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* StarMakingRole: Creator/MartinLawrence played Maurice Warfield in the third season of ''What's Happening Now!!'', his first major acting role.



** Fred Berry was said to be difficult to work with during the filming of ''What's Happening Now!!'', believing that he deserved higher pay than his co-stars since his character was more popular. This result in him being written out of the show after the first season.

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** Fred Berry was said to be difficult to work with during the filming of ''What's Happening Now!!'', believing that he deserved higher pay than his co-stars since his character was more popular. This result resulted in him being written out of the show after the first season.
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* Fred Berry was said to be difficult to work with during the filming of ''What's Happening Now!!'', believing that he deserved higher pay than his co-stars since his character was more popular. This result in him being written out of the show after the first season.

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* ** Fred Berry was said to be difficult to work with during the filming of ''What's Happening Now!!'', believing that he deserved higher pay than his co-stars since his character was more popular. This result in him being written out of the show after the first season.

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** Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs

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** Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" StubbsStubbs. Berry would later have his middle name legally changed to "Rerun."



* WagTheDirector: Twice, eventually leading to the show's cancellation.

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* WagTheDirector: Twice, Multiple times, eventually leading to the show's cancellation.cancellation.
** Mabel King regularly fought with the writers and producers over what she saw as a lack of positive black representation in the show, disliking how her character was a maid and a divorced single mother. She would regularly change the script during filming and pushed for her character to be remarried. These creative conflicts resulted in King's role in the show being reduced in Season 2, leading to her quitting and her character being written out at the start of Season 3.


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* Fred Berry was said to be difficult to work with during the filming of ''What's Happening Now!!'', believing that he deserved higher pay than his co-stars since his character was more popular. This result in him being written out of the show after the first season.
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* TheDanza:

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* TheDanza:TheDanza: Almost the whole cast.

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* TheCastShowoff: In RealLife, Fred Berry was an accomplished disco dancer and was previously a member of a dance group known as The Lockers. Naturally, Rerun had a few opportunities to show off his dance moves in the show -- most notably in the first-season episode “My Three Tons,” when Rerun auditions to be a part of a dance group called The Rockets (played by the Lockers).
* TheDanza: Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson, and Mabel King as Mabel Thomas.
* DawsonCasting: Ernest Thomas was 27 and Fred Berry was 25 when the show began

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* TheCastShowoff: In RealLife, Fred Berry was an accomplished disco dancer and was previously a member of a dance group known as The Lockers. Naturally, Rerun had a few opportunities to show off his dance moves in the show -- most notably in the first-season episode “My Three Tons,” when Rerun auditions to be a part of a dance group called The Rockets (played by the Lockers).
* TheDanza: TheDanza:
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Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Thomas
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Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Nelson
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Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, Stubbs
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Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson, Wilson
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and Mabel King as Mabel Thomas.
* DawsonCasting: Ernest Thomas was 27 and Fred Berry was 25 when the show began production.



** During the second season, Fred Berry demanded a higher salary and better studio accommodations for the actors, a dispute that eventually led to a full-fledged walkout by Berry and Thomas during the second season episode "If I'm Elected" (leaving Haywood Nelson to carry the episode alone). Their demands were met soon afterward.

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** During the second season, Fred Berry demanded a higher salary and better studio accommodations for the actors, a dispute that eventually led to a full-fledged walkout by Berry and Thomas during the second season episode two's "If I'm Elected" (leaving Haywood Nelson to carry the episode alone). Their demands were met soon afterward.



* WrittenInInfirmity: During the second season, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.

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* WrittenInInfirmity: During the second season, During season two, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.
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** Danielle Spencer could be an example, since "Dee" sounds like her first initial.
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** Danielle Spencer could be an example, since "Dee" sounds like her first initial.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Haywood Nelson, who also appeared in ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' as the grandson of the minor character named Grady.
** Fred Berry was recognized by many as a [[Series/SoulTrain Soul Train Dancer]].
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* FollowTheLeader: The immediate success of ''What's Happening Now!" inspired a wave of syndicated series revivals (''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver The New Leave It to Beaver]]'', ''[[Series/TheMunsters The Munsters Today]]'' and continuations (''Series/MamasFamily'', ''Series/CharlesInCharge'').

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* FollowTheLeader: The immediate success of ''What's Happening Now!" Now!'' inspired a wave of syndicated series revivals (''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver The New Leave It to Beaver]]'', ''[[Series/TheMunsters The Munsters Today]]'' and continuations (''Series/MamasFamily'', ''Series/CharlesInCharge'').
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* FollowTheLeader: The immediate success of ''What's Happening Now!" inspired a wave of syndicated series revivals (''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver The New Leave It to Beaver]]'', ''[[Series/TheMunsters The Munsters Today]]'' and continuations (''Series/MamasFamily'', ''Series/CharlesInCharge'').



** Fred Berry was recognized by many as a [[Series/SoulTrain Soul Train Dancer]].



* WrittenInInfirmity: During the second season, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.

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* WrittenInInfirmity: During the second season, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.
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* TheCastShowoff: In RealLife, Fred Berry was an accomplished disco dancer and was previously a member of a dance group known as The Lockers. Naturally, Rerun had a few opportunities to show off his dance moves in the show -- most notably in the first-season episode “My Three Tons,” when Rerun auditions to be a part of a dance group called The Rockets (played by the Lockers).
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* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Out of universe. Raj's glasses clearly don't have any lenses in them.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: During the second season, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.

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* TheDanza: Mabel King as Mabel Thomas
** Also Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson.

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* TheDanza: Mabel King as Mabel Thomas
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Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson. Wilson, and Mabel King as Mabel Thomas.


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* WagTheDirector: Twice, eventually leading to the show's cancellation.
** During the second season, Fred Berry demanded a higher salary and better studio accommodations for the actors, a dispute that eventually led to a full-fledged walkout by Berry and Thomas during the second season episode "If I'm Elected" (leaving Haywood Nelson to carry the episode alone). Their demands were met soon afterward.
** In the third season, Berry and Thomas again threatened to strike in demand for another raise. This time, the executive producers opted to cancel the series rather than to give in.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Haywood Nelson, also, appeared in ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' as the grandson of the minor character named Grady.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Haywood Nelson, also, who also appeared in ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' as the grandson of the minor character named Grady.

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** Also Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson.



** Also Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson.

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* TheDanza: Mabel King as Mabel Thomas

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* TheDanza: Mabel King as Mabel Thomas
* DawsonCasting: Ernest
Thomas was 27 and Fred Berry was 25 when the show began
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* TheDanza: Mabel King as Mabel Thomas
** Also Ernest Thomas as Roger Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as Fred "Rerun" Stubbs, and Shirley Hemphill as Shirley Wilson.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Haywood Nelson, also, appeared in ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' as the grandson of the minor character named Grady.

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