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Trivia: In the episode "We Don't Have Chemistry", Cory has to go to an Astro Force Five convention to avoid Summer School. This is similar to an episode of That's So Raven, where Raven goes to an Astro Force Five convention to spy on Devon.

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2001 Special (Paedophillia) - S1-E7

Trivia: This particular show had the entire country up in arms. Parliament discussed the very future of ch 4. The tabloids were fuming. Chris Morris was even getting death threats. The entire premise worked a treat.

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River Rats - S1-E8

Trivia: In the scene in the tent where Tommy and Chuckie are talking after the ghost story, the lighting in the tent shows the sleeping bags as red, green and blue. Tommy is in the green looking sleeping bag. These colors are the Powerpuff Girls. The PowerPuff Girl in green is Buttercup, who is voiced by Elizabeth Daily, who is credited as E.G. Daily playing the voice of Tommy.

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Trivia: Kaoru's two friends, Sato and Suzuki, represent two of the most common Japanese family names in Japan.

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Al Plays Hooky - S1-E9

Trivia: During the Fatman cartoon, when the fish is using his charge card, a zoomed in shot of the card itself is shown. The fish's bank is noted as "DNA", a reference to the Fatman cartoon's producer, DNA Productions.

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Captain Jack - S1-E3

Trivia: The episode "Captain Jack" was the first time a toilet was shown on TV; the boys buy a baby alligator and Wally is shown putting it in the toilet tank. The network censors were so spooked by the thought of showing a toilet on television that they delayed the episode. And when the censors finally relented, the compromise allowed only the toilet tank to be shown, not the bowl.

Jeff Swanson

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Breakdown - S1-E23

Trivia: While Jules and Travis discuss his graduation and Jules' popularity in school, Travis looks through his mom's yearbook and comments that there's a picture of Jules "dancing onstage with Bruce Springsteen." Courteney Cox, who plays Jules, appears in Bruce Springsteen's 'Dancing in the Dark' music video from 1984, as the girl in the audience who's pulled onstage by Springsteen to dance with him, towards the end of the video. This was Courtney's first acting job.

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Weed the People - S7-E2

Trivia: The drug dealer's name is Karl Hevacheck. When he meets Alice's dad in the office, he gives a "fake" name, Kyle Newacheck. This is the actor's real name.

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Pilot - S1-E1

Trivia: When Terry is introducing the team to Capt. Holt, he mentions Scully, Hitchcock, and Daniels. Daniels doesn't make an appearance after the pilot.

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Trivia: With the exceptions of Maitland Ward, Ethan Suplee, Alex Désert, and Blake Soper, every main cast member from Boy Meets World made an appearance on this show, including both actresses who played Morgan. In Ward's case, it's likely she wasn't asked back because she started posting risque cosplay pictures of herself on her social media around the time the show was airing.

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Trivia: There was an American version of this classic UK show. It was titled On the Rocks. The script was reworked in order to make the style of humour suit the audience. It lasted one series before being cancelled in May '76.

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Trivia: Some masks are reused. For example the masks for Peter Parker, Trisha and Junan Pingpong were originally Leo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams and Question Rowland.

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Pilot - S1-E1

Trivia: The name of Byers' father is Bertram. In The X Files episode, "The Unusual Suspects," Byers tells the police that his name is John Fitzgerald Byers, born on 11/22/63, and that before JFK's assassination, his parents were going to name him Bertram.

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Dirty Pranking Number 2 - S1-E6

Trivia: In 2005, a group of Texas cheerleaders were arrested for defecating on a pizza and trying to give it back to a Domino's Pizza delivery man. They later admitted that they'd gotten the idea after seeing this episode. Comedy Central had no comment other than, "Oh, no."

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Trivia: The episode titled, "Dexter's Rude Removal" was never aired on the Cartoon Network because of inappropriate content. However, it has been shown in comic conventions and in private viewing. This is currently (as of January 2004) the only Dexter episode to never air on the Cartoon Network.

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