50 Fun Facts About Grimm (TV Series)

Grimm was set and filmed in which Pacific Northwest city, picked for the woodland in its biggest parks?

Portland won the creators over with Forest Park and Washington Park, thick with trees and inside the city itself. They later called the city a character in the show in its own right.

The pilot of Grimm, in which a postman snatches a girl walking to her grandparents' house, reworks which fairy tale?

Little Red Riding Hood runs right through the episode: both victims are dressed in red, and the kidnapped girl's backpack is marked with the initials R. H.

Monroe, first arrested by Nick Burkhardt in the Grimm pilot and then recruited as his guide, is which kind of Wesen?

Blutbad is the show's name for its wolf-like creatures. Monroe is a reformed one, and he becomes Nick's main guide to a hidden community that would normally avoid a Grimm.

Wesen, the word Grimm uses for its hidden creatures, is an everyday word for 'being' in which language?

German also supplies most of the show's creature names, though usually with spelling and grammar that no native speaker would recognise.

Which Will & Grace star was an executive producer of Grimm through the company Hazy Mills Productions?

Sean Hayes founded Hazy Mills in 2004 with Todd Milliner, a friend from Illinois State University, knowing his sitcom role would not last forever.

Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt's girlfriend in the first four seasons of Grimm, works in which profession?

Veterinarian Juliette shared a home with Nick when the series began, with no idea that his family hunted monsters or that he was about to propose.

In the Grimm pilot, dying Aunt Marie tells Nick Burkhardt that everything he needs to know is inside what?

Her trailer holds an assortment of weapons and a book recording the family's encounters with creatures. She had only just arrived in town with it when she was attacked.

The series premiere of Grimm was delayed by a month so that it would air closer to which holiday?

Halloween was three days away when the pilot finally aired on October 28, a fitting launch for a show about monsters hiding in plain sight.

Which menacing figure of European Christmas folklore kidnaps misbehaving teenagers in a third-season episode of Grimm?

Krampus hangs his captives from the tallest tree to devour on the winter solstice. The show's twist: he is an ordinary man who wakes each year in a Santa suit with no memory of it.

Which network aired all six seasons of Grimm, having chosen it over the rival supernatural cop pilot 17th Precinct?

NBC ordered the pilot in January 2011 and picked up the series that May, passing over Ronald D. Moore's 17th Precinct, another police procedural with a supernatural twist.

Which actor, a former contestant on MTV's Road Rules, played detective Nick Burkhardt in every season of Grimm?

David Giuntoli was the first actor cast in the series, in February 2011. His reality TV stint years earlier had paid off his college debt and settled his mind on acting.

Which Grimm actress married the actor who played Nick Burkhardt a few months after the series ended?

Bitsie Tulloch played Juliette, the detective's girlfriend, and married her leading man in June 2017. She went on to play Lois Lane in Superman & Lois.

Lawyer Adalind Schade, who loses her powers in Grimm after swallowing Nick Burkhardt's blood, is which kind of Wesen?

Hexenbiest is the show's witch-like breed of Wesen. Adalind wins her powers back through a string of agonising rituals and, by the final seasons, has gone from Nick's enemy to his partner.

Rosalee Calvert, who marries Monroe in Grimm's third-season finale, is a Fuchsbau, a Wesen resembling which animal?

Fox features mark every Fuchsbau. Rosalee began as a recurring guest late in season 1 and was promoted to the main cast for season 2.

Bud Wurstner, the nervous repairman who befriends Nick Burkhardt on Grimm, is an Eisbiber, resembling which animal?

Beaver-like Bud panics when he recognises a Grimm while fixing the couple's refrigerator. The two become friends once Nick promises not to cut off his head, as any earlier Grimm would have.

After her brother Freddy is murdered in Grimm, Rosalee Calvert stays in town to run which business of his?

A spice shop was Freddy's cover for an apothecary trade with Wesen customers. Rosalee arrived meaning only to close it, then stayed after falling for Monroe.

On Grimm, Adalind Schade bewitches Hank Griffin with which homemade gift, which also makes Sergeant Wu violently ill?

