The Odd Couple/Trivia: Difference between revisions

* [[Recycled: the Series]]: From a play to a movie to a TV series. Many prefer the series to the film.

* [[Throw It In]]: The scenes of Felix and Oscar out in the streets of New York during the intro were completely improvised. One of the show's directors simply followed Randal and Klugman around New York and filmed them doing various things in-character.

* [[Vindicated by Reruns]]: The show kept shifting timeslots while on the air, so only during summer reruns, when it was on at a consistent time, did it gain a significant audience. When the series finally ended and went into syndication, it got those consistent timeslots once again. Its popularity ''skyrocketed'' (just as Klugman himself had confidently predicted).

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** For the TV version, the characters were originally to be played by Dean Martin or Art Carney as Felix and Mickey Rooney or Martin Balsam as Oscar respectively.

* [[Written-In Infirmity]]: Klugman and Randall took on the roles again in a series of potato chip commercials, all of which had to be written around Klugman's nearly non-existent voice after his heavy smoking resulted in him losing a vocal cord. Then a reunion movie was made, by which time Klugman had regained some volume, but still spoke in an extremely raspy and wheezy voice, so Oscar is said to have recently had a throat operation.