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9th Dec 2015

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Trivia: When the town welcomes the new sheriff, it's with a "laurel and hearty handshake." This is a reference to the great comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy.

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30th Nov 2015

Pixels (2015)

Trivia: Futurama's "Anthology of Interest II" episode contained a segment called "Raiders of the Lost Arcade" where Fry asks what would happen if life was more like a video game. In the segment, video games come to life and attack Earth, and it's up to Fry to save the day because of his video game playing skills. Billy West, who voices Fry, later performed voices in "Pixels", which was based on this premise.

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Trivia: When The Joker interrupts the ceremony and shows the video of him blowing up the building, there's a scene where he hits the detonator a few times before the building blows up. This is a scene paying homage to what happened in The Dark Knight when there was an actual unplanned delay during filming of the explosion going off during the blowing up of the hospital.

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Trivia: Magneto's line "I don't know karate, but I know crazy" comes from James Brown's 1973 hit "The Payback." Although the actual lyrics are "I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor."

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16th Nov 2015

Idiocracy (2006)

Trivia: The warning label on the cigarette ad says "Warning: The Surgeon General Has One Lung And A Voicebox But He Can Still Kick Your Sorry Ass".

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16th Nov 2015

Supergirl (2015)

Fight or Flight - S1-E3

Trivia: At the end, Kara says to her sister "don't watch Homeland without me." David Harwood, who plays Hank Henshaw (the head of the Department of Extra-Normal Operations) also played David Estes on Homeland, and Melissa Benoist appeared in two episodes of the show.

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Trivia: In the show, there's a running gag of Charlie being obsessed with the waitress and her constantly rejecting him. In real life Charlie (Charlie Day) and the waitress (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) are married. They married in 2006, although they were dating before the show started.

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28th Sep 2015

Henry Danger (2014)

Trivia: Writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon play "Ugly" and "Stupid" seance members, respectively. They also appeared in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure as "Ugly" and "Stupid" waiters.

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Trivia: Director Peter Hewitt also plays "The Smoker" in the film. In the acting credits for the role he is listed as "Max Magenta." Max Magenta is a character of his from his short "The Candy Show" that he wrote and directed.

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Trivia: Oscar's full name ends up having the initials OZ PINHEAD (Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs).

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13th Aug 2015

Multiplicity (1996)

Trivia: Michael Keaton is seen wearing a Penn State hat. Keaton was born in Pennsylvania and is a long time resident of Pittsburgh, although Penn State is not his alma mater.

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13th Aug 2015

Spaceballs (1987)

Trivia: When Skroob's ship arrives at Planet Druidia, Colonel Sandurz says the ship is preparing for metamorphosis to which Lord Helmet says "Ready, Kafka?" Franz Kafka wrote the book "The Metamorphosis."

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