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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked From a Lion’s Paw

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked From a Lion’s Paw

November 26, 2024

Nintendo originally credited Zelda developers under fake names, so their competitors couldn’t find them to offer a higher salary.

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Bruce Lee

CRACKED FAN STUNTS A man challenged BRUCE LEE to a fight. Wong Jack-man didn't like the way Lee conducted himself in an interview, and wished to fight him. Lee accepted, and won, but spectators said it was a close fight. — Source

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Luke Hemsworth

Luke Hemsworth got his biceps injured a couple days before shooting a fight scene for WESTWORLD. The scene was rewritten so Stubbs gets shot in the arm and has to fight one-handed. — Source: Insider

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Barbie Ferreira

Behind-the-scenes Drama Euphoria Barbie Ferreira had a fight with sam Levinson. Anonymous reports and rampant internet speculation have blamed Kat's reduced role on fight between the actress and the show's creator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fight Club

CRACKED.COM FIGHT CLUB WAS BOOED BY AUDIENCES. Releasing the movie with the Columbine shooting still fresh, while marketing it as a macho flick rather than the dark satire it was intended to be, didn't do Fight Club any favors. Both audiences and critics angrily turned their backs on the film. It didn't gain its cult status until it was released on DVD. — Source: 15 Movies And Shows (That Started Out As Flops)

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Blade

Tired action tropes that still work Dance club fight scene Blade set the standard for the modern dance club fight scene, yet more recent examples include The Dark Knight, John Wick and The Batman. Fight scenes are awesome, but dancing? That just sounds exhausting. CRACKED.COM

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Eddie

CRACKED.COM Frasier There were two Eddies. Eddie was played by father and son Moose and Enzo. A dog dynasty. — Source: New York Post

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Fight Club

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked From a Lion’s Paw

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Blade Runner

A fight scene got cut from Blade Runner. When Deckard and Gaff search an apartment and find the snake scale, they were supposed to pull down a Murphy bed from the wall, releasing a replicant hiding inside who would fight them. There was no money for it, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

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They Live

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The shot-for-shot creation of They Live. In the second episode of season 5, Timmy and Jimmy get into an elaborate fight that lasts over two minutes. It's a recreation of the fight between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David in John Carpenter's 1988 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source, video clip, video clip

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What We Do in the Shadows

They put a bat fight in What We Do in the Shadows because they couldn't afford actors fighting. Deacon and Nick were supposed to be in human form during their fight in the air, but the movie had no money for the wire work needed to keep them in the — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Idina Menzel

Idina Menzel was credited as Adele Dazeem in a playbill. AT THIS PERFORMANCE THE ROLE OF ELIZABETH WILL BE PLAYED BY ADELE DAZEEM After John Travolta famously butchered her name, the Broadway show If/Then (which starred Menzel) made a nod to the mispronunciation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Death Metal

Heavy metal band NAPALM DEATH has a huge following in Indonesia and are credited with sparking the country's enormous death metal scene. CHOICE Their

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Dr. Seuss

Dr Seuss himself wrote the lyrics to the song You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch. Не co-produced the How the Grinch Stole Christmas! special, and got credited as Ted Geisel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Legend of Zelda

TLOZ's dev team were credited under pseudonyms. THANKS LINK, YOU' RE THE HERO OF HYRULE. FINALLY, PEACE RETURNS TO HYRULE. THIS ENDS THE STORY. CRACKED.COM Nintendo wanted to make sure competitors couldn't poach them, so all the names in the credits are fake. Shigeru Miyamoto is credited as S. Miyahon. — Source

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Matt Groening

People Who Didn't Want Anything To Do With Their Own Work - Matt Groening disowned and refused to be credited on a particular episode of The Simpsons — Source: Screen Rant

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Kim Il-sung

Kim IL-Sung OPERA COMPOSER The Korean dictator's credited for writing six operas, including Sea of Blood. Okay, we don't know he really wrote them, bu — Source: The Atlantic

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Chris Claremont

21 People Who Get Unfairly Left Out Of The History Books - Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are generally credited with creating the X-Men. But their vision of — For details, read 6 Pop Culture Visionaries Who Get Too Much Credit

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Rob Zombie

Famous People’s Voices (Secretly) In Your Favorite Movies - Rob Zombie voiced an unseen Ravager (that's how he was credited) — Source: Film School Rejects

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Dick Van Dyke

MARY POPPINS Dick Van Dyke On top of Bert the chimney sweep, he plays the ancient, crumbling banker Mr. Dawes Sr. (credited as Navckid Keyd).