Cookies laced with a potion and a drop of her own blood leave Hank obsessed with her. Wu helps himself to one at the station and collapses, his face swollen with hives.

In Grimm, which word describes a Wesen's shift from human face to creature form, often triggered by strong emotion?

Woge comes from a verb meaning to surge. Ordinary people see only the human face unless a Wesen chooses to be seen, which the show offers as the origin of fairy tales.

After joining Black Claw in the fifth season of Grimm, police captain Renard is elected to which office?

Mayor Renard does not last long. He owes the win to an organisation plotting to put Wesen in power over humans, and in the final season he resigns and returns to the precinct.

After Juliette Silverton apparently dies in Grimm, the same actress returns in season 5 as which emotionless operative?

Eve has all of Juliette's memories and powers but none of her emotional attachments. Her feelings begin to return only in the final season.

Which University of Michigan graduate joined Grimm late in season 3 as the streetwise young Grimm known as Trubel?

Jacqueline Toboni plays Trubel, real name Theresa Rubel, as a drifter with a record of minor crimes who sketches the creatures she sees.

In the fourth-season finale of Grimm, Trubel saves Nick Burkhardt by shooting Juliette with which weapon?

A crossbow bolt strikes Juliette just as she is about to finish Nick off, after beating him in a brutal fight at home. Trubel bursts in at the last instant.

Which secret group, run locally by Meisner, recruits Trubel in Grimm to fight Black Claw's Wesen uprising?

Hadrian's Wall is funded by a branch of the federal government and tries to recruit Nick as well. Black Claw wipes out its local headquarters in the season 5 finale.

What does the Grimm series finale, set partly twenty years later, reveal that Trubel has been all along?

Nick's cousin is how the closing narration places her, a third cousin whose blood helped defeat the final villain. The narrator turns out to be his grown-up son.

Trubel arrives in Grimm with no idea what she is, having spent her childhood where?

In foster care she grew up with no understanding of Wesen, so she learns what she is only on meeting Nick and Monroe, and then trains quickly under Nick.

Which actor, earlier Prison Break's escaped inmate Haywire, played the reformed Wesen Monroe throughout Grimm?

Silas Weir Mitchell had specialised in unstable convicts, playing another in My Name Is Earl, before spending six years as Nick's guide to the Wesen world.

Which Grey's Anatomy actress played Marie Kessler, the dying aunt who tells Nick Burkhardt he is a Grimm?

Kate Burton, the daughter of Richard Burton, leaves early: Aunt Marie dies in the second episode after fighting off a hospital assassin, though she returns for the finale.

Adalind Schade's daughter with Captain Renard, a child with extraordinary powers in Grimm, is given which name?

Diana shows astonishing powers even before she is born. The Royals want her so badly that Nick and his allies pose as resistance fighters to snatch her back.

Monroe and Rosalee Calvert, whose mixed marriage a Wesen purity cult opposed, end Grimm as the parents of what?

Triplets it is: in the finale's flash-forward, set twenty years on, the three are grown and about to join a Wesen hunt alongside both families.

Captain Renard, the illegitimate son of a king in Grimm, inherits which Wesen nature from the other parent?

Zauberbiest blood gives Renard a warlock's powers. His legitimate half-brother, Prince Eric, later arrives with a scheme to abduct Nick and carry him off to Europe.

Grimm began life as a drama called Brother Grimm at which network, which dropped it during a writers' strike?

CBS cancelled the project, then written by Stephen Carpenter, in 2008. The show's eventual creators revived the idea a few years later with a new pitch to a rival network.

Grimm creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf had both earlier written for which series about a vampire private detective?

Angel was co-created by Greenwalt with Joss Whedon as a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, and Kouf wrote for it too. Grimm brought the pair back together.

The Mellifers of Grimm, who stage flash-mob murders of lawyers in season 1, are Wesen modelled on which creatures?

Bees swarm at the Mellifers' command, and the victims die of anaphylactic shock from injected venom. Their queen insists she is killing the lawyers to protect Nick.

In Grimm's second episode, a young couple break into the home of a Jägerbär family in a twist on which fairy tale?

