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40

Bill Murray

CRACKED YOU'RE TOAST! Bill Murray created linguistic history when he improvised the line, All right, this chick is toast! in 1984's Ghostbusters. The Oxford English Dictionary added it as an alternate usage of the word toast, meaning a person or object that is defunct, dead, finished, etc. — Grammarphobia / USA Today

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Donald Duck

Cell phone use in Sweden drops 28% when an annual Donald Duck Christmas special is aired. CRACKED.COM The 1958 special 'Donald Duck and His Friends Wish You a Merry Christmas' plays every year at 3 pm on Christmas Eve on Swe- den's main channel, and the whole country seems to tune in to watch. — Atlas Obscura

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Law & Order: SVU

ODAFIN TUTUOLA wasn't meant to be a big character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ice-T says he was originally only supposed to do four episodes

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Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE CRACKEDcO A reasonably Norse gods kill tech-savvy sci-fi themselves; serial, humans invent somewhat time trav

36

SNL Finland

SNL around the world SNL Finland attempted to entertain Scandinavians with material lifted from the American show. It was canceled after a single season. CRACKED.COM — SNL Finland
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Mean Girls

Mean Girls was based on a teen self-help book. GRAU LINDSAYLOHAN INEY IAN ONNOHOS ANA EVSAD AVIPHIR AATE HONCKOL INIAROS HE Tiny Fey based ANGIRIS the

34

Precious

Precious PUSH CRACKED.COM SAPPHIRE Sapphire plays a woman at the day care center toward the end of the film. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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Yoo Seung-jun

Yoo Seung-jun, or Steve Yoo, is a former K-pop singer, Korean by birth, who became a naturalized US citizen. Dual citizenship is forbidden in Korea SO

32

Pac-Man

The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space games. 396 SHARP KAD-BY - Programmer Tod Frye later said if CRACKED.COM he had known how important a blue maze on a black background was to Pac-Man's iconicity, he would have broken that rule. — Source

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Get Out

BEHIND-THE-SCENESP FACTS THE MOVIE ALMOST HAD A MUCH DARKER ENDING. GET OUT Instead of Rod rescuing Chris, the movie was originally going to end with Chris getting arested. The ending was even shot, however, Peele decided to end it on a happier note after realizing it was a bit too — Collider

30

James Blunt

James Blunt just has an annoying face and a highly irritating voice, said a hater on Twitter. The singer's comeback? And no mortgage. CRACKED COM

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Saddam Hussein

CRACKED.COM SADDAM HUSSEIN WROTE ROMANCE NOVELS Не consulted with professional writers on his works before releasing them under a pen name that translates to Written by Не Who Wrote It. — Source

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Sydney Pollack

TOOTSIE UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS SYDNEY POLLACK Pollack helmed so many flicks that the classics get buried under the generic stuff. The former are all worth another look as Hollywood legends, though: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor, Tootsie, and The Firm. Legend even has it that he ghost-edited Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which kinda makes sense. CRACKED.COM — More: Wikipedia
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Mark Wahlberg

CRACKED At a press conference, Mark Wahlberg joked about how his 2008 flick, The Happening (directed by M. Night Shyamalan), wasn't his best career move. Не said, Fuck it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn't playing a cop or a crook. — Hollywood Reporter / SyFy

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The Incredibles

When Mr. Incredible gets i offered a secret job, a card THE INCREDIBLES prints out with the visible phone number: 787-7476. ABC DEF 1 MIRAGE 2 3 GHI JKL MNO 58-787-7476 4 5 6 PQRS TUV WXYZ 7 8 9 On a telephone keypad, 0 that spells out SUPRHRO (superhero). CRACKED.COM — Source

25

John Wick

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES MEANINGS JOHN WICK INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS At the end of John Wick 2, Wick walks through a park and everyone around him turns and stares. Many have wondered if this meant that everyone was an assassin, but the directors explained that it was coming from Wick's paranoid state of mind, and that they were trying to emulate the classic sci-fi horror movie where it feels like everyone's a potential danger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peter Kent

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Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy just decided to jump into that lobster tank in Venom. The crew put a huge lobster tank in the restaurant, and when Hardy saw it, he said he — Source: CinemaBlend

22

Terminator 2

Terminator 2 The steel mill The final showdown was shot at an actual decommissioned steel mill, which they made look operational through clever lighting. As the temperature during filming wasn't hot at all but instead a chilling 42 degrees, they had to put fake sweat on Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong. CRACKED.COM — Cinemablend, Wikipedia

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Charlize Theron

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Mike Schur

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Mike Shur Hated Mose The Office Mike Shur, creator of The Good Place and writer for the office, hated playing Mose. Shur says The joke became with the writers because they knew how much I hated it. Greg Daniels even told Shur he had to grow the Mose beard himself because a prosthetic beard would look fake. — Source: Cheat Sheet

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Dallas Buyers Club

CