Eastbound & Down

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1. #001

   Will Ferrell based Ashley Shaffer's appearance on that of wrestling legend 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair.

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2. #002

   The series' protagonist, Kenny Powers, is named after a real-life American stuntman who tried to jump part of the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. The jump was designed by Canadian stuntman Ken Carter. When the time came, Carter backed out, and the crew contacted Kenny Powers, who then attempted the jump and failed dramatically.

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3. #003

   The creators offered Walton Goggins a role in the series' third season, but scheduling made it impossible. Goggins would, however, go on to appear in McBride's other HBO shows Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones.

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4. #004

   Danny McBride said the character Kenny Powers was based on controversial MLB pitcher John Rocker.

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5. #005

   The English teacher at the school where Powers's substitute teaches is named after one of Danny McBride's high school English teachers.

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6. #006

   While promoting the series' second season on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), season nine, episode thirty-two, Danny McBride revealed that the second season was shot in a little over thirty days.

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7. #007

   In the series finale, the scene in the alley during the final few minutes of the last episode was an almost direct copy of how Batman's parents died… but with a difference involving Kenny Powers.

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8. #008

   Don Johnson and John Hawkes, who play Kenny Powers's father and brother in the series, are only ten years apart in age in real life.

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9. #009

   In the third-season finale, after Kenny quits his baseball career in April, he shouts, "I'm in a fucking Cameron Crowe movie!" Danny McBride appeared in Cameron Crowe's film Aloha (2015).

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