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Think you know the real stories behind iconic TV moments? Think again! We're separating fact from fiction, revealing surprising truths and debunking wild rumors about your favorite shows. From "Family Guy" to "Seinfeld" and beyond, prepare to have your TV knowledge challenged. Discover the real reasons behind character exits, on-set drama, and those infamous scenes you thought you knew everything about. Get ready for a deep dive into the captivating world of television legends!
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00:00Snap out of it, Rich. Fonz is gonna jump over a shark.
00:02Oh, I don't get it.
00:03Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're looking at the craziest TV backstories that turned out to be bunk and the ones that turned out to be real.
00:11It's just a mistake. Didn't mean anything. Right?
00:17Number 5 Myth
00:18Seth MacFarlane resurrected Brian Griffin due to fan pressure.
00:22Family Guy
00:23After 12 seasons, the series creator apparently wanted to make a major change.
00:28The Griffins' beloved anthropomorphic dog Brian is killed in a devastating car accident.
00:34I'm so sorry, Mrs. Griffin, but Brian's injuries are just too severe for us to save him.
00:39I don't know how much longer he has, but I suggest that you all go in and say your goodbyes.
00:43Creator and voice actor Seth MacFarlane knew the moment would be a shocker, but he didn't realize he was kicking a hornet's nest.
00:51Fans revolted and grieved as if their own pet had died.
00:54Petitions were started to bring the character back.
00:57You find the man who did this, you bring him to justice.
01:01You make sure this angel child didn't die for nothing.
01:03Ma'am, Brian's a dog.
01:04You showed worldwide you became a cop.
01:06Two episodes later, the show reversed course and Brian was resurrected through a time travel storyline,
01:12leading many to think the fan reaction was responsible.
01:15MacFarlane dispelled that rumor, saying that this was the plan all along.
01:18After all, it's not like they could have written and animated Brian's return episode in just a couple of weeks.
01:24You know, a lot of other families would have just gotten a different dog and moved on.
01:27Oh, we could never do something like that, Brian.
01:31Number 5, True.
01:32John Amos was fired from Good Times for questioning producers.
01:36Good Times.
01:37For the first three seasons, patriarch James Evans Sr. steered his family through storylines about poverty, violence, and job security.
01:45In the heartbreaking two-part fourth season premiere, James is written out when his character is killed in a car accident offscreen.
01:52My mom, what's wrong?
01:57Thelma?
01:58Michael, now there are some things you don't understand.
02:01When actor John Amos left the series in 1976, producers initially explained his absence by saying he had gone on to pursue other roles.
02:09This turned out to be a cover.
02:11The writers, some of them, became incensed that I was of the opinion that I knew more about a black father than they did.
02:20Amos, along with co-lead Esther Rolle, were becoming displeased with the show's depiction of an African-American family, particularly the antics of the eldest son, J.J. Evans.
02:31In fact, Amos had confrontations with several writers on the show.
02:35Executive producer Norman Lear informed him he was being fired ahead of the fourth season.
02:40I let that register for a minute.
02:42He said, you're still there?
02:43I said, yeah, I'm here, Norman.
02:44Well, don't you want to say something?
02:46He said, what can I say?
02:47It's your show.
02:48Have a good life.
02:49Click.
02:50And that was it.
02:51I was going to be, you know, recalcitrant to the end.
02:54You know, you won't get me to roll over and cry for the job.
02:57No, forget you, man.
02:58Number four myth.
03:00Zsa Zsa Gabor's saucy appearance.
03:02The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
03:04For years, Johnny Carson was renowned for his wicked double entendres.
03:09One such alleged one-liner involved actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who reportedly brought her cat
03:14along for her guest spot on The Tonight Show.
03:17Carson's alleged response to a seemingly innocuous question became legend.
03:22She said to you, do you want to pet my pussy?
03:28And my son said that you said, I'd love to if you'd remove that damn cat.
03:34During her 1989 appearance on the show, actress Jane Fonda decided to clear things up for everyone
03:39and ask the host about it outright.
03:42Carson denies it.
