The latest episode of The Rookie: Feds feels like it was practically a new episode of The Following, a series The Rookies: Feds creator, Alexi Hawley, wrote for in the past
Just Like the Time Before
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see the actors who played Kelly and Bud on Married...with Children BEFORE Christina Applegate and David Faustino got the roles.
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see how a Picket Fences episode featured a "zipper scene" years before There's Something About Mary did its famous zipper scene....
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see how Mr. Bean did Friends' "head in a turkey" gag almost six years earlier!
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see Roger Moore's first appearance as James Bond...nearly a decade before his film debut as Bond!
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see the first try by A-ha at "Take On Me," including a failed original music video!
In a look at early "test runs" for future pieces of pop culture, see the early version of George Harrison's music video for "Got My Mind Set On You"
The New York Times had some amazing luck when the paper assigned a reporter to cover Marta Kauffman and David Crane's 1994 pilot season, never expecting it would involve the creation of Friends.