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7th Dec 2010

Dexter (2006)

7th Dec 2010

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

1st Dec 2010

Hawaii Five-O (1968)

17th Nov 2010

Hawaii Five-O (1968)

Trivia: McGarrett didn't use his iconic phrase "Book 'em, Danno" until the seventh episode of season one.

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Trivia: When the film was released on DVD, it was the first time a digital copy of the movie was included that could be copied to a computer and then transferred to another medium, such as an iPod.

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21st Oct 2010

Brazil (1985)

Brazil trivia picture

Trivia: When Sam goes out to lunch with his mother and her friends, his mother's hat is an upside down shoe.

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21st Oct 2010

The Firm (1993)

Trivia: Holly Hunter's role is one of the shortest Oscar nominated performances. She only appears on screen for about six minutes total.

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14th Oct 2010

CSI: NY (2004)

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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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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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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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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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)

Trivia: When the film was screened for the MPAA, one of the officials initially believed that in the second sex scene between Lester and Stacy, Lester spilled coffee onto Deacon from the coffee mug he was holding. It wasn't until the official noticed a piece of corn stuck to Deacon's face a few shots later that he realized what had actually happened.

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