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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia RFK Jr. Thinks Will Give You Arthritis, IQ Loss and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia RFK Jr. Thinks Will Give You Arthritis, IQ Loss and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

November 16, 2024

They kicked Rachael Ray off of TV because they didn’t like her scarf.

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Reality TV Villains

WORST REALITY TV TROPES THE VILLAIN Long before a certain reality show host became a real-life supervillain, The Apprentice's Omarosa was perfecting the reality TV villain act. She was not there to make friends, and didn't care who knew it. Still, this trope is as tired as the genre itself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charlie Kelly

Characters who would kill it on reality shows It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Charlie Kelly Charlie would be interesting to follow on dating shows or any reality competition programs due to this sweet yet unstable nature. Wildcard, bitches! CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Lawnmower Man

The first portrayal of virtual reality: 1992 The first depiction of virtual reality occurred in The Lawnmower Man, a movie about taking drugs and having cybersex.

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Jim Belushi

CRACKED JIM BELUSHI'S WEED FARM. COMMANDER 11 In Shady Cove, Oregon, Belushi grows and sells copious amounts of marijuana (including a Blues Brothers strand). The reality series Growing Belushi documents his operation on Discovery+. — Discovery / NY Post

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The Tick

Characters who would kill it on reality shows The Tick The Tick Nigh-invulnerable, charming, annoying to the right people, Tick would be perfect for physical challenges and being the odd roommate in a reality competition household. CRACKED.COM

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Reality TV Blindness

CRACKED COM RACE WORST REALITY TV TROPES REALITY TV BLINDNESS A staple of reality TV is people acting like they don't know they're in reality TV. We get that they're expected to be spontaneous and ignore the cameras, but by now you should learn to drive stick if you're going to The Amazing Race, you know. — Source: TV Tropes

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A Shot at Love

Reality shows with dark sides The one thing worse than reality TV During and after her reality show, Tila Tequila let her Nazi sympathies shine, in an all-too familiar pattern. Once again, the faded-TV-personality-to- white-supremacist pipeline was proven to be a thing. Nazism is cringe, kids. CRACKED.COM — More: 4 Classic Reality Shows With Dark Sides

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Edgar Allan Poe

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia RFK Jr. Thinks Will Give You Arthritis, IQ Loss and Neurodevelopmental Disorders — For details, read 6 Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened

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Good Grief

Good Grief Lifetime A 2014 reality show about a family-owned funeral home that was scrapped when 8 rotting bodies were discovered by the landlord, and

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Argo

THE OSCAR WINNER In Best Picture Argo, the Americans save the day. THANK YOU CANADA REALITY THE In reality, it was Canada that pulled off the rescue.

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson used to represent the charity Oxfam. She ended up trading charity for soda. Oxfam took issue when Johansson became a spokesperson for SodaStream, which is headquartered in the West Bank. Because of their position on the Israel-Palestine situation, they urged her to leave SodaStream. She left Oxfam instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone was Christian Dior's spokesmodel. Until she blamed China for an earthquake. At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Stone called the Dalai Lama a friend and wondered if a recent quake in China was karma for Tibet. Calling 85,000 deaths divine retribution was enough to make China ban her films and get Christian Dior to drop her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rachel Ray

Rachael Ray was in a Dunkin' Donuts ad in 2008. It was pulled because of her terrorist scarf. The ad seemed as uncontroversial as you can get. But many conservative commentators claimed that Ray's scarf was a keffiyeh, an Arab garment. Which, they said, promoted terrorism. Dunkin' Donuts tried to dismiss the issue as nonsense, but in the end, they pulled the ad. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Hodgman

Celebrity Colognes and Perfumes SPERM WHALE COLOGNE by John Hodgman Mostly as a joke to advertise his comedy special Ragnarok, Hodgman sold survival kits which contained a real, sea mammal- themed cologne. The kit also has a flask for your urine. (-WHALE) JOHN HODGMAN KOLON/S GRACKED.COM — Source

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Subway

IS THAT AQUAMAN? WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE GUYS UP TO? I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT CAN'T BE ANY GOOD Weird Superhero Endorsements Subway-fueled football players saved Aquaman. NFL players Michael Strahan, Ndamukong Suh, and Justin Tuck stop eating their Subway sandwiches to help an unconscious Aquaman against, while everyone yearns for Subway's D-grade ingredients. ARMAN LET'S GO, GUYS! SUBWAY YEAH, BUT I HAVEN'T FINISHED MY SANDWICH-- COME ON, MICHAEL! IT'S AQUAMAN! CRACKED.COM — Source: Every Day Is Like Wednesday

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Northrop Grumman

A Weird Superhero Endorsements The Avengers teamed up with a real life defense contractor. In 2017, Marvel partnered with Northrop Grumman and released a comic featuring the Avengers and Northrop Grumman's own hero team, N.G.E.N. It was quickly dropped because what the hell, Marvel. CRACKED.COM — Source: Asset Pharmacy

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Cristiano Ronaldo

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia RFK Jr. Thinks Will Give You Arthritis, IQ Loss and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Power Balance Bracelets

Shaq promoted bracelets that claimed to make people better at sports. Power Balance bracelets hilariously purported to use holographic technology to

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Skin-Lightening Cream

Bollywood actors peddle dangerous skin-lightening cream. Arguably the world's famous most actor, Shah Rukh Khan is among a number of Indian celebritie

