35 of Your Favorite Movie and TV Plots, Premises and Characters That You’ve Been Misunderstanding Since Day One

You’ll never see these in the same light again
35 of Your Favorite Movie and TV Plots, Premises and Characters That You’ve Been Misunderstanding Since Day One

These movie and TV finds are much bigger than your run-of-the-mill Easter eggs. Easter eggs give you a split-second smile and head nod like, “I see what you did there,” but after this list, a quick rewatch of these movies and shows will give you a much longer smile-free nod like, “Oh my god, I never properly understood this until now!”  

It was pretty jarring at first, but we think it’s better to know the truth, don’t you?

The Sopranos

The Sopranos Tony Soprano is Boss of the DiMeo crime family. There is no Soprano crime family. CRACKED.COM

Dirty Harry

CRACKED DIRTY HARRY NEEDS A BODYCAM TO KEEP HIM IN CHECK. DIRTY HARRY In one of Clint Eastwood's most iconic films, this rogue cop is supposed to follow a strict code of conduct, but he violates civil rights, abuses prisoners, and kills at will. He's portrayed as good, but he's a menace to society.

Transformers

CRACKED OPTIMUS PRIME LET PEOPLE DIE TO PROVE A POINT. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON After the Decepticons wreak havoc on Chicago, Optimus tells the humans that he deliberately didn't intervene sooner so that they would realize the truth about the evil robots. Thousands of innocent people died for him to prove a point.

Sex and the City

CRACKED CARRIE BRADSHAW IS SELFISH AND SUPERFICIAL. SEX AND THE CITY As viewers matured, they realized that Carrie was materialistic, needy with toxic men (prioritizing them over her friends), and she never matured into a strong independent role model for young women.

Office Space

Swingline didn't sell red staplers at the time. CRACKED.COM Mike Judge had to make his own prop stapler. Не even approached them about a product placement deal, but they didn't see any value in it. Three years after the film was released, they caved and began selling a Red Rio model.

Gilligan’s Island

Think it was odd that the Professor on Gilligan's Island could build a Geiger counter out of coconuts but never even tried to just patch the Minnow? Actually, he did try. MINNOW In an early episode, he tried to repair the holes with glue made from tree sap. The glue failed and destroyed the boat permanently. CRACKED.COM

Moana

CRACKED MAUI TRIED TO MURDER MOANA. MOANA Не starts by dooming the world for selfish reasons, then when Moana needs him to rectify this, he shut her in a cave without food or water, and sails off on her boat. Then he leaves her with those murderous coconuts.

Friday the 13th

It's often believed that Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th used a chainsaw as a murder weapon... ...but he never - not even once - used a chainsaw in the entire movie franchise. CRACKED.COM

Friends

CRACKED POUTING DOESN'T MAKE ROSS GELLER A NICE GUY. FRIENDS Seen as the ultimate nice guy, he's a jealous control freak who never supports Rachel's career. Не cheats (claiming they were on a break), lied about reading her letter, and lied about the annulment so Rachel would stay married to him (without her knowledge).

500 Days of Summer

CRACKED ТОМ HANSEN WAS THE PROTOTYPICAL NICE GUY. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER planet earth ISPY par - NOWHERE CINCERNA DO TOUT LOVE WILL TEAR US AFAKI LOST 1SOT 12303 After years of hearing what nice guy Tom was, Joseph Gordon-Levitt said, I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

Superbad

SETH'S CRACKED ENTIRE PLOT IS DATE RAPE. SUPERBAD His master plan is to get Emma Stone's character drunk enough to sleep with him. When he discovers she doesn't drink, he whines, gets grabby, and vomits on her. Worse, he seems to be practicing for a string of similar assaults in college.

Love Actually

CRACKED THE DEPLORABLE PRIME MINISTER. LOVE ACTUALLY Hugh Grant as The Prime Minister is essentially Tony Blair with a Bill Clinton libido. Grant might be lovable in '90s rom-coms, but he abuses his power to sleep with a young aide. Relentless, he and his security guards even crash her family Christmas.

Sixteen Candles

CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

CRACKED DAVE USED THE CHIPMUNKS TO FURTHER HIS CAREER. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ALVIN AND In the 2007 movie, when struggling musician Dave Seville first meets the chipmunks, he throws them out into the rain. Не only lets them back in after hearing them sing, and realizing they can help his music career.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE ACTORS LIVED IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD DURING SHOOTING. All of the actors who played patients actually stayed in the sleep quarters at the Oregon State Hospital, to get a sense of what it was like to be hospitalized. CRACKED.COM

Willy Wonka

CRACKED WILLY WONKA WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY He's egotistical, and does nothing to help the endangered children that displease him. Oh and the Oompa Loompas are basically slaves.

