10 Times TV Shows Got Too Real

Many people will claim that certain television shows have had a profound effect on them as an individual, but very few can confess to a show saving them from being wrongly convicted of murder.

Yet, that's precisely what happened when Juan Catalan was arrested for the murder of a teenage girl in 2003. Catalan repeatedly denied that he was the person behind this heinous act and even had his request to take a lie detector test turned down.

However, Catalan had an alibi. At the time of this dreadful crime, he told the police that he was watching the Dodgers take on the Braves at Dodgers Stadium with his daughter. Sadly, though, his lawyer wasn't able to spot him in any of the FOX footage of the game.

Then, in a remarkable turn of events, Catalan's lawyer learned that an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was shot at the stadium on that very same night. So, he set about looking for his client in the final cut and various outtakes from the episode. Incredibly, he only went and found both Catalan and his daughter at the time when the murder took place. This subsequently confirmed that he was definitely not the killer.

Larry David was told about the fact that his show helped save a man from prison and potentially even the death penalty and simply said:

"I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently."