Simply the Best 25 Schitt's Creek Secrets Revealed

1. Fans of MTV's The Hills apt retrieve Dan Levy arsenic the co-host of the unrecorded aft show. And successful a 2015 interrogation with Out magazine, Toronto autochthonal Dan revealed his world TV acquisition inspired Schitt's Creek. "It truly conscionable started with maine being successful Los Angeles, knowing that I wanted to write," helium explained. "I had been watching immoderate world TV astatine the clip and was concentrating connected what would hap if 1 of these affluent families would suffer everything. Would the Kardashians inactive beryllium the Kardashians without their money?"

2. The conception of Johnny Rose purchasing a tiny municipality was inspired by a existent celebrity: Kim Basinger buying a municipality successful Georgia successful 1989.

3. While helium had ne'er turned to his celebrated begetter for assistance prior, Dan told Variety helium decided to inquire Eugene Levy to spouse with him connected the series. "I went to him with this thought of a affluent household losing their wealth and said, 'Do you privation to enactment connected this with me?" And helium said, 'Yes,'" Dan recalled, starring him to judge that the petition "was thing helium was hoping would hap a batch earlier."

4. And the determination to attack Catherine O'Hara, Eugene's beloved person and SCTV colleague, for the portion of Moira was the patriarch's idea, though she was hesitant to accidental yes, initially lone agreeing to bash the aviator presumption arsenic a favour for her longtime collaborator.

"When the amusement got picked up, we had to spell backmost to her and ask," Dan explained to Variety. "She was truly reluctant—justifiably so. It was a large unknown, and tv is simply a commitment. He ended up asking Eugene to springiness her 1 past telephone and archer her to conscionable springiness it 1 season. Clearly it worked. Canadian histrion Annie Murphy rounded retired the Rose unit arsenic David's sister Alexis.

5. Catherine came up with Moira's signature accent, which she attempted to picture via e-mail. "I was saying, 'Eugene, I don't privation to dependable similar a human,' basically," she told Variety. During the show's run, she would often angiosperm Moira's dialog with the assistance of Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words.

6. The genesis of Alexis' iconic "Ew, David!"? "The 'ew' was written into the amusement conscionable due to the fact that I accidental it a batch successful my existent life," Dan revealed. "I effort not to deliberation astir the assemblage excessively overmuch successful presumption of expectations. I consciousness similar the infinitesimal a amusement becomes alert of itself, I commencement to separate. I conscionable similar proceeding Annie say, 'David.'"

7. The tiny Canadian municipality successful which Schitt's Creek is filmed, Goodwood, Ontario, has seen a surge successful visitors acknowledgment to the deed show. "We did dingy up the municipality tremendously," Dan told NPR. 

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the creator had to instrumentality to Twitter to inquire fans to halt visiting the municipality for now, writing, "Visiting close present is simply a menace to the residents' wellness and safety. Thanks for understanding."

8. For a agelong time, fans speculated wherever precisely Schitt's Creek was set, arsenic it's ne'er specified connected the show. But successful 2018, Dan confirmed the fictional municipality is successful Canada. "We are a Canadian show, truthful inherently it is simply a Canadian town," helium told Buzzfeed News. "We've ne'er spoken astir it, truthful I don't similar to needfully pinpoint it anywhere. But for the involvement of the hard copy, I conjecture it's acceptable successful Canada."

9. The creators had to combat to support the show's rubric erstwhile they pitched it to the network, yet printing retired achromatic pages to beryllium it was a existent past name. "I don't adjacent cognize if determination were radical successful Canada, determination were conscionable a mates successful Ireland," Dan told Entertainment Weekly. "Thank God for those people, due to the fact that we got to support our name."

10. One of the series' astir iconic moments was the uncover that Alexis had tried to go a world prima and had recorded a taxable opus for her series. A existent acquisition to fans, the azygous "A Little Bit Alexis" went connected to go a viral hit. And Annie really wrote the opus herself, with assistance from her hubby Menno Versteeg, determined to marque it "a banger" successful the vein of thing Britney Spears or Paris Hilton would've released.

"She has ever benignant of been surrounded by musicians and caller radical and producers and said, 'Yeah, fto maine spot what I tin do," Dan told EW of tasking his costar with the assignment. "Now, I'll get tweets from predominately cheery men who are successful clubs and the opus volition play. I deliberation cheery bars and clubs are similar playing it, which to maine is the top compliment."

11. In summation to penning the earworm, Annie besides revealed she choreographed Alexis' creation number, which she didn't amusement anyone anterior to filming the scene. "I kept my fingers crossed that it would beryllium sufficient," she explained to EW, "and past I went successful and did it."

12. Annie primitively auditioned for the relation of Stevie Budd with Saturday Night Live veteran Abby Elliott (daughter of Chris Elliott, a.k.a. Roland Schitt) playing Alexis successful the aviator presentation. When Abby couldn't proceed with the amusement owed to scheduling conflicts, Annie bushed retired hundreds of actresses to onshore the part, adjacent dyeing her hairsbreadth blonde for the role. We emotion that travel for her!

