40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Must Have Done Something Unforgivable in a Previous Life to Have Been Reincarnated in This List

What could they have possibly done to deserve this fate?
40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Must Have Done Something Unforgivable in a Previous Life to Have Been Reincarnated in This List

Thinking about moving to Scandinavia to escape the new American hellscape? Think again: Norway once banned E.T. That’s no way to live. 

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Furbies

Furbies were banned from the Pentagon. Officials feared the toy would record classified information. CRACKED.COM

Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go has gotten huge. Pikachu 0P62 So naturally, it's banned all over the place. Iran has banned Pokemon Go for unspecified security concerns,

Scrabble

Scrabble is a pretty tame word game. E SLLM It was banned in Romania in the '80s. President Nicolae Ceausescu banned the letter tile game for being o

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is a fairly cautionary children's. story. It was banned in London in 1985. The Tale Of Peter Rabbit wasn't banned because of its disconce

Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce and Gabbana's Gang Rape Ad OLCE & GABBAN CRACKED.COM In 2007, Dolce and Gabbana advertised their spring collection with a print ad of a woman presumably wearing a D&G dress, but it's kind of hard to tell under- neath the man holding her down while three other men look on with expres- sions that can only be described as patiently rapey. It was quickly banned from publication in Italy by the country's somewhat misleadingly named Advertising Self-Discipline Insti- tute, who released a statement amounting to, Come on. Like, serious- ly, come on.

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Brad Pitt

In 2002, Brad Pitt did an ad for Toyota aimed at the Asian market that got banned in Malaysia. A Malaysian official argued that; Aren't our own peopl

E.T.

E.T. is about as family- oriented as an alien can get. Yet the movie was banned in Scandanavia. Kids from Sweden, Finland, and Norway were banned from

Monty Python

Sit On My Face is a classic Monty Python song. But the actual practice is banned in Britain. The British Board of Film Classification banned it from

Django Unchained

Will Smith and Tarantino disagreed about what the lead role was. DJANGO UNCHAINED ect CRACKED.cO Smith was nearly given the role of Django, but insi

The Pianist

THE ACTOR: Adrien Brody THE ROLE: Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist THE PREP: Brody didn't jUst learn Chopin for the role. He wanted to learn what it

Heath Ledger

HEATH LEDGER PASSED ON THE ROLE OF SPIDER-MAN. CRAth According to his agent, Ledger was offered the role of Peter Parker in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, bu

Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher regretted taking her most iconic role, Princess Leia. When asked whether she would have taken the role had she known the film would be b

4Chan

4Chan members hijacked TIME'S 100 Most Influential People poll and voted in Christopher Poole, the founder of the controversial online community. TIME

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger's controversial governorship, personal scandals, and strange accent have made him a constant punchline. But the fact that he wen

The Danny Thomas Show

The First Major Character Death 570 Jean Hagen Actress Jean Hagen left The Danny Thomas Show in 1956. Producers decided an unexplained death would be less controversial than divorce. CRACKED.COM

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The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment Michelangelo The fresco was extremely controversial when it was revealed. Literary figure Pietro Aretino claimed that .. .even in a
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Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson as Odin? According to the controversial actor, Marvel approached him to play Odin in the Thor films. He passed on the role, and it eventual

Garry Kasparov

Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov promotes a controversial version of world history called the New Chronology, according to which... CRACKE

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