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TIL in 1994, when the show Married… With Children moved its taping locale from Fox’s Hollywood Studios to the Sony-Columbia locale where the ABC series Full House had taped, prior to taping their first show at the new locale, the cast held an exorcism to rid the studio of the Full House spirits.

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