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September 28, 2024

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKED.COM JULIA WAS SUPPOSED TO GET AN ABORTION. party of five Creator Amy Lippman says that Julia was originally supposed to get an abortion in season two. Fox executives thought the storyline was too controversial so they forced them to change it to a miscariage. — Vulture

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS WYATT RUSSELL'S REACTION TO HIS NEW SUIT WAS GENUINE THE FALCON WINTER SOLDIER Russell says that he wasn't that impressed with the U.S. Agent suit after first seeing it but that he felt like a kid on Christmas once he put it on. His genuine reaction to wearing the suit was captured on camera. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE FIRST EPISODE WAS WRITTEN IN SIX HOURS. X Lffetoe RiKeMoRr Dan Hamon and Justin Roiland wrote the first episode on the same day they sold the show to Adult Swim. Roiland was scared that it might take them months to write the episode if they didn't start — The Los Angeles Times

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GEORGE CLOONEY WAS A FAN FROM THE BEGINNING. SOUTH PARK Clooney was such a huge fan of The Spirit of Christmas, the 1995 short that preceded the show, that he made VHS tapes of the short and sent them to his Hollywood friends. He went on to voice Cartman's dog on the show and Dr. Gauche in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. CRACKED.COM — THR

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Community Make Your chevy chase and Dan Harmon the kept fighting. behind That Pierce's disappearance reportedly from the show. was reason CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS A sincere f*&k you, SEAN PENN TEAM AMERICT CRACKED.COM That's how Penn signed an angry letter to Stone and Parker after the film came out. Stone, for one, holds no grudges. He has a couple of good scenes in the movie. Even as a puppet, he's a great actor. — Mental Floss

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES, FACTS THE REAL JORDAN BELFORT CAMEOS IN THE FILM. es عسل STRAI SALES THE WOLF OF WALL STREET The guy at the end of the movie introducing Belfort after his prison release and describing him as the single baddest motherfu-er I have ever met is the real Jordan Belfort. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKED.co ELIZABETH OLSEN WAS SKEPTICAL ABOUT DOING THE SHOW. STAR CLEASE Olsen says that before learning more about the story, she was very thrown by the whole TV part of it all. She was also unsure if these liager-than-life characters could work on the small screen and without their usual Avengers ensemble. — BuzzFeed & YouTube

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOHN С. REILLY DIDN'T LIP-SYNCH ROYAL JELLY. WALK HARD Instead of lip-synching, Reilly actually performed the song live in front of 800 extras. After his first attempt, they realized they weren't filming so Reilly had to do the whole song again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS Producer Scott Rudin didn't let Linklater JUST SAY NO CRACKED.COM Linklater said 'no thanks' to School, but I got a call that was like 'Scott Rudin, the producer, isn't accepting your pass' and I'm like 'what does that mean?' He was just sure I was the right guy to pull this off. — Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny

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CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Dexter Not only were fans supposed to deal with creepy incest storylines and Dexter getting away with (serial) murder, but the show ended in 2013 on a weird note, with him surviving a storm and rebuilding his life as a lumberjack. Nobody was satisfied with this ending, and it's not like the 2021 revival redeemed it either. — Source

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The Monkees were a fake band that became real. The four members were cast for a TV show about a rock band (and not all of them even played their instruments at first). While the show only lasted two seasons and their movie flopped, the Monkees are still around, their latest album released in 2020. — Sources: Goldmine Magazine, Discogs

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Enabling

WORST REALITY TV TROPES THE ENABLING Reality TV enabling the worst is not new. From toxic relationships to self-destructive behaviors, shows are always there to grin and say, now do it again, but looking at the camera. Still, the worst case was Cops and its enabling of racial profiling. PINELLAS EMBI BIA SHERIFF CRACKED.COM — More: 4 Classic Reality Shows With Dark Sides

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Who is to blame for painful screams of KELLY CLARKSON! Aller 2 NIGHT FIN TOMOR CRACKED.COM Clarkson confronted Judd Apatow on her TV show and he promptly passed the buck. I'm going to blame Seth Rogen. We had a piece of paper with all the curses for Steve to scream when he gets waxed. And on the side with the clean curses, it says 'Kelly Clarkson' in Seth's handwriting. — YouTube

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13 Fascinating Nuggets Of Movie And General Trivia - MTV'S Video Music Award is a Moonman because of an early MTV graphic. — Source: MTV

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How does this starlet know this TV judge? RT LANA TURNER AND JUDGE JOSEPH WAPNER They used to date. Before Judge Judy, there was Judge Wapner, the cru

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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... The Taco Bell Chihuahua CRACKED.COM Gidget the dog went on star in Legally Blonde 2, among other TV and movie spots. She even opened the New York Stock Exchange, a career highlight for any thespian. — CNN

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Dick Van Dyke had a brother who was both a comedian and a TV actor. Jerry Van Dyke showed up on a bunch of TV shows starting in the '60s, and got four Emmy nominations for playing Luther Van Dam in Coach. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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The first laugh track 1950 CRACKED.COM The Hank McCune Show, a TV show about a guy running a variety show, was kind of like an early 30 Rock, except it was cancelled after 3 weeks. — Source: 19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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Bob Dylan was an early pioneer of the music video. In 1965, 16 years before MTV, Dylan filmed a video for his song Subterranean Homesick Blues, where he held cue cards with lyrics. Several bands have used the cue card approach since, most notably INXS with 1987's Mediate. GET BORN CRACKED — Source

