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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

October 16, 2024

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

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Elmer Fudd hunts Batman. ZEE Weeks .GRACKED.COM In one of several gritty Looney Tunes crossovers, Fudd met Bruce Wayne and began stalking him all over Gotham. — Source

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Charles Barkley dunks on Godzilla. IN YOUR WHOOPS! ? FACE THERE SODIULA! IT IS! GRACKED.COM Barkely mopped the floor with the kaiju. Then he gave him a pair of (gargantuan) Nikes, told him to practice up, and challenged him to another game in 100 years. — Source

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Barry O'Bomber daps up Spider-Man. ...PARTNER. CRACKED.COM When two Obamas showed up to inauguration, Spidey made them reveal Obama's high school nickname. The imposter guessed Barasket Oballma, which is maybe a lot cooler? — Source

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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. — Source

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Gotham

The Iceberg Lounge wasn't just something made up for the TV show Gotham. It showed up in a 1995 comic, and it marked the point where the Penguin turned from a slapsticky, harmless bad guy to a dangerous supervillain. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

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WandaVision

A winery name in Wanda Vision actually has a big hint about the source material. MARVEL - HOUSE OF ASTONISHING X-MEN 7 OF OF e MENDIS POWER TOWNSEND M LINE I I . I a y D'ARMATA a 1953 GAMAY SAINT M MÉPRIS 1 AMBLARD& Cit But KOREA The winery Maison du Mepris, or House of Contempt, is probably a reference to House of M, a 2005 story that the show heavily drew on. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

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Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2 MILLER LUCAS RAPMUND IRCE IAN THE BEST ULFENSE GRACKED.COM THE COMIC THE MOVIE Artist Adi Granov coined the quintessential Superhero Landing on the cover of Invincible Iron Man #76. It first appeared in the MCU when Tony Stark swoops into the Stark Expo. — Source: 15 Iconic MCU Scenes Lifted Directly From The Comics

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The Green Goblin from Into the Spider-Verse is based on the Ultimate comics. In that comic book series, the Green Goblin is a literal gigantic green goblin rather than a regular human (Norman Osborn) in supervillain get-up. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

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Avengers: Endgame

A vault number in Avengers: Endgame is a small comic-book homage. The van that has the entrance to the Quantum Realm is in vault 616, and Marvel's default universe in the comics is Earth-616. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

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Spider-Man

Spider-Man SPUT SPUT CRUCIFIED. NOT ONA CROSS OF CRACKED.COM THE COMIC THE MOVIE Sam Raimi faithfully recreated the Green Goblin inadvertently killing himself by summoning his trademark knifey surfboard in an attempt to impale Spider-Man. — Source: 15 Iconic MCU Scenes Lifted Directly From The Comics

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Hercules CRACKEDCO The centaur Nessus gets a classic bump on the noggin that, paired with his bulging brows, looks like a pretty deliberate schlong. — Source

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CLAY ANIMATION 1912 CRACKED.COM Modelling Extraordinary was released in 1912 and was one of the first clay animation movies to use stop motion. It was met with great critical acclaim. — Source

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Maya The Bee CRAGKEDCOM In 2017, a clandestine dong was noticed in the background of a scene in this Netflix kids show. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Who Framed Roger Rabbit Roger Rabbit did the opposite of the Chip 'n Dale movie -hand-drawn animation was made to look 3D. The animation was passed through several layers of highlighting and shading to give it its lifelike feel. — Source

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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 — Filmation
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Animation

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Animation 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur was the first cartoon ever, and also an interactive vaudeville act. From there, dinosaurs in animation have come a long way. Fantasia's segment was terrifying, and The Land Before Time was terrifying and adorable. With the coming of CGI we got Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which was, erm... a movie someone saw, probably. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Animation

ANIMATION DATES BACK TO THE PALEOLITHIC AGE. 21,000 years ago, artists drew rows of cave images that, when lit by flickering firelight, gave the illusion of motion. CRACKED.COM — Source: 'Recent' Things That're Actually Older Than Dirt

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The magic amulet THE SECRET NIMH isn't in the book. The creators wanted to add it to represent Mrs. Brisby's internal power. Nicodemus was also turned into a wizard (he was just an ordinary rat in the book). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? You may already know that you can see a hint of a crotch in this Jessica Rabbit scene. WCETTNT ANS atbt BOOP! CRACKEDCON But — Source

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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

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Jordan Peele

CRACKED.COM KEY& PEELE JORDAN PEELE ALMOST WAS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Peele was approached to do his Obama impression on SNL, but was unable to do so because he was still under contract with Mad TV. When the contract expired, he took his impression to his own show. — Source: The New Yorker

