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Susan Mayer: And then he got this Zen look on his face and he said, "you know Susan, most men lead quiet lives of desperation."

Lynette Scavo: Please tell me you punched him.

Susan Mayer: No. I said, "really? And what do most women lead? Lives of noisy fufillment?

When Juanita rushes down the stairs and goes outside the door, you can see that Gaby is holding a plate of leftover food in her left hand, but in the next shot the plate has suddenly changed into a bowl. See more...

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Across Season 4: Two Lois Lanes appear together in this season: Teri Hatcher played Lois Lane in The Adventures of Lois and Clark and Dana Delaney voiced Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series and its follow-ups.

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In Episode 3.20(Gossip), during Traver's birthday party, when Gaby is talking to Lynette and Susan, you can see Edie's house. It usually has a bay window upstairs above the porch, but in this view has instead got two small sash windows in its place.

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Season 3 Episode 21: Although Edie's ex-husband is called "Charles McLain", his name is never mentioned in the episode.

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Almost all of the series' episode titles are either a line from or the title of a Stephen Sondheim song.

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Series 6 Episode 10: When Lynette is in the surgery, the doctor who sees her is played by Jane Leeves, Daphne in "Frasier". Felicity Huffman had previously appeared with Leeves in eight episodes of the show.

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Season 3 Episode 1: At the beginning of this episode when Carolyn walks in on Orson cleaning up, and asks where Alma is, the parrot replies, "Orson no, Orson no!" This is a reference to Kyle MacLachlan's former role in the series "Twin Peaks" when during a murder investigation, a clue is given by a bird named Waldo screeching, "Leo no, Leo no!"

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The fourth season of the show has the lowest number of episodes out of all the seasons, with just 18 in total.

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Series 3 Episode 5: During the opening scenes while Mary Alice is narrating "a cable cut just as the husband's friends arrive," Chris Walters ("Major Victory" from the Sci-Fi channel's reality show Who Wants To Be A Super Hero?) can be seen as one of the "husband's friends".

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Season 3 Episode 18: Kenneth Kimmins and Teri Hatcher had both previously starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", in which Hatcher played Lois Lane and Kimmins had a recurring role as Dr. Klein, Superman's physician.

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There are only two episodes of the show not to be narrated by Brenda Strong. They are "My Husband, The Pig" (Steven Culp) and "Look Into Their Eyes and You See What They Know" (Nicollette Sheridan).

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Teri Hatcher (Susan), Felicity Huffman (Lynette) and Eva Longoria (Gabrielle) are the only cast members to appear in every single episode of the series.

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Ricardo Antonio Chavira was almost replaced as Carlos Solis because the producers felt his acting was stiff in the Pilot.

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Before being cast as Edie Britt, Nicollette Sheridan auditioned for the role of Bree van der Kamp.

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"Trip", the lawyer played by Scott Bakula in series 8, is the nickname of the chief engineer Charles Tucker III in "Star Trek: Enterprise", which Bakula also appeared in.

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Kathryn Joosten died on 2 June 2012, twenty days after the on-screen death from cancer of her character, Karen McCluskey, on the final episode of the show.

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Come in, Stranger (series 1)

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Teri Hatcher cracked a rib whilst filming the scene where Susan falls on a wedding cake.

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All of season 1 (series 1)

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In series 1, Richard Roundtree appears as Mr Shaw, who works for the Hafts Detective Agency. "Hafts" is an anagram of "Shaft" who was played by Roundtree in the 1971 film of the same name.

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City on Fire (series 5)

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The person playing "Jackson" in this episode is a stand in for the entire episode, as the actor who normally plays him was unavailable for filming due to a severe motorcycle accident.

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