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Trivia: The friendship handshake between Cory and Shawn was created by Ben Savage and Rider Strong themselves. Strong said they created it as a handshake for their real-life friendship and didn't intend for it to end up on the show as well.

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Trivia: Rider Strong kept the leather jacket worn by Shawn after the show ended. He says someone stole it out of his car a couple years later. A fan found a replica of the jacket, and it was presented to him at a fan event in Philadelphia. He ended up leaving it on the shuttle bus on his way to the airport after the event. He sarcastically feels owning such a jacket is a curse. He also claims to have stolen the painting that was in the college student union set.

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Trivia: One of the drawers in the Matthews' kitchen was filled with candy for the cast to eat, as the parents of the child cast members reportedly asked for craft services to not have excessive junk food provided to them.

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Trivia: The first fan mail that Danielle Fishel received for this show ended up being from a stalker pretending to be a younger girl.

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Trivia: The other side of the staircase in the Matthews' kitchen set became a place for cast and crew to discard their chewing gum.

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Trivia: Rider Strong met and dated Rachael Leigh Cook after she attended a taping of the show.

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Train of Fools - S3-E10

Trivia: During a run-through, Danielle Fishel sliced open her shin on a piece of metal sticking out of one of the subway train seats. Despite having blood pouring down her leg, she didn't tell anyone and continued with the scene.

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Danger Boy - S2-E16

Trivia: Ben Savage injured his crotch rehearsing the roller coaster scene and had to be taken to the hospital.

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Trivia: Stone Temple Pilots originally contributed a song to the film's soundtrack called "Only Dying." Following Brandon Lee's death, the song was pulled from the soundtrack and replaced with the song "Big Empty" instead.

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Trivia: An extended version of the film was released to theaters in September 2022. It features 11 additional minutes of footage, including a new post-credits scene that shows Doctor Strange's spell erased Peter Parker from videos with his classmates.

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Trivia: Much like how "Weird Al" Yankovic has made a career out of parodying popular songs, this film is a parody of biopics, and is not meant to be seen as an accurate retelling of his life (he never hooked up with Madonna or had a drinking problem, for example).

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Teacher's Bet - S1-E8

Trivia: When Topanga says "I will only answer to the name," and then proceeds to growl, after the laugh track dissipates, you can hear members of the production crew laughing. Apparently this scene was not filmed in front of an audience due to the amount of chaos being filmed, which is why the laughter of the crew is audible. (00:13:30)

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Trivia: Stuart Minkus' name was originally Stuart Lempke. They had to change his name on short notice because through the legal process of name clearance, they discovered there was a real person named Stuart Lempke who also happened to be living in Philadelphia, where the show takes place. Rather than getting the man's permission to use his name or risk being sued by him, they opted to change the name.

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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.

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Cory's Alternative Friends - S1-E4

Trivia: When Cory has curlers in his hair in an attempt to restore it to its curly state, Eric takes a Polaroid picture of him. Will Friedle revealed on the Pod Meets World podcast that he actually kept the pictures used for the filming of this scene and found them in his childhood bedroom ahead of discussing the episode.

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Trivia: On the Pod Meets World podcast, Danielle Fishel has said that for whatever reason, wearing a jacket inhibits her acting ability.

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Season 1 generally

Trivia: "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" - the novel on which season 1 is based - is actually significantly shorter than the season in terms of storytelling. In fact, roughly half the events described in the novel take place in the very first episode.

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Trivia: Rider Strong revealed that his hair had to be straightened for Shawn's signature hairstyle, as his hair is more wavy in real life. He also stated that he got the look when, ahead of auditioning for the Boy Meets World pilot, Marla Sokoloff, Larisa Oleynik and a couple other girls that lived in the same complex as him decided to "take over his hair," which he believes was to make him look similar to Christian Slater.

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Trivia: According to the Pod Meets World podcast, it was thought that one of the reasons that Minkus was dropped from the show after season 1 was because ABC already had a hugely popular nerd character in their TGIF lineup with Steve Urkel, and they didn't want to have an Urkel 2.0. Minkus actor Lee Norris revealed he was in the room when the decision was made, and it was because they were going to age up the child characters closer to their actual ages, and his short stature was problematic.

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Trivia: Tim Allen has expressed a desire for the show to have a revival. However, instead of consisting of numerous episodes like other sitcom revivals have done, it would be a one-off one or two-hour special. The idea of a movie has also been floated. The opening would see the characters attending Wilson's funeral, as Earl Hindman, who played Wilson, died in 2003. The final season of Allen's other popular sitcom, Last Man Standing, confirmed Wilson's death.

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