's mother, respectively. In season four they were joined by guest star Albert Brooks who portrays Gould's grandfather on the show but plays Nemo's father, Marlin, in Finding Nemo.
  
  
• A running sound gag is heard whenever anyone (especially Nancy) is sipping a drink through a straw. The noise heard is what one would hear when a drink has gotten so low that air begins to go up the straw. This will occur in Weeds, however, regardless of the level of the liquid.
  
  

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