50 Fun Facts About Santa Clarita Diet

Which former child star of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays flesh-craving Sheila Hammond in Santa Clarita Diet?

Drew Barrymore was also an executive producer of the show, which her own production company helped to make.

Which seafood, served at the restaurant Japopo's, proves to be the cause of the undead outbreak in Santa Clarita Diet?

Clams were to blame: a rare red variety, bred from four specimens into thousands at a supplier called Ruby's, was about to be shipped out to restaurants.

Before Sheila's transformation in Santa Clarita Diet, what job do she and her husband Joel Hammond share?

Real estate agents suited the premise: the job gets the couple out into the world and demands a forced friendliness that hides what they are up to.

Which star of Deadwood and Justified plays Sheila's devoted husband Joel Hammond in Santa Clarita Diet?

Timothy Olyphant was also one of the show's executive producers, alongside his co-star and the series creator.

German posters for Santa Clarita Diet were withdrawn for showing a human finger sliced like which fast food?

Currywurst was the dish, and after more than 50 complaints reached Germany's advertising watchdog, Netflix ended the campaign and took every poster down.

Which Castle star plays Gary West, the lecherous co-worker who becomes Sheila's first meal in Santa Clarita Diet?

Nathan Fillion held the part for the first two seasons, even though Gary is killed and eaten in the very first episode.

When the Hammonds dig up Gary West in Santa Clarita Diet, which part of him has come back to life?

His head has reanimated, and the guilty Hammonds end up keeping it around, where it records messages and gives Joel advice.

What does Sheila Hammond turn a frozen victim into before a walk with her neighbors in Santa Clarita Diet?

A smoothie is her answer, and on the walk she urges her friends to live life to the fullest and credits her new energy to eating more protein.

Joel Hammond's research in Santa Clarita Diet turns up old prints of a flesh-eater from which European country?

Serbia is where the trail leads: an old book from there is said to hold a cure, and descendants of an order of knights later arrive to stamp out the outbreak.

How does Joel Hammond kill his blackmailing neighbor Dan Palmer during a fight in Santa Clarita Diet?

With a shovel, after refusing to do any more killing on Dan's orders; Sheila then tries to eat the entire body to hide the evidence.

Santa Clarita, the actual suburb where Santa Clarita Diet is set, is a city in which California county?

Los Angeles County is home to the suburb, whose name is a Spanish diminutive meaning 'little Santa Clara', coined to tell it apart from a city farther north.

What does Sheila Hammond discover her body no longer has after her transformation in Santa Clarita Diet?

A heartbeat is the missing thing, yet she is content, with a stronger libido, fewer inhibitions and a sense that this may be who she really is.

What happens to Sheila Hammond at work in the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet, shortly before turning undead?

She vomits in huge quantities, bringing up what may be an organ; soon afterwards she is undead and craving flesh.

Joel and Sheila Hammond of Santa Clarita Diet have been a couple since which stage of their lives?

High school is where it began, a history Joel cites when he decides he would rather help Sheila kill than leave her.

Which Community star plays Chris, half of a married duo who are the Hammonds' rivals, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Joel McHale joined in the second season as Chris, whose wife is named Christa and whose son is named Christian.

Which longtime sidekick to Conan O'Brien plays Carl Coby, the Hammonds' obnoxious boss, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Andy Richter plays the boss who eventually fires Sheila, which pushes Joel to quit and the couple to start a company of their own.

Which Arrested Development actress plays Dr. Cora Wolf, a scientist who studies the undead, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Portia de Rossi's scientist moves in with the Hammonds to make a serum, warning that it can only stop Sheila getting worse.

Which director of the film Zombieland made the first two episodes of Santa Clarita Diet?

Ruben Fleischer directed the opening pair of episodes and is also credited as one of the show's executive producers.

Where do Joel and Sheila Hammond keep the freezer holding their road-rage victim in Santa Clarita Diet?

A storage unit holds the freezer, and in the second season they rent another one so that it can serve as a kill room.

What does Sheila Hammond do to save an unconscious Joel in the final moments of Santa Clarita Diet?

She bites him after a crawling creature climbs inside him, and the show's cancellation a few weeks later left his fate unresolved.

Which kind of villain does Sheila Hammond decide she can eat without guilt in season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet?

Nazis fit her rule of only eating bad people, and she even buys a raffle book from their softball team to use as a list of future meals.

Where do Joel and Sheila Hammond bury the remains of Gary West after her first kill in Santa Clarita Diet?

In the desert, at a spot that is later marked for development, which forces the couple to go back for him.

What do Abby Hammond and Eric Bemis blow up at the end of season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet?

A fracking site was their target, destroyed with C-4 found in a dead neighbor's closet, and the blast later brings investigators to their school.

Which comedian, the voice of Remy in Ratatouille, plays the virologist Dr. Hasmedi in Santa Clarita Diet?

Patton Oswalt's virologist hears Joel out about his wife's condition and concludes that Joel is the one who is crazy.

Which writer, who earlier made the sitcom Better Off Ted, created Santa Clarita Diet and ran the show?

Victor Fresco set out to make a family show with an approach nobody had seen before, and wrote the first and last episodes himself.

Which Australian actor, later Van in Yellowjackets, plays the Hammonds' daughter Abby in Santa Clarita Diet?

