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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Lodged Themselves in Our Skulls Like a Dead Parasite in a Political Opportunist’s Brain

November 18, 2024

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino can't stand cell phones on set. Timothy Olyphant, who worked with Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, said the director refused anyone to have their cell phones with them. Apparently, if you're caught with one on set, you're immediately fired. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Directors And The Things They Hate

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Saved By the Bell

140 141 IC AL The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Shallows

Sharks Movies & TV The Shallows Everyone had to ride their bikes to set. Due to various restrictions on the island location, the cast and crew had to ride bicycles to set and be incredibly mindful to not harm any of the wildlife. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cosmopolitan

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Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx kinda trolled Christoph Waltz on the set of Django Unchained. Waltz broke his pelvis by falling off a horse on the set, so Foxx gave him a saddle with a seat belt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Helen Mirren

HELEN MIRREN LIAM NEESON line cer CRACKEDcON After falling in love on the set of Excalibur, Mirren and Neeson skipped dating and started shacking up. I remember being on the set as Helen walked towards in her full Morgana Le Fey costume and I] went, 'Oh f*. — The Sun

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Tom Holland

Tom Holland got pranked by the crew on Spider-Man: Homecoming. They got him a new set chair which was actually a toilet seat. Не posted about it on Instagram, with the caption Loving my new set chair. Thanks guys. Should you really be treating number one like number two. #norespect. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies & Shows With Ridiculous On-Set Pranks

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Robert Englund

BEFORE HE BECAME FREDDY KRUEGER. ROBERT ENGLUND WAS PAID TO THROW LEAVES AROUND ON THE SET OF HALLOWEEN Englund said he was conned by his roommate to work as a temporary set builder on the production of the 1978 film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mind Spotless of the Sunshine The director chose practical effects over CGI. Eter There were trick doors on set for Clementine to magically pop out SCENES from, and scaled set pieces to incorporate forced perspective. BEH CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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Goldfinger

Asbestos exposure on GOLDFINGER The 1964 James Bond movie used asbestos boards in its set construction. Set painter Ronald Sharp later developed mesothelioma and died at age 59. His widow sued his former employers for compensation. CRACKED — Source

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Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. AROUR mf H00Z OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God I

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Stephen Fry

Stage Fright Stephen Fry In 1995, his stage fright (and one bad review) had him quit the West End production of Simon Gray's Cell Mates. Не said that he had a heavy feeling every time he was on stage, and quit theater altogether. CRACKED — Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock
The Guardian

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Coolio

Coolio was beaten and robbed in 2009 after attempting to stage dive. CRACKED.COM The rapper was performing to a Students Union at Stafford University in the UK, when he decided to launch himself off the stage into the crowd. No one caught him, and his shoes were stolen. — MTV

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Michael Caine

Michael Caine was originally known as Michael Scott but there was already a Michael Scott in the actors' union he was joining. Не was given half an hour to pick a new name so he went outside to think. Не saw a cinema advertising The Caine Mutiny starring Humphrey Bogart (his hero). That's where he got Caine from. CRACKED.COM — Source: How Celebs Arrived At Stage Names (They're Stuck With)

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Shania Twain

Shania Twain Eilleen Edwards wasn't impressed much by her real name. When she was adopted, she took the her dad's name Twain. When the record label told her she needed a name change, she changed her first name instead, to continue to honor her father. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Celebrities Who Changed Their Name (And Why)

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Paramore

Paramore was an original member's mother's maiden name. When they learned the meaning of paramour, they took on the name, using the spelling of the ma

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Skrillex

Skrillex was Sonny Moore's old AOL name. It was a stupid old online AOL screen name. There really isn't a meaning behind it. CRACKED.GOM

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Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey Before settling on the stage name, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant went by other stage names including Lizzy Grant and Sparkle Jump Rope Queen. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Celebrities Who Changed Their Name (And Why)

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Bruno Mars

Peter Hernandez's father called him Bruno because he thought his chunky son resembled pro wrestler. Bruno Sammartino. AS he began his path to stardo

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga GAMBLED HER FORTUNE ON STAGE DRESSING After Bad Romance was a massive hit, she sunk $3 million into her stage for the Monster Ball tour: I was bankrupt during the show. The goal was to get the attention of Arthur Fogel at Live Nation - and it worked! — Source: Vibe

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Steven Van Zandt

E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt is rarely seen on stage without his signature head bandana. The artist revealed that he adopted the look beca

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev released an album of ballads. In 2009, 10 years after his wife died of leukemia, Gorbachev took the step of contributing to a cancer research charity by... uh, singing ballads and auctioning off the album. It fetched $164,940 from someone who (understandably) chose to remain anonymous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Corey Feldman

