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Life Lessons - S3-E18

Trivia: Aaron Metchik, who plays one of the bullies in this episode, was previously a pen pal to Rider Strong when both actors played the role of Gavroche in stage productions of Les Miserables on opposite ends of the country (Strong in San Francisco and Metchik in Washington DC).

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Life Lessons - S3-E18

Trivia: This episode's B-plot sees Eric dating an older woman. Will Friedle believes this was the writers deliberately writing for his life, as he similarly dated older women.

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Trivia: Stephen King has said that this is his favourite TV adaptation of one of his works.

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The Pink Flamingo Kid - S3-E17

Visible crew/equipment: After Amy says to Eric, "Whatever makes you and Kyle happy", the shot changes and a boom mic can be seen being pulled out of view on the left side of the screen.

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The Pink Flamingo Kid - S3-E17

Trivia: When Alan asks Eric why he has a box full of junk, Eric responds with an over-the-top cackle. This cackle was originally meant to be a recurring thing for Eric, but Will Friedle and Michael Jacobs agreed it shouldn't be a thing.

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Adrift - S2-E6

Stupidity: Storm has the ability to control the weather, but when she is helping Jean and Xavier search for Alex and Scott while they are lost at sea, she doesn't think to stop or even diminish the heavy rainstorm that is going on, which would greatly increase their chances of locating them.

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Adrift - S2-E6

Factual error: After Alex is dragged underwater by the harness tether, Scott goes swimming after him and easily locates him. Given that they are in the middle of the ocean at nighttime during a heavy rainstorm, and Scott is wearing sunglasses, it would be way too dark below the surface to see anything.

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Adrift - S2-E6

Factual error: The map of the western United States shown during the weather report at the start of the episode shows some states drawn incorrectly. Idaho's entire western border is a straight line, whereas in real life, Oregon has a horn-shaped indentation on its northeastern border that it shares with Idaho. Idaho also looks like a crude staircase, with the southwestern border of Montana going down to central Wyoming, whereas that area in real life is around the northwestern part of Wyoming.

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Hit and Run - S6-E4

Trivia: When Kim is sitting down to eat with Clifford Main, she mentions the place gives Java Joe's a run for its money. Java Joe's is actually the name of the real-life coffee shop whose building exterior was used as Tuco's headquarters in Breaking Bad.

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Trivia: This film will actually have the shortest amount of time elapsed between installments, releasing around 2 years and 4 months after Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Ghostbusters 2 released 5 years after the original film, the 2016 film released 27 years after Ghostbusters 2, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife released 5 years after the 2016 film.

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Science/Fiction - S2-E5

Trivia: We learn in this episode that prior to being abducted by the TVA, Casey was an inmate at Alcatraz named Frank. This is Frank Morris, whose story was the subject of the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood. He and two of his fellow inmates managed to escape the prison, but were never seen again, with one accepted theory being that they drowned in San Francisco Bay. His TVA abduction here provides an in-universe explanation for his disappearance.

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Trivia: SPOILER: The mid-credits scene sees Kelsey Grammer reprising his role as Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy/Beast for the first time since 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. His remarks that Monica Rambeau has entered a parallel universe, along with the set design, suggest that the Fox X-Men films are now canonically part of the MCU multiverse (Patrick Stewart's appearance as Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness never really touched on this).

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Trivia: Portrayed as a woman in the film, in the comics, Dar-Benn is male.

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Trivia: One of the code names Kamala suggests for Monica is Spectrum, which is one of the code names she has gone by in the comics.

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Trivia: Selene is based on a Marvel Comics character of the same name, who is also sometimes known as the Black Queen. She is also a vampire of sorts, having the ability to drain the life force from others.

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Beast of Bayville - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: When Principal Kelly is placing the caution tape across the destroyed restroom wall, he applies it at a diagonal angle. When the shot changes, the tape is now at a horizontal angle, and he is now applying a second piece at a diagonal angle.

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Stormy Weather - S3-E16

Trivia: Will Friedle was forced by the network to cut his hair ahead of filming this episode, as they felt it was getting too long. Director Jeff McCracken knew how upset Friedle was about this, so he went home and cut his own hair to make him feel better.

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Trivia: An Iron Man film was in development at Fox in the mid-90s with Tom Cruise eyed for the lead role. The film never came to fruition, partly because the technology required to adapt the character to screen wasn't there yet, but also because Cruise's asking fee to star in it was not a price the studio was willing to risk on a largely unknown character.

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Trivia: Zawe Ashton, who plays Dar-Benn, the film's main antagonist, actually dressed up as Captain Marvel for Halloween in 2019. Her fiancé, Tom Hiddleston, best known for playing Loki in the MCU, dressed up as Daredevil, while Daredevil actor Charlie Cox dressed up as Loki.

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Question: Was Paul Giamatti's lazy eye achieved through practical means or CGI? If it was practical, how exactly did they do it?

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