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Over on Reddit, folks are sharing interesting trivia tidbits they have learned about favorite TV shows. From a startling fact about Carrie Fisher on The Big Bang Theory to the creation of an iconic character on Breaking Bad due to a scheduling conflict, here are a few cool details you should probably know about your favorite shows.
While serving together in WWII, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling’s friend Melvin Levy ventured out to watch an aircraft drop off food crates. Levy was joking about where the food would fall when one of the crates landed on his head and decapitated him as Serling looked on in horror.
While a 20-year-old Rod Serling was serving in WWII, he saw his best friend killed by a falling crate of food. Seeing the unpredictability and irony of life and death, he would later use that experience to create The Twilight Zone.
The only character to appear, played by the same actor, in over 10 different series is Richard Belzer's Detective John Munch. He has appeared as this character in crossover shows ranging from Law & Order to The X-Files to Arrested Development.
When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because [it is frowned upon if she were to] sit on a foreign throne.
In an interview with Seth Meyers, showrunner David Benioff stated:
Apparently the Queen of England is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne...
This is an esoteric rule we didn't know about until that final moment.
The cast of Friends each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B per year for Warner Bros.
All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
More than 10 years before the original airing of Star Trek, James Doohan and William Shatner appeared on a Canadian TV series about space exploration calledSpace Command.
