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You'll Probably Never See A Game Of Thrones Scene Featuring Bronn And Cersei (Because They're Exes In Real Life)

The vast, murderous, sex-crazed world of Game Of Thrones hides some equally sordid tales behind the scenes. One such tale involves Cersei and Jamie Lannister's, er, right-hand man, Bronn.

HBOThey share more than a goth fashion sense, it turns out.

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Community Was A "Who's The Biggest Jerk Competition" Between Chevy Chase And Dan Harmon

Community was a clever show about a disparate group of weirdos ending up together and forming an unlikely friendship, all thanks to the magic of crappy public education. Behind the scenes, however, it was the battlefield for a bitter, R-rated war between Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and noted obdurate human Chevy Chase.

The Harmon/Chase feud began with reports of Chase being "difficult" to work with. Chase reportedly walked off the set without shooting an important scene, would boast about his erections, and didn't want to dance on camera for fear of "looking gay." According to co-star Joel McHale, Chase's idea of joking around with the cast involved telling one actress he wanted to kill and rape her. As the show went on, those personal quirks bled into Chase's character, gradually turning him from a clueless old man into more and more of a hateful, racist jerk. Had the show never been cancelled, Chase would be playing the neighborhood Hitler by now.

Harmon countered crazy with his own batch, delivering a nice "F you, Chevy" speech in front of Chase's family at a wrap party, and encouraging others to join in. Chase, much like his last 30 years of picking scripts, did not see the humor in all of this, and left a rather explicit voicemail for Harmon ... which Harmon, of course, aired in front of an audience on his Harmontown podcast.

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John Belushi Would Sabotage Anything Written By A Woman At Saturday Night Live

The early years of Saturday Night Live would probably dominate any top 10 list of "most cocaine snorted off of genitals." When you combine Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Funny Chevy Chase, and the demon that inhabited John Belushi's body, the line between funny and horrific becomes a bit blurred. Remember, though, that this wasn't so long after women's lib started up. So even though three pioneering female comedians were in the initial cast, misogyny still ran rampant ... and Belushi, the comedy legend who would go on to star in Animal House and The Blues Brothers, was the worst of the lot.

Universal PicturesYou may know him from the wall of every dorm room ever.

According to his own friends and co-stars, Belushi had a special kind of hard-on for making life at SNL miserable for the women that worked, wrote, and acted there. When he wasn't shrieking that "women aren't funny," he was pleading with the higher-ups to fire the women writers, even threatening to resign if that didn't happen. If the few female writers did get sketches through, Belushi would refuse to act in them. When Chase was about to leave the show, Belushi pounced on the chance to become the biggest star and the biggest douche in SNL, going as low as badmouthing female hosts within audience earshot.

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The Good Wife Had Co-Stars Never Appear On-Screen Together For 50+ Episodes

The Good Wife was an acclaimed show in the "sexy lawyers" subgenre of television. Much of the earlier seasons focused on the friendship between the characters played by Emmy-winning actresses Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi -- who, it turns out, weren't so friendly in real life. After a few seasons, fans noticed that over 50 episodes had gone by without them sharing a single scene together, even though they were often at each other's law firms. If they needed to chat, it was via telephone. The show did everything short of having them communicate via Jedi mind link.

With Panjabi about to leave the show at the end of Season 6, it was time to get these two in a real flesh-and-blood scene one last time. However, there was no blood, and very little flesh. As they shared a drink at a bar in the season finale, viewers with functioning rods and cones noticed that there was something extremely disingenuous about the whole visual. And that's because, as confirmed by Entertainment Weekly, Margulies and Panjabi were never in the same room together. It was all shot using body doubles and digital fakery. It was pretty blatant too, as even computer imagery can't make these two act in the same vicinity.

CBS Television StudiosDoubles and post-production splicing can't mend fences. Only the heart can.

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Frank Darabont's Emails To The Crew Of The Walking Dead Were Crazier Than Anything On The Show

If the early seasons of The Walking Dead feel like a whole other show compared to the one still lifelessly plodding today, that's in part because of the talents of original showrunner Frank Darabont (also responsible for The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and probably Stephen King's mansion). This does not mean the man is reasonable, or even a good person.

Darabont sued AMC after being fired from The Walking Dead midway through its sophomore season. It was during those court proceedings that numerous emails between Darabont and people who worked on the show came to light, and they show a raging prick in top form. Let's start with the one in which he threatens to murder everyone:

via Vanity FairAfter all, it's a zombie show. He can make them keep working after that.

Apparently, the crew's job wasn't to Darabont's satisfaction, so he dealt with the problem like a responsible adult: through Tarantino dialogue and death threats. He didn't stop there, choosing instead to mention the angina that these fools were causing him:

via Vanity FairWe're assuming this would be all in caps if it wasn't for autocorrect.

Producers weren't the only ones included in the fun on these email chains. The writers also felt the wrath of Darabont's spiraling keyboard of death, and if he had his druthers, he would have "hunted them down and f*****g killed them with a brick, then gone and burned down their homes." Screw zombies, a horde of Darabonts is way more terrifying. "There is no writers room, which you know as well as I do. I am the writers room." (Please read that in "Stallone as Judge Dredd" voice.)

The directors were next, but he couldn't outright say that Gwyneth Horder-Payton did a bad job helming an episode. No, that would be too easy. It seems he took one look at the her footage and concluded that she had suffered a stroke:

Vanity FairHe has a point. We'd remove the "wise."

The fact that The Walking Dead was somewhat of a passion project that Darabont tirelessly planned years before bringing it to AMC probably explains a lot of these verbal hemorrhages, and that's why he chose to stand by every single one of these outlashes. Even the murder-y, arson-y ones.

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