Celebrity Crowdfunding Fund COREY FELDMAN's album. Feldman crowdfunded his decade-long album project, Elev8or 2 Ascension, on Indiegogo and asked for $105,000 to complete it. Не had various rewards for those who donated, including copies of the album, a photo of Sean Astin, and Skype sessions. CRACKED — Corey Feldman/YouTube
The A.V. Club

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The Beatles

CRACKED WHILE MAKING SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND The Beatles' 1967 album was made while the band was heavily using drugs, especially marijuana. Sgt. Pepper was a drug album, said Paul McCartney once. — Rolling Stone / CBS

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Bob’s Burgers

They released an official vinyl album. MUSIC ALBUM CRACKED.COM The 112-track album of songs from the show - which peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard 200 - w as described by Clash magazine as at times both smart, sweet and very, very, stupid. — Source: 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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Metaversal

BT's album METAVERSAL 3.T METAVERSAL The new album from the classically trained EDM artist was only made available through a blockchain-based decentralized application where listeners can solve cryptographic puzzles in the music to win a super rare NFT, making the entire album a treasure hunt. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is their best album. FLEETWOOD-MAC RUMOURS AND IT'S PACKED WITH SPITE-FILLED SONG LYRICS. At the time the band was recording the album, absolutely everyone was banging everyone except the ones they were supposed to. So the album is a drug-fueled explosion of grievances, most notably in the songs Go Your Own Way (read: fuck off) and Dreams (think about what you had and what you lost). And the targets of the rage songs had to gamely sing backup vocals. GRACKED.COM Q Magazine, June 2009 Issue 2 — Source: 15 Things Created As Revenge

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Ziggy Stardust

The Ziggy Stardust album once included a Chuck Berry cover. CRACKED.COM The 1973 album was originally set to include a cover of Chuck Berry's Around and Around. The cover was replaced by Starman, which Bowie wrote after RCA records said the album didn't have a marketable single. — Business Insider

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Garfield

Terrible Movie Merchandise The Studios Didn't Think Through - Garfield released a jazz album. — Read More: 5 Pieces Of Movie Merchandise That Missed The Point Entirely

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Frank Ocean

To get back at Def Jam for not helping with his debut album, Frank Ocean made a video album of himself building a staircase for 45 minutes, called End

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KLF

One of KLF'S album covers is a f**k you to ABBA. Old-school acid band KLF ripped off ABBA songs wholesale, so they were ordered to destroy those album

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TV Firsts

The first non- binary character 2017 CRACKED.COM Non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon's character on Billions, Taylor Mason, is a highly-intelligent go-getter. — Source

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Teletubbies

The Teletubbies were giants. The smallest character, Ро, was 6.6 feet tall and the largest character, Tinky Winky, was 10 feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Timothy Dalton

The 'Hot Fuzz' character Simon Skinner was written for a Timothy Dalton type before he signed on. - - CRACKED.COM Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote the character before thinking to ask Dal- ton himself to be in the film. To their surprise, Dal- ton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role. — PopMatters

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Candyman

CRACKED.COM TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK DARK CHARACTER ARCS Yahya Abdul-Mateen II had a quite dark arc in the Candyman reboot, but our favorite recent example is Florence Pugh's character in Midsommar. Her character had a kind of final girl thing going on, but that final shot opens a whole other dimension for her arc.

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Mantis

The creator of Mantis is pretty unhappy about what the MCU did to the character. That character has nothing to do with Mantis, Steve Englehart said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Larry the Cable Guy

Daniel Lawrence Whitney is known to most as Larry The Cable Guy. Larry The Cable Guy was originally a character in Whitney's stand up act. However, the character became so popular Whitney assumed the identity entirely. CRACKED.COM — source: Ticket Entertainment

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Spock

SPOCK STARTED AS A FEMALE CHARACTER. STAR TREK The original pilot for the show featured Number One - a character played by Majel Barret that basically had all of Spock's iconic characteristics. Test audiences didn't like the character, the pilot was thrown out, and the role eventually morphed into the Spock — 4 Pop Culture Icons Who Were Originally Meant to Be Women

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Merchant of Venice

CRACKED THERE IS A CHARACTER NAMED JESSICA IN SHAKESPEARE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. That character invented the name Jessica. — Google Books / National Holiday

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Jennifer Lawrence

The character. Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond is based on Jennifer Lawrence's character in Winter's Bone. Said writer and actor Simon Pegg: We were try

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Dolores Umbridge

Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a reat person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling did

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