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18 Now-You-Know TV Facts To Absorb While Binging

Television is your most important relationship, so you should learn about it.

18 Now-You-Know TV Facts To Absorb While Binging

May 21, 2022

Ah, television. Is there anything else that won’t fail you? Sure, there are shows that aren't great and others you aren’t interested in, but as a whole it will never leave you. It will be there to cheer you up when you’re down. It’ll kill time when you’re bored. It’ll make going to the dentist even mildly pleasant. Because TV will never break up with you. It will never cast you out of its life.

In order to show your devotion to TV, you should learn some things about it like you would any other important member of your life. It’s only fair since you’ve developed such a relationship with TV. You should learn about The Golden Palace. You should learn about Arrested Development. You should learn about How I Met Your Mother as much as you know about how your father met your actual mother.

Get started by checking out and learning these random facts about TV.

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Tobias in 'Arrested Development'

CRACKED.COM Arrested Development David Cross had to fight for Tobias' mustache. The head of FOX had a no mustache rule as part of her 3 Rules of Comedy, but Cross just couldn't see the character without it. Не saw no logic with that rule, along with the other two: no baseball caps and no puffy sleeves. — Sources: HuffPost, Team Coco/YouTube

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The Log Lady from 'Twin Peaks'

CRACKED.COM DE - Twin Peaks David Lynch cast the Log Lady 13 years before the first episode aired. Catherine Coulson got her start as an actor in Lynch's Eraserhead. During the shoot, Lynch told to her, Someday, I'll do a series and you'll play a girl with a log. — Source: Mental Floss/YouTube

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Ron Howard on 'Happy Days'

Happy Days Ron Howard joined to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Since the government wasn't accepting college deferment for service, Howard auditioned and got the acting job to get a work deferment. CRACKED.COM — Source: Television Academy Interviews

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Phyllis from 'The Office'

aff ewsle eon TH - - - MIF The Office Phyllis had her role made up for her. Phyllis Smith was working as a casting assistant as the show was being put together. Everyone was impressed by her performance as she read opposite other actors at the auditions, so they wrote a part for her. CRACKED.COM — Source: Netflix Life

14

'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Gun Training

Brooklyn Nine-Nine The cast all got police gun safety training. Andy Samberg stated that he and the rest of the cast went through gun training before shooting the series. The producers wanted the police to be portrayed as accurately as possible with firearms. - WHENT WOLKER CRACKED.COM — Source: Parade

13

Genre Switch on 'Desperate Housewives'

Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM — Source: Forbes

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'Bob's Burgers' and Cannibalism

Bob's Burgers The show was supposed to be about a cannibal family. In Loren Bouchard's original pitch, the quirky, loving family made their burgers out of people meat. Coming from Adult Swim, he figured a dark angle was the best way to get the show noticed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Thrillist

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An Engagement on 'How I Met Your Mother'

How / Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM — Source: WhatCulture

10

'Game of Thrones' Fur

Game of Thrones The furs were dolled-up IKEA rugs. In spite of having a multi-million dollar budget, the production wanted to save a few bucks in the costume department. So the costumers fashioned Jon Snow's furry robe and other Winterfell costumes out of $79 rugs from IKEA. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNBC

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'The Golden Girls' Sequel

The Golden Girls There was a sequel series called The Golden Palace. Once the show ended in 1992, the sequel series began. It only lasted a single season, and while it didn't have Bea Arthur, it did have Cheech Marin and Don Cheadle. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss/YouTube

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Frasier's Emmys

Kelsey Grammer got Emmy nominations as Frasier Crane for three shows. Grammer was nominated for Cheers and Frasier multiple times-but in 1992, he was nominated for the same role in Wings. CRACKED.COM — Source: Television Academy

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'Family Guy' And 'Silence of the Lambs'

CRACKED.COM Family Guy Chris' voice is based on Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Seth Green used to do that really silly voice when screwing around with his friends, and decided to use it while shooting the script. — Source: The Paley Center for Media/YouTube

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A Different World

GRACKED.COM A Different World The writing staff went on field trips to black colleges. Producer/director Debbie Allen would take the writers to Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, for them to capture that experience. Media — Source: Television Academy Interviews

5

A 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Alibi

CRACKED.COM Curb Your Enthusiasm The show proved a man was innocent of murder. Juan Catalan was a suspect, but he claimed that he was at the Dodgers Stadium watching the game. Не was doubted until he showed up in the background of a Curb episode that was shot there on that day. — Source: Mental Floss/YouTube

4

Sam Malone on 'Cheers'

CRACKED.COM Cheers Ted Danson went to bartending school. Danson took bartending classes in order to become a mixologist, thinking it would help the show. By his own admission, he's the world's worst bartender. — Source: CBS News

3

Vaginas on 'Grey's Anatomy'

CRACKED.COM and Grey's Anatomy Writers were told not to use the word vagina. Shonda Rhimes claims that network censors tried to get her writing staff to stop using the actual medical term so much. She popularized the term vajayjay instead. — Source: Mental Floss/YouTube

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Buffy and Google

CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002. — Source: The Atlantic

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The 'Brady Bunch' Bathroom

CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom. — Source: BuzzFeed

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