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40 Rando Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Poured Down the Sink and It’s the Landlord’s Problem Now

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She did warn you, Peter!

MANTIS READS PETER'S EMOTIONS. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL.2 CRACKED You feel romantic love. Romantic, sexual love. For her. When she points directly at Gamora, Drax laughs hysterically like Peter is caught with a middle school crush. Then Mantis laughs in his face too. — YouTube

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To be fair, a giant parakeet would be hilarious.

THOR NEEDS A HORSE. THOR CRACKED Thor struts into a pet store proclaiming, I need a horse, and the shop employee looks at him like he's insane. Не responds that they have dogs, cats, and birds, and Thor says, Then give me one of those large enough to ride. — YouTube

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An equally funny and precious moment from Hulk.

ANT-MAN'S TACO TROUBLES. AVENGERS: END GAME CRACKED When Scott is about to take a bite of his taco, the Guardians' ship flies in and blows its contents away. Не takes a few verbal jabs, before Hulk walks by and hands him two of his own tacos. It's a touching moment... About tacos. — YouTube

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Ridley Scott curses Marvel movies.

CRACKED RIDLEY SCOTT CALLED MARVEL MOVIES F*CKING BORING AS SHIT. Не also said they have weak stories and their scripts are not any f**king good. — Deadline

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Captain America: The First Avenger

MCU Phase One Easter Eggs The Captain America: The First Avenger The Human Torch The Synthetic Man, the original Human Torch makes an appearance in Steve Rogers' premiere film. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Easter Eggs in Phase One of the MCU

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Easter eggs in Marvel deleted scenes Avengers: Endgame silver surfer There's a rumored deleted Silver Surfer scene that's being kept under wraps, as it may be reused in the future. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs in Marvel Deleted Scenes

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Wesley Snipes

Marvel Stars from the Multiverse Marvel never stopped wanting Wesley Snipes. Snipes is Blade. That was the consensus at Marvel for a long-time, trying to bring the original Blade back, before recasting as Mahershala Ali. — Source: Giant Freakin Robot

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

The first-ever Marvel movie was Howard the Duck. HOWARD the THE DUCK There was an earlier Captain America movie, but Marvel didn't actually exist yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 "Now You Know" Facts That Have No Business Being True

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

Marvel ripped off X-Men to bypass their own copyright deals. With 20th Century Fox having exclusive film and TV rights for X-Men, in 2001 Marvel produ — Source: Screen Rant

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

Why Didn't Nick Fury Use His Captain Marvel Pager When Loki And The Chitauri Invaded? CAPTAIN MARVEL CRACKED.COM In response to Loki's theft of the Te

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

WHO WAS BILL TYTLA? VLADIMIR BILL TYTLA MADE DISNEY, DISNEY. When Bill Tytla came to Disney in 1934, cartoons were mostly just doodles moving around the screen. He turned them into living, breathing characters, helping usher in Disney's Golden Age. — More: 5 Underappreciated Creators Of All Your Favorite Shows And Films

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Hitchcock and Disney

CRACKED.COM Disney banned Alfred Hitchcock because of Psycho. Walt Disney refused to let the thriller director shoot on Disney parks, studios, and other property because of that disgusting movie. — More: Walt Disney's Old-Timey Feud With Alfred Hitchcock

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Disney

Disney employees had to fight to wear their own underwear. In 2001, the Disney employees union won the right to wear their own underwear while dressed as Disney characters. Previously, Disney insisted on shared, approved undergarments- which led to an outbreak of pubic lice among its employees. CRACKED.COM — source: Los Angeles Times

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -Walt Disney CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

Animated movies have been using dead, dying, or missing parents for character development since at least 1938. Disney FROZEN FINDING NEMO RATATOUILLE THE GOOD DINOSAUR LION KING Aladdin Disney MERMAID Disney TARZAN will HIL Bambi Cinderella SnowWhite PLS Disney Beauty Beast It's time to leave this idea behind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

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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It's pretty gunked up down there.

THE DISNEY CHANNEL. DISNEY CHANNEL 'Cause when we were kids, we had no taste in entertainment. (Be fair: We still had to develop it!) So the Disney Ch

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‘Pulp Fiction’ is a Disney movie.

Mia Wallace from 'Pulp Fiction' is, technically, a Disney princess. CRACKED.COM Miramax was owned by Disney from 1993 to 2005, which means that the film was, in a way, a Dis- ney movie. — BBC / YouTube

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Disney

The Walt Disney Company is the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. military. CRACKED.COM The Walt Disney Company is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world, with extravagant firework displays occurring every night. Disney keeps its numbers top secret, but some estimate they spend between $45,000 to $50,000 on explosives per show. — Business Insider

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Unknown Secrets In Well-Known Landmarks

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

40 Rando Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Poured Down the Sink and It’s the Landlord’s Problem Now

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

A DISNEY CONTRACTOR WAS CAUGHT PAYING WORKERS $1.20HOUR. DISNEY HAD TO PAY $$903K IN BACK WAGES. The company made plastic wands and tiaras for Disney

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Go ahead and try, we'll wait.

