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14th Oct 2010

The Simpsons (1989)

Trivia: The Simpson family appeared in the Tracey Ullman Show as crudely drawn cartoons. Matt Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators and assumed they would clean the figures up during production, but instead the animators just re-traced Groening's drawings.

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14th Oct 2010

24 (2001)

Season 7 generally

Trivia: The exterior shots of the Ritter Building, where Iké Dubaku based his operations in the early episodes of the season, are of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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Audio problem: When the members of the Dallas crew arrive on the Red October, Ramius asks Ryan "You speak Russian?" He asks the question in Russian, but his mouth is very visibly asking the question in English.

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Trivia: The scene where Indy escapes a nuclear blast by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator spawned the phrase "nuking the fridge", which is analogous to jumping the shark, an idiom to describe when a TV series has passed its creative peak and its overall output has begun to decline.

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30th Sep 2010

Gossip Girl (2007)

30th Sep 2010

JAG (1995)

Body Talk - S5-E24

Trivia: While describing events from ten years earlier, Captain French mentions the Naval Investigative Service to Harm and Bud, which was the Navy's law enforcement agency that eventually became NCIS.

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27th Sep 2010

CSI: NY (2004)

Trivia: Gibbs' first and middle names, Leroy and Jethro, are the first and middle names of Donald Bellisario's brother and father, respectively.

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23rd Sep 2010

Prison Break (2005)

Dead Man Talking - S1-E19

Trivia: While talking with Amanda Reed, Tony calls himself "Stringfellow", and later tells McGee that he got the name from the TV series Airwolf, which was also created by Donald Bellisario.

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21st Sep 2010

Prison Break (2005)

Trivia: Sean Murray is Donald Bellisario's stepson, and his stepbrother Michael played Bud Roberts' brother Mikey on JAG. In addition, his stepsister Troian has played McGee's sister Sarah.

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11th Sep 2010

JAG (1995)

8th Sep 2010

Heroes (2006)

Other mistake: When Clapton describes Cream meeting Jimi Hendrix for the first time in London, there is a period after Chas Chandler's first name that doesn't belong there. "Chas" isn't an abbreviation, and it's not located at the end of a sentence.

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