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* IKnewIt:
** Anyone who was correct about [[spoiler:Anika pushing Rhonda down the stairs]].
** The minute Andre said it was [[spoiler:Harper Scott, who revealed Lucious's mother being alive]], Lucious was on that "handled" mindset.
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* TheCastShowoff: Jussie Smollett and Bryshere Grey, whose stage name is Yazz, are both musicians in real life.

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* TheCastShowoff: Jussie Smollett Creator/JussieSmollett and Bryshere Grey, whose stage name is Yazz, are both musicians in real life.
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* ChannelHop: In both the UK ([[Creator/Channel4 E4]] to [[Creator/ChannelFive 5STAR]]) and Australia (from Creator/NetworkTen to its Eleven subsidiary diginet).

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* ChannelHop: In both the UK ([[Creator/Channel4 E4]] to [[Creator/ChannelFive [[Creator/Channel5 5STAR]]) and Australia (from Creator/NetworkTen to its Eleven subsidiary diginet).
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* UnderageCasting: Taraji P. Henson is 44 years old, only 12 years older than the actors playing her sons.
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* ChannelHop: In both the UK ([[Creator/Channel4 E4]] to [[Creator/ChannelFive 5STAR]]) and Australia from Creator/NetworkTen to its Eleven subsidiary diginet.

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* FanNickname: "Boo Boo Kitty" for Anika. Cookie only called her this once in the pilot, but fans, especially those who love Cookie and hate Anika, quickly took to it. This would later serve as an IronicEcho in the Season 1 finale.
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Lyon's Roar''.
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** Production of the final season was cut short by the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]] with two episodes left to be filmed. It was eventually decided that the episodes would not be produced and that "Home is on the Way", the final episode completed before production shut down, would serve as a de facto series finale.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Jussie Smollett as Jamal Lyon.
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* PlayingGertrude:
** Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson are only 13 years older than Jussie Smollett and Trai Byers, who play their children.
** Smollett is actually a year older than Byers, who plays the elder brother.
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** Jamal was written out of the final two episodes of Season 5 following [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/business/media/empire-jussie-smollett-fox.html Jussie Smollett's arrest in February 2019]].

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** Jamal was written out of the final two episodes of Season 5 and PutOnABus for all of the sixth and final season following [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/business/media/empire-jussie-smollett-fox.html Jussie Smollett's arrest in February 2019]].



* TroubledProduction: Season 5 was thrust into a horrific conundrum after Jussie Smollett claimed to have been attacked and nearly lynched by right-wing extremists. After a while of receiving sympathy over the incident, Chicago police charged him with fabricating the entire incident over a pay dispute with the network; two men who were brought in for questioning were actually former extras from the show. The show's storylines were thrown into disarray as he needed to be hastily written out of the final two episodes of Season 5, and the possibility of Smollett's potential conviction will continue to have reverberations, as the producers continue to insist he wasn't the TonightSomeoneDies victim the season had been building to.

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* TroubledProduction: Season 5 was thrust into a horrific conundrum after Jussie Smollett (Jamal) claimed to have in February 2019 that he had been attacked and nearly lynched by a pair of right-wing extremists. After a while couple weeks of receiving sympathy over the incident, Chicago police PD charged him with fabricating the entire incident over a pay dispute with the network; the two men who were brought in for questioning were actually a pair of Nigerian immigrants and former extras from the show. show who said Smollett paid them to pretend to attack him. The show's storylines were thrown into disarray as he needed to be hastily written out of the final two episodes of Season 5, and writers looked for a way to [[PutOnABus put Jamal on the possibility of Smollett's potential conviction will continue to have reverberations, as proverbial bus]] while the producers continue had to insist he go on the record to state that Jamal wasn't the TonightSomeoneDies victim the season had been building to.up to. This would affect the rest of the series, as the sixth season ended up being the last one.

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