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Jason Lee

Actor Jason Lee is a skateboarding legend. Lee is often credited for either inventing or perfecting the 360 flip, and he still gets out and tears it u — Source: 8 Celebrities Who Are Great at the Last Thing You'd Expect

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The Rock

Tyrese Gibson tried to start a feud with The Rock over Fast & Furious. A custody dispute apparently took its toll on Gibson's mental state, as he dema

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Oprah

Oprah LETTERMAN CRACKEDCO Oprah has ascended to the pantheon of single-n fame, but she didn't do it on Letterman. Their feud began with Letterman pran — Source: Collider

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Sharon Stone

Hollywood feuds WILLIAM BALDWIN VS SHARON STONE On 1993's Sliver, Stone's violent feud with Baldwin led to her biting his tongue so hard in a make-out scene that he couldn't speak for weeks. CRACKED — Source

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Dane Cook

COMEDY NERD For years, Dane Cook and Louis CK were in a feud about stealing jokes. ET Louis never claimed outright that Cook stole jokes from him, though - and, eventually, he totally backed off, saying I'm not sure he stole them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Comedian Feuds We Didn’t Know About

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Steve Harvey

Family Feud FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE 10 27 CRACKED.cO Steve Richard Dawson Harvey displays sets up sex and a problematic poop jokes, horniness for e

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. The feud started in 1933 over competing for headlines, and the affection of actor Franchot Tone. It reached a boiling point on and off set of their 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The life-long feud inspired the FX show Feud. — Source

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Family Feud

Beloved celebrities who used to be hated In 2007, the media was totally obsessed with BRITNEY SPEARS Every time something happened in her life, it was all over the tabloids and other news outlets. Even the game show Family Feud asked people to list things she had lost that year. CRACKED

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Billy Mays

You wouldn't think starring in commercials was high-stakes enough to spark a feud, but TV pitchman Billy Mays was known for getting pissed off at ment

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Bill Murray

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked From a Lion’s Paw — Source: Us Magazie

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The Hatfields vs. The McCoys

A rare genetic condition probably stoked the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Several descendants of the McCoys were found to have von Hippel-Lindau disease, which causes adrenal tumors that make you short-tempered and violent. So, at least on the McCoy side, the feud was probably fuelled by tumors pressing on the adrenal glands of those involved. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Historical Facts That Don't Get Mentioned

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Elinor Burkett

THE KANYE MOMENT AT THE 2010 OSCARS. While accepting the award for Best Documentary Short, producer and director Roger Ross Williams was interrupted by fellow producer Elinor Burkett, who went on with her own speech, causing some awkwardness. Burkett, who was forced off the production but kept her producer credit, — WNYC, Video

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Bob Rock

Bob Rock CRACKED.COM Rock is a music producer who has worked with Metallica, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Motley Crue. — Source: The Canadian Music Hall of Fame

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Russell Crowe

Hollywood feuds RUSSELL CROWE VS A GLADIATOR PRODUCER While filming Gladiator, Crowe allegedly threatened seasoned producer Branko Lustig, and said that he would kill him with his bare hands, because he was annoying the hell out of him. CRACKED — Source

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The Pixar Theory

15 Convincing Fan Theories, Debunked - The Toy Story 4 producer debunked the Pixar Theory. Producer Mark Nielsen and director Josh Cooley said on the — Source: ScreenCrush

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Nas

CRACKED NASCRED NEW HIS SEVEN-YEAR- OLD DAUGHTER AS A PRODUCER. Nas listed his child daughter as an executive producer on his Platinum album Stillmatic, to ensure she will always receive royalties from the album's sales. — Ill Will Records,
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Jeremy Clarkson

CRACKED TOP GEAR JEREMY CLARKSON Jeremy Clarkson got the boot from Top Gear after getting into a fight with a producer. It started because the producer told Clarkson the hotel kitchen was closed and he couldn't get a hot meal. — Source

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Space Jam

In Space Jam, Bill Murray says he's friends with the producer, and he was. His explanation for entering the world of toons is that the movie's producer is his friend, and one of Space Jam's producers is Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDB

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Bollywood

Hollywood isn't the biggest movie producer in the world. HO LLY WOOD That title belongs to Bollywood. In 2013, the HDAT Hindi film industry put out 72

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Rihanna

Rihanna's Diamonds took 14 minutes to write. (The producer said, That's insane.) It sold 3.5 million copies.

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Kevin Feige

Kevin Feige was hired on to the first X-Men film as an assistant. Feige was eventually given an associate producer credit when another producer dis- covered he was a walking encyclopedia of Marvel. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — NY Times / Wikipedia

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