Nico Santos (Mateo) and Nichole Sakura (Cheyenne) applied for jobs at Target to do character research. Both of their applications were rejected.Cloud 9 stores are also featured in Good Girls, another NBC TV show.The pilot was shot in a functioning K-Mart during operating hours. Customers would approach the cast and crew to ask them which aisles certain items were in between scenes. That particular K-Mart has since closed permanently.Lauren Ash (Dina) actually worked at a big-box store in Canada called Zellers.Dina's trademark khakis are custom-made for actress Lauren Ash by the wardrobe department and cost $2,000 a pair.A Canadian flag sits on a cabinet on Glenn's desk. Mark McKinney, who plays Glenn, is Canadian, as is Lauren Ash, who plays Dina.Michael Bunin, who plays Jeff, was in the wildly popular and award-winning commercial for K-Mart called "Ship My Pants" in 2013.There's a running joke about a raccoon infestation within the store. This was inspired by the real raccoon infestation on the soundstage where the inside of Cloud 9 is filmed.The exterior set for the Cloud 9 Superstore can be seen in the NBCUniversal truck storage lot at the intersection of Barham Blvd. and Forest Lawn Dr. in the Studio City area of Los Angeles.It's a running joke that Marcus (Jon Barinholtz) tries and always fails to get everyone to join him in a chant. He's only accomplished getting everyone to join him in a chant once, which was in episode 4.21 "Sandra's Fight".Dina's surname Fox was inspired by Lauren Ash's dog, who is named Fox Mulder Ash.Ben Feldman said the original title for the show was "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told". He doesn't know why.The series takes place in St. Louis, Missouri.A running joke is that the actor who plays Jonah looks like Scott Baio. Scott Baio starred as Charles from Charles in Charge and homage was paid to this in episode 4 from Season 2 when Jonah dared Amy to sing the theme song from Charles in Charge over the PA.Although the interior of the store is a set on a soundstage, the checkout lanes are actually fully functioning.The first season originally had 13 episodes, but NBC cut it down to 11.This was the first time America Ferrera was offered a non-Latina role, as Amy had no nationality specifically mentioned in the pilot script.The majority of the boxes on the shelves are actually empty. However, the cast and crew have said they battle the urge to shop while on set.In December 2020, NBC announced that the sixth season would be its last.Based on Walmart, down to the uniforms (colors & vests). It is unclear if Walmart's HQ were contacted for permission.Garett always wears a diamond related item of clothing under his vest.Kelly Stables (Kelly) is actually from St. Louis, Missouri, where Superstore is set.In I Feel Bad: I Need My Mom (2018), Emet and David go to Cloud 9 to buy presents to win the nanny back. This now puts I Feel Bad and Superstore in the same fictional universe. However, this also creates a unique situation. Johnny Pemberton plays two different characters in both shows; Bo in Superstore (2015) and Griff in I Feel Bad (2018). As such, both characters now exist in the same universe.This show is very similar to the British supermarket comedy Trollied.Amy, Cheyenne and Garrett are the only employees to not wear khakis.Break room scenes generally take the longest to film because they include most of the cast.The interior of the Cloud 9 set is about a tenth of the size of a real big box store, so mirrors are used to give the space more depth. They also use the same parts of the set to represent different areas around the store. For instance, the pharmacy, vision center, gun counter, and appliances section are all filmed on the same spot of the soundstage.Amy's name tags are usually chosen by the writer of that particular episode, but sometimes other members of the cast and crew get input. For instance, in an episode directed by cast member Ben Feldman (Jonah), Amy's name tag says "Effie", which is a reference to Feldman's daughter.The relationship between Amy and Jonah is the primary love story featured on the show, but actor Lauren Ash (Dina) actually felt the real love story was the friendship between Amy and Dina.America Ferrera previously worked with Tony Plana in the series "Ugly Betty" and In both shows, America starred as Tony's daughter. Tony's characters were also shown to have a heart condition.Lauren Ash and Nico Santos also appear in Paul Blart 2.In season 4, episode 2, after Mateo has completed taking pictures of Dina in a holiday scene, Mateo tells Darren that he would meet up with him later at "Zippers." Zippers is the name of a gay bar in Toronto, Ontario, that operated from roughly 1998 to 2016.Amy's (America Ferrera's) name tag is different in every episode. She stated in the first episode that she does not like strangers calling her by her name. Except for episode 11 where she becomes assistant manager and her name tag finally says "Amy.""Oh, s**t" are the first words of Brett's in two of the seasons in which he appears.In S2E4, "Spokesman Scandal," Amy and Jonah paint over the large picture of Kyle the Cloud 9 cloud. The girl lying down on the bed in the picture is Nichole Bloom, the actress who plays Cheyenne.During the "Spring Cleaning" episode, Eugene is seen cleaning graffiti off of a bathroom stall. The graffiti reads "Bo", indicating that new employee and father to Cheyenne's child was the one who did the grafitti.Cheyenne Lee gives birth to a daughter named Harmonica in the first season. "Cheyenne" and "Harmonica" are the names of the two supporting characters from the 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West.In Season 3, Episode 5, "Sal's Dead," Sean Whalen's character Sal Kazlauskas is found dead behind the drywall at the Cloud 9 store. In 1991, Sean Whalen played the character Roach in the movie "The People Under the Stairs" in which he was confined to live under the stairs and in the walls by his adoptive parents.

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