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Peter Stormare just kind of stumbled into a role in John Wick: Chapter 2. Не was hanging out with Keanu Reeves and, since he was a fan of the first movie, he asked Reeves What can I do? The rest is movie history. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Now-You-Know Bits of Trivia About Movies, History, Celebrity Weirdness, And More

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Tired Tropes (And The Movies That Pulled Them Off) The Matrix (1999) FADE TO EDGY THEME SONG The Simpsons lampooned this action movie cliché with the (historically accurate) Zorro rap. But we have to give it to The Matrix: ending a subversive action movie with Rage Against the Machine kicking in is art. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It THE was Shannen SECRET NIMH Doherty's first movie. The actress did the voice of Teresa Brisby. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake ? 1987 1998 APT PUPIL The original stopped filming due to budget problems, and by the time it could start again the kid looked way too old, so the entire thing was scrapped. and AP LEVE CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM The 2016 Doctor Strange isn't the superhero's first live-action film. The 1978 Doctor Strange TV movie was initially created for CBS as a TV pilot, but was ultimately rejected. — Source: Pop Culture That's Older Than It Seems

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QUENTIN TARANTINO WANTED KILL BILL TO BE ONE FOUR-HOUR MOVIE. Thankfully, Miramax execs managed to convince him that it would be insane to put a four-

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Friday the 13th

Horror Classics Then vs. Now Friday the 13th The 1980 original is actually quite good. From there to the ones with David Cronenberg or Freddy Krueger, we've had 12 Friday the 13th movies. The 2009, Michael Bay-produced remake was the last time we saw Jason. We miss him, yes, but come on, just give us a good one already. CRACKED.COM

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Bollywood established a new Hindu goddess. Unlike the cadre of age-old gods, Santoshi Maa wasn't mentioned in canonical Hindu texts (or anywhere else) before the 1960s. She went mainstream in 1975, with the success of the Bollywood movie Jai Santoshi Maa. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Random Facts About, You Know, the World and Stuff

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CRACKED VS. Legacies THE RULED NOSAURS Federal CRACKED COM BRUCE/JAWS REXIE/JURASSIC PARK Broke the opening Ushered in the era of the weekend Box Office summer blockbuster record earning $50 movie. First film to make million. Played in $100 million at the Box theaters for a full year. Office. People are still Made dinosaur nerds afraid to go in the water. of many more people. — Sources: The Independent, Forbes

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ACTOR: Adam West in Batman THE IDEA: I should be in the movies, as Batman's dad! West has suggested that he should be in the movies since 1989, when h — Source: 6 Hilariously Bad Ideas Actors Had For Iconic Roles

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom INDY ESCAPES THE OBI WAN. The club owned by Lao Che was named after the famous Jedi Knight in the Star Wars franchise. بي CILUIIB DIBI WAIN de CRACKED.COM — Source

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Easter Eggs for Polyglots Anchorman We spit in your food. A Mexican restaurant is called Escupimos en su alimento, Spanish for We spit in your food. Classy, San Diego. OPEN 7 Days WELCOME HONGOS Escupimos en su Alimento 50 CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS, AND REFERENCES THE SHICIDE. SQUAD COMIC GAG When we meet King Shark, he's pretending to be clever by reading a book... upside down. The shot is a callout to the famous image of the character in 2013's Suicide Squad #20. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Oscorp Tower

A CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS THE AVENGERS AND THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN The Oscorp tower was to be put into The Avengers, but time ran out and no references remain. OSCORP CRACKED.COM — Source: IGN

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Damien Thorn is a homage to The Omen. He shares the name of the character in the 1976 horror movie. His theme song is a parody of the movie's theme song, 'Ave Satani, and his mother is called a real dog. In the film, the Antichrist's — Source

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Blade Runner

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Blade Runner PAN A BUILDING IS THE MILLENNIUM FALCON. You can see what looks like Han Solo's ship raised up on its side as one of the buildings in the bustling metropolis. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Easter Eggs Hidden In Our Favorite '80s Movies

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPAGED UAM The emergency cartoon character union meeting. 839 ONLY This is what Porky Pig suggests when the aliens first arrive in Looney Tune Land. The meeting happens at Union Hall 839, a reference to the real-life Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839. CRACKED COM — MEL Magazine

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Easter Eggs for Polyglots Mulan Eye candy The fake name Mulan gives, Fa Ping, translates flower vase -a term roughly equivalent to eye candy, which is exactly what she's meant to be at the beginning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPAGE JAM There are pro-union messages scattered throughout the film. The 1940s was considered the golden era in animation. It was also the era of labor strikes and picketing animators who, in 1945, famously clashed with Burbank police outside Warner Bros. studios. — MEL Magazine

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Luxo Ball

Pixar Easter Eggs Luxo Ball The Luxo ball is an Easter egg homaging one of Pixar's very first short films, Luxo Jr. The rubber ball appears in almost every Pixar movie. Up CRACKED.COM — Source: Pixar Wiki

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