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Snoop Dog

Norton Does More. ucurs does igital dangers, Every click ma Norton from symantec WAC PACH s PLAY VIDOO NEWEST VIDEOS In 2010, Snoop Dogg endorsed Hac

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Rory McCann

Rory Mccann didn't have his audition script. His sister printed out just the opening lines, by mistake. When he came to the audition, he saw everyone else had prepared a long speech he knew nothing about. So with nothing prepared, he just acted crazy ... and got the part. — For details, read 6 Crazy Auditions That Landed Actors Their Famous Roles

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Alan Rickman

CRACKED HANS GRUBER IN DIE HARD Alan Rickman was unsure about acting in films, but producer Joel Silver got him to audition for Hans Gruber in Die Hard. That jumpstarted his film career, even though he was in his 40s. — Far Out Magazine / Little White Lies

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Jason Momoa

JASON MOMOA MADE UP A MODELING CAREER. BAYWATCH: HAWAII When Momoa went to audition for the show, he almost got turned away for not having an acting r — square mile

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The Doors

Caitlin O'Heaney got punched by Val Kilmer in her audition for The Doors. That's what she alleges suddenly happened in an audition scene where she was supposed to have a verbal fight with Kilmer's character. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Power Rangers

3 1 2 Power Rangers Casting call 1 Went to the audition for fun. 2 Cast after the original actress was fired. 3 Auditioned for the Red Ranger and lost. 4 A friend bet me $20. 5 Almost left Hollywood right before being cast. 6 Missed the first audition but nailed the second. 4 6 5 CRACKED.COM — Source: RangerWiki

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George Clooney

George Clooney auditioned for a drunk character by getting hammered. Clooney got too real when he auditioned to play a drunk in Bram Stoker's Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola. After his audition, Coppola phoned Clooney's agent, shocked that the actor came to the audition totally wasted. CRACKED COM — E Online

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Mark Strong

Mark Strong's audition for a Bond villain was a terrible experience. To celebrate the audition, he went out and got drunk, then came in for the actual audition still drunk and totally forgot all his lines in front of eight people. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Will Smith

CRACKED.COM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Will Smith auditioned at Quincy Jones' party. Smith did an impromptu audition in front of executive producer Jones, who had lawyers in attendance draw up contracts on the spot. — Source: Make It/CNBC

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The Happiness of the Katakuris

CRACKEDOON E HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS 1. It's a musical Ihorrorlcomedylfamily drama from the director of ICHI THE KILLER and AUDITION! 2. It's consi

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Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson inadvertently stole a role from his friend when he showed up to the Mad Max audition bruised and battered. FREAK The day before Gibson had

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Ghost Shark

Sharks Movies & TV Ghost Shark This SyFy movie spawned an unofficial sequel. Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws was released in 2015, even though it's not related to Ghost Shark (and isn't a sequel to anything, really). CRACKED.COM — Source: Movie Monster Wiki

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Forrest Gump

The original author of the Forrest Gump novel wrote a sequel to the book. The Rollicking Sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller Forrest Gump GRACKED.COM It was titled Gump and Co, and in it Gump crashes the Exx- on Valdez, helps de- stroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Opera- tion Desert Storm. — Simon and Schuster

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Die Hard

Die Hard began as a sequel to a Sinatra movie. In 1968, Frank Sinatra starred in the movie adaptation of Roderick Thorp's The Detective. When the sequel novel Nothing Lasts Forever was filmed, Sinatra was in his 70s - so he declined to return, and the story was turned into Die Hard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dumb and Dumber To

DUMB AND DUMBER TO WAS RELEASED 20 YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL. CRACKED The 2014 film brought Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels back together. Carrey said there was talk about a sequel in the early 2000s, but the studio opted for the prequel. Warner Bros. wasn't serious about a sequel, but when the Farrelly's got on board, it was a go. — LA Times / NY Times

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Postal

Celebrity Crowdfunding Uncensored sequel to UWE BOLL's flop. Boll canceled his Kickstarter campaign to fund a sequel to the critically panned 2007 film Postal, which he claimed would be totally uncensored and pointing against every political party and every religion. CRACKED — Boll KG
The Independent

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Left Behind

Celebrity Crowdfunding Donate for a chance to co-star with NICOLAS CAGE. Paul Lalonde started a crowdfunding campaign to finance the sequel to the 2014 Left Behind film, offering perks such as speaking roles and characters named after dedicated fans who want to spread the message of the End Times. CRACKED — Samuel Goldwyn Films
The Washington Post

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Darkman

Liam Neeson is open to a 'Darkman' sequel, if the script is good enough. CRACKED.COM The original, glorious low-budget '90s film stars Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand in a tragic 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' kind of story. — Sam Raimi And Liam Neeson's Forgotten Superhero Deserves A Second Chance

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Baby Geniuses

March on prime video March 1 Baby Geniuses Many people have heard of this movie about babies that are geniuses - but have you heard of the sequel Superbabies? The exact same goddamn movie, but with the word Super in front of it and Jon Voight? CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Kids Movies Clearly Made by People Who Hate Children

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The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS A SEQUEL WAS IN DEVELOPMENT. DEPARTED THE In 2016, producer Roy Lee revealed that a sequel was in development at one point and that the idea was to bring back characters that died in the original. The project fell through because it was too expensive and Scorsese wasn't — Collider

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Con Air

15 Bonkers Movie Sequels We Almost Got - Simon West wanted to do a Con Air sequel ...in space.
West floated the idea of the sequel being “a studio ver — Source: CinemaBlend

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