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Trivia: The Doctor comes to Nevada in search of "A bowl of chili. The sort you only ever got in an American diner before 1962." During the 1960s, Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood made a chili that became highly sought-after by celebrities (Elizabeth Taylor had some flown to Rome when she was making "Cleopatra."). Diners started changing their chili recipes in attempts to duplicate Chasen's secret recipe. This is why The Doctor had to go back to the 1950s in search of a bowl of old-fashioned American chili. (00:01:30)

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Trivia: Tenzin is named after the 14th (current) Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibet.

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Trivia: In the opening, on the right of the screen, there is a bunch of arrows, followed by B A Select Start. This is the famous Konami code for the Nintendo.

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Trivia: Mike Judge once received an angry phone message from a fast-talking man. The man seemed to be complaining about "Beavis and Butthead", although he mentioned a "Porky's butthole". His voice later inspired the voice for Boomhauer on "King of the Hill".

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Trivia: Throughout the whole series, Oggy's house contains various disproportional rooms inside of it. For example, the living room inside of the house is literally twice the size of the house alone. What's hilarious is that Oggy used the living room only to watch TV.

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Trivia: It's noticeable that the series drops in quality in season 3. This is because ABC hired the consulting firm "Q5" to rework their lineup in an attempt to boost ratings. Unfortunately, Q5 seemed to misunderstand the series, and forced the creative team to unnecessarily change it. Their changes included making Janine a blander character and relegating Winston to just being "the driver." The crew hated the changes, which they felt were often racist and sexist. Some even left out of protest.

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Trivia: Forces of Destiny was the first Lucasfilm officially created Star Wars cartoon series to be 2D animated since the 2003 Clone Wars micro series, with most other subsequent animated series being in 3D, like the 2008 The Clone Wars.

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The Return of the Beast: Part 1 - S1-E1

Trivia: When we see the flashback of the accident that caused Bruce Banner to become the Hulk, at first we see the Hulk colored gray and then slowly turn green. This is a reference to the comics, in which the Hulk was gray in his original appearance.

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If This Be... M.O.D.O.K.! - S1-E1

Trivia: When M.O.D.O.K. and Austin are out on town, the places they visit make references to several other Marvel characters. The dragon that is serving them in the restaurant is Fin Fang Foom. The concert they are next shown to be attending is advertising Lila Cheney, who in the comics is a mutant who can teleport over interstellar distances. Lastly, the arcade belongs to Arcade, who is primarily an enemy of the X-Men. (00:10:27 - 00:10:58)

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Trivia: This show plays fast and loose with the continuity of the movie and is done on purpose. They couldn't really set this series as a prequel when Herc doesn't understand his powers or who he is, and also Hades doesn't know about him yet according to the movie. And they can't set it after the movie without inventing new villains or stories for Herc to go on, and it would have to be adult Herc. So this is set sort of in between the film's two time points of Herc being young or adult. But making it so Hades already knows about him, Pan and Panic are recurring characters trying to off him, and Herc is being heroic despite the continuity of the film saying he was not a hero yet by this point. They had to change things to make the show work. Thus, this show is only soft canon to the movie. A parallel timeline.

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Trivia: The models were sold to Britt Allcroft in 1991 and were used (although heavily modified) in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends as set dressing until 2009, when it became a CGI animated series. In 2013, eighteen of the original models were sold to the Star Tugs Company Ltd. (formerly The Star Tugs Trust) with the intention of having them restored for public display.

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