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October 02, 2024

Jay Leno and George Clooney may have had the two most low-key cameos in South Park history.

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Celebrity cameos: MUso edition. COMEDY In South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, Police drummer Stewart Copeland voices a random American soldier, and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran voices a Canadian fighter pilot. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Cheers In the season two finale, Michael sneaks down to Earth and poses as a bartender. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA Celebrity South Park cameos: Animal edition. Two big stars made small cameos voicing animals on the show. Jay Leno voiced Cartman's cat in the first season. George Clooney was Sparky, Stan's dog, in Big Gay AI's Big Gay Boat Ride. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN CATCHING A FLY RIDE In the name of comic book accuracy, the Ant-Man movies made sure to replicate the character's favorite mode of transportation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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easter eggstra meanings and references THE EXPANSE The Shining The iconic carpet makes a cameo during the first episode of season five. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Ty)Coon. s5 Cartman (as The Coon) offers his friends a $5 tour of his Coon lair as shown by the little detail hiding in the background. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The sound clip of Captain Picard. In the Something You Can Do with Your Finger episode, Randy freaks out and smashes a glass cabinet, yelling No! Noooo! It's the same audio from Star Trek: First Contact where Captain Picard yells it before smashing glass. — Source video

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The My Neighbor Totoro reference. In Mysterion Rises the relationship between Cartman and Cthulhu is a homage to Hayao Miyazaki's anime film. CRACKEDCO — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Chinpokomon reference. BEST ERE eroer BUY Chinpokomon was an episode in season 3 that dealt with the Pokemon craze of the '90s. All the kids in South Park had to have a Chinpokomon doll. In season 10's episode, Make Love, Not Cr Warcraft, you can — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA AM The Dover Boys SPASE cameo. P P The cartoon characters from Merrie Melodies created by Warner Bros. in 1942 can be seen in the stands. The cartoon was produced by Leon Schlensinger and directed by Chuck Jones, and the cameo spawned a cheeky (but small) petition to — Looney Tunes Wiki, Change.org

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The Last Jedi

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Last Jedi The throne room battle was almost entirely practical. — Source: SlashFilm

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CHILD ABUSE WAS COMMON. Classic Hollymood SUCKED F в С Shirley Temple is the rare child star who didn't grow up into a messed-up adult, but that wasn't because of Hollywood's lack of trying. She was only three when she was in sexually suggestive short movies - and when she misbehaved on set, she was forced to sit on a block of ice. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Pan Live

Disney behind the scenes Peter Pan Neverland live They filmed some scenes on spare, bare sets, looking like a black box theater production. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Behind-The-Scenes Shots From Disney Movies That Are Magic

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WTF Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Major Movie Sets - The Thundercats voice actors would swear in the booth all the time. — Source: 6 NSFW Moments From The Making of Family-Friendly Shows

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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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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia That Qualify You to Go Viral on Film Twitter — Source: Teen Vogue

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Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Your Favorite Movies And Shows - While filming the Xandar chase scene on Guardians of the Galaxy, — Source: Film School Rejects

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Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Your Favorite Movies And Shows - Dustin Diamond terrorized the Saved By the Bell cast with dumb pranks. — Source: 4 TV Shows You Loved That Were a Nightmare Behind the Scenes

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Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Your Favorite Movies And Shows - Frank Darabont wrote insane emails to The Walking Dead producers — Source: 7 Famous Shows That Were Total Chaos Behind The Scenes

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Interstellar

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes R Interstellar Almost everything in the movie was practical (save the black hole). — More: 7 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't Computers

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Rob Lowe was furious about THE GRINDER CRACKED.COM The notion of a show as acclaimed, as original wouldn't have a home anywhere on television, it seems a little outrageous, complained Lowe. That it doesn't have a home on network television tells you all you need to know about network television. — CinemaBlend

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‘Stargate Atlantis’ riffs on popular crime television shows.

Genre-Switching Episodes uno Stargate Atlantis Vegas With a working title of CSI: Atlantis, this episode is styled after popular crime television shows that use similar flashback sequences. CRACKED — MGM Television
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The television show The Admiral Broadway Revue was canceled because it was too popular. CRACKED.COM It had been sponsored by a TV manufacturer who couldn't keep up with the demand for new television sets. — Source

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L.A. Law 1991 CRACKED.COM The show featured a bisexual woman who kissed a colleague. It was the first same-sex kiss shown on U.S. television. — Source

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The most unforgivable sandbagging of all time.

This is Your Life surprised a Hiroshima survivor with the pilot who dropped the bomb. Bishop Kiyoshi Tanimoto believed he'd be interviewed about his work, but the show brought out Major Robert А. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay (the B-29 that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima) for the most uncomfortable reunion of all time. Tanimoto's daughter later said the experience was surprisingly cathartic - but it's hard to believe that was the producers' intent. CRACKED — Source

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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia That Qualify You to Go Viral on Film Twitter — YouTube

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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia That Qualify You to Go Viral on Film Twitter — Eonline

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19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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AND THE EMMY DOESN'T GO TO: IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY N PHILADELPHIA IN & SCTENCES ARTS TELEVISION OF ACADEMY Despite consistently being one of the funniest s

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19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Kong: Skull Island has a reference to Taxi Driver. ISO Hank Marlow has a jacket — Source: Film School Rejects

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Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector - they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Jasmine's kid's toys in Independence Day are actually an Easter egg. Her son plays — Source: Film School Rejects

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'Grindhouse' Movies

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ GRINDHOUSE SOME OF THE FAKE TRAILERS BECAME REAL MOVIES. The film features a bunch of trailers for fake movies, directed by Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, and others. Jason Eisener's Hobo With a Shotgun and Rodriguez's own Machete were made into actual movies. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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WATCHING SAD MOVIES MAKES YOU FEEL HAPPIER. Sad movies normally highlight the importance of relationships, which brings your attention to the positive relationships in your life. CRACKED.COM — EurekAlert!

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Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Valkyrie's way of opening bottles in Thor: Ragnarok is a New Zealand film — Source: Film School Rejects

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Elizabeth Short hoped to be in movies -but movies were made about her. Dubbed Black Dahlia by the press due to her alleged penchant for black clothe — Sources: FBI, Entertainment Weekly

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Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - The Goonies' Jake Fratelli wearing a fedora is the filmmakers' way of — Source: Film School Rejects

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The amount of speaking roles in Disney Princess movies are still dominated by male characters. Total Disney Princess movies: 12 (1937-2013) Movies in which women speak as much as or more than men: 5 CRACKED.COM — Source

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