40 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia That Are Like a Software Update for Your Noggin

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40 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia That Are Like a Software Update for Your Noggin

Not enough people are talking about the time Charles Barkley dunked on Godzilla.

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Princess Diana was (briefly) a zombie mutant. CRACKED.COM Marvel brought her back from the dead to join the X-Statix. They eventually made the character a generic pop star instead, after pushback from the royal family.

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Cheap animation hack

Low-Effort Pop Culture He-Man's Orko He-Man's companion originally went by Gorpo. To get the most out of the animators' work, the character was renamed as Orko, so that when the footage was flipped, it would look exactly the same and they'd get double the amount of animation. CRACKED

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BUZ2 Buzz started out looking much more rigid, for 1 good reason he was based on John Lasseter's childhood G.I. Joe. CRACKEDCON

It seems so right, but 30 Rock was not the first choice.

CRACKED 30 ROCK It was originally going to be called Rock Center, and Tina Fey preferred the title The Peacock, but NBC didn't want them to mock the company logo.

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Werewolf Bar Mitzvah was a six-second gag in a 30 Rock episode. Tracy Jordan Werewolf Bar Mitzvah An Evening with Tracy Jordan Geffen Records Maki

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Jack Donaghy's boss and mentor, Don Geiss, dies offscreen in season 4. 30 ROCK The storyline was added after Rip Torn, who played Geiss, got arrested

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