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* David Simon got fed up with people demanding the [[Complete Monster]] Marlo Stanfield on ''[[The Wire]]'' be thrown in jail, so the series ends with him being arrested, then let go due to the police's illegal wiretap forming a key part of their evidence. However, he did throw the fans a bone: even though Marlo ends up a free man, he's stuck in his own personal Hell, completely forgotten by the city's other drug dealers and forbidden from any further drug activity himself, and it's implied he'll go out every night picking fights with street toughs until one of them kills him.
* At one point, the network wanted Sally on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' to have an attractive, more conventional boyfriend. The writers gave her one... for one episode.
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "The Monster At The End Of This Book" has a scene in it that is a direct [[Take That]] at
* When NBC decided they wanted to seem more eco-friendly, they had a "green week" where all the shows had to have an environmental bent.
** In ''[[30 Rock]]'' Jack created an eco-themed superhero, Greenzo, and made clear that he had no interest in the environment, and was only doing so to promote NBC's real-life parent company GE and their line of "environmentally friendly" products. The actor playing Greenzo then went crazy, thinking he actually was Greenzo, and began pushing for much less business-friendly actions.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Something*Positive]]'': Randy Milholland admitted that he almost changed the [
{{quote|"I almost made Davan the dad to spite some hate mail I received -- then I realized that's just as stupid as the hate mail."}}
** Randy strikes again during the "Con Disaster" storyline. In Randy's own words: "I considered letting {{spoiler|Pepito}} live, but then a reader told me I'm not allowed to kill anyone "Even {{spoiler|Pepito}}"."
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