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October 18, 2024

George R. R. Martin has been making dork history since he was 16.

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Vin Diesel became Groot because fans blindsided him. Diesel was caught off guard during a Comic-Con, when fans asked him about his (then merely introductory) meetings with Marvel. Fearing to be a killjoy, he blurted out something about big news coming soon. Marvel saw that as an opportunity and offered him Groot right away. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Flavor Blast Your Brain Into the Next Dimension

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G.R.R.M. was the first person at NY Comic Con.

George R. R. Martin purchased the first ticket to attend the first Comic Con in 1964. Martin was 16 at the time, and it cost him $1.50 to sign up. About 100 people were in attendance at the first Comic Con, with a few pros like Stan Lee's secretary and Steve Ditko. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — History

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Exploding sledgehammers in Mexico: why not?

San Juan de la Vega, Mexico marks the beginning of Lent with the EXPLODING HAMMER FESTIVAL People attach explosives to sledgehammers and then set them off in a field full of rocks. CRACKED — Varavin88/Shutterstock
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Clowns convene in Orlando.

In March 2023, clowns from all over the world gathered in Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual WORLD CLOWN ASSOCIATION CONVENTION They came from 35 different countries to compete, meet other clowns, and learn new skills in workshops. CRACKED — Alexander Raths/Shutterstock
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Celebrating Bob Dylan’s birthday ... in India.

BOB DYLAN DAY Every year on May 24th, the town of Shillong, India throws a party and holds a concert to celebrate Bob Dylan's birthday. CRACKED — Alberto Cabello/Wiki Commons
The Independent

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Back together again.

CRACKED COMIC CON CO POPK RE NK Esdpap a DANC BACK TO THE FUTURE Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunited at New York Comic-Con, 37 years after 'Back to the Future'. They talked about their first meeting and their friendship, with Fox honoring his mom who passed away two weeks before. — People

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Actors Who Got Some WTF Responses From The Public - Lena Heady from Game of Thrones said that once, at San Diego Comic-Con, people flat out ignored he — Source: NY Daily

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Daniel Radcliffe attended Comic- Con in a full Spider-Man suit AND spoke in an American accent so nobody would know it was him. CRACKED.COM

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Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so con

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There's an annual event in Lexington, Kentucky, called Thriller Parade where hundreds of people dress up as zombies and dance to the tune of Thriller

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"Thriller" changed the game in so many ways.

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED — Michael Jackson/YouTube
Billboard

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This post-apocalyptic thriller in ‘Dollhouse’ features character’s unreliable memories as flashbacks.

Genre-Switching Episodes Dollhouse Epitaph One This post-apocalyptic thriller was written as a standalone episode and not as the season finale. It features flashbacks of the main cast, but Joss Whedon has said that these memories may be unreliable. CRACKED — 20th Television
Dollhouse Wiki

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Thriller

Anthology Shows LER LER HRI 1960 - 1962 THRILLER Stephen King considers this one of the best horror shows ever. Boris Karloff hosted this gothic horror show, and even starred in some episodes. The series was canceled when Alfred Hitchcock pulled strings to not have it compete with his own anthology. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Thriller Writers Have Help

HOW DO 10LOST THRILLER N AUTHORS You messed up big-time. Dr. Cross.* WRITE SO MANY JAMES BOOKS? PERSO JAMES PATTERSON EASY-EXA THEY DON'T. CRISS Best-selling authors such as James Patterson, Wilbur Smith, and others just write a short outline for each chapter. Hired co-writers do most of the work. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Marketing Lies Somehow Still Seen

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"Thriller" Red Jacket

Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket was bought for $1.8 million Milton Verret of Austin, Texas, bought the iconic red jacket in auction two years after the singer's death. CRACKED.COM — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Us There are three Corey Feldman references in the film. There's a tape of The Goonies in the opening scene, a reference to The Lost Boys in the boardwalk : scene, and the Thriller t-shirt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

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HE COLLABORATED WITH MICHAEL JACKSON CRACKED After the success of Thriller, Jackson recruited King to make Ghosts, a cross between a movie and a music video compilation. — Source: Atlas Obscura

