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• Meg Griffin's first name is Megatron
• Johnny Bravo is named after his creator, Giovanni "Johnny" Bravo Partible
• Bart Simpson was given his middle name by his voice actor Nancy Cartwright. In one episode, Bart said "Or my name isn't Bartholomew J. Simpson!". When Matt Groening asked what the J stood for, she said "JoJo".
• Neil Patrick Harris loves Red Bull and has a free lifetime supply because of the advertising he gives them when he drinks it on shows

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A young teenage jessica biel once flashed the younger pete from pete and pete

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Better Call Saul has made more episodes than Breaking Bad, and next year it will be one season ahead of where Braking Bad stopped.

Star Trek: The Original Series was first aired in Canada, a few days before its US premiere.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(The_Simpsons)

I suspect the true location lies in the NE section of the country.

Apparently the set of Alf was a really toxic work environment

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The Dick Van Dyke Show was based on Carl Reiner's life and he even played the lead in a version of the show early on. When it was retooled into the show it's now known as, Johnny Carson was up for the role as Rob Petrie until Van Dyke's success in the Broadway play Bye Bye Birdie gave him the edge.

Actress Rose Marie almost quit the Dick Van Dyke Show in the fourth season when her husband of 20 years passed away. She was heartbroken, but a director talked her into continuing.

In the The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Richards was supposed to be divorced. The network hated it and so did test audiences as they thought she was still the character of Laura from The Dick Van Dyke Show and it meant she divorced Van Dyke. It was then changed to Mary breaking off an engagement instead.

https://youtu.be/w-tpZO2W1cU
The kitten seen in the end credits of various Mary Tyler Moore Production shows was found in an animal shelter in Minneapolis. The production company's initials were MTM so the joke was a play on MGM and its grand lion. The kitten's name was Mimsie. After Mimsie's filming duties were finished, she went home with a crew member and lived to the age of 20.

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There's an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which Mary is in jail with a hooker played by Barbara Colby. The character was liked and appeared in a second episode in which she tries her hand at fashion and designs the dress seen above. The show had a spin-off called Phyllis based on Cloris Leachman's character. Colby was brought over to a co-starring role on Phyllis. Colby filmed three episodes before she and a friend were in a parking lot one night in Venice, California. The two were attacked and then shot. Colby died at the scene while the friend lived long enough to describe the attackers, but the men were never found. It's still an unsolved case.

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Eric Forman's sister on That 70's Show, Laurie, died IRL from a drug overdose

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Frasiers brother, Niles, was a last-minute addition to the show when one of the show runners thought a picture of David Hyde Pierce looked like a young Kelsey Grammar.

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Marge Simpsons long hair was originally supposed to hide a long pair of rabbit ears, which would be revealed at the last episode of the show.
It never ended, and they decided to skip it.
But they can still be seen in that old arcade game.

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Frances Fisher who played Rose's mother in Titanic was originally considered for the role of Jill Taylor on Home Improvement.

Janeane Garofalo was considered for Monica Gellar on Friends.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_DuMont_Television_Network_broadcasts

Most of the now-defunct DuMont TV network's programming was dumped into NYC's Upper Bay and destroyed, completely lost forever. Relatively few episodes survive from the network's ten-year history.

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The final episode of M*A*S*H was seen by 106 million people in USA.
Only a handful of sports finales have beaten that record.

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The 60s Batman TV series lasted 3 seasons, had two different actors playing the Riddler, three different actors playing Catwoman, three actors playing Mr. Freeze, and made Alfred popular enough to make him return to the comics (the comics had turned him into a lizard villain that died).
Batgirl was introduced in the third season to get more viewers, but it failed, and ABC decided to cancel the show.
NBC agreed to take over the production for a fourth season on one condition, they wanted the TV set.
Sadly ABC had started to destroy it one week earlier, and NBC decided to skip it instead of rebuilding it.

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Archie Bunker and Meathead had a threesome with Edith, it never aired because because Gloria begged the producers not to show it because Joey wouldnt understand

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AlisLandale posted...

Frasiers brother, Niles, was a last-minute addition to the show when one of the show runners thought a picture of David Hyde Pierce looked like a young Kelsey Grammar.

What the fuck? Hes the best part.

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Kathy Kinney was only meant to play Mimi in the Drew Carey Show pilot, but her character tested so well that they wrote her into the show and Mimi remained throughout the entire series run.

Elizabeth Berkley auditioned for Kelly on Saved By the Bell but the part went to Tiffani Thiessen. The studio liked Elizabeth so much that they created Jessie Spano just for her.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_(cigarette)

Morley is a fictional brand of cigarettes that has appeared in various television shows, films, and video games that otherwise have no connection to each other.

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FUTURAMA SPOILERS

There's actually some continuation in the series :3

Fry learns that Nibbler is responsible for him getting frozen, as he blew his chair over when he was in the cryogenics building. And also, in (I think) the first episode of the show, you can see Nibbler's shadow under the desk as Fry is about to fall over

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Ro Laren was originally going to be Chakotay's engineer, but when Michelle Forbes was unavailable to reprise the role they created B'Elanna Torres.

Robert McNeill was meant to reprise his role of Nicholas Locarno on Voyager, but the producers realized they would have to pay royalties to Ronald Moore and Naren Shankar who wrote the TNG episode the character appeared in every time he was on screen. They opted to change the character and Tom Paris was born.

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Frank Sinatra got a heart attack when the Seinfeld finale aired for the first time.
The ambulance was extremely fast, the streets were empty because everybody watched the finale.
He died in the hospital later that day.

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