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• The medicine cabinet in Carrie's apartment was first spied by Sarah Jessica Parker at a flea market shortly before filming began on the series. She and Matthew Broderick didn't buy it but reconsidered. When they went back, the cabinet was already sold to "some TV show". When she showed up for filming, the medicine cabinet was there.
  
  
• The naturally blond Cynthia Nixon dyes her hair red to play Miranda on the show.
  
  
• Carrie meets Mr. Big in the very first episode.
  
  
• On the day she shot the scene where she goes to the Paris Cinema to see "Joy for Two" and it later rains very heavily, Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't feeling well, so she sent her assistant to fetch her a home pregnancy test. She learned she was in fact pregnant just before shooting the scene; scripted as a rather giddy, happy scene (it is in the episode, "Anchors Away!"), this obviously helps explains why she is extra-smiley.
  
  
• Sarah Jessica Parker had a clause in her contract for this show stipulating that she will not do any full nudity. This is why the audience never sees Carrie in anything less than underwear whereas all the other main female characters have been filmed in much less.
  
  
• Carrie's boyfriend Jack Berger (played by Ron Livingston) said "He's just not that into you" only twice in a 2003 episode. This line was ranked #13 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 20 Top Catchphrases" (21-27 August 2005 issue).
  
  
• All of Season 1 was shot on 16mm film. It is the only one of the 6 seasons to be shot on this stock.
  
  
• The final word spoken in the very last episode was "Fabulous".
  
  
• The show became so popular that a tour was setup to view the New York City locations of the series by bus.
  
  
• From the very first season up to the 12th episode of the 4th season, in the opening credits, Sarah Jessica Parker's name was shown with the World Trade Center towers behind her name. After the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001 and the collapse of the towers, her name then appeared with the Empire State Building in the background. The same thing happened with the show's main title.
  
  
• Kim Cattrall turned down the role of Samantha Jones twice before being convinced by Darren Star's boyfriend to give it a try and shoot the pilot episode.
  
  
• In the episode where Carrie is invited to Mr. Big and Natasha's engagement party, the props department decided to make up a first name for the character to appear on the invitation, knowing that it would never appear on screen. Sarah Jessica Parker opened the envelope to find she had been invited to the wedding of "Boris and Natasha" (named after the villains in "Rocky and His Friends" (1959)), she reportedly couldn't stop laughing for five minutes.
  
  
• The early episodes of the show had characters looking directly at the camera lens and commenting on the events in the story. This element was dropped in later episodes.
  
  
• Cynthia Nixon does not have pierced ears. All of her earrings on the show were clip-ons. Sometimes the costume designers would send away earrings they liked to a jeweler to make them clip-on earrings.
  
  
• The girls' addresses are: - Carrie: 245 East 73rd St - Samantha: 300 Gansevoort Street - Charlotte: 700 Park Avenue - Miranda: 331 West 78th St. - None of them actually exist
  
  
• Charlotte's wedding dress (to Harry) is by Badgley Mischka.
  
  
• The part which ultimately went to Matthew McConaughey in the Episode 'Escape from New York' was originally written for Alec Baldwin who declined. The producers then contacted George Clooney who, although was interested in it, couldn't do it. The script was then sent to Warren Beatty who also declined.
  
  
• Kristin Davis (Charlotte) revealed on "The View" (1997) on 26 October, 2005, that in the much talked about scrapped movie (planned after the series ended), Charlotte was supposed to fly to China to adopt a child and finds out she's in fact pregnant.
  
  
• During the course of the show, all of the characters move into new apartments except for Carrie.
  
  
• The ballerina tutu that Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing in the opening credits cost only $5 from a vintage store.
  
  
• Charlotte's wedding dress (to Trey) is by Vera Wang.
  
  
• There are only 8 Episodes in Season 5 due to Sarah Jessica Parker's pregnancy.
  
  
• The first cable series to win the Emmy for Best Comedy Series.
  
  
• "Jules & Mimi," the bi-racial sexually charged BBC series that Miranda recorded and watched religiously on her TiVo, is not a real show. Paul Lee, CEO of BBC America, quipped to Jack Myers Report, "We should commission Jules & Mimi. It would be the first time a scene in a sitcom has inspired another show."
  
  
• In the final episode, there is no voice over apart from Carrie's 'final speech' which is; 'Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous. '
  
  
• The final line of the last ever episode was first drafted to read: [Carrie walks up stairs from subway] Carrie Voiceover: And if you can find someone to love the you you love, [Carrie turns to the camera] Carrie: Well, that's just fabulous. Carrie looking at the camera was a link to the earlier seasons but the producers changed it as they felt it wasn't in keeping with tone that the show had set.
  
  

• SPOILER: In the final episode, we finally learn the first name of "Mr. Big" (played by Chris Noth) - John. However, his last name is never given in the series. It is however revealed in the follow-up movie.
  
  

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