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One of Gillian Anderson's first roles was a thriller with white supremacists. TURNING the In The Turning, she was the girlfriend of a guy who stays with white supremacists. On the video cover, she's unbuttoning her blouse. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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The original Point Break is a raunchy action thriller about a gang of surfers who rob banks to finance their lifestyle. It's interesting, full of grea

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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

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Pixar Rules of Storytelling 21 You gotta identify with your situation/ characters, can't just write 'cool.' What would make YOU act that way? Coco cannot exist without focusing on the genuine human feelings of love, memory, loss, and death. The characters feel real because they are being drawn from the real feelings and reactions the creators had toward how death affected their lives. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cars' Lightning McQueen is an homage to a pixar animator who passed away. His name was Glenn McQueen, and he worked at Pixar from 1994 to his death in 2002. Pixar also dedicated its 2003 movie (Finding Nemo) to him. CRACKED.COM — Source: Pixar Times

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Wall-E

CRACKED.COM WALI PIXAR MOVIES WALL-E WAS ONE OF PIXAR'S FIRST FILMS. A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E were all conceived (in that order) during one Pixar lunch in 1994 - but it took until 2008 for the film to finally see the light of day. — Source: 16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In

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Mickey Clock

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Merida is the only Pixar princess. She is also Pixar's first female lead. CRACKED.COM — Source: Disney

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Bob Peterson

Pixar fired Bob Peterson from directing The Good Dinosaur in 2013. Apparently, according to Pixar insiders, that was just a pretty routine internal reshuffle, and Pixar projects have input from lots of regular directors anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The collegiate cameo: 2013 2015 The star of The Good Dinosaur briefly appears as a distinctly Pixar-ian toy, inside a Monsters University scare emulat

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Takeout

Pixar Easter Eggs PISTON Cars CUP PIST CU Chick Pizza and Chinese The Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story appears in most Pixar movies, and so does a Chinese takeout box. Something tells us the Pixar gang has a really unhealthy work schedule. A Bug's Life IF CRACKED.COM — Sources: Pixar Wiki, Pixar Wiki

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A regular Pixar driver figured out early on that Pixar was making a Black movie. SOUL PIXAR Disney Pixar uses a car service to pick up visitors, and a driver (who was Black) figured out Soul was a Black movie because he was driving so many Black people. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Ricardo Montalbán couldn't remember how to play Khan. Не had to watch his Star Trek episode three or four times to recall how to perform as the character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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‘Star Trek’: Brent Spiner (story credit), ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’

Actors who wrote episodes for their shows Star Trek: Nemesis Brent Spiner Spiner gives Data a tragic honor as he strives to understand humanity and dies to save Picard and the crew, while Patrick Stewart brings gravitas to Picard's wistful regret and debates with Shinzon, encouraging him to find redemption. CRACKED — Paramount Pictures
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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Easter Eggs You Missed (If You're Monolingual)

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Chekov’s character on Star Trek was modeled after Davy Jones.

Chekov was added to Star Trek to attract young viewers. CRACKED.COM Pavel Chekov did not ар- pear on 'Star Trek' until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees. — Cheatsheet

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Star Trek: Enterprise

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Star Trek: Enterprise The ending had little to do with Enterprise, and instead was a TNG episode about events occurring in Enterprise. Yeah, of course such a clunky, borderline disrespectful finale didn't work. — More: 7 TV Finales That Went Out Of Their Way To Anger Fans

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“Star Trek TNG” owes everything to Shatner demanding more money.

'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Only Got Made Because William Shatner Is A Jerk

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The second season of Picard was inspired by Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Akiva Goldsman said that his co-showrunner Terry Matalas suggested Hey, let's do The Voyage Home.' And we kind of dug it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seth MacFarlane

ENTERPRISE / THE FORGOTTEN AFFLICTION SETH MacFARLANE WAS A STARFLEET ENGINEER. Years before being Captain Ed Mercer in his own Star Trek spoof The Orville, MacFarlane cameoed as Ensign Rivers in a couple episodes of the real thing. — Sources: Memory Alpha, Scene on YouTube

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William Shatner has never watched an episode of Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation. CRACKEDCO

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STAR TREK: TH MOTION PICTURC V'ger was an alien rebuild of a Voyager probe granting it both If-awareness and immense power: It was dumb. STAB TREK Il:

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