40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Come Home to Roost

That explains why they crossed the street
40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Come Home to Roost

Wow, was any part of Frozen an original idea?

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Solid Snake is a blatant ripoff of Escape From New York's Snake Plissken. But John Carpenter thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is a nice guy, S
To cash in on The Princess and the Frog hype, somebody made a lazy, innuendo-loaded ripoff. The Frog Prince is about a frog dishing out lies to get la
A Car's Life is an aggressively nonsensical Pixar ripoff. The movie is about rebellious teenage car Sparky and his female car friend. She eventually g
Mac and Me CRACKED COM The E.T. ripoff ended with a cartoon bubble promising, menacingly, WE'LL BE BACK. As a recurring Paul Rudd bit? Sure. As a feat
Bart Sirpson 1987 NOW An Eddie World's oldest Haskell ripoff 10-year-old. King developed 10 of the edgy minutes before catchphrase, the a pitch meetin
The USSR had its own, more hardass version of Winnie the Pooh. In the shameless ripoff Vinni Pukh, from 1969, comrade Pukh has a voice that sounds lik
NDIor Frozen's Let It Go was allegedly a ripoff of Chilean artist Jaime Ciero's song Volar. Ciero sued Disney and the songwriters, claiming clear
Original vs. Reboot 2002 SPIDER-MAN 2012 Oh, hey, it's like the meme. 2021 CRACKED.COM
Original VS. Reboot 1990 IT Bill Skarsgard steps into the overly large shoes Tim Curry left him. 2017 CRACKED.COM
Original VS. Reboot 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS DREAKING NEWS STAY PU PM 2016 A sequel, a reboot, and another sequel sent this franchise spinning. 2022 CRACKED.COM
Nixed Reboots Tapes Friends Show creator Marta Kauffman said no to a reboot. Nope, never gonna happen. She added, The fear is, well, it'll never be what it was. CRACKED

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LUXO Sr. and LUXO Jr. aren't just Pixar intro characters. They're characters on TV that Pixar characters watch, too. For instance, Toy Story 2 shows H
A regular Pixar driver figured out early on that Pixar was making a Black movie. Soul PIXAR Disney PIX 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

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Guitar in the car bar: 2017 5 MONTHS LATER CRACKEDCO The cotter Pin Bar in Cars 3 dangled the guitar from Coco right in front of our noses.
PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS is named after the Pixar Image Computer, which was named by combining pixels and sounding vaguely like a Spanish verb. CRA
Pixar began as a computer graphics group owned by Lucasfilm. In 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar for $5 million. P X A R ANIMATION STUDIOS In 2006 Disney
EMPLOYEES SUED DISNEY FOR $100 MILLION. IN 2017, DISNEY SETTLED. The employees claimed Disney and other big animation studios colluded using anti-poac
After the release of The Little Mermaid, Disney had the bright idea to market DiSNEY NEW! Dip Sea Dooz. Crunchy Bite Sized Breaded Fish Nuggets Bakes

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