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'''Jakov:''' [[No Indoor Voice|I DON'T KNOW!]]<br />

'''Barbrady:''' Blue?<br />

'''Mayor:''' What?!?<br />

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''—Rumor has it that after ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' turned out to be something of a financial disappointment, Gainax's executives planned to deliberately produce an even bigger flop to take advantage of a loophole in Japanese tax law. They thus put Anno, known to be mentally unstable, at the helm and allowed him and the rest of the creative team to throw in whatever insanity they could come up with. Needless to say the plan backfired spectacularly and several of the studio bigwigs served prison sentences for tax evasion, thought that may have been due to them secretly stashing large sums of cash in safe deposit boxes.<br />The actual situation was that ''Nadia'' was created by Toho, with Gainax simply being the people who created the actual series, so the series huge success (it was originally only supposed to be 26 episodes) was only to the benefit of Toho. If ''Evangelion'' failed Gainax was bankrupt, they had no money (quite obvious for anyone whose seen ''Eva''), and they underreported the profits since they didn't know how long ''Eva'''s popularity would last.

* When Humphrey Lyttelton originally auditioned for the Radio 4 panel game ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'', he was apparently in a bad mood, and really didn't want the part, so spent the entire show being irritable and sarcastic. Everyone else loved this, and so he ended up hosting it from 1972 up until his death in 2008.<br />Apparently he was the ''only'' thing people liked about the first show, and Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden felt they'd done so badly that they turned to each other afterwards and said, "Never again." When it was picked up and became the BBC mainstay that it is, they made this a good-luck ritual.