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40 Classic TV and Movie Tidbits Deeply Embedded in the Collective Memory of Everyone Who Should Be Scheduling Their Annual Physical Right Now

Rewinding the clock for anyone who remembers what rewinding is

40 Classic TV and Movie Tidbits Deeply Embedded in the Collective Memory of Everyone Who Should Be Scheduling Their Annual Physical Right Now

November 29, 2024

Back when there weren’t a billion shows on a billion streaming services, we all felt like one big audience. Good movies were in theaters and good TV was on one of a handful of networks, so it wasn’t too hard for everyone to know everything that was out there. Nowadays, though, you hear about some new title, and it sounds like these kids are just making it up to mess with us. And they probably are, those little whippersnappers!

Wow, we feel pretty old right now. But with classic movies and shows like these, we’re okay with that.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Close Encounters of the Third Kind Besides the insane model work, the alien ship was shot on 70 mm film, which has a greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the movie. This allowed it to keep a good deal of sharpness and detail in the final composition. — Source

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Predator

Predator (1987) The Predator's blood is a mixture of K-Y Jelly and glow stick fluid. The same effect is still used in the sequels. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Clerks

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s CLERKS ALMOST NO ONE WENT TO THE PREMIERE. Pretty much everyone in the audience had worked in the film. One of the few who didn't, however, turned out to be associated with Sundance, and got the movie in the festival. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Jurassic Park

40 Classic TV and Movie Tidbits Deeply Embedded in the Collective Memory of Everyone Who Should Be Scheduling Their Annual Physical Right Now — Source

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V for Vendetta

CRACKED.COM V for Vendetta The movie was almost made in the '90s. Hilary Henkin, writer of movies like Road House and Wag the Dog, wrote a script in the early '90s which the Los Angeles Times called Les Misérables meets A Clockwork Orange. It was never produced, though. — Source

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The Virgin Suicides

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s THE VIRGIN SUICIDES THE NOVEL DROVE SOFIA COPPOLA TO BECOME A DIRECTOR. I really didn't know I wanted to be a director until I read The Virgin Suicides and saw so clearly how it had to be done, Coppola said-and indeed, the adaptation was one of her first movies. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Family Matters

Judy Was the youngest daughter on Family Matters. And in the fourth season, she vanished. Her last appearance was in an episode called Mama's Wedding — Source: Family Matters Wiki

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Diff’rent Strokes

40 Classic TV and Movie Tidbits Deeply Embedded in the Collective Memory of Everyone Who Should Be Scheduling Their Annual Physical Right Now

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Twin Peaks

CRACKED TWIN PEAKS Twin Peaks' finale was a daring, risky episode that pushed the boundaries of network TV. It's still remembered as one of the strangest hours of network TV ever, with a surreal nightmare and a cruel twist. — GQ

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The Sopranos

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The Wire

AND THE EMMY DOESN'T GO TO: THE WIRE SCIENCES ARTS & OF TELEVISION ACADEMY The Wire is often considered one the best shows of all time- the Emmys, how

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The Twilight Zone

Actors who played themselves THE TWILIGHT ZONE Rod Serling Though he wrote and appeared in most episodes, Serling was always himself- he's identified as such in one episode. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Twilight Zone Wiki

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Bewitched

Samantha Stevens' signature nose-twitch in Bewitched relied on a subtle visual effect. In any shot where you see Samantha twitching her nose, the footage is slightly sped up. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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Good Times

CRACKED Good Times canned patriarch James Evans. After actor John Amos mentioned that white writers weren't realistically writing black characters, his character was killed in an off-screen car accident. They completed 3 more seasons without him. adidas — Ebony / Variety

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Three’s Company

CRACKED SUZANNE SOMERS & JOHN RITTER On Three's Company, she was paid $30,000 per episode to Ritter's $150,000. When she pushed for a raise, the show replaced her, and she said that Ritter shunned her. They briefly reconciled just before his passing. — Insider / Biography / GV Wire

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Full House

An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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All in the Family

The first content warning 1971 The program you are about to see is ALL IN THE FAMILY. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. CRACKED.COM All in the Family featured several of the first slurs to appear on TV, and was preempted by this warning to contextualize them-kind of like how Disney+ warns kids about their racist crows and cats. — Source

