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Golden Bird - S1-E9

Trivia: Marilu Henner, who plays Carrie's Aunt Edie, and who also serves as a consultant, has hyperthymesia, also called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), the condition Carrie is depicted as having.

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Season 4 generally

Trivia: Jon Cryer, who plays Lex Luthor, played Lex's nephew Lenny in Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.

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Elseworlds, Part 1 - S5-E9

Trivia: When Oliver and Barry breach to Earth-38, the transition music is Remy Zero's "Save Me", famous for its use as the theme song to Smallville. Other homages include the same barn used for the Kent farm and Lois calling Clark "Smallville."

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Elseworlds, Part 1 - S5-E9

Trivia: Elizabeth Tulloch, who plays Lois Lane, is married to David Giuntoli, with whom she starred on Grimm, and who had auditioned to play Clark/Superman in Man of Steel.

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Trivia: Sophia Gennusa, who plays Shepherd's (Jennifer Carpenter) daughter Hannah, plays a younger version of Carpenter in the Limitless episode "Hi, My Name Is Rebecca Harris."

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Chicago Cubs - S2-E7

Trivia: Todd Ricketts was chosen to go undercover because it was felt that his brother Thomas, the public face of the Cubs' front office, would be too recognizable.

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Death Be Not Whatever - S1-E7

Trivia: When the Girardis are debating over what to watch for movie night, Will suggests one of the Godfather films. Joe Mantegna previously had a supporting role in The Godfather Part III.

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Trivia: The first Muppet movie to give top billing to the human actors instead of the Muppet characters and/or their puppeteers.

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Trivia: King Louie is largely an original character created by Disney; he doesn't appear in the "Jungle Book" anthologies, since orangutans aren't native to India.

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Trivia: In the original script, Marge had the prophetic vision of the town's destruction. It was changed after the writers realised that the family ignoring Grandpa was more plausible.

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Trivia: The word "replicant" doesn't appear in the Phillip Dick novel.

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Trivia: This is Ridley Scott's favorite film of his own, and the Final Cut released in 2007 is his favorite version.

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Trivia: When John Williams played the "shark theme" for Steven Spielberg for the first time, Spielberg thought it was a joke.

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Trivia: Quint's recounting of the USS Indianapolis attack is Steven Spielberg's favorite scene.

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Season 1 generally

Trivia: The storyline of Teri's amnesia is loosely based on an incident that actually happened to series director Stephen Hopkins.

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Trivia: Because of his commitment to the film, Harrison Ford was unable to play Han Solo in the NPR radio dramatization of Star Wars. The role was taken over by Perry King, who had been among those auditioning for the role in the movie before Ford was cast.

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Trivia: The seventeen-year manhunt for Ted Kaczynski was the longest and most expensive in the history of the FBI. Before he was turned in by his brother David, the now-famous composite sketch of Kaczynski in a hoodie and aviator sunglasses was the closest they ever came to IDing him.

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Krill - S1-E6

Trivia: While reading the Anhkana, Ed compares its gruesome contents to writing by Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis is famous for having written the graphically violent novels on which American Psycho and its sequel The Rules of Attraction are based.

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Trivia: The "synchronize our watches" dialogue was improvised by Peter Sellers and Graham Stark.

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UNABOM - S1-E1

Trivia: In one scene, Fitz explains to his superiors what an emordnilap is, a word or phrase similar to a palindrome that reads one thing forwards and something else backwards. The word "emordnilap" is itself "palindrome" spelled backwards.

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