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Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Aqua Teen Hunger Force had five different titles. Aside from ATHF, the show was called Aqua Unit Patrol Squad, Aqua Something You Know Whatever, Aqua TV Show Show, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever. CRACKED.COM — Mental Floss

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The Worst Time To Get High

CRACKED DURING THE FILMING OF A KIDS' SHOW In the 1960s and 70s, Rick Jones and Lionel Morton, who were presenters on BBC Play School, smoked marijuana before filming the kids show and would go on air high as a kite. — Telegraph / Daily Mail

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The Truman Show

There is a delusion named after The Truman Show. CRACKED.COM The Truman Show Delusion is a belief that a person is living inside of a reality TV show where they are the star and everyone around them are backup actors. Another name for them could be influencer. — Psychology Today

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The Queen Latifah Show

The Queen Latifah Show *Livin ALL CRACKED.co The show was cancelled in 2001 after a 2-season stint. Then, 10 years later, she dredged up its petrified corpse and made another show by the same name. That one actually won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Talk Show Host (somehow), but was axed after 2 seasons once more.

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The Tracy Morgan Show

The Tracy Morgan Show CRACKED.COM The Tracy Morgan Show was on the air from December 2003 to March 2004 for 16 episodes. Critics panned the show for not showcasing Morgan's unique comedy skills and instead hav- ing him mimic the funny dad who's trying his best arche- type. — Variety

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Eden

Contestants on a reality show spent months on an isolated island without knowing the show was canceled. CRACKED.COM After surviving a year-long experiment on an isolated island in 2016 for a British reality TV show Eden, 10 contestants learned that the show had been canceled after just 4 episodes. — Telegraph

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Candid Camera

Candid Camera 1948 Candia Camera CRACKED.COM The show (originally a radio show called Candid Microphone) was the first televised reality show, featuring regular members of the public as its stars. — Source: Guinness Book of Records

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South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS FOX TURNED DOWN THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK Before landing on Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone pitched the show to Fox. Executives at Fox turned them down because they didn't think a show about kids could work and wanted it to be more ly-centric. CRACKED.COM — YouTube

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The Dana Carvey Show

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Sponsors dropped the show over CLINTON'S TEATS THE DANA CARVEY SHOW CRACKED.COM The show's first-ever bit featured the President feeding kittens -- airing right after family show Home Improvement. It was apparent that after the first sketch there was a much steeper than normal drop-off in ratings, said writer Bob Smigel. We knew we had a problem. — GQ YouTube

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Best in Show

Mockumentaries - 2 180 Best in Show ChristopherGuest's comedy mockumentary about a dog show had real-life consequences. NBC Sports' Jon Miller found the entire concept and setting hilarious, and started broadcasting the National Dog Show every Thanksgiving since 2002. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Wikipedia, Philadelphia Magazine

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Jay & Silent Bob

TOP view Askewniverse Jay & Silent Bob's super Groovy cartoon Movie This movie exists. That fact should be enough. It was made of a budget of $69,000, which nice. GAC CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Facts About Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse

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Chernobyl

Chernobyl is connected to Scary Movie. Craig Mazin, author of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie, created Chernobyl. — Source: IMDb

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The Office

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Dwight Is No Movie Buff YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE! The HUGE! Office In The Merger Dwight claims to know everything about film as he's seen over 240 of them. But in Season 7 Dwight has never heard of the movie Pretty Woman. PRETTY BASIC MOVIE DWIGHT. — Source: The Office

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The Saturday Night Live Movie

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE ALMOST ENDED UP HAPPENING. VINOLA SM ARE Apparently, it was supposed to be a feature-length collection of movie-related sketches, and the idea was floated in 1990. There was even a full-length script, but the movie never got off the ground. — Source

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Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II basically ripped off a 1975 Charles Bronson movie. DAPCOM The backgrounds are pretty much just scenes from the movie (which is known in Japan as The Street Fighter). Capcom's chairman told Street Fighter // designer Akira Yasuda to draw on the movie for inspiration, which - as he said later - he thought meant plagiarize the movie. CRACKED.COM — 5 Famous Games Inspired By The Most Absolutely Random Things

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Popcorn

Movie theater popcorn costs more per ounce than fillet mignon Popcorn in movie theaters is sold at a 1,300% mark-up. This helps keep movie theaters afloat. CRACKED.COM — ABC News

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Disaster Movie

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Disaster Movie HD Imagine the worst movie you've ever seen. You must be imagining Disaster Movie from 2008. With sharp jokes about pee, and more complex jokes about farts, Disaster Movie answers the question What if we put everything from pop culture in one movie, and had them all say the F word? 1% on Rotten Tomatoes. — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers helped launch the zombie movie genre. A lot of Pittsburghers in the movie business got their start on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood -- including — Source: SFGate, ScreenRant

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Mad Max Fury Road

Mad Max Fury Road is a great movie to celebrate the Passover. This post-apocalyptic movie features a story about the liberation of slavery from the ev

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Fred Savage

Fred Savage's kids love the movie CRACKED.COM In a true full circle, Savage has showed his kids the movie, saying, They love seeing me as a kid, but they love the movie even with the kissy stuff. — Variety

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The Ghostbusters-Captain Marvel Connection

NOSTALGIA SEQUELS Ghostbusters: Afterlife РНОЕВЕ SPENGLER IS ALSO CAPTAIN MARVEL. Egon Spengler's granddaughter is played by McKenna Grace, whom you've also seen as young Carol Danvers in the Captain Marvel movie. In fact, playing younger versions of characters is pretty much her thing. CRACKED.COM — Source: On the Bright, Metro News

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Stan Lee

CRACKED MARVEL SCREWED OVER STAN LEE Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man, had to take Marvel Comics to court and eventually won a huge victory. Не was awarded 10% of the profits from any movies or TV shows based on his Marvel Comics superheroes. — The Guardian / Looper

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A.I.M.

