There are a lot of things on TV that just don’t happen in the real world: Nobody lives in a huge apartment in New York for a hundred bucks a month; single men don’t adopt adorable moppets to sass up their lives; the ratio of fat guy to hot wife is substantially lower; and when George Lopez tells a joke, nobody laughs.

But even unoriginal writing has to come from somewhere, and some of Hollywood’s most outlandish plot twists didn’t come from the booze-soaked mind of a hack writer; they came right from the damn newspaper