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30 Trivia Tidbits About TV and Movies

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30 Trivia Tidbits About TV and Movies

September 26, 2024

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In Tanzania, somebody narrates movies for people as they watch them. People who do that are known as video jockeys, or VJs, and they re-enact dialogue, comment on what's happening, and fade the soundtrack in and out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1996, Demi Moore was the highest-earning female actor (thanks to Striptease). Her salary was a then-unprecedented $12.5 million - for a movie which, today, is considered one of the worst movies ever made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Cameron wanted to make Alita: Battle Angel way back in the mid '90s. Не took about 600-1000 pages of notes and was ready to go in 1995, but the special effects technology wasn't there yet (plus, Titanic got in the way). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first on-screen Nick Fury wasn't Samuel L. Jackson, but David Hasselhoff. Не played Fury in the 1998 TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he said he'd love to play him again (for what that's worth). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kazakhstan waged a media campaign against Sacha Baron Cohen over Borat. PABLO ESCORAN To fight the portrayal of their country in Borat, the Kazakhs ran TV ads and a New York Times insert. Cohen responded in-character as Borat, saying that claims that women are treated equally, and that all religions are tolerated are disgusting fabrications. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter O'Toole influenced how people in the Middle East saddled their camels. CRACKED.COM During filming Lawrence of Arabia, O'Toole added foam rubber to his camel saddle to increase comfort. This eventually spread, and O'Toole was called the Father of Rubber. — Source

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'Jurassic Park' inspired South Korea to subsidize its entertainment industry. CRACKED COM The South Korean govern- ment subsidized its enter- tainment industry by 1%+ of its GDP after realizing one Jurassic Park film made as much as the com- bined sales of 1.5 million Hyundai cars. — Source

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THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec! — Source

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ANDY SAMBERG ABSOLUTELY HATES LATE NIGHT HOSTING GIGS. JIMMY KIMMEL HAS COVID AGAIN CRACKED On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Samberg talked about his stint guest hosting the show. Не claimed it was super stressful and he'd never do it again. — Source

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Ted Lasso

TED LASSO WAS ORIGINALLY A CHARACTER FROM 2013 NBC SPORTS COMMERCIALS. CRACKED And even though it took almost 10 years to get the show on the air, Jason Sudeikis' soccer knowledge still only comes from Playstation. — Source

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The alien species from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial appears in The Phantom Menace. CRACKED.COM George Lucas included them as a tribute to his long-time friend Steven Spielberg, as well as showing them existing in the same universe. — Source

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Bill Nye got his break into the entertainment industry by winning a Steve Martin look-alike contest in 1978. This was after being reject- ed to join NASA's astro- naut training program in the late 1970s four times, where he stumbled into a new career path that launched his career into stardom. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Mandalorian literally couldn't have been made without fans. The crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes for a Season 1 scene, so they got in touch with the local members of the 501st legion, a group of fans who wear and make super-accurate Stormtrooper costumes. The legionnaires showed up, in their own suits, and played the remaining Stormtroopers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Muppets started the trend of post-credits scenes. 1979's The Muppets Movie kickstarted the trend in the '80s, which Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a part of f-- and Ferris inspired the post-credits scenes in the MCU. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first-ever EDM record to go platinum was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. 27% The filmmakers absolutely insisted on EDM, and got booted from two record companies for it -- but it paid off. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joe Keery originally wasn't supposed to play Steve in Stranger Things. Не auditioned for Jonathan, along with everybody across the country, but they ended up giving him Steve. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Laura looking at the casino mannequins is a surprisingly important shot in Logan. It's the first time she looks at someone's hands holding another's, which is one of the movie's main motifs - a n d it represents the parent-child bond she's desperately looking for. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Black Panther's London sequence is full of blue (for a reason). The image is tinted blue, and nearly everyone is wearing it - because, according to the filmmakers, it represents colonization. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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They've created the transparent aluminum from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It's a completely new state of matter, and it's created by firing a short pulse from a super-powerful laser at regular aluminum. The catch is, the aluminum is in this new state only briefly before returning to normal. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Casino Royale

In the 2006 Casino Royale, Tsai Chin played Madam Wu. She also appeared in You Only Live Twice, in 1967. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Scream was inspired by a real murderer. The movie is a comment on the horror genre and not real events, but still Ghostface is based on an actual spree killer. Danny Rolling, a.k.a. The Gainesville Ripper, didn't wear a mask or taunt his victims over the phone, but did have a penchant for maximizing the shock value of his crimes. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Peppa Pig's teacher is a vampire (maybe). In a Halloween episode, the narrator remarks that Madame Gazelle has no reflection in a mirror. That might be a throwaway, spooky-season joke- but the fact remains that in other episodes she's way older than she looks, and bats remind her of the old country. — Source

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The contestants of Big Brother weren't told about the 9/11 attacks when they happened. BIG BROTHER DINNIN CRACKED.COM The show had a policy of keeping the contestants in total information isolation. They had to change the policy after one of the cast's family members was lost at Ground Zero. — Source

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Some of the wolves that show up in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping were direwolves in Game of Thrones. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Keira Knightley had a small role in The Phantom Menace (that she mostly can't remember). She was 12, and played Padmé's body double / decoy. All she remembers from that is the headache she got from one of the headdresses they gave her, and falling asleep while sitting on a chair in the background. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The rain in Singin' in the Rain wasn't milk. It was just really good lighting and filming -- they lit it from behind, making sure you couldn't see all the lighting equipment in the shopfronts' windows. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spock was originally supposed to have red skin. But TV sets at the time were still black-and-white, so Spock would have looked black on screen. So, thankfully, Gene Roddenberry dropped the idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You can strip this one down and sell it for parts

Mars Attacks is secretly Christmas-themed. PROP DAY The skeletons are bright green or bright red because the movie was scheduled to be released for Christmas. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Newhart had a finale that rendered the entire series pointless. The llast two minutes of the finale had Bob Newhart waking up as his character from an earlier sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and announcing that the whole thing - - all eight seasons of Newhart, including all its characters - was just a weird dream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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