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30 Trivia Tidbits About Pop Culture That’s Aged Poorly

August 20, 2024

Today was a bit of a spring cleaning in the pop-culture pantry, and boy did we fill that trash can with the stuff below. We’ll come back next spring to see how some currently acceptable movies and TV shows are holding up.

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CRACKED SARAH SILVERMAN is horrified that she did blackface. About her show's 2007 episode: I don't stand by the blackface sketch. I'm horrified by it, and I can't erase it. I can only be changed by it and move on. That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism... All I can say is that I'm not that person anymore. — Source

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CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T INVOLVE RIGID GENDER NORMS. MR. MOM A laid-off man becomes a stay-at-home dad while his wife returns to work. Jokes about a man changing diapers and ironing shirts couldn't be seen as ridiculous today. Don't worry, in the happy ending, he returns to work and his wife gets back to the homestead. — Source

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CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T BE ONE BIG TRANS JOKE ANYMORE. ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE The Einhorn is Finkle, Finkle is Einhorn plot has one big reveal of Einhorn's bulge tucked between her legs. This would never be played up as a joke today, and we wonder why it was even needed to tell a stolen dolphin story. — Source

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CRACKED BLACK FACE CAN'T BE YOUR ENTIRE PLOT ANYMORE. SOUL MAN In the 1986 movie, a spoiled white kid pretends to be black to nab a Harvard scholarship exclusive to black students. It does raise awareness of prejudice and racism, but all the blackface made it wildly offensive, even for 1986 standards. — Source

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HIGH SCHOOL APPAREL CRACKED.COM HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL HS LEADERSHIP SID HIGH SCHOOL YOU WORE THESE TO SHOW TEAM SPIRIT AND PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND THEY SERVE NO PURPOSE OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL. — Source

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CRACKED.COM LUCKY KINGS Round Up CANDY VICTORY CANDY TARGET CANDY CANDY Feeling totally badass pretending to smoke your candy cigarettes. — Source

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The Cosby Show is hard to watch. صد JAISA The allegations against Cosby make all the heartfelt fathering feel insincere and sometimes disturbing, Eden Lili Tirl Bernard but especially because two of the women that have accused Cosby of sexual assault were on the show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TWO' WATCHING S and a half MEN SERIAL WOMANIZER, CHARLIE, GOT AWKWARD AFTER CHARLIE SHEEN ANNOUNCED THAT НЕ IS HIV+. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM It's hard to watch Stephen Collins portray a pastor and family man on 7th HEAVEN now that we know he's a child molester. — Source

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You want to tell me how long you've had a drug problem? These were the first words that Will Schuester said to Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) on the pilot episode of GLEE. Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose in 2013. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jeffrey Jones, who played Principal Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was convicted of owning child porn and asking a 14-year old to pose in a sexually explicit manner. Principal Rooney's obsession towards Ferris Bueller in the film now seems much creepier. CRACKED.COM — Source

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On HOUSE OF CARDS, Kevin Spacey portrayed Frank Underwood - a calculating sociopath with a fake charming persona for the public. After all the revelations about his sexual, CRACKED.COM and all around disturbing, behavior came out, it became apparent that he wasn't just playing a character, he was living it. — Source

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It's creepy to watch Rob Lowe embody the character Eddie Nero, an actor optioned to star in the movie about Hank Moody's torrid affair with a 16-year-old girl Californication when you remember that Lowe did exactly that in real-life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) travels with his niece, Sarah Ryback (Katherine Heigl) to attend her father's funeral. Since then, Seagal has been accused of sexual harassment and being inappropriate with many women, including the then 16-year-old actress. — Source

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Most of tough guy Robert Blake's work is tough to watch after he was found liable in 2005 for the wrongful death of his murdered wife. Particularly disconcerting is his turn as a two-fisted priest in the short-lived NBC series Hell Town (1985), in which Blake constantly promises the young women of his neighborhood he'll keep them safe from gun-toting killers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the '90s, we wore stupidly- 1991 1992 1999 1990 oversized jeans. 97 1998 1999 1996 1997 And if you've 1002 got 1001 $300, 1997 1995 you can buy them now. 1993 1997 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED DIRTY HARRY NEEDS A BODYCAM TO KEEP HIM IN CHECK. DIRTY HARRY In one of Clint Eastwood's most iconic films, this rogue cop is supposed to follow a strict code of conduct, but he violates civil rights, abuses prisoners, and kills at will. He's portrayed as good, but he's a menace to society. — Source

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SETH'S CRACKED ENTIRE PLOT IS DATE RAPE. SUPERBAD His master plan is to get Emma Stone's character drunk enough to sleep with him. When he discovers she doesn't drink, he whines, gets grabby, and vomits on her. Worse, he seems to be practicing for a string of similar assaults in college. — Source

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CRACKED THE DEPLORABLE PRIME MINISTER. LOVE ACTUALLY Hugh Grant as The Prime Minister is essentially Tony Blair with a Bill Clinton libido. Grant might be lovable in '90s rom-coms, but he abuses his power to sleep with a young aide. Relentless, he and his security guards even crash her family Christmas. — Source

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CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want. — Source

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FLASHBACK MONICA Almost any character wearing a fat suit for the laughs is just cringey. CRACKED.COM — Source

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PEPÉ LE PEW The cartoon skunk stalks and sexually assaults Penelope Pussycat, in a weird French stereotype. CRACKED.COM — Source

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POWER RANGERS Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a lesson in racial stereotypes, starting with the Rangers' color choices. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SI AND AM The Lady and the Tramp antagonists rely on heavy Asian stereotypes to taunt Lady and cause havoc. CRACKED.COM — Source

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LONG DUK DONG Sixteen Candles is a rough nowadays, but nothing is quite as insufferable as the racist stereotypes the character emobodied. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. AMERICAN BEAUTY The award-winning movie stars Kevin Spacey pining after an underage person. Nina J. says it definitely doesn't hold up because it feels like, especially when you watched it as an underage girl, that those creepy guys are cool and if they assault you, you're going to be guilty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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... TELL US NOW. REVENGE OF THE NERDS Merrit В. says, Lewis flat-out rapes Betty, and I was in my 30s when I suddenly processed that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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