Goldilocks here is Gilda, caught trespassing with her boyfriend, and the family whose home she invades hunt intruders as a rite of passage. Nick persuades the father to help stop it.

A first-season Grimm episode in which a wife murders her stepmother and stepsister turns which fairy tale on its head?

Cinderella is the villain here: Lucinda kills with a supersonic scream to inherit her father's fortune, picking off her stepfamily after a Ponzi scheme wipes out her husband.

Which treasure, once worn by Hitler in Grimm's telling, gives its holder charisma and a dangerous hunger for power?

Three gold coins corrupt whoever carries them: both Hank and Captain Renard fall under their spell in turn. Nick's family had guarded them, and Nick ends up hiding them himself.

In Grimm, the seven keys guarded by Grimm families and hunted by the Royals combine to reveal what?

A map emerges when the keys are combined. With five of the seven in hand, Nick and Monroe can already see where the seven knights buried their treasure.

The mysterious woman in black who saves Nick Burkhardt in Grimm's first-season finale reveals herself to be whom?

His mother had been presumed dead in a car crash for 18 years. She stabs the intruder who is fighting Nick in his own house, and only then does he realise who she is.

The Aswang that stalks Sergeant Wu's pregnant friend in Grimm comes from the folklore of which country?

Philippines-born Reggie Lee plays Wu, who recalls the monster from a story he heard as a boy. With nobody admitting that Wesen are real, he ends the case in a psychiatric hospital.

Baron Samedi, who turns victims into zombies in Grimm, is a Cracher-Mortel, a Wesen resembling which poisonous animal?

Pufferfish, the fish served in Japan as fugu, is the Baron's model. Prince Eric hires him to raise a zombie outbreak as a distraction so that Nick can be abducted.

In Grimm's first season, Nick Burkhardt mails back the severed heads of two of which Grimm-hunting assassins?

Reapers exist to kill Grimms. When two come for Nick, one accidentally beheads the other in the fight before Nick finishes him, and Nick posts both heads home as a warning.

Which word do the Wesen of Grimm use for an ordinary human with no creature side, such as Hank Griffin?

Kehrseite is what Captain Renard first appears to be, until the series slowly reveals both his royal birth and his Wesen blood.

Which Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumnus joined Grimm in its third season as the ruthless Prince Viktor?

Alexis Denisof arrives as Viktor, who becomes crown prince after Eric's death and is given a free hand by the king to recover the royal baby by any means.

Which figure of Mexican legend abducts children in a Grimm case that Nick Burkhardt's ancestors had failed to solve?

La Llorona appears as a weeping woman in white wading into a river; the father who follows her turns to see his son being led away. Juliette joins the case as a translator.

In Grimm's first season, Wesen driven wild by a therapist's drug implant are reported by the media as which creature?

Bigfoot gets the blame after cryptozoologists hunting the legend are killed in the woods. DNA tests on the attacker match neither a human nor any known animal.

The Dämonfeuer of Grimm, one of whom kidnaps Juliette to lure Nick Burkhardt into a duel, are based on which beast?

Dragon lore drives the whole episode: a fire dancer abducts the Grimm's girlfriend so that her fire-breathing father can die in battle against him.

Which staff-wielding villain kills most of the main characters in Grimm's finale before Nick Burkhardt defeats him?

Zerstörer, a name the show translates as Destroyer, wants the stick Nick carries because it is a splinter of his own staff. Once he is beaten, every death is undone.

Grimm spent most of its run in the time slot where it premiered, on which night of the week?

Friday was home for the pilot and for most of what followed. That first episode drew the highest non-sports Friday rating on any network since New Year's Eve 2010.

In Grimm's fifth season, Nick Burkhardt and Monroe travel abroad on false passports to hunt treasure in which region?

The Black Forest hides the ruins of an ancient church, and the pair tumble into its catacombs, where a small brass chest holds what the seven knights buried.

In Grimm's first-season finale, Juliette falls into a coma after a scratch from which animal owned by Adalind Schade?

A cat dosed with a potion scratches Juliette, and its eyes turn black. So do hers when she finally opens them at the end of the episode.