A fun fact for TOTGM fans. Actually, Roddy was in that episode... but before the first day of shooting, the producers got a call that he got a very serious case of Shingles and could not do the show. He loved that show, and everyone on the show loved him, and he knew it was the last one, and he was truly devastated that he could not be on it. Luckily the producers come to the set very early before production, and when they got the news it was up to writer-producer Tom Greene to re-write the script, to write Roddy's character out of the episode. In his commentary which is on the bonus of the box set of the series, he says it was like he was killing off the character, and he found himself feeling a great sense of sadness! Many of the cast and crew remained very close friends long after the show was over, and used each other in future productions as much as possible. One of the most fun was Gerald Hiken who played a French Pornographer in two episodes. He was a rather relighous person, and felt funny playing that character, and Greene told him: "don't worry, on my next series, I'll have you play a priest". And he did. In Greene's western mini-series for Disney/ABC "Wildside", Hiken he played the character of a blind priest named Father Cruel".
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