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36 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Slather in Hot Butter and Dump Down Your Gullet

September 10, 2024

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Illegal filmmaking The Hangover 2 stole an artist S design. When Ed Helms' character gets Mike Tyson's exact face tattoo, they didn't ask artist S. Victor Whitmill for permission to use his original design. Не sued the production, and instead of digitally altering his face in post, they settled out of court. CRACKED — Source

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Hooper escaped because of some choice B-roll footage. JAWS CRACKED.COM An actual wild shark visciously attacked the cage while no one was inside. So they rewrote the script to let Hooper get away. — Source

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CRACKED.COM In The wizard of OZ, Toto made more money than the Munchkins. Hollywood has never been fair, but it's mind-boggling that the actors portraying the Munchkins were paid $50 per week, while Toto and his trainers got $125 per week. — Source

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BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS A failed sketch turned into FIRE MARHALL BILL SI 12 9 OI 14 9 EL G X x V 16 / SEL IN LIVING COLOR CRACKED.COM Many Jim Carrey sketch ideas were too extreme, like Make a Death Wish Foundation' about a dead kid whose posthumous wish was to go to an amusement park. But I came up with the face of the kid, and it eventually turned into the 'Fire Marshall Bill' face. — Source

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CRACKED.COM 1939's The Wizard of Oz wasn't the first big-deal Hollywood version of that story. The first one came out in 1925, and had a weird plot where all the male characters (including the Scarecrow and Tin Man) wanted to marry Dorothy. — Source

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Rigyan Dav Halkon MANDRAKE 1898 FALLS inform in FIRR DEPARTMENT An The 2002 Adam Sandler movie Mr. Deeds was a remake of a 1936 film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town which itself was based on a 1935 short story called Opera Hat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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KELLY MARIE TRAN is the first Southeast Asian actress to lead a Disney animated film...in 2021. Disney RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON Tran did the voice of Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon. GRAGKED COM — Source

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The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Fargway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS CRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV. — Source

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The first copyrighted motion picture. 1894 CRACKED.COM W.K. Dickson copyrighted Fred Ott's Sneeze, a 5-second film of Thomas Edison's assistant snorting some sketchy 1800's stimulant and then, spoiler alert, sneezing. — Source

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CHEERS CRACKED.COM The bar where everybody knows your name aired its finale on May 20, 1993, after 11 seasons. Diane (Shelley Long) returns after 6 years, but Sam realizes the bar will always be his biggest love. The 98-minute finale was seen by about 40% of the U.S. population at the time - 84.4 million viewers. — Source

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M*A*S*H CRACKED COM With a 2 hour finale on February 28, 1983, CBS honorably discharged M*A*S*H. The famous ending had stones spelling out goodbye as Hawkeye flew off, and the 105.9 million viewers made it the most watched TV event of all time, until the 2010 Super Bowl nudged it out with 106.5 million viewers. — Source

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The Misfits

MARILYN MONROE shared a final film with CLARK GABLE THE MISFITS CRACKED.COM Gable had a massive heart attack two days after the film wrapped. Monroe overdosed 18 months later. The Misfits arguably featured Monroe's finest performance, earning her a Golden Globe. — Source

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PAUL WALKER was partly digital in his final film FURIOUS 7 CRACKED.COM It took state-of-the-art 2013 CGI (and Walker's brothers as stand-ins) to complete Walker's final performance. Amazingly, missing dialogue was pieced together from the actor's previously recorded lines. — Source

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR ended her career as a cartoon mom. THE FLINTSTONES CRACKED.COM Appearing as a caricature of her once glamorous self, Taylor battled Fred Flintstone as his battle-axe mother-in-law. Likely not the last performance she wanted inscribed on her, er, tombstone. — Source

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The first male kiss 2001 CRACKED.COM Actors Kerr Smith and Adam Kaufman shared the first dude-dude smooch on an episode of Dawson's Creek. — Source

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TV Firsts

The first non- binary character 2017 CRACKED.COM Non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon's character on Billions, Taylor Mason, is a highly-intelligent go-getter. — Source

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The First Color Broadcast

The First Color Broadcast Guhisson Epiphage Marilall A 1951 variety show called Premiere finally validated anyone who, for whatever reason, bought a color TV before TV was in color. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Danny Thomas Show

