25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Lassie Has Alerted Us Are in Grave Danger, But We’re Pretty Busy at the Moment

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25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Lassie Has Alerted Us Are in Grave Danger, But We’re Pretty Busy at the Moment

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Happy hunting! We’ll let the readers know to expect a freezing cold batch of saliva-soaked TV facts next time.

Grey’s Anatomy

Dr. Erica Hahn was a breakout character on Grey's Anatomy. But in season 6, she walked out to her car and was never seen again. DE W She was an open lesbian who was involved in a romance with Dr. Torres, who previously had been noncommittal about her sexual orientation. She was dumped from the show without explanation. CRACKED.COM

Battlestar Gallactica

The goal of Battlestar Gallactica is to get back to Earth, somehow. The original series ends with them almost making . In the final scene, Apollo and Starbuck are looking for signals from Earth. They leave the observation room, and the second they do, a transmission from Neil Armstrong flickers across the monitor. D'oh! CRACKED.COM

All My Children

On All My Children, little Bobby went up to the attic. And was never seen again. When the show started Dr. Joe Martin was struggling to care for three children: Jeff, Tara, and Bobby. Bobby just appeared once, and then disappeared. The writers have referenced him since, though. In one episode there's a skeleton in the attic with a nametag that says Bobby. In another, Jeff refers to a plastic skeleton as my brother. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon decides to adopt a child. And then she just kinda forgets about it. At the end of season two, Liz has a pregnancy scare. As a result she spends several episodes of season three trying to adopt. But by season four, it's slipped her mind-despite it being a major story arc. CRACKED.COM

24

John Keeler was the president in season 4 of 24. 9:0 Then, poof, he wasn't. In one scene Keeler is injured in an aerial assault on Air Force One. Then Charles Logan is sworn in. So, Keeler died? Without a national day of mourning, a funeral, or any mention at all? CRACKED.COM

Soap

Soap was a 70s prime- time soap opera spoof. And it ended with Jessica about to be shot by a firing squad. Soap was a mostly lighthearted comedy that focused on shenanigans and convoluted plotlines. Yet the final episode of the final season concluded with major character Jessica Tate bracing for the incoming bullets. CRACKED.COM

Community

On Community, Troy and Abed find out their friend Lukka is a war criminal. COMING AUGUST 5 TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU All they do is stop hanging out with him. Lukka says stuff like, I miss cleansing the fields and forests from the unclean people who stole my country. Yet he's pretty much left to roam the streets of Greendale. CRACKED.COM

Michael Cera

Michael Cera played Brother Bear on PBS' The Berenstain Bears. Не started playing Brother Bear a year before he signed on to do Arrested Development, and kept the job after Arrested Development got started. CRACKED.COM

Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers CRACKED.COM The Arrested Development star played linebacker at San Diego State, and went on to play 8 games for the Oakland Raiders.

Ann Veal

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Her? CRACKED.COM ALESSANDRA TORRESANI MAE WHITMAN The original plan was to keep replacing Ann Veal every season, but Whitman proved perfectly forgettable.

Arrested Development

AUSTERO BLUTH COMPANY Arrested Development fans wrote letters and sent fake bananas to Fox. The series has a ionate and loyal fanbase who were willing to fight for more seasons-which they did by flooding Fox with letters and fake bananas in an effort to get the show renewed. CRACKED

Ms. Marvel

Doubles in MCU's Phase Four MS. MARVEL A fan girl dresses as her favorite superhero once she finds out she has powers of her own. CRACKED COM

Empire

CRACKED JUSSIE SMOLLETT FAKED A HATE CRIME. Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six charges of disorderly conduct for lying to police about staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself, and experts say his career is now unsalvageable due to the verdicts.

Boy Meets World

| - - - Boy Meets world The kids pretty much went to school on set. RECYCLE - All of the child actors did their school work together on set. It always ended up being more like a regular school classroom, Danielle Fishel has said. CRACKED.COM

The Wire

THE ORANGE COUCH FROM THE PILOT EPISODE OF THE WIRE WAS A DUMPSTER FIND...AND THEN SOMEONE THREW IT OUT AGAIN. The couch was a central part of the pilot, but by the time the show got picked up the couch had been thrown out. The production designers had to make a replica which ended up costing them $5000. CRACKED.COM

Estelle Getty

ESTELLE GETTY WAS SO AFRAID OF DYING THAT THE WRITERS COULDN'T USE DEATH JOKES IN THE GOLDEN GIRLS. The actress (who played the sharp and witty Sophia) also suffered from severe stage fright, and would sometimes go blank on tape night. Her co-stars tried to help get her mind off it, but it didn't always work. CRACKED.COM

Alf

ALF TOOK FOREVER TO FILM, AND THE SET WAS A NIGHTMARE. The soundstage had dozens of built-in trap doors for the show's creator and puppeteer Paul Fusco to walk ALF around the set. The actors had to watch their every step so they wouldn't accidentally fall through one of these trap doors. No one was really that sad when the show ended. CRACKED.COM

Money Heist

THE MONEY HEIST SCRIPTS ARE WRITTEN PARALLEL TO THE FILMING OF THE SHOW. While the writers have an outline for each part (what we'd call a season), the scripts are written based on what happens during shoots. Creator Alex Pina doesn't like to plan too much, and prefers giving actors space to improvise. Scripts are then written according to those improvisations. CRACKED.COM

Downtown Abbey

DOWNTON ABBEY HAD A NO-WASH POLICY, WHICH MEANS THE COSTUMES WERE PRETTY SMELLY. Many of the outfits weren't washed because they had to look authentic, apparently. The designers at least added some patches under the armpits that could be taken out and washed separately. So that's something. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

THE CAST OF THE WALKING DEAD HOLDS DEATH DINNERS EVERY TIME A CHARACTER GETS KILLED OFF THE SHOW. These farewell dinners include bonfires, playing games, and sometimes even singing Backstreet Boys on a karaoke machine. CRACKED.COM

Beyond Westworld

BEYOND WESTWORLD 3 EPISODES had no future CRACKED Before HBO, there was a CBS show about Westworld's head of security hunting evil robots. It wasn't exactly Blade Runner.

Source: IGN

Lucky Louie

LOUIS C.K. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always

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David Cross

DAVID CROSS FOUGHT FOX TO KEEP HIS MUSTACHE IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. According to Cross, Fox had three rules for men in comedy: no baseball caps, no p

Friends

CRACKED The FR.I.EN.P E gang was almost not there for you if test audiences got their way. NBC Research did a pilot run of the show and found that aud

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