Hannah is from a middle class Jewish family and lives with her parents, her grandmother, and her uncle.
Her parents are the owners of a furniture factory in the fictitious town of Ashmore, North Carolina, to where they have recently moved from Chicago.
Typically, they are depicted as more intelligent, thoughtful, funny, and rebellious than other children of their age.
The two main actresses, Shawkat and Whitman, went on to co-star on Fox's Arrested Development.
Shawkat played Maeby Funke on the show, while Whitman played Ann Veal, the girlfriend of Maeby's cousin George Michael Bluth who was portrayed by Michael Cera.