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BEN STILLER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEN STILLER JOINED THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CAST IN 1989. Не did a bunch of celebrity impersonations, including Mandy Patinkin and Bruce Springsteen, but left pretty quickly - he didn't make it until the end of the year. — Source

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Chase v Murray

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BILL MURRAY VS CHEVY CHASE SNL VENKMAN While this slide could be named Chevy Chase Vs Everyone He's Ever Come in Contact With, we'll focus on Bill Murray. Bill replaced Chevy on the show and when Chevy returned to host in the 3rd season, what Murray describes as an oedipal fueled Hollywood fight broke out and the two had to be separated by Murray's brother. — Source: Digital Spy

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GILBERT GOTTFRIED ROASTER WITH THE MOST GRACKED.COM THE HIGHLIGHT OF GOTTFRIED'S 12-EPISODE SNL RUN WAS PLAYING A LIFELESS CORPSE. HE BECAME MORE ANIMATED AS IAGO IN 'ALADDIN' AND THE AFLAC DUCK. COMEDY NERDS GIVE HIM PROPS AS THE FUNNIEST DUDE IN 'THE ARISTOCRATS. — Vulture

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MAX BROOKS SAYS LORNE DID THE TWO BEST THINGS 2003 CRACKED.COM ONE WAS HIRING THE 'WORLD WAR Z' WRITER BECAUSE HE LIKED MY STUFF. THE SECOND WAS FIRING BROOKS. SNL IS A VERY COLLABORATIVE OUTFIT. IT IS VERY MUCH ABOUT THROWING JOKES BACK AND FORTH... AND THAT'S JUST NOT HOW I WORKED. MY FATHER (MEL) DOES. — Biz Journals

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LARRY DAVID CRACKED.com I walked up to and I went, this f---ing show stinks! It's a piece of s--t. I'm done! I quit! F... you! And that was it and then I left. — Vanity Fair

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PARIS HILTON FEBRUARY 5 5, 2005 CRACKED.COM Unbelievably dumb and SO proud of how dumb she is, according to Tina Fey. She's a piece of S-- — Insider

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KEL MITCHELL CRACKED.COM Keenan's Good Burger buddy did a song about Michael Jackson if he was allergic to trees! I did like a moonwalk move and flipped the table with someone's drink on it over, it was a MESS! — Cinema Blend

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HANNIBAL BURESS ALMOST GOT ON WEEKEND UPDATE 2010 CRACKED.COM I WASN'T GETTING ANY SKETCHES ON THE AIR... so I PITCHED SOMETHING TO SETH MEYERS. IMAGINE GOING TO YOUR BOSS AND SAYING, 'HEY, I KNOW I HAVEN'T BEEN DOING MY JOB VERY WELL BUT HOW ABOUT I DO THIS OTHER JOB.' I ACTUALLY DID IT AT DRESS REHEARSAL, BUT IT GOT CUT. IT WAS PRETTY COOL TO DO. — Uproxx

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AMY POEHLER is Bart Simpson's future love CRACKED.COM Future Bart can't resist the charm's of Poehler's skateboarding. Jenda. He exclaims, Hey, about some forehead! before the two engage in a flirtatious head butt. It's no wonder he'll marry her. And no wonder she'll divorce him. — Ask Men

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

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30 Rock / Rachel Dratch

Rachel Dratch was originally cast as Jenna. Dratch ended up playing various smaller characters on the show. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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30 Rock / Lutz

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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30 Rock

Halloween episodes 30 Rock Stone Mountain A funny episode of the show, that includes Jenna and the writers crashing a gay Halloween party. CRACKED.COM — NBC
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Tina Fey

writers on screen 30 Rock Tina Fey Fey ran both shows while starring in them. saturday Night Live AGINIA CRACKED.COM — Source: Saturday Night Live Wiki

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ENJOYING YOUR KFC DOUBLE DOWN? 30 ROCK THOUGHT OF IT FIRST. miha KFC the - Tracy Jorden MEAT MACHINE SEX MEAT IS THE NEW BREAD! Presenting the U I D for Tracy Jordan Meat - SEENON - Jorden Machine, which saved you from suffering through the bread part of your sandwich, in 2006. The Double Down بلدق came out in 2009. CRACKED.COM http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/30-rock-rural-juror-head-and-hair-209499 — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BE — Source: The Atlantic

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30 ROCK VACA JA LIZ LEMON COMPLETELY SKIPS AGE 36 CRACKED.COM — Source

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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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