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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It's very obvious the movie is set in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000's]]; Ruby and her friends use pagers to communicate rather than mobile phones (which are also scarce amongst the rest of the cast), some of the teen characters' clothing and hairstyles follow late 90's and early 2000's fashion trends, Ruby has an iBook G3 laptop which was launched in 1999 and discontinued in May 2001, and Ruby uses dial-up to connect to the internet, among others.
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* DeletedRole: Kip Pardue was considered to play Ruby's love interest, but his character was deleted.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It's very obvious the movie is set in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000's]]; Ruby and her friends use pagers to communicate rather than mobile phones (which are also scarce amongst the rest of the cast), some of the teen characters' clothing and hairstyles follow late 90's and early 2000's fashion trends, Ruby has an iBook G3 laptop which was launched in 1999 and discontinued in May 2001, and Ruby uses dial-up to connect to the internet, among others.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: It only made $23.6 milion on a budget of $30 million. It's speculated that a big reason for this is because the film was released just three days after the 9/11 attacks, so lots of people didn't fancy watching a violent psychological thriller.
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* MissingEpisode: Season 1, episode 6. The cast and crew begged the ABC not to run this episode - scheduled to air a few days after 9/11 - when they realised that an opening line of [[TooSoon "It's been a big week, how about those Wiggles!"]] would be [[DudeNotFunny more than a little inappropriate]].

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* MissingEpisode: Season 1, episode 6. The cast and crew begged the ABC not to run this episode - scheduled to air a few days after 9/11 - when they realised that an opening line of [[TooSoon "It's been a big week, how about those Wiggles!"]] Wiggles!" would be [[DudeNotFunny more than a little inappropriate]].inappropriate.
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* StarDerailingRole: Creator/LeeleeSobieski was fresh off the momentum from ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' and ''Film/EyesWideShut'' when she took her first lead acting role, ''Film/TheGlassHouse'', which was a critical and commercial flop (it made only $18 million domestic). Once the next "[[HollywoodHypeMachine It Girl]]", she was reduced to working in lesser roles in films like the remake of ''[[Film/{{TheWickerMan|2006}} The Wicker Man]]'', ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'', and ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing: A Dungeon Siege Tale''. Her TV debut in the swiftly-cancelled ''NYC 22'' doesn't look likely to change much in her career direction, either. She eventually quit acting altogether to focus on raising her children.
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* MissingEpisode: The cast and crew begged the ABC not to run an episode scheduled to air a few days after 9/11 when they realised that an opening line of [[TooSoon "It's been a big week, how about those Wiggles!"]] would be [[DudeNotFunny more than a little inappropriate]].

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* MissingEpisode: Season 1, episode 6. The cast and crew begged the ABC not to run an this episode - scheduled to air a few days after 9/11 - when they realised that an opening line of [[TooSoon "It's been a big week, how about those Wiggles!"]] would be [[DudeNotFunny more than a little inappropriate]].
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* FridayNightDeathSlot: Its time slot for most of its lifespan was "sometime late on Friday". This arguably worked to its advantage, as its humour was...not ''edgy'', but certainly not mainstream either. Its Friday-night slot was so ingrained that even when it moved to Wednesdays, it was still repeated late on Friday.

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* FridayNightDeathSlot: Its time slot for most of its lifespan was "sometime late on Friday". This arguably worked to its advantage, as its humour was...not ''edgy'', but certainly not mainstream either. Its Friday-night Friday night slot was so ingrained that even when it moved to Wednesdays, it was still repeated late on Friday.



* MilestoneCelebration: Both the 100th and 200th episodes were acknowledged, with the 200th episode featuring four guests instead of the usual two, and an exploding cake to kick things off.

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* MilestoneCelebration: Both the 100th and 200th episodes were acknowledged, with the 200th episode featuring four guests instead of the usual two, [[StuffBlowingUp and an exploding cake to kick things off.off]].
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* MilestoneCelebration: Both the 100th and 200th episodes were acknowledged, with the 200th episode featuring four guests instead of the usual two, and an exploding cake to kick things off.