03:43I tell you, I...
03:45Is it true?
03:45No, I think I would recall that.
03:48People have tried locating this clip, but never found it, and doubt it ever really happened at all.
03:53The fact Carson managed to stay on the air seems like further proof that it's a fabrication.
03:59Are there any questions?
04:00Yeah!
04:00Oh, shut up.
04:04Number four, true.
04:06Susan was written off because she was difficult to work with.
04:10Seinfeld.
04:10Marriage with George Costanza was never going to work.
04:14Was I going to marry her?
04:15Was she going to leave me?
04:16Was I going to leave her?
04:17Those are the only three possibilities, right?
04:19That's the only...
04:20They found a fourth.
04:22Seinfeld was a show about people who refused to change and grow.
04:26George's engagement to Susan Ross ended in the most Seinfeld way possible.
04:31After settling for cheap glue to mail their wedding invitations, Susan dies from a toxic reaction.
04:37I'm so sorry, George.
04:43Yeah, me too.
04:44Poor Lily.
04:48For a long time, rumors persisted that the actress who played her, Heidi Swedberg, was written out because the cast didn't like her.
04:56This wasn't the whole story.
04:58However, Jason Alexander confirmed that he found her hard to play off of, as did the rest of the cast.
05:04This contributed to the decision to kill the character off.
05:07Alexander insists Swedberg is a good performer, but the chemistry didn't work.
05:12I've seen her do other things where I thought, that's really good.
05:15There was something about, just something in the dynamic between her as Susan and me as George, I couldn't ever comfortably find my way.
05:24And it created something wonderful.
05:26So maybe that's exactly what it was meant to be.
05:28The Doctor may be an interdimensional time traveler in constant battle for the fate of the universe, but generally, he's not a cold-blooded killer.
05:51In a case of the Mandela Effect that only afflicts Doctor Who fans, the sixth Doctor is misremembered as more vicious than his counterparts.
05:59You even managed to burn dinner last night.
06:02I have never said I was perfect.
06:04If you recall, last night I was supposed to have a cold supper.
06:09That was an unfortunate accident.
06:11In a scene from the episode Vengeance on Varos, we see the Doctor accidentally scaring two of his captors and causing them to fall to their deaths in an acid bath.
06:20Some viewers swear he pushed one of them.
06:22Now that we have the benefit of going back and watching the scene, we can see that's not the case.
06:27He doesn't do much to save them from an agonizing death, though.
06:31Ross and Rachel had one of the most iconic will-they-or-won't-they storylines in sitcom history.
06:52One of the most famous scenes on Friends sees Ross marrying Emily, but accidentally saying Rachel's name.
06:58It was the cliffhanger that had everyone talking.
07:01It actually came to the writers late in the game.
07:04We knew Rachel was going, and I remember we were banging our heads against what was she gonna do.
07:10Like, was she gonna stop it?
07:11Actor David Schwimmer had made that exact slip-up in a previous scene, mixing up the characters' names.
07:17Writer Greg Malins describes the aha moment he had in response.
07:21Noting how they had no idea how Rachel should factor into Ross' wedding,
07:25the writer revealed that Schwimmer's mistake was the solution they needed.
07:29His line was to come in and say,
07:31Emily, the cab is downstairs waiting.
07:33Something like that.
07:34And he walked in and said,
07:36Rachel, the cab is downstairs-
07:39Ah, s***.
07:39Okay, sorry.
07:40Let me take it again.
07:41And he went out.
07:43And I remember I was standing next to David Crane.
07:44I said, that's-that's it.
07:46Number two myth.
07:47The Simpsons predicted 9-11.
07:50The Simpsons.
07:51Much has been made of the long-running animated comedy's seemingly eerie ability to predict future events.
07:57While the writers of the show always sought to make some commentary about what the future might hold,
08:02a 1997 episode features a bizarre image.
08:05Dad, you got a letter from the city of New York.
08:08Pfft.
08:08Throw it away.
08:09Nothing good has ever come out of New York City.
08:11Lisa Simpson is trying to convince her family to take a trip to the Big Apple.
