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On a sunny day in the loveliest of suburbs, in a town called Fairview, housewife Mary Alice Young killed herself. Now she takes us into the lives of her family and neighbors. Her girlfriends are Susan, a known klutz who recently remarried the love of her life, Lynette who struggles with her family and career, Bree the owner of a catering business and the ex-model turned housewife Gabrielle...

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08x23 Finishing the Hat (2) Aired: May. 13, 2012

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Desperate Housewives is Completed/Ended
The show had 8 seasons and 186 episodes air between 2004 and 2012.

Series Info

Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Oct. 03, 2004
Status:
Completed/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
Aired:
2004 - 2012
To-Date:
8 Seasons
186 Episodes
Network
ABC TV Network
AKA:
Housewives (USA Short Title)
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  • Season 4 episodes that have Stephen Sondheim song titles or lyric references as their show titles (Except where denoted): - 4.1 Now You Know (Song Title From Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.2…
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    Season 4 episodes that have Stephen Sondheim song titles or lyric references as their show titles (Except where denoted): - 4.1 Now You Know (Song Title From Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.2 Smiles of a Summer Night (The Ingmar Bergman film that A Little Night Music is based on.) - 4.3 The Game (Could be a reference to a musical section from Putting It Together) - 4.4 If There's Anything I Can't Stand (Song title from By George) - 4.5 Art Isn't Easy (Lyric line from Putting It Together from Sunday In The Park) - 4.6 Now I Know, Don't Be Scared (Lyric quote from I Know Things Now from Into the Woods) - 4.7 You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover (Lyric quote from Simple from Anyone Can Whistle) - 4.8 Distant Past (Instrumental from Stavisky) - 4.9 Something's Coming (Song title from West Side Story. Music by Leonard Bernstein) - 4.10 Welcome To Kanagawa (Song title from Pacific Overtures) - 4.11 Sunday (Song title from Sunday In the Park With George) - 4.12 In Buddy's Eyes (Song title from Follies) - 4.13 Hello Little Girl (Song title from Into the Woods) - 4.14 Opening Doors (Song title from Merrily We Roll Along) - 4.15 Mother Said (Could be first two lyrics from I Know Things Now from Into the Woods. See also 4.6 Now I Know, Don't Be Scared, or lyrics from Into the Woods Act I Prologue) - 4.16 The Gun Song (Song title from Assassins) - 4.17 Free (Song title from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum)
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  • Goof (revealing mistake): Several times through out the seasons, when the camera is filming from the outside of a house into the front door, it can be noticed that the interior that is…
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    Goof (revealing mistake): Several times through out the seasons, when the camera is filming from the outside of a house into the front door, it can be noticed that the interior that is visible from the shot is different from the interior when filming on the inside of the house.
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  • At first, the show was pitched as a female driven comedy. All the networks turned it down. It was then slightly rewritten and pitched as a nighttime soap opera and it sold.