2 Fast 2 Furious

2FAST 2FURIOUS Vin Diesel isn't in all of the Fast & Furious movies. Не turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious, and only made a brief cameo at the end of The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift. CRACKED.COM

Pink Panther

The Pink Panther wasn't the name of a character in the 1963 movie. THE PINK PANTHER It was the name of a big pink diamond with a flaw in the shape of a leaping panther. The movie was about a thief trying to steal that diamond. CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

MR H.POTTER. The Cupboard under the Stairs, 4, Privet Drive. Little Whinging. SURREY It's a misconception that witches and wizards receive their Hogwarts letter on their 11th birthday. While Harry Potter got to read his letter on his 11th birthday, Hogwarts mailed it to him numerous times before that day. CRACKED.COM

The Office

Much of the humor of the office comes from how, as a manager, Michael Scott is an incompetent buffoon. .. RAKL HITE - CONT CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT TO di THE YEAR SUNDER EMPIRE DATE - KISCHE A SCOTT 1997 - APT WITH - MICHAEL G SCOTT - - - People forget, however, that he is also a top-notch salesman, winning Dunder Mifflin's Top Salesman of the Year two years in a row (1996 & 1997). CRACKED.COM

That ‘70s Show

CRACKED.COM That 70s Show Fez's nickname isn't derived from his real name. It's an abbreviation of foreign exchange student, with the s replaced by a z.

Henry Selick

CRACKED.COM You probably thought Tim Burton was the one who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, but he only contributed the concept of the film through his poem. The film was the hard work of Henry Selick, who directed the film without much input from Burton.

The Mad Hatter

GRACKED.COM The name Mad Hatter wasn't given by Lewis Carroll. In fact, the book simply calls him the hatter. The term mad as a hatter came from hat makers getting mercury poisoning as part of their profession. Back then, mercury nitrate was used in the process of turning animal fur into felt.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes doesn't always win. The Great Detective usually solves the mysteries, but not always in time to prevent a crime or catch the bad guy. Не admits to a prospective client, I have been beaten four times-three times by men, and CRACKED.COM once by a woman. /

Pokemon

Pikachu is actually pretty damn weak. جامعة Every two seasons or so he gets his ass kicked by some unevolved, inconsequential chump. Makes you wonder why Team Rocket tries so hard to catch him. CRACKED.COM

Casablanca

CRACKED.COM Romantic? Yes. But Casablanca is also a masterpiece of World War II propaganda. Warner Brothers produced the film following a pro-war rubric outlined by the U.S. Department of War. The Department was hoping to shift the American public's stance against intervention in the escalating conflict in Europe. When will you realize that in this world, today, isolationism is no longer a practical policy? -Signor Ferrari, to American Rick Blaine

Game of Thrones

When you think of Game Of Thrones, you think of gratuitous nudity, right? Think Again. Although wandering nudes and graphic sex were common during Season 1, they steadily declined as the show progressed. By the final season, those scenes were effectively gone. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

remember and WHOLE Cristy B Seinfeld as being the quintessential show about nothing, but it often had long-running - storylines. 11 CONKAMON & SOLAR ABE THIS Season Four, for instance, was about the show's Jerry Seinfeld getting his own sitcom, and Season S Seven was about George Costanza's engagement to Susan Ross. LAB S I C 03250 BCCOM WEED CRACKED.COM

The Happening

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CRACKED.COM M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MARK WAHLBERG THE HAPPENING FROM ITS INCEPTION, 'THE HAPPENING WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY OR TO BE GOOD. IT WAS THE RESULT OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN WANTING TO CREATE A MODERN DAY B-MOVIE IN LINE WITH THE CHEESY HORROR/PARANOIA FILMS OF THE 50'S AND 60'S LIKE 'THE BIRDS' AND 'INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. - CRITICS AND MOVIEGOERS NEVER GOT THE MEMO -

Drag Me to Hell

Drag Me to Hell is about eating disorders. PORK QUEEN FAIR - Farmer r 1995 -The main character, Christine, was a chubby child -She lies about her eating habits -The demons vomit on her and force things down her throat -When she tries to eat, the food becomes horrifying -No one else can see what's happening to her CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

When it was first released, Fight Club became one of the most controversial films of its time. It was condemned for glorifying violence and was cited as the cause for the formation of many real-life fight clubs. Ironic, considering the film is a criticism of hyper-masculinity as Tyler Durden is not only the ideal masculine man, but also CLUB the film's antagonist and a psychopath that no one is supposed to relate to. CRACKED.COM

Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2is a cinematic retelling of Ayn Rand's objectivist opus Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged's protagonist is playboy Hank Rearden, who got super-rich by inventing a valuable metal alloy whose formula he continues to keep secret. The government tries to forcibly take the rights to Rearden's alloy away from him. So, the plot of Iron Man 2. CRACKED.COM

Lost In Translation

Bill Murray's whisper to Scarlett Johannson at the end of Lost in Translation isn't romantic. It wasn't scripted to be, either. Murray adlibbed something about talking to her husband. Yeah, Bob loves Charlotte, but he wimps out and never tells her. CRACKED.COM

RoboCop

Think Robocop is a fun sci-fi cop flick? It's actually a Christian allegory. It is about a guy who gets crucified in the first 50 minutes, and then is resurrected in the next 50 minutes, and then is like the supercop of the world. -Director Paul Verhoeven CRACKED.COM

The Shining

THE SHiNiNG was not so much about ghosts as it was about the destructive nature of ALCOHOL Jack Torrance's spiral into the crazy was caused by the hotel ghosts giving him booze. Stephen King wrote the story during a time when he was struggling with alcoholism. CRACKED.COM

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