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4th Jan 2022

Men in Black (1997)

Trivia: K asks J if he was even alive in 1968. Will smith was born on September 25th, 1968.

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26th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Trivia: Spoilers: Captain America being worthy of lifting Thor's hammer Mjölnir is something that is pulled from the pages of the comics directly, most notably in this context the Civil War comics. He'd previously been able to move it fractionally in Age of Ultron - Joss Whedon has implied he was able to lift it the whole time, just pretended he couldn't so as to spare Thor's feelings.

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Trivia: Shooting scenes with Salem proved pretty difficult for Kiernan Shipka, who discovered on set that she's actually allergic to cats.

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20th Sep 2018

The Dragon Prince (2018)

Trivia: The book Claudia is reading is titled 'Love Amongst the Dragons', which is a reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender, where it is a play that gets mentioned a few times. Aaron Ehasz, creator of this show, also wrote multiple episodes for that.

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Trivia: When Batman rams the first car in the big chase scene, a faint Wilhelm scream can be heard as it's flipping over.

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Trivia: The ship we see Jack on in Salazar's flashback is called the Wicked Wench. This is a bit of an in-joke for PotC buffs, because that was the original name of the Black Pearl before being sunk by Cutler Beckett and raised again by Davy Jones. It's fully explained in a deleted scene of At World's End.

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Trivia: The father of the little girl in the airport who wants to try Hazel's oxygen is John Green, the author of the book.

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16th Jan 2017

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Trivia: After Bruce decides he's unhappy with his car, he turns it into a Saleen S7, one of the fastest production cars in the world at the time. That was actually Jim Carrey's own Saleen.

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6th Jan 2017

Arrow (2012)

Guilty - S3-E6

Trivia: Oliver sticking an arrow in a boxing glove to knock out Ted without harming him is a nod to the comics, where a boxing glove arrow was quite common in his arsenal of trick arrows. (00:26:20)

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9th Nov 2016

Gravity Falls (2012)

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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14th Jul 2016

Zootopia (2016)

Trivia: When Doug just finishes cooking his new dart, he gets interrupted by someone knocking on the door, and says "Woolter and Jesse are here." This is a reference to Breaking Bad, where the two lead characters run a meth lab, and are named Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. (01:25:10)

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14th Jul 2016

Zootopia (2016)

28th Dec 2015

The Newsroom (2012)

Bullies - S1-E6

Trivia: When Sloan tries to apologize to Don for her actions on the air, he interrupts her and tells her to wait for ten seconds. Exactly ten seconds pass between him interrupting her and the time that Charlie Skinner begins yelling at her.

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21st Dec 2015

Jessica Jones (2015)

Trivia: Romanoff mentions Operation Paperclip at one point, calling it a Shield operation. In reality, it was a large operation conducted by the American government, in which hundreds of Nazi scientists were recruited. One of the most famous subjects was Werner Von Braun, who designed the V2, but went on to make the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program.

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14th Oct 2015

Treasure Planet (2002)

Trivia: Doppler's line "Dang it Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor." is a reference to Star Trek, where McCoy often uses the same sentence, only reversed.

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12th Oct 2015

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Trivia: Masters Storming Ox and Ferocious Croc, and the wolves that are Shen's henchmen all make a brief appearance in the opening of the first Kung Fu Panda.

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Trivia: As of the final episode (and the subsequent blog posts from the creators), Korra is the first openly bisexual protagonist in a Western cartoon show.

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