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unusual facts about Firefly


Margaret Weis Productions

Due to licensing issues they couldn't use any of the characters that appeared exclusively in the television series Firefly.


Browncoat

This originated from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion during an interview, when talking about Firefly fans.

Can't Stop the Serenity is a global charitable event to benefit Equality Now and other causes (chosen at the local level, some cities include Kids Need to Read, a charity co-founded by Firefly/Serenity star Nathan Fillion and author PJ Haarsma).

Camp Firefly

Camp Firefly is week-long summer camp run by The Firefly Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, which was founded by married-couple film actors Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble.

Champloose

Later, Champloose's version of the Okinawan folk song "Jin Jin" (Firefly) was a minor hit in British discos, and their ballad "Hana" (Flowers), with vocals by Kina's wife, became a weepy favourite in many Asian countries.

Chelsea Noble

They founded The Firefly Foundation, which runs Camp Firefly, a summer camp that gives terminally ill children and their families a week's free vacation.

Chris Elam

In 2008, Elam will choreograph a dance film directed by Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, FireFly and Serenity), in which he will also performed as the male lead.

Cyphonocerinae

In fact, this group is so plesiomorphic that Cyphonocerus was not recognized as a firefly and placed in the Drilidae when it was first described.

Dhamarukam

Firefly, the company which worked on special effects for films like Anji, Arundathi, Magadheera & Anaganaga O Dheerudu.

Don DeBrandt

He has also contributed several short stories and non-fiction articles to numerous publications, writing on such diverse subjects as Angel, Firefly, The Golden Compass, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, CSI:Miami, King Kong, X-Men, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, and Star Trek.

F Jackie

The funniest stuff on my CD F Jackie was after a guy yelled, ‘Nice shirt.’ Then I went off with: ‘Yeah, I know. Your mom got it for me because I made her come faster than Dennis Rodman. Is she working tonight, or is she resting her snatch? You ever see her? Her pussy lips are so swollen that the crotch of her panties looks like Jiffy Pop. She’s got a clit the size of a Pez, and it glows like a firefly. Go shit yourself a twin sister.’

Firefly and Live!

The first eight tracks on the album are taken from the studio album Firefly, while the rest of the tracks are taken from the live album Three Nights in Tokyo.

Firefly Communications

In 2009, Dragon's Den venture-capitalist James Caan began working with Firefly to "target print, broadcast and online media to raise Caan's profile".

Globe KD2G Firefly

The Globe KD2G Firefly was a pulsejet-powered American target drone, built by the Globe Aircraft Corporation for operation by the United States Navy in the late 1940s, seeing operational use into the mid-1950s.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

The phrase is misquoted in the 2002 television series Firefly in the series finale episode "Objects in Space" in which Adam Baldwin's character Jayne Cobb gets upset and says "Yeah and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak."

James A. Contner

His work includes episodes of such television series as Miami Vice, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Malaysia Airlines subsidiaries

Operating out of its hub in Penang, Firefly provides exclusive routes daily to Subang, Penang, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, Kota Bharu and Langkawi in Malaysia, and 4 times a week to Phuket and Koh Samui in Thailand.

Operation Meridian

Forty-three Avenger bombers, 12 Firefly fighter-bombers with rockets and fifty Hellcat, Corsair and Seafire fighters were launched, approaching with the sun behind them and diving from 9000 feet to 3000 feet to release their bombs.

Paul Elvstrøm

He competed in eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988, being one of only four persons ever (the others are sailor Ben Ainslie and athletes Carl Lewis in the long jump and Al Oerter in the discus) to win four consecutive individual gold medals (1948, '52, '56, '60), first time in a Firefly, subsequently in Finns.

PC GAMESS

PC GAMESS/Firefly is an ab initio computational chemistry program for Intel-compatible x86, x86-64 processors based on GAMESS (US) sources.

Photuris pennsylvanica

On April 10, 1974, Governor Milton J. Shapp signed their bill, making the Pennsylvania firefly their state's official insect.

Plum Lake, Wisconsin

The western section runs west from Sayner serving Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest campgrounds and recreation areas at Crystal Lake, Plum Lake, and Firefly Lake before meeting CTH M and eventually USH 51.

R. Tam sessions

Tam sessions are a series of five short videos released by Joss Whedon over the Internet, which were set within his fictional Firefly universe.

Rescue at Midnight Castle

Rescue at Midnight Castle, also known as Rescue from Midnight Castle and released later as Firefly's Adventure, was a 1984 animated television special based on the Hasbro toy line, My Little Pony.

Robert Green Hall

Hall's creations have been featured on shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly and the movies Vacancy, Superbad, Strange Wilderness, Big Stan, Killer Pad, Fear Clinic, The Crazies and Quarantine 2.

Rustle the Leaf

Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).

Serenity: Better Days

Like Those Left Behind, it is written by Firefly creator Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, illustrated by Will Conrad, and is set in between the end of the TV series and the feature film.

Sonny Rhodes

Rhodes recorded the theme music for the Firefly television series, "The Ballad of Serenity", which was written by the series' creator, Joss Whedon.

Starbase

A starbase is a facility, often in space, used in science fiction works such as Star Trek, Babylon 5, and Firefly.

Telecomsoft

It had earlier been christened Firefly Software, but was then renamed by James Leavey, shortly after he arrived from mainstream BT to take over as the label's marketing and PR manager.

Tom Towles

Towles' television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld and Firefly.

Townsend Prize for Fiction

Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (2012)

Unification Day

According to Nathan Fillion, the main actor in Firefly, the holiday is on September 20th.

Warpcon

signed first-edition or pre-publication books, slots to appear as drawn by John Kovalic in a Steve Jackson Games card game or in Dork Tower, rare collectible cards, Jayne Cobb's hat (as worn by Adam Baldwin from the TV show Firefly), and even the first ever My Little Cthulhu toy and more are among the things sold in auctions.

WRCT

The lineup at AVA consisted of Zombo, Jason the Underwater Culprit, Shawn Watson, J. Malls and DJ Thermos, and the Shadow Lounge consisted of It's Tina, Kimmy+Sandi, DJ Sanspoof, Arsenal+JTS and DJ Firefly.


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