The First Major Character Death 570 Jean Hagen Actress Jean Hagen left The Danny Thomas Show in 1956. Producers decided an unexplained death would be less controversial than divorce. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first quantum 1920s leap in danger Buster Keaton's hilarious and life-threatening stunts raised the bar. In 1928's Steamboat Bill, Jr. a two- ton house falls as he stands precisely in its open window, and in 1924's Sherlock, Jr. a gush of water breaks his neck! Let's not forget 1926's The General. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first safety precautions 1923 I I IV ESTIC E S I в 1 Hollywood realized their stars' worth and took precautions. Ironically titled Safety Last! the 1923 film's iconic clock scene used stunt doubles, safety nets, harnesses, and camera tricks to pull off Harold Lloyd's dangle from a skyscraper. CRACKED — Source

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Early Stunt Techniques

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts Yakima Canutt pioneered the industry Instrumental in modern day stunt techniques, he developed horse falls, wagon wrecks, and screen combat over four decades. Не received an honorary Oscar in 1966 for his stunt work, and for developing safety devices that revolutionized the profession. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects The first-ever special effect 1895 Shot at Edison Labs in New Jersey, 1895's Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots was the first film to use a visual effect. They used stop- action for her beheading, and since no one had ever seen special effects, viewers thought they actually killed the actress. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1899-1909 Georges Méliès: The father of FX The world's most well-known filmmaker at the time, he was the first to experiment with exposure, split screen, dissolve, superimposition, and reverse shots. Effects in his 1902 film A Trip to the Moon are big bang moments in modern cinema. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects Frame tinting 1903 The Great Train Robbery would tint three frames of film red as a gun was fired, to give the blast a visual pop. This was later used by Hitchcock in 1945's Spellbound. CRACKED — Source

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Historical Firsts in Practical Effects Frank Williams: Grandfather 1916 of the green screen 5 Fig.2. 6 Williams' traveling matte system shot actors or vehicles against a black background and isolated them to be placed on other moving images. It could only work in black and white, but is a direct precursor of blue/green screen technology. CRACKED — Source

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The Ethel Waters Show 1939 N в C CRACKED.COM Ethel Waters was the first Black person to star in her own TV show. She would later be the first Black woman to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. — Source

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Another World 1964 CRACKED.COM The soap opera was the first TV show to address abortion. It would be another eight years until Maude's famous abortion storyline. — Source

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Mary Kay and Johnny 1947-1950 CRACKED.COM The very first U.S. sitcom featured the first time a couple slept in the same bed and the first time a woman's pregnancy was shown on TV. — Source

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Werewolf Bar Mitzvah was a CRACKED.COM six-second gag in a 30 Rock episode. Tracy Jordan Werewolf Bar Mitzvah An Evening with Tracy Jordan Geffen Records Making a set for it took three days. — Source

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STAR WARS EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE It took eight weeks to make the gown that Queen Amidala wore in the Throne Room scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis played a man who taps his glass eye with a knife. Не covered his own eye in prosthetic glass, and practiced tapping it with a knife until he could do it without blinking. CRACKED.COM — Source

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For the bank vault scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2, the crew minted over 200,000 new coins and several thousand other trinkets, all of which were meticulously placed by hand. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Director Wes Anderson is known for his attention to detail, and in his stop-motion animated film 'Isle of Dogs' (2018), the movie CRACKED.COM required hundreds of puppets, and incredibly detailed sets, some of which appear on screen for only a couple of seconds. Goorins Oragons 9948 FSA TO Z su #ЖФН -x> 9 -XY 4 0 TEL 3030 MEGASAKU SENI OR HIGH MAN / . A AIL Y Arabia - me WAY VOTE adidas adidas RKA WATANABE وزير F ERE حرير 44 by XX — Source

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The dialogue from the Jive guys in AIRH was meticulously researched by the actors with books about Black language. Second Jive Dude AI White said of the process: I went and got a couple of books-one was on black English by J.L. Dillard, and another was on black language...and tried to come up with what I felt was jive... using actual words and actual meaning... It's not a bunch of gibberish or whatever. It did actually mean something. CRACKED.COM — Source

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