20+ Facts about popular 2000s series that were forever etched in viewers’ hearts

Nowadays, following a series is not very difficult — the internet has revolutionized the way we consume this type of content. However, 15 years ago, we had to run to the television frantically looking around the house for the remote control so as not to miss a single minute of the new episode of our favorite show. And even though it’s been a long time, some characters from the popular series of the 2000s have become so etched in viewers’ hearts that they will likely never be forgotten.

O awesome.club decided to make a nostalgic post with some fun facts about popular series from the early 2000s, when high-speed internet was still a distant dream. Check out!

Alyssa Milano received a higher salary than the other actresses in the series. Alyssa (Phoebe) was paid $90,000 per episode; Shannen Doherty (Prue), 75k; and Holly Marie Combs (Piper), 60,000; Although the Halliwell sisters are portrayed as good witches, most of their spells and potions fall under the category of dark magic; Some actors whose real appearance was completely hidden under layers of makeup played more than one character on the series. This mainly applies to demons. For example, Michael Bailey Smith played several demons at once, including Belthazor, Shax (SPOILER: the one who killed Prue) and one of the grimlocks;

During the casting process, Shannen Doherty said that she would only participate in young witches if the producers also cast Holly Marie Combs. However, when Shannen left the project, Holly decided to continue even without her friend; The names of all women in the Halliwell family begin with the letter “P”, because of a special tradition in the family.

Many American television channels, including HBO and Lifetime, rejected the proposal for the series, as they did not believe in the success of the project. Only the ABC channel believed — and in the end, it was worth it, as it was a success; Teri Hatcher (Susan) broke two ribs when she was filming the scene in which she lands on top of the wedding cake, but valiantly insisted on continuing filming that day; A fan of the series liked so much the dress that Gabrielle, Eva Longoria’s character, wore in the pilot episode of the series, that she wrote to the production asking for the name of the store or designer so that she could get a matching dress to wear to her graduation. Instead, the producers sent her the actual dress;

Eva Longoria’s height is 5ft 1in (1.57m). With those parameters, her character Gabrielle could never have had a supermodel career in the 1990s, as shown on the show. Incidentally, Gabrielle is ridiculed in the series by friends and her own husband for being too short; Bree Van De Kamp, played by Marcia Cross, is the only one of the main characters who, during the series, did not get pregnant or end up going bankrupt.

smallville entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest running science fiction series; During filming, Tom Welling (Clark Kent) was known to wander the set muttering under his breath, “Clark is an idiot! He’s too stupid!”; In nearly every episode, Clark Kent wears a combination of red, yellow, and blue—the colors he would one day wear as Superman;

The yellow house on the Kent farm was originally green, but the producers asked the house’s owners to paint it yellow. Incidentally, the property was also featured in an advertisement for a Canadian dairy farm; Superman originally has blue eyes, but actor Tom Welling’s eyes are green. However, that hasn’t stopped characters on the show from always referring to Clark’s eyes as blue.

All of Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie’s scenes as Ted’s (played by Josh Radnor) future children were filmed during the first season so that the characters’ appearances would not change. This also includes a scene for the eventual final episode, which was filmed at the beginning of the second season; Most of the websites created by the main characters on the show exist in real life. Some of them still work today and are used to auction items from the series or for charity purposes; Actresses Alyson Hannigan (Lily) and Cobie Smulders (Robin) were pregnant while filming Season 4, so their characters were always wearing baggy clothes and covering their bellies with large objects to hide the pregnancy. Sometimes the writers tackled this issue in a particularly creative way, as when, in one of the fourth season episodes, Lily wins a hot dog eating contest, proudly showing off her round belly at the end. Alyson’s second pregnancy was included in the plot and her character also became pregnant in the series;

The kissing scenes between Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel became a real problem for the actress, as the actor smoked and kissing him ended up being something unpleasant for her. In the end, Jason was able to kick the bad habit for a year; but he resumed smoking later; In the episode where Ted helps Victoria escape the wedding, he says he can’t climb the drainpipe out of fear. But in season nine, when trying to delete a message from Lily’s phone, he ends up climbing a sewer pipe to get to the device; In the episode where Ted and Robin break up, there was an actual proposal. During the episode, a ring was in a champagne flute and Robin thought that Ted was asking her to marry him. However, the ring belonged to a man sitting at the next table in the restaurant. He arranged all this with the producers so that their engagement would be forever recorded on the show.

In an interview given by actress Lucy Lawless in 2013, she admits to regretting not having made a “Xena” movie when the series was at the height of its popularity; Quentin Tarantino claimed to be a huge fan; Peter Jackson, trilogy director Lord of the Rings, traveled to New Zealand, where the recordings of Xena the Warrior Princess, to recruit some professionals who participated in its production. Considering the saga’s high budget, the director had no difficulties in attracting a considerable number of technical specialists who had long wanted to participate in a major project. Lucy Lawless herself almost left the show to star in the trilogy. And as retaliation, the production decided to “kill” the main character and her faithful maid at the end of the series;

Dysnomia, a natural satellite discovered in 2005 on the dwarf planet Eris, was nicknamed Gabrielle in honor of the show’s main character’s faithful squire, as the planet itself was formerly known as Xena. However, the official name chosen for the satellite was Dysnomia, which in Greek mythology personified a spirit of civic disorder and lawlessness. However, this name was suggested not only because Dysnomia is the daughter of Eris, goddess of discord, but also because the surname of New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless, who played Xena, means “lawless” in English; Hercules’ fighting style received the name “wire fu🇧🇷 In action scenes, enemies flew far with powerful blows and punches, and the flight path was so wide that discerning viewers immediately noticed the safety ropes, which were not well disguised. But this did not discourage the audience, on the contrary, according to fans, it made the series even funnier; throughout the series Herculesthe producers wrote humorous statements in the credits at the end of each episode, such as: “No two-headed, fire-breathing hydra was harmed during filming.”

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