The Daily Something

I know a little about writing tv and some things that are good and bad, and I know some random trivia facts that you may find interesting... so I'm going to mix them together and combine them. A cold open is the scene that roles before the opening credits. On The Office there was a Cold Open where Kevin makes a big bowl of chili for the office and spills it all over the floor. Mindy Kaling was one of the writers at the time and was very against this cold open. She fought the writers hard on it and threatened to quit because of it. They used it, she didn't quit. Everyone was fine. She writes about this in her book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me. There was actually a sitcom made called Heil Honey about Hitler and Ava Braun living next to a Jewish family. It was either cancelled after 1 episode or never aired for obvious reasons. It was recorded however, and a few years ago I watched it on youtube. If you think it sounds offensive... it is even worse than that. Hitler wa...

I know a lot of useless trivia... And I'm going to share that. I have one fun fact about London that I actually learned when I went there. Fleet Street aka the street where Sweeney Todd's barber shop is is a real place. A lot of people probably know that already but did you know that- had the story been true- the address where the Barber shop would have been is now a Starbucks. And next door to it, where Mrs. Lovett's pie shop would have been is now a McDonalds. Might make you think twice before ordering a Big Mac! During All in The Family there was a contract dispute with Carol O'connor, who played Archie Bunker. During this time, Archie Bunker was absent for a few episodes. Had they not settled on an agreement, they were going to kill off Archie! Can you imagine! Speaking of TV the first tv couple to have an implied sexual relationship was Morticia and Gomez Addams. Here's a bit of zombie trivia. Zombies were started as a way for slaves to escape. They wou...