Liv Hewson, who was born in Canberra, plays a teenager who answers her mother's change by skipping school and turning eco-saboteur.

Which actor, later seen in Booksmart and The Righteous Gemstones, plays neighbor Eric Bemis in Santa Clarita Diet?

Skyler Gisondo paused his film-school studies to take the part of the nerdy teen who works out what Sheila has become.

Which actor, the voice of droid K-2SO in Rogue One, took over the role of Gary West in Santa Clarita Diet?

Alan Tudyk played Gary for the third and final season, after a different actor had held the part for the first two.

Which bodily fluid is the final ingredient of the serum Dr. Cora Wolf brews for Sheila in Santa Clarita Diet?

Bile was the missing piece, and only a donor of one pure-blooded nationality would do, so Abby and Eric end up shopping for it online.

What name is given to the crawling creature that grows from the red lump Sheila expels in Santa Clarita Diet?

Mr. Ball-Legs begins as the lump each new undead person brings up, later sprouts limbs, and in the finale crawls inside Joel.

Which deadpan drugstore clerk, who briefly dates Eric Bemis, turns out to be undead too in Santa Clarita Diet?

Ramona had been coping alone, with no devoted partner to cover her tracks, and admits she no longer wants to be undead by herself.

What is the day job of Dan Palmer, the Hammonds' suspicious next-door neighbor in season 1 of Santa Clarita Diet?

Sheriff's deputy Dan turns out to be corrupt, with a hidden stash of drugs and cash, and blackmails Joel into killing for him.

After shooting Sheila Hammond without effect in Santa Clarita Diet, what does the devout Anne Garcia decide Sheila is?

God's instrument is her verdict, a belief Sheila tries to talk her out of early in the third season by confessing the truth.

Where does Joel Hammond end up after his arrest in the season 1 finale of Santa Clarita Diet?

A mental institution holds him for 72 hours, and his roommate there, Ron, later comes looking for the undead life himself.

Which actor, Lieutenant Jim Dangle in a long-running cop spoof, plays principal Andrei Novak in Santa Clarita Diet?

Thomas Lennon's principal matters twice over: he keeps threatening Abby with suspension, and his grandmother can read the old legend.

Which star of the sitcom Alice plays Jean, an elderly woman Sheila turns undead, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Linda Lavin joined for the third season as a sharp-tongued woman who, once turned, sets her sights on her landlord.

Which My Name Is Earl actor plays Tommy, an undead-hunter who comes after Sheila, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Ethan Suplee's Tommy inherits the hunt from his brother Paul, builds a kill room in his garage, and is then talked out of using it.

Which Desperate Housewives actor plays Dan Palmer, the Hammonds' nosy neighbor, in Santa Clarita Diet?

Ricardo Chavira, once Carlos Solis of Wisteria Lane, plays Eric's stepfather, who appears only in the first season.

Which actress, the Waitress of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, plays neighbor Lisa Palmer in Santa Clarita Diet?

Mary Elizabeth Ellis plays Eric's mother, who falls for her husband's former work partner after he goes missing.

Eric Bemis says the undead Sheila is driven by which part of the mind, in Freud's terms, in Santa Clarita Diet?

The id is pure impulse in Freud's scheme, which is why Sheila acts on every urge and even tells Abby to drop out.

The creator of Santa Clarita Diet said zombies let him explore which trait, calling the undead its ultimate example?

Narcissism was his theme: in his view the undead simply take whatever they crave, at once, with no thought for other people.

Which body part is the first to drop off Sheila Hammond as she starts to decay in Santa Clarita Diet?

Her little toe comes off in the bath, a loss she hides from Joel, and it is the first sign that her body is breaking down.

Which hobby does Anne Garcia take up in season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet, with results that alarm the Hammonds?

Painting was meant to distract her from a murder case, but her canvases of suspicious objects include a severed finger and Joel himself.

What does Abby Hammond hit fellow student Christian with while defending a classmate in Santa Clarita Diet?

A lunch tray lands her in trouble twice over, because Christian's parents turn out to be her own parents' business rivals.

Eric Bemis drives to an admissions interview for which university in season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet?

MIT nearly slipped away on the drive there, when a classmate found a leftover detonator in his car.

Which charity does Sheila Hammond volunteer for in season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet, leading her to the elderly Jean?

Meals on Wheels is an ironic choice for a woman who eats people, and Sheila ends up turning one of the people she visits undead.

Agent Tess Rogers, who questions Abby and Eric about an explosion in Santa Clarita Diet, works for which agency?

The FBI closes in on Eric as the bomber until the Hammonds stage a second blast to shift the blame elsewhere.

Which production company, co-founded by the actress who plays Sheila Hammond, helped make Santa Clarita Diet?

Flower Films, set up in 1995, was better known for movies such as Never Been Kissed, Charlie's Angels and Donnie Darko.

Gary West asks the Hammonds to hand his niece the deed to a lake house in which state in Santa Clarita Diet?

Michigan is home to the lake house, and delivering its deed is his one request before he will agree to be killed for good.

Which Croatian actor, Dr. Luka Kovač on ER, plays the menacing Dobrivoje Poplović in Santa Clarita Diet?

Goran Višnjić arrives late in the third season as an operative transferred to California who comes to suspect Joel of being undead.