40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like a Roomba for Your Mind Palace

Aubrey Plaza carved out her career through sheer force of weirdness
40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like a Roomba for Your Mind Palace

At least half of Bulk and Skull went on to have a solid Hollywood career.

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Don Behrns

CRACKED COM The RV crash scene in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was a way to screw over the producer. o Producer Don Behrns would get a chunk o

Aliens

Aliens (1986) The studio didn't believe that Gale Anne Hurd was a real producer. Even though she had worked as a producer (and had also produced The Terminator), Hurd had to ask her industry connections to call Fox and vouch for her.

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TV Firsts

The First Cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT 1950's Crusader Rabbit was the first animation designed for television. One producer would later create The Rocky an

Rihanna

Rihanna's Diamonds took 14 minutes to write. (The producer said, That's insane.) It sold 3.5 million copies.

Singin’ in the Rain

A movie about denying credit to performers... denies credit to its performer. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN What d Glorious Feeling CRACKEDCON The movie is abou

Donald Glover

Childish Gambino' came from a random name generator. To Donald Glover's credit, it was a Wu-Tang name generator SO ... nice. CRACKED.COM

George Lucas

The first to credit the full crew. 1977 George Lucas decided to list every last crew member in the Star Wars final credit crawl. Before that, only dep

Power Rangers

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers Bulk is a director. Bulk is one of the brainless Team Rocket-esque villains of the show - but Paul Schrier, who plays Bulk, directed some of the episodes.

Source: IMDb

Fifty Shades of Grey

The Fifty Shades of Grey author fought with the movie's director. We would have proper on-set barneys, said director Sam Taylor-Johnson. The problem? The movie wasn't going to be as explicit as the book. CRACKED.COM

Source: Vulture

Aubrey Plaza

They created April Ludgate after a casting director met Aubrey Plaza. The director called Parks & Rec writer Michael Schur and told him I just met the weirdest girl I've ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show. So Schur met with

Source: AVClub

Alfred Hitchcock

Tippi Hedren THE BIRDS CRACKED.COM Visionary director and huge assh*le AIfred Hitchcock promised her they would use mechanical birds... before subject

Source: People

Wes Craven

A producer insisted on the cheesy ending of Nightmare on Elm Street. So THE DIRECTOR PUT HIM IN FULL BONDAGE GEAR. Writer/director Wes Craven had plan

Cher

Cher called her 2010 movie Burlesque horrible. RLESQI Terrible director! Really terrible director. And really terrible script. ! remember him saying

Stranger Things

Mr. Clarke gives middle school students his personal phone number and instructions for building dangerous scientific contraptions late at night. STRAN

Craig Ferguson: Punk Rocker

What do a late-night host and Dr. Who have in common? BO) 2e SUCE BO) PETER CAPALDI AND CRAIG FERGUSON They were in a punk band together. During the '

The Chris Gethard Show

THE Want a late night TONIGHT talk show SHOW that STARRING JIMMY isn't afraid to FALLON be weird and go off the rails? WATCH HRIS HOMO GETHARD 1 MEOY

Benedict Cumberbatch

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH RISKED HIS OWN SAFETY TO PREVENT A ROBBERY. Late one night, the actor saw a bicycle delivery guy surrounded by some men. He stopp

The Wilton North Report

For only one month in 1987, a late-night show aired on FOX called The Wilton North Report. Though its premise LIVE FROM FOX TELEVISION CENTER 5746 Sun

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CRACKED TWO FRIENDS, ONE LATE NIGHT, AND A WHOLE LOT OF NINJA TURTLES. In 1983, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were just two friends goofing around late at night when they came up with the idea of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They were inspired by Frank Miller's Ronin and his work on Daredevil.

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Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase once tried his hand at late-night talk. He flopped spectacularly. Chase's early work hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live seemed

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