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Earth Angel

A scene from the Family Guy fifth season finale, "Meet the Quagmires", which directly parodied the dance from Back to the Future, also featured the song and was followed, instead of "Johnny B. Goode", by "Never Gonna Give You Up".


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1992 Aloha Bowl

Young earned the start after starting quarterback Ryan Hancock went down with a season-ending injury in the regular season finale against Utah.

2002 The 500

Also, other than the famed Indianapolis 500, it was the last 500-mile open wheel race for ten years, when IndyCar Series held the 2012 MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships at Fontana as the season finale.

2010 UCI Women's Road World Cup

The Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt was planned as the season finale, but was later downgraded to non-UCI status.

2012 HHSAA State Football Championships

Starting every game except the regular season finale loss to Kamehameha, Tuileta completed 65% of his passes for 2,417 yards and 28 touchdown passes with only 1 interception and a rating of 140.9.

Altruistic suicide

In the Power Rangers series, Power Rangers in Space, in their season finale, Countdown to Destruction, Part 2, long-standing franchise character Zordon instructs Andros to destroy his energy tube, which would destroy all the evil in the universe at the time, but take him with them.

Andy Boss

The 1994 championship came down to four drivers (Boss, Diego Guzman, Mark Hotchkiss and Juan Pablo Montoya) at the season finale in Phoenix, with future NASCAR driver Jerry Nadeau winning the race and Columbia's Diego Guzman taking the 1994 series title.

Autumn Fallin'

The track Sea Green, See Blue was used in the 2010 film The Switch, and the second season finale of the TV series How I Met Your Mother.

Busty Heart

Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's That's Just Wrong, The WB's Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol TV's Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV's World's Dumbest, Bravo TV's Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike TV MANswers.

Charles Horman

In season 10 of Law & Order, the season finale episode "Vaya Con Dios" was based on this murder.

Craig Whelihan

In the season finale on December 28 against the Arizona Cardinals, Arizona linebacker Kwamie Lassiter intercepted Whelihan four times; one of Lassiter's interceptions bounced off Chargers receiver Ryan Thelwell.

Darryl Stephens

Upon the end of the series, it was announced that there would be a feature film version, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom that picks up after the show's second season finale, which Stephens would star, along with Jensen Atwood and remainder of the series cast.

Dawn Atwood

In the season finale, Dawn came to Newport to attend Ryan's graduation, and gave him a present of a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV which her new boyfriend had restored.

Domenik Hixon

He made his mark by returning a kickoff 74 yards for a touchdown in the Giants' 2007 regular season finale against the undefeated New England Patriots.

Drop goal

The last successful drop kick in a professional American football game was when Doug Flutie successfully drop kicked a football for an extra point in the New England Patriots' regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006; prior to that, the last successful drop kick in a regular-season game was in 1941.

East Bay Pit Bulls

The highlight of that effort takes place in their regular season finale on March 5, when Shorty Rossi, host of the Animal Planet series Pit Boss, will visit to share his own message of pit bull rescue.

Edward Allen Bernero

He directed the fifth season episode "100", wrote the eighteenth episode "The Fight", which set the stage for the spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior and the twentieth episode "A Thousand Words" and directed the season finale "Our Darkest Hour".

Florida–LSU football rivalry

Then, after being delayed several weeks to the season finale due to Hurricane Hilda, the game ended up being anti-climactic with UF rolling to a surprisingly easy 20–6 win over the No. 7 Tigers.

Girlicious

Originally the group was to be a trio, but was conceived as a quartet through a final decision of creator Robin Antin on the show's season finale.

Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng

Dankyi-Koranteng was hired on television during the premier season finale of The Apprentice Africa in Nigeria on (Nigerian Television Authority), Silverbird TV, Super Screen, and MBI Television; Ghana on (TV3); Kenya on (KTN); Uganda on (WBS); and Tanzania (TBC1).

It Don't Move Me

The video was the center of a segment of the fourth season finale of Canadian television series Video on Trial, which critiques videos using a courtroom-like format.

Jeanne Zelasko

In 1997, she had a guest role in the fourth season finale of the CBS TV series Diagnosis: Murder.

Jeff Corey

His best-known science fiction appearances were in "O.B.I.T.", an episode of The Outer Limits; "The Cloud Minders", a third-season episode of Star Trek, in which he played High Advisor Plasus; and "Z'ha'dum", the third-season finale of Babylon 5, in which he played Justin, and as Caspay in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

Loring Park

Portions of the television series Man v. Food's first season finale were filmed in Loring Park.

Lotus 16

Although regular works driver Hill failed to finish even a single race during the season, his team-mate Innes Ireland's car held together long enough to take five World Championship points, with fourth place in the Dutch Grand Prix and fifth in the season finale in the United States.

Michonne

Michonne makes her first appearance near the end of the second season finale, "Beside the Dying Fire", wherein she saves Andrea from a walker by decapitating it with her katana (which features a triquetra on the inner crossguard.

Much 'I Do' About Nothing

For the wedding during the first season finale, Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman dressed Blake Lively in a yellow floral bridesmaid dress designed by Ralph Lauren while Kelly Rutherford wore a custom-made Vera Wang wedding dress.

Nikolai Fraiture

On Saturday, May 19, 2012 for the 37th Season Finale of Saturday Night Live Nikolai played bass alongside Arcade Fire and guest/musical host Mick Jagger.

Nothing Left to Lose

His song, "Where We Gonna Go From Here?", was featured during the third season of Grey's Anatomy and on the first season finale of ABC Family's show Kyle XY.

OK Sweetheart

"Home" featured on The CW's 2011 season finale of 90210, WB's One Tree Hill (2011), ABC's Revenge (2012), and Around the World for Free (2011), Nissan Versa Commercial (2011), Gas South Commercials (2011, 2012, 2013)

Pigeon Key Historic District

This place was featured at the 18th season finale (the finishing line) of the hit-reality series, The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business.

Population Me

"The Back of Your Hand" was featured in the third-season finale of the FX cop drama The Shield.

Premier Reserve League

In the 2011–12 season finale held at Old Trafford, Manchester United Reserves beat Aston Villa Reserves 3–1 on penalties after the game ended 0–0 in normal time.

Rappin' Granny

Smallwood was a contestant on the NBC television series America's Got Talent who qualified August 16, 2006 season finale for the one-million-dollar grand prize.

Rhodium Nights

"Rhodium Nights" was the most watched program on NBC that night, beating both the season finale episode and an encore episode of Betty White's Off Their Rockers as well as a repeat of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which preceded this episode's broadcast.

Saul Holden

In the season finale, it was revealed that Saul once spent a romantic weekend in Key West with another man, an old friend named Milo who reappears at Kitty and Robert's engagement party after an absence of 20 years.

Sebastián Saavedra

He was replaced in the Conquest car by João Paulo de Oliveira for the Motegi race and Dillon Battistini at the Kentucky Speedway, but returned to the car for the season finale in Las Vegas, which was cancelled after Dan Wheldon's fatal crash.

Shark in the Water

In the summer of 2010, a Degrassi promo aired in both Canada and the United States, for season 10, and was featured in the mid-season finale, All Falls Down (Part Two).

The Jeff Dunham Show

On December 29, 2009, TV Guide reported that The Jeff Dunham Show would not be renewed for a second season, noting that despite the strong premiere, the series' ratings had dropped sharply by the season finale.

Yasuhide Nakayama

Nakayama made a cameo appearance in the season finale of the game show I Survived a Japanese Game Show.