Trivia: Though it serves as a "reboot" to the prior film series and is thus not related, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprised his role as the villainous Shang Tsung from the 1995 film due to the popularity of his portrayal of the character.
Fiend is Like Friend Without the 'R' - S1-E4
Trivia: Nergal is the villain introduced in this episode. "Nergal" originally was the name of the Babylonian God of Fire and Guardian of the Underworld. In the Bible, he is one of the demons allied with Satan himself. In the series Nergal is associated with the underworld and fire.
Trivia: They used real wolves (no CGI) to play opposite Bill Compton in the last scene of this episode.
Trivia: The season five episode "Independence Day" featured Chris Bruno's brother Dylan. The episode itself was Chris' first time as a director.
Trivia: There are a lot of Greek references. Cerberus, Tartarus, a messengers boots (Hermes reference) and the princesses. Twilight is the Greek word for friend love, or Philia. Cadence is Eros, or romantic love. Celestia is Agape, the love God has for mankind. Well, Celestia is kind of a god. Luna is Storge, love of a mother and child. This works because she has helped Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle in a motherly way. She was a mentor to both of them.
Trivia: When the lynch mob enters The Black Spot looking for Hank Grogan, the masked Clint Bowers says, "Give us what we want, and we go away." This is similar to "Give me what I want, and I'll go away," the repeated demand of Andre Linoge, the main antagonist of Storm of the Century, which is another Stephen King adaptation. (00:14:47)
Trivia: Christina Ricci, who in this show plays the school botany teacher Marilyn Thornhill, had before herself played the character Wednesday Addams in the two Addams Family movies from the early 1990s.
Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope - S1-E11
Trivia: When Richard is looking up himself online, you can see his search/web history. He has been searching for his name on several social media; all the others are hardcore porn sites. (00:29:15)
Trivia: The series was cancelled before the kids were able to learn who Ghostwriter was in his previous life. Producer Kermit Frazier revealed in 2010 that Ghostwriter was a runaway slave during the Civil War who was hunted down and killed while teaching other runaway slaves to read in the woods, and that his soul became trapped in the book that he emerged from Jamal's basement.
Trivia: The music used for the Octopus Dare computer game is an 8-bit rendition of the show's main theme tune.
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.
Trivia: **SPOILERS** When the demon takes over Ciri's body she dreams about being back at the party her grandmother had at their castle, and she sees her grandmother, Mousesack, her mother and her father. When she starts to question if it's really her grandmother, Mousesack and her mother all turn to ash and blow away. If you pay attention, you'll notice that her father does not turn to ash which is a foreshadow for later when it's revealed that he is in fact still alive.
Trivia: A sequel to the original film, titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal," was initially planned. However, the film spent many years in development hell with several different writers and directors being attached at different points. Eventually, French director Louis Letterier became attached to the project around 2012, and it was subsequently retooled into this prequel series for Netflix. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" was finally released in the Summer of 2019 - almost 37 years after the original debuted in Winter, 1982.
Trivia: Shooting scenes with Salem proved pretty difficult for Kiernan Shipka, who discovered on set that she's actually allergic to cats.
Trivia: The cast were sworn to secrecy to not reveal the big twist at the end of season one. Reportedly, all the cast members were really good at keeping the secret... except Ted Danson, who couldn't help but give away the twist anytime he tried to explain the show to someone.
Trivia: Its teaser trailers are, for the most part, out-take footage that doesn't actually appear in the episodes. For example, in the scene in which ShadowMoon and Mr. Wednesday first meet aboard the airliner, the teaser trailer uses completely different camera shots and different performances from the actors. In the actual episode, the camera shots and performances for the same scene are noticeably different.
Trivia: Arseface is based on James Vance, a teenager who made a suicide pact with his friend Ray Belknap, after the two became intoxicated while listening to the band Judas Priest. Vance survived his suicide attempt, but was left with a horribly disfigured face. His parents went on to unsuccessfully sue Judas Priest, blaming the band for their son's suicide attempt.