08:15She holds up a $9 brochure that features the Twin Towers,
08:19and viewers note that it looks like it's spelling out 9-11.
08:23We could all go with the bus company's special Super Sitter Fair.
08:26Nine bucks?
08:27This one's on me.
08:28Great!
08:29We're all going to New York!
08:31Some of the more fanciful internet users even insist it's evidence of a full-blown conspiracy.
08:37In reality, it's just an unfortunate coincidence blown way out of proportion.
08:41Can we come back next to your dad?
08:45We'll see, honey.
08:48Number 2 True
08:49An episode of Pokemon made children sick.
08:52Pokemon
08:53On December 16th, 1997, the episode Denno Senchi Porygon aired
08:58and suddenly became the subject of intense public scrutiny.
09:02A climactic scene at the end of the episode sees Pikachu using an attack
09:15illustrated with quick flashing lights.
09:17This posed a problem for photosensitive young viewers.
09:20Over 600 Japanese children were taken to hospitals with illnesses after the episode aired.
09:25Often those affected had no history of epilepsy.
09:29More children had fits when excerpts were replayed on the news.
09:32Doctors said victims were shocked into a kind of hypnotic trance.
09:35Reported symptoms were as varied as seizures to nausea,
09:39but the overall explanation appears to have been a mass hysteria that rolled into the days following the episode's airing.
09:46This snowballed into a panic over the show itself,
09:49leading to a months-long hiatus for the program and a permanent shelving of the offending episode.
09:54Number 1 Myth
10:01Happy Days Jumped the Shark
10:03Happy Days
10:04Shark? That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
10:07Stupid, yes. Also dumb, but it's something I gotta do.
10:10Ask anybody and they'll say this nostalgic 70s sitcom was basically undone by the fonds jumping over a live shark while on water skis.
10:18Since this now-infamous episode, the phrase jump the shark has been used to denote a show past its prime and on the way to cancellation.
10:27Ironically, though, this episode aired less than halfway through the series' run.
10:31We did it!
10:33Yeah, yeah, you did the challenge.
10:35Yeah.
10:36But what did you really win?
10:38Outlandish as the scene may be, Happy Days hadn't jumped the shark at all.
10:42In fact, the show was still at its peak as far as ratings go, and would run for multiple seasons afterwards.
10:48Now, you have to understand, we were number one for like six years after that, so nobody else thought we'd jump the shark.
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11:11Number 1 True
11:12Curb Your Enthusiasm Exonerated a Murder Suspect
11:16Curb Your Enthusiasm
11:18Most of the time, Larry David's comedy series doesn't look on humanity that fondly.
11:23But, lo and behold, the show about a people-hating misanthrope ended up saving an innocent man.
11:29As we were heading back to our seats, we noticed that there were some cameras blocking our aisle.
11:34So I come into the room, and within a minute of me entering the room, the lawyer jumps up, because there he is, that's the guy.
11:39John Canelan was charged with murder, but he swore he was at a Dodgers game at the time.
11:44His lawyers decided to see if any footage of the game had captured him in the crowd.
11:49I went to the media organization and asked them if there was any video that could have been shot on that particular night.
11:54And they looked through some logs, and they saw that a production company had shot there that night, and it was actually in our section.
12:00And they gave me the phone number.
12:02Luckily, Curb Your Enthusiasm had filmed portions of a Season 4 episode, The Carpool Lane, at Dodger Stadium that same day.
12:10Out of 40,000 attendees, their cameras happened to capture Catalan literally feet away from the show's star.
12:17I remember calling Todd, and he was just like, I could picture his face with a big Kool-Aid smile on his face, you know.
12:23And he was just like, you're on the tape, you're on the tape.
12:27And I just, I jumped up, I let go of the phone, and just, you know, everybody was like, what the...
12:33After some difficulty with the prosecutors, the charges against Catalan were dropped.
12:37Did any of these behind-the-scenes stories surprise you?
12:40Tell us in the comments.
12:41It's a strange universe out there.
12:43Maybe Larry's just tied into it more than we know he is.
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