HephaestusTV.com (Companion to HephaestusTV and a Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

50 Things You Never Knew About HephaestusTV and the Crew

1) Chloe checks the HephaestusTV website more than her Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

2) Aphrodite doesn't have any social networking but watches ESPN online.

3) SPOILER ALERT!!! Zach cried when Newt died in the Death Cure.

4) Grover is the reason people don't keep enchiladas in the break room.

5) Before Zach, Coach Hedge was the tech producer but he was fired after the first episode for eating the prop candy on set.

6) Don the Faun is the studio's head janitor (he gets paid).

7) Chloe didn't want to include Calypso in the cast, but her vote was in the minority.

8) There are actually over 50 rules in the studio, but the only ones people care about are the "No Phones" and "No Food on Set" rules.

9) Drew's rejected episode ideas include a cover of Fancy and a Just Dance video.

10) Terminus cannot be within 1000 feet from the studio's property, but Kronos can (as seen in S1E1).

11) During lunch Frank, Jason, and Percy have to circle the perimeter of the place and make sure there aren't any monsters hiding in the dumpsters.

12) Leo built a secret compartment in the refrigerator just for hiding vodka.

13) The break room has a pool, a giant fridge, and a secret flight of stairs that go to the roof.

14) There's also another pool, a lounge, and a spa on the fifth floor.

15) In an average week (Monday-Friday), the crew works for 15 hours and take breaks for 25, and their average pay is 50 drachmas per hour (including breaks).

16) There is a pegasi stable and bike rack, but no parking lot despite the number of people who come by chariot or car.

17) The cafeteria has a popcorn machine, cotton candy machine, smoothie maker, ice cream maker, chicken roatisserie, pretzel maker, and a hot chocolate/coffee/cappuchino maker.

18) Apollo and the Muses weren't the only ones to sing the theme song. They recorded it as one big group with the main cast members (Chloe, Leo, Percy, Annabeth, Hazel, Frank, Piper, Jason, Reyna, Travis, Connor, Ares, Hephaestus, Nico, the skulls, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, and Hermes).

19) The panda "stuffing" from S1E3 was really Frank's bellybutton lint.

20) Tyson is the Peanut Butter Monitor because he wanted to help, but all the jobs were filled and Hephaestus felt bad for him. In other words, Tyson just has to make sure there was peanut butter in the break room and cafeteria at all times. He gets paid in drachmas and peanut butter sandwiches.

21) Leo made a prop version of Riptide, but he lost it and had to make another at the last minute.

22) The boy's bathroom has a tiny disposal bin for tampons in one of the stalls. Because diversity.

23) It's not an official rule, but everyone agreed that Kraft Cheese should not be allowed on property.

24) One of the mannequins in the dressing rooms is dressed up as Gandalf the Grey for no reason. Nobody knows who dressed it up or when they did it.

25) Athena doesn't have a Nook or Kindle.

26) Hephaestus was mad at Leo for giving the wrong measurements for a small car part on the same day he was picking out roles for HephaestusTV, which is why Chloe became the host instead of Leo.

27) Clarisse has a small guillotine in her dressing room.

28) The original title of the show was supposed to be ZeusTV but it just didn't have the same ring as HephaestusTV.

29) Octavian doesn't have a work ID or punch card because Reyna said so.

30) To see how gullible Calypso was, Chloe told her there was a popular demigod boutique in the Underworld.

31) Katie Gardner has a soybean allergy.

32) Nico rescued the Gandhi skull from the Fields of Punishment.

33) Travis and Connor routinely set up booby traps in the bathrooms before they fell for their own trick.

34) Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon are forced to share a dressing room.

35) As a joke, Chloe filled Piper's dressing room with Pocahontas costumes on the first day of work.

36) Whenever they're not shooting, Chloe blasts Imagine Dragons, All Time Low, and Fall Out Boy songs at top volume on the speakers, so people usually avoid the places around the computer room.

37) On Halloween, the demigods and gods were having a costume party on Mount Olympus. Zach, who forgot a costume, just rolled around in dirt and messed up his hair at the last minute. He never decided whether his costume was of Newt (from the Maze Runner) or a sweaty hobo.

38) Hermes put up signs everywhere saying: BEWARE OF FALLING COCONUT MONSTERS!

39) Don't ask why Hermes glues himself to the ceiling.

40) Nico fangirls over Dan from Imagine Dragons.

41) One of the things not shown in the PO box episodes is a box of rocks from an anonymous sender in India.

42) Chloe reads Maze Runner fanfiction and fangirls over Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

43) Another thing they got in their mail was a 2 kilogram donut.

44) Connor is secretly a geography whiz.

45) Annabeth once built a tower out of Popsicle sticks without eating the Popsicles on purpose.

46) Katie regularly glues Travis's plate to his table at lunch.

47) Piper and Hazel made a bet on if Zach will ask out Chloe or if it'll be vice versa. Everyone knows about this bet except Chloe and Zach.

48) Chloe spends more time in Cabin 6 than her own cabin.

49) Percy wanted to invite Jack Black for an episode but the latter said he was already working on another TV network in Britain.

50) The cast tried to think of 50 things to let their fans know in this post but could only come up with 49.

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~ C. Gallagher