The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene/Trivia

==Trivia==
*The title is a parody of the book and film The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
*This is the first episode to be titled after Gene.
*First appearances of Courtney Wheeler, Lenny DeStefano, Rupa, Courtney's father Doug Wheeler and so far the only appearance of Courtney's mother. Julie also speaks for the first time after appearing as an 'extra' throughout the show's run.
*Director Don MacKinnon's name is spelled with all the letters the same size on the opening titles for this episode, implying that his name is rendered 'Don Mackinnon'. In all later episodes, the letters 'a' and 'c' in 'Mac' are smaller, making the 'Mac' part of his name more apparent.
*Tina mentions two students named Wendy and Lizzie, named for the Molyneux sisters, Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux who are writers for the show.
*Films showing at Cinema 4 are; Dog Prom 2, Nora's Beans (most likely a reference to a writer for the show Nora Smith), Ninja Nannies and Mister Sister.
*Along with Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks, the soft serve ice cream machine appears busted in continuation after the events in The Deepening.
*One of the teachers at Wagstaff School (specifically Gene's teacher from Crawl Space) attends Courtney's party.
*Courtney sings "We Go Together" from the musical Grease over the montage of Gene and Courtney's relationship, similar to how Gayle sang Blondie's "One Way or Another" over a montage in Dr. Yap.
*Linda's pink underwear is actually seen for the first time in this episode, her underwear was revealed to be pink in color when she painted it on to Gayle's anus paintings in Art Crawl.
*Starting with this episode until the end of the 2ASA production season, Gretchen appears skinny having lost weight. She becomes fat again starting with the 3ASA production season premiere, My Fuzzy Valentine.
*Gene's wings during the "gear heaven" sequence are two Casio SK-5 keyboards, the same model that Gene's keyboard is.
*The opening changes a little bit in this episode when Gene plays a newer sound on his keyboard.
*The captions to the music playing at Courtney's party say, "It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday...," which are lyrics to Rebecca Black's song, "Friday."
*A total of 4.55 million viewers watched this episode.
*The episode received positive reviews from critics.
*The script cover shows Gene with an elated look along with the title above his head.
*The music of the intro has been changed again, adding a cymbal crash and other sounds.
*This is the first time we see Linda's and Mort's teeth.
==Goofs==
*The glass on Bob's car changes opacity from being semi-transparent to being fully transparent in the last shot when he is driving Gene, Courtney, Lenny and Julie to the movies, it becomes semi-transparent again when he pulls over outside the cinema.
*Julie appears twice on the board that Tina and Louise look at, once with her alternative design with blonde hair and again with her more familiar design with brown hair.
*Gene's locker has the lock on its left side, but when it's open the lock appears to be on its right. Additionally it opens to the left, the opposite of where it should open to if the lock was on the left.
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