TWO EX-NAZIS DESIGNED ICONIC DISNEY PARK LANDMARKS WALT DISNEY TAPPED EX- Ss ENGINEER WERHNER VON BRAUN TO HELP DESIGN DISNEYLAND'S ROCKET TO THE Moon

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Disney

Disney made military training videos and war propaganda during WWII. Animators used their signature silly gags and cutesy art style to make things lik

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Disney

Disney behind the scenes Disney animators create Disney smut, apparently. While never confirmed, animators have long been rumored to have made XXX Disney films. (And some Disney atists have just done a ton of pin- ups. Just ask Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders.) CRACKED.COM — Source: Cheezburger

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The 40th Anniversary After-Party

Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary after-party had a bunch of big names live jamming on stage. Highlights of the night: - Paul McCartney performin

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Max Greenfield

Max Greenfield had a Saturday Night Live-themed bar mitzvah The New Girl star even had a Blues Brothers cake. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharks Movies & TV Saturday Night Live Landshark was Chevy Chase's only original recurring character. While many SNL cast members have a few characters in their pockets for multiple sketches, Landshark was Chase's only character that showed up more than once. Good thing he had Weekend Update. CRACKED.COM — Source: Saturday Night Live Wiki

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Saturday Night Live: The Movie

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE ALMOST ENDED UP HAPPENING. mau SM ARE Apparently, it was supposed to be a feature-length collection of movie-related sketches, and the idea was floated in 1990. There was even a full-length script, but the movie never got off the ground. — Source: 11 Proposed Saturday Night Live Movies That We Never Got To See

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DAMON WAYANS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DAMON WAYANS WAS ON SNL FROM '85 TO '86, AND IT DID NOT WORK OUT FOR HIM. They had me in scenes where I would just hold a spear. I'm like, 'I'm not doing that. My mother's going to watch this show.' No lines! Just holding the spear in a thong. I'm like, 'I can't do this, he recounted. — Source

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And has hosted only once: Nov 16, 1996

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IRON MAN HIMSELF, AKA RDJ, WAS A SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CAST MEMBER. Не joined in 1985 - he had two recurring characters, and did a bunch of celeb impressions. That was pretty much it since, in the next season, he got fired by Lorne Michaels along with a bunch of his castmates. — Source

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DAVID SPADE VS EDDIE MURPHY SNL In David Spade's segment on Weekend Update called Hollywood Minute, he went after SNL legend Eddie Murphy. Spade made a joke about Murphy releasing 2 flops in a row and saidlook kids, a falling star! Murphy got a hold of Spade on the phone, screamed at him and boycotted hosting for years after. — Source: Salon

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHEVY CHASE VS. THE ORIGINAL CAST A UP SN Chevy was known to shoot down other writer's sketches, mercilessly ridicule them, not give credit to his colleagues in interviews and go on coke/ego fueled temper tantrums. In reference to people hating him Chevy has said, It's jealousy... What kind of jealousy? That I'm funnier than them? Yeah, I guess maybe. That I'm considered good looking? Yeah. There you have it. I'm Chevy, go f** yourself. — Source: Washington Post

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CHEVY CHASE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE 1970S, SNL AIRED AN EPISODE WHERE CHEVY CHASE SAID THE N-WORD ON AIR. It was part of a sketch where he and Richard Pryor, in-character, were supposed to say whatever came to their mind - but it hasn't exactly aged well at all. — Source

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Updating...

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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Wayne’s World

WAYNE CAMPBELL MIKE MYERS CRACKED.COM Myers based Wayne on friends he grew up with in the suburbs of Toronto, believing there was a certain homogenous suburban adolescent heavy metal experience that most could relate to. Myers' buddies cruised around in the Red Rocket, not the Mirthmobile. — CBC/YouTube

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

MORGAN WALLEN DECEMBER 5, 2020 CRACKED.COM Country bro Wallen was uninvited to SNL after a viral video showed him partying without a mask. And because we can't figure this Covid thing out, he was re-invited two months later. — CNN

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THE REPLACEMENTS JANUARY 18, 1986 SATURDAY CRACKED.COM They were literally Replacements (for the Pointer Sisters), performing drunk, on drugs, and out of tune. Blame pre-show boozing with host Harry Dean Stanton. — Variety

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BEWARE THE BULGES OF TWO WILD AND CRAZY GUYS MARTIN/ACKROYD CRACKED.COM STEVE HAD THIS CHARACTER, THE CONTINENTAL GUY, SAYS ACKROYD, AND I HAD THE 'SWINGING' CZECH WHO WAS TRYING TO TALK LIKE AN AMERICAN, TRYING TO HAVE THE ACCENT, THE CLOTHES. so WE TOOK HIS CONTINENTAL GUY AND MY CZECH GUY AND WE FUSED THEM INTO THE CZECH BROTHERS. — Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

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It's pretty gunked up down there.

2016's The Jungle Book took something from Saturday Night Live into the jungle. While Louie (played by Christopher Walken) sleeps, Mowgli goes through

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