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Trivia: For her role as Morgana, Kate McGrath uses her natural Irish accent.

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Trivia: When Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo enter the cinema to watch "Vesuvius: The Eruption" if you looks closely at the poster for the movie behind them, you can see it has "A Stan Rogow Film" printed near the bottom. Stan Rogow is an executive producer of the show Lizzie McGuire.

Hamster

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Trivia: During the first season, the credits ended with a shot of Chelsea Hertford, who played the youngest daughter, taking off Gerald McRaney's cap and putting it on her own head. The USMC complained, saying it was disrespectful, and after that, Chelsea was seen just reaching for the cap but not removing it.

Jeff Swanson

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Trivia: The members of the Midnight Society are never shown lighting the fire. Nickelodeon was concerned that younger children might try it at home.

Azalea

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Trivia: The music used for the Octopus Dare computer game is an 8-bit rendition of the show's main theme tune.

Jack Vaughan

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Trivia: Even though Paul Lynde was the voice of the Hooded Claw, his name did not appear in the closing credits throughout the series.

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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.

Phaneron

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Trivia: Tenzin is named after the 14th (current) Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibet.

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Rock n' Roll Fantasy - S2-E20

Trivia: This episode has appeared on lists of Mandela Effect evidence because of a fantasy scene where the theme song for "Wendy and the Butler" played, but many viewers don't remember it ever existing.

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Bloomsday - S2-E6

Trivia: The song playing on the radio when Rosebud breaks in, 'I'd Take a Bite of the Moon For You,' references the episodes 'Alone Together' and 'Tick Vs. Chairface Chippendale.' The song playing when El Seed breaks into the botanical gardens is a jazzy version of the show's theme song.

Brian Katcher

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Trivia: Famous (and infamous) science fiction writer Harlan Ellison actually wrote and narrated the opening voice-over that sometimes occurs before episodes.

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Trivia: This show introduced audiences to Nickelodeon's trademark "green slime." Whenever a performer said the words, "I don't know," green slime would pour on their heads from above.

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Trivia: A sequel to the original film, titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal," was initially planned. However, the film spent many years in development hell with several different writers and directors being attached at different points. Eventually, French director Louis Letterier became attached to the project around 2012, and it was subsequently retooled into this prequel series for Netflix. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" was finally released in the Summer of 2019 - almost 37 years after the original debuted in Winter, 1982.

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Trivia: The show was never broadcast in the United States.

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