The King of Queens

Trivia: Kevin James, who plays lead character Doug, and Gary Valentine, who plays his cousin Danny, are in fact real life brothers, with Gary being over 4 yrs older.

Supermarket Story - S1-E10

Trivia: The house that Doug visits to make a delivery and stays for a while is the same one that is used for the Heffermans' neighbours' house.

Trivia: In many episodes when Doug is hurt, startled, angry etc., he will yell "Yuspa." Cathy Yuspa is one of the two writers on the show.

Friender Bender - S4-E4

Trivia: When Spence is describing why he can't eat peanuts ("My body doesn't like this and my throat gets real small") Kirby's hands are mimicking the lines along with Spence because he already knows what Spence is going to say. (00:51:40)

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Noel Cowards - S1-E11

Trivia: When Doug and Carrie go to buy the car, the name of the dealership is Sahakian Motors. Sahakian is the name of one of the producers.

Pregnant Pause (2) - S3-E25

Trivia: Carrie is talking about being able to fit the furniture in the baby's room, after she says she picked up a few boxes from the supermarket, she says Shalmonie Cuitsis sends them congratulations. Shalmonie is a game Doug made up when pretending to read in the episode 8 in Season 1 "Educating Doug".

Bun Dummy - S4-E21

Trivia: The picture that Doug brings to the high school reunion is a picture of Leah Remini from the magazine Stuff in real life. You can see it when Doug shows the picture to his friend at the reunion. Carrie Heffernan is hot, but was probably not on the cover of Stuff magazine.

The Minister

Trivia: Doug's parent's house is the same one used as Deacon's house.

S'no Job - S3-E23

Trivia: When Kevin is talking with O'Boyle, Kevin's true last name Knipfing is written on the whiteboard behind O'Boyle. (00:09:30)

Mild Bunch - S9-E9

Trivia: In this episode, Adam Sandler guest stars as one of Doug's old high school friends. In an earlier scene in the video store, the movie "Punch Drunk Love," which stars Adam Sandler, can be seen on one of the shelves.

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Question: Has Carrie's sister, Sara, ever been mentioned again after the first few episodes, and why was she taken off?

Answer: Sara hasn't been mentioned in later episodes, and it suggested in later episodes that she never existed, and that Carrie is an only child. Kevin James stated that the producers couldn't think of an good plots to use with Sara, so they left her out.

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