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Trivia: The name of the club in Miami where they meet Paula Abdul is Santiago's. This is a reference to an imaginary character from the TV series, usually mentioned by one of the Jokers as being the person who sent them to talk to whichever unsuspecting prank victim they approach.

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Trivia: The opening crawl makes reference to Palpatine announcing his return from the dead through a broadcast. The film itself doesn't reveal what was said in the broadcast, but it was revealed in a Star Wars Fortnite event. The exact broadcast is as follows: "At last the work of generations is complete. The great error is corrected. The day of victory is at hand. The day of revenge. The day of the Sith."

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29th Feb 2020

Silver Surfer (1998)

Trivia: In the comics, Thanos worships the physical embodiment of Death. Due to censorship, this show changed the object of his desire to Lady Chaos.

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27th Feb 2020

Joker (2019)

Trivia: Joaquin Phoenix won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in this film. This marked the second time an actor won an Oscar for playing a character that was played previously by another actor that also won an Oscar for their role. The other time was Phoenix's costar in this film, Robert De Niro, winning Best Supporting Actor for playing the younger version of Vito Corleone in "The Godfather Part II," following Marlon Brando winning Best Actor for the first film.

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25th Feb 2020

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Trivia: This is the first film to have the distinction of having the highest worldwide box office gross and not winning any Oscars.

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25th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Trivia: Madame Web is voiced by Stan Lee's wife Joan. When Madame Web appears before Stan Lee in the series finale, he asks Spider-Man who that exotic lady is. When Spider-Man and Madame Web are talking about Stan Lee in the final scene of the series, Madame Web remarks that she thinks Stan Lee is truly special.

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25th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Spider Wars, Chapter 1: I Really, Really Hate Clones - S5-E12

Trivia: After the Scarlet Spider tells Spider-Man the convoluted details of his reality and how he isn't sure whether he is a clone of the Spider-Man of his own reality or vice versa, Spider-Man responds by saying it all sounds like a bad comic book plot. This is a reference to the Spider-Man comics that featured a similar plotline and was much derided by fans.

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Trivia: During an appearance on "The Chef Show," Gwyneth Paltrow revealed to Jon Favreau that she had no idea she appeared in this movie. Given how secretive Marvel is about their film productions, she most likely thought the scene she was filming was for an Avengers movie.

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14th Jan 2020

The X-Files (1993)

Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man - S4-E7

Trivia: Towards The End of this episode, the Smoking Man states that the Buffalo Bills will never win a Super Bowl as long as he's alive. If we are to believe that the Smoking Man was killed by Mulder in what is as of now the final episode of the series, this statement ended up being true.

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17th Dec 2019

Spider-Man (1994)

Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 9: Blade the Vampire Hunter - S2-E11

Trivia: This episode was somewhat of a blueprint for the film "Blade." In the original comics, Blade was a regular human being that was immune to vampire bites. In this episode, he is a half-vampire with all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses, except for the thirst, which he keeps at bay with a serum. These traits carried over into the film. The character of Abraham Whistler also did not originally have a comic book counterpart, he originated in this episode.

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30th Nov 2019

Joker (2019)

Trivia: This is the first R-rated film to earn $1 billion at the box office.

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25th Nov 2019

Orphan (2009)

Trivia: In a real life case strikingly similar to the plot of this film, it was revealed in October 2019 that an Indiana couple in 2010 had adopted what they believed to be an 8-year-old Ukranian girl whom they later discovered to be a sociopathic young adult with a form of dwarfism, whose age they estimated to be anywhere from 16 to 30.

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27th Oct 2019

X-Men (1992)

Trivia: In 2019, the creator of a 1980's Hungarian TV series called "Linda" filed a lawsuit against this show, alleging that the theme song to "X-Men" is a ripoff the theme song to "Linda." Despite airing in another country, the creator of "Linda" stated that the creators of "X-Men" had visited Hungary in the late 80's and rubbed shoulders with members of the Hungarian film industry. Interestingly, despite "X-Men" being far more popular globally than an obscure Hungarian TV show, its creator said he was unfamiliar with "X-Men" until 2017.

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9th Oct 2019

3 from Hell (2019)

Home Improvement trivia picture

The Karate Kid Returns - S6-E14

Trivia: At the end of the episode when Jill is asking to sing with the Beach Boys, Wilson's entire face is visible for a split-second (for those unfamiliar with the show, one of its running gags is that Wilson's face is always partially obscured, usually the lower half). (00:21:10)

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12th Sep 2019

The Sandlot (1993)

Trivia: When the boys vomit after chewing tobacco at the carnival, the tobacco was made from beef jerky and black licorice and the vomit was a mixture of split pea soup and oatmeal.

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12th Sep 2019

The Sandlot (1993)

Trivia: According to Patrick Renna, every day of filming was between 95 and 100°, except for the day they filmed the swimming pool scene, in which the temperature was only 60°. That is why Squints is shivering when he's about to jump into the deep end.

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12th Sep 2019

The Simpsons (1989)

Dude, Where's My Ranch? - S14-E18

Trivia: At the beginning of this episode, Homer writes his own Christmas carol after being barred from performing traditional carols because of copyright issues. Around seven years after this episode aired, the musical artist Usher was ironically accused of plagiarizing one of the tunes Homer was working on with his song "OMG."

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