13. Before Emily Hampshire was formed arsenic Stevie, Lindsay Sloane played the portion of David's deadpan bestie and Johnny's motel partner. But Emily delivered rather the memorable entranceway during her audition, with Dan recalling  astatine the 92Y Talks successful 2018 that she "came successful and instantly said, 'I'm sorry, this is going to beryllium terrible.'"

14. Prior to Noah Reid landing the relation of Patrick Brewer, the character's intersexual orientation, longterm presumption and nonstop relation successful David's emotion beingness was TBD. "That's a truly large happening erstwhile you're making TV, erstwhile you constitute characters that you haven't yet cast, and past you formed them and they work, and they don't conscionable enactment but they enactment with different characters and bring retired the champion successful different characters," Dan shared with EW. "It was a truly pleasant surprise. And we knew aboriginal connected that this quality was going to instrumentality around."

15. David and Patrick's archetypal buss successful the play 3 finale was initially scripted with Patrick making the archetypal move. But aft going implicit the country with a person and talking astir their respective coming retired experiences, Dan realized it needed to beryllium the different mode around. He re-wrote the country the nighttime earlier filming, speechmaking the caller dialog to Noah connected the mode to set. 

16. Patrick's swoonworthy "Simply the Best" screen successful play four—one of the series' defining moments—was simply scripted arsenic "Patrick sings a amazingly beauteous cover." But the acoustic statement was each Noah's, with the singer-songwriter spending weeks moving connected it earlier uncovering his instrumentality connected the Tina Turner classic. 

"If we didn't person that opus and helium didn't bash it the mode that helium had," Dan told EW, "I deliberation that country would not person had the benignant of value that it did and the quality to alteration my quality successful the mode that it did."

17. Moira's affectional effect to the show was genuine Catherine, who couldn't marque it done the country without crying. So Dan kept it successful the last cut, explaining helium wanted to item "the candidness of television...it was a infinitesimal that, for me, meant a batch due to the fact that it was a genitor supporting their kid." 

18. Of course, David aboriginal returned the favour to Patrick, with his ain creation show acceptable to the aforesaid classic song. Dan admitted that filming the country arsenic an histrion was "the astir unsafe I've ever felt...that level of unabashed, conscionable deficiency of information for however this is going to look oregon look connected film."

To assistance get done it, Dan and Noah divided a vessel of prosecco with their luncheon anterior to filming. Initially, Dan had intended for the country to play for laughs, but realized it meant overmuch much erstwhile the formed and unit on-set were moved to tears: "I thought I had done it incorrect and I deliberation astatine times determination are moments that travel retired of erstwhile you're making TV that are unexpected."

19. While it had a tiny cult pursuing erstwhile it aired connected Pop TV, Schitt's Creek didn't scope the tallness of its popularity until it deed Netflix successful 2017. Variety reported that the amusement was the streaming giant's 2nd most-watched acquired bid down The Office. 

20. Moira and David's Christmas duet was primitively expected to beryllium a solo show for the Rose household matriarch, but Catherine insisted the brace execute together. "The look successful her eyes erstwhile she told maine was like, you'll beryllium doing this." Dan explained to EW of the play 4 moment. "And I said, 'When volition I ever get this accidental again to beryllium immortalized connected television?'" 

21. Dustin Milligan, who played Alexis' emotion involvement Ted, initially met Dan years agone erstwhile they auditioned for the aforesaid role—one neither of them received.

While determination isn't a batch of improvisation connected the set, Dustin revealed he started adding puns into his dialogue. "I didn't inquire anybody if I could commencement doing these puns, I conscionable started doing it," helium said. "But I got the unit to laughter a small bit… I don't cognize wherefore Dan decided to fto maine support doing it, but helium did."

22. Putting together the Rose family's bougie and often trendy to the constituent of ridiculous wardrobe connected a tiny fund was nary casual task, with Dan telling EW, "It was a year-round acquisition of mining eBay and consignment stores and vintage stories and each these antithetic consignment apps."

23. Throughout the series' run, Catherine wore much than 100 antithetic wigs arsenic Moira, a quality trait the prima really asked to beryllium written into the show. "I cognize 2 women who changed wigs passim the evening, she explained, adding she would sometimes usage her friends' names if determination wasn't a scripted moniker for the wig.

24. Dan had initially envisioned 5 seasons for Schitt's Creek, but changed his game-plan after, arsenic helium revealed, "We were fixed the accidental to bash 2 seasons, and I thought, 'Okay, I tin archer the extremity of this communicative successful 28 episodes.'"

25. But helium hasn't ruled retired the thought of returning to Schitt's Creek oregon revisiting the Rose household successful the future, explaining to EW, "I consciousness truly assured that we've truly mined everything we could. But the satellite doesn't detonate astatine the extremity of it. If determination is thing that comes up down the enactment that feels compelling capable to bring our troupe backmost unneurotic and proceed to archer a story, truthful beryllium it. I'm not 1 to laic down the robust fist and accidental ‘This is it forever.' This is conscionable it for now."

As helium put it to E! News successful December 2023, "I emotion the information that radical privation more, but it has to bushed what we've done, and that's a pugnacious happening to do. So until the thought comes to me, who knows?"