Bad Goon Groups to Work For 18 A.I.M. Marvel Arguably the nerdiest vying-for-world-domination force in Marvel, A.I.M. mostly does stub in labs and has a Tesla/Google feel in terms of a workplace, complete with rotating authority figures and funding coming from questionable sources. CRACKED.COM — More: Marvel Database
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Ms. Marvel and Stargirl

MARVEL+DC PERFECT FRENEMIES MARVEL MS. MARVEL The two teens are both legacy characters with powers that would complement one another for a team up. It's not often that teen women heroes have a person so alike to lean on while being so different in terms of background and upbringing. DC STARGIRL CRACKED.COM — Marvel Studios, Warner Bros. Television
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Stan Lee

In Captain Marvel, Stan Lee is preparing for his Malirats cameo. Mrllrkts The movie is set in 1995, and he's reading the Mallrats script - - which cam — Source: Mashable

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Iron Man 2

CRACKED.COM MCU Blunders Iron Man 2 One of the worst-reviewed Marvel movies, and grossly interfered with by the Marvel Creative Committee - a process they'd repeat years later with Age of Ultron. — Source: The Verge

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Malcolm Spellman

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS THE AVENGERS' SALARY CAUSED A COMMOTION AT MARVEL STUDIOS. THEFALCON WINTER SOLDIER Creator Malcolm Spellman says the discussion about how much the Avengers get paid triggered everybody at Marvel. Kevin Feige and other Marvel higher-ups all wanted to have input on the scene. — YouTube

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Captain Marvel

MARVEL STUDIOS CAPTAIN MARVEL Yon-Rogg's manipulative scheme depends entirely on Carol Danvers not finding out about her past identity. And what does

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Captain America

Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea changed this movie's title to MARVEL STUDIOS THE FIRST AVENGER

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The Comic Book Bubble

MARVEL THE INFINITY ENGERS NCIBLE GAUNTLET MAN MARVEL AVENGERS FO مركية . in - - I I the I - I with - The MARVEL - - - - NAME - MATIC THANOS AVENGERS BENDIS APRIME DAVIS NE OM MAN LEMON - MINISTRY 1 - - The '90s comic book bubble brought Marvel to bankruptcy. Many were collecting comics in the early '90s, thinking that their collections would one day sell for big bucks - and Marvel was happy to cater to those people. When collectors realized that their books weren't rare enough to ever be valuable, they just stopped buying, leaving — Source: 16 Random Facts About, You Know, the World and Stuff

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The First Horror Movie Ever

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first moving picture of the horror genre is said to be The Execution of Mary Stuart (1895).
It’s only 18 seco — Source: The History of Horror

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Return of the Jedi

In order to avoid price-gouging, fans, and journalists, Lucasfilm convinced everybody they were shootinga a CRAON horror film called Blue Harvest... HALVEST BLUE ARVES HORROR BEYOND IMAGINATION when they were really filming Return Of The Jedi. — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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American Horror Story

The infamous murder house from American Horror Story's first season previously appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In Fear Itself, the gang gets t

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga gave American Horror Story's producer Ryan Murphy a bag Of her own vomit. Before their first meeting, Gaga was So nervous about her very fir

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The Wolf Man

Horror movies on streaming peacock The Wolf Man Bela Legosi auditioned for the part, but lost it to Lon Chaney Jr. (But he's Dracula, so he's already a horror icon.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bride of Chucky

BRIDE OF CHUCKY is usually dismissed by both horror fans and casual viewers alike. Which is a shame, because it's actually a brilliant, hilarious satire that cleverly deconstructs both slasher-horror and romantic comedies at the same time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Underrated Things & Three Reasons To Check Them All Out

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A Christmas Horror Story

A Christmas Horror Story CHRISTMAS HORROR STORE STORY AX and adidas FIRE sals KNOW AND BOOKS VIRGENT CRACKED.COM If you've ever wanted to hear William Shatner portray an alcoholic radio DJ describing a series offour interwoven horror stories, look no further! This 2015 Canadian gem fits perfectly into the truly absurd genre of Christmas horror movies, complete with zombie elves and Krampus. — Source

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Aquaman 2

Aquaman 2 takes its inspiration from a campy '60s Italian horror flick. The movie is Planet of the Vampires, and director James Wan said, You can take the boy out of horror, but you can never take the horror out the boy. CRACKED COM — Source

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Evil Clowns

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Stranger Things

The horror is rooted in reality. HORROR The horror in Montauk is supernatural - - buT rooted in science. Dark matter, black holes, worm holes, alterna

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