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* WorkingTitle: The show was originally set to be titled ''Thank God It's Friday'', until "God threatened legal action" (according to the liner notes of the DVD).
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* OutOfOrder: While Wil was away in Edinburgh for a while in 2006, Corinne was supposed to host two episodes before two [[ClipShow Double Glazed]] episodes were to air. Instead of the second Corinne-hosted episode, viewers got a Double Glazed as the ABC [[ExecutiveMeddling apparently didn't want]] a particular guest to be on two of its programs on the same night. When the second Corinne-hosted episode aired the following week, it had been severely edited to remove any reference to the fact it was supposed to air a week earlier.
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* Cancellation: The Glass House had been achieving its best ever ratings when the ABC axed it in 2006. This along with investigations into bias within the ABC at the time led many to believe [[ExecutiveMeddling the show's demise was politically motivated]]. Then-Prime Minister John Howard even had to put out a press release specifically denying any involvement.

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* Cancellation: {{Cancellation}}: The Glass House had been achieving its best ever ratings when the ABC axed it in 2006. This along with investigations into bias within the ABC at the time led many to believe [[ExecutiveMeddling the show's demise was politically motivated]]. Then-Prime Minister John Howard even had to put out a press release specifically denying any involvement.

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* Cancellation: The Glass House had been achieving its best ever ratings when the ABC axed it in 2006. This along with investigations into bias within the ABC at the time led many to believe [[ExecutiveMeddling the show's demise was politically motivated]]. Then-Prime Minister John Howard even had to put out a press release specifically denying any involvement.



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** Most of the set was reused for The Sideshow, while some parts could be seen every now and then on ''Series/GoodNewsWeek'' - both GNW TV productions.

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* TheMerch: A book and DVD were released, both containing healthy amounts of SelfDeprecation and BitingTheHandHumor. The former only had a small print run and is now extremely difficult to find.

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* TheMerch: A book and DVD were released, released - both containing healthy amounts of SelfDeprecation and BitingTheHandHumor. The former only had a small print run BitingTheHandHumor, and is both now extremely difficult out of print.
** A t-shirt with the phrase "People who live in glass houses should always wear clothes" was also available
to find.buy from ABC Shops. Those who attended the very first recording at the ABC's Ultimo studios in 2003 were given these shirts as a gift.
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---> '''Wil:''' "It's on late at night, no one's watching."

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---> '''Wil:''' "It's ''It's on late at night, no one's watching."''
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* OnlyBarelyRenewed: After the first season. The ABC then only commissioned blocks of up to fourteen episodes at a time (and at very short notice for the cast and crew) before finally giving the green light to longer seasons from 2003 onwards.

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* RecycledSet: Most of the set was reused for The Sideshow, while some parts could be seen every now and then on ''Series/GoodNewsWeek'' - both GNW TV productions.

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** The large banner used for the Enorgrull Awards for Eksalince was also used for the Sekken Awards for Eksalince... [[StylisticSuck only with the "Enorgrull" crudely crossed out and replaced with "Sekken"]].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For many years after the GrandFinale, the only official release was the DVD of the [[ClipShow best-of specials]], as the ABC had ruled out releasing full seasons. People hoping for reruns had to make do with seasons 8 and 9 airing in the ''very'' early hours of the morning in 2009-10 with no fanfare and no chance of any earlier seasons - the ABC did not have the rights to replay anything from before 2005. Then seasons 1-5 were released on the iTunes Store in 2011 - but the ABC currently have no plans to release seasons 6-9 in any form.
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* RecycledSet: Most of the set was reused for The Sideshow, while some parts could be seen every now and then on ''Series/GoodNewsWeek'' - both GNW TV productions.
* TheMerch: A book and DVD were released, both containing healthy amounts of SelfDeprecation and BitingTheHandHumor. The former only had a small print run and is now extremely difficult to find.
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* ChannelHop: After it was announced that the ABC had not renewed the show for 2007, it was rumoured that Channel 10 would pick it up. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen It never happened]].
* FridayNightDeathSlot: Its time slot for most of its lifespan was "sometime late on Friday". This arguably worked to its advantage, as its humour was...not ''edgy'', but certainly not mainstream either. Its Friday-night slot was so ingrained that even when it moved to Wednesdays, it was still repeated late on Friday.
---> '''Wil:''' "It's on late at night, no one's watching."
* MissingEpisode: The cast and crew begged the ABC not to run an episode scheduled to air a few days after 9/11 when they realised that an opening line of [[TooSoon "It's been a big week, how about those Wiggles!"]] would be [[DudeNotFunny more than a little inappropriate]].
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