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Jaws

The first-ever film to hit $100 million at the box office was a little horror movie called Jaws. The famous shark film is widely considered to be the

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Manhattan

MANHADAN won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MERLAL In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance w

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Napoleon Dynamite

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Jon Heder was BARELY PAID CRACKED.com At first, anyway. Since it was the film school classmates' first low-budget film, Heder was paid a cool $1,000 for his iconic performance. After the film grossed more than $40 million, he was given a cut of the earned profits. — Cleveland.com

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The Thing

The Thing film had visual limitations. CRACKED.COM Author John W. Campbell describes 3 eyes on a face ringed with a writhing, loathsome face of blue, mobile worms that crawled where hair should grow. The 1982 film shows a humanoid, plant-based alien due to limited special effects. — Screenrant / TOR

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Con Air

Con Air used a real plane for all its stunts. Before the film? The plane dropped Agent Orange on the Vietnamese. After the film? It crashed in Alaska, — For details, read 5 Famous Movie Locations (With Horrible Secret Backstories)

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Eraserhead

CRACKED.COM If not for SISSY SPACEK David Lynch's landmark film ERASERHEAD might not have been made. In addition to funding the film with her husband,

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The Terminator

THE TERMINATOR could have lost the robot skeleton scene. The chairman of the film studio didn't like the unfinished shots and demanded that the film e

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Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs torture scene was too gory for Wes Craven. When the film was shown at Sitges Film Festival in Spain, Craven and four other people walke — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Game of Death

Bruce Lee's final film foretold his son's death. GAME OF DEATH/ THE CROW CRACKED CO In Lee's final film, he played an actor who is accidentally killed

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The First Audible Curse Words in Film

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first audible curse words in film The 1929 Paramount film Glorifying the American Girl has the first curse words in cinema history. They say damn six times, and jackass twice. — Source

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Aladdin

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - In Aladdin, when Jafar ends the Prince Ali reprise by launching Aladdin and the tower — Source: Film School Rejects

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Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson's favorite Jackson movies aren't what you think. It's not, say, a bunch of Tarantino movies - his list of his favorite movies only includes one Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, and movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight from 1996 and The Red Violin from 1998. — Source

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger has said I'll be back in other movies besides the Terminator franchise. Eleven other movies, to be exact. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sabrina

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1954 Sabrina The original is a timeless classic by Billy Wilder, starring Audrey friggin' Hepburn and Humphrey friggin' Bogart. The Sidney Pollack remake with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond adds a nice post- Petty Woman twist, but can't really touch the first one. 1995 CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess CRACKED.COM Xena was supposed to be killed off after a three-episode arc on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but was so popular she got a six-season starring role instead. — Source

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show CRACKED.COM The world was introduced to Andy Griffith in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. Thomas takes time off from being a good comedian and terrible father to get arrested in the small town of Mayberry. — Source

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L.A. Law

L.A. Law 1991 CRACKED.COM The show featured a bisexual woman who kissed a colleague. It was the first same-sex kiss shown on U.S. television. — Source

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The Fresh Prince

CRACKED.COM NORTH OLF Tyra Banks' first speaking role was on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Before she screamed her belief in us, Banks had a recurring role as Jackie, Will's friend/ex-girlfriend from West Philadelphia who got to University of California on a basketball scholarship. — Source

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Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy CRACKED.COM Mork from Ork originally appeared on Happy Days, attempting to kidnap Richie Cunningham. The episode was technically one long dream sequence, but people loved Robin Williams' performance so much, they edited the ending and spun off a four-season show. — Source

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina The Teenage Witch CRACKED COM Sabrina hails from the Archie universe. She had her own animated series in the 70's, but her first appearance was as the new kid at Riverdale in 1968's The Archie Show.

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Star Trek: Deep Space 9

The Deep Space 9 prop department had a field day with the Promenade directory. PROMENADE DIRECTORY Actiate The directory is crammed with classic sci-f

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Soap

SOAPWAS A Z7Os PRIME TIME SOAP OPERASPOOF. And IT ended WITH JESSICA ABOUT TO Be SHOT BY A FIRING SQUAD. Soap was a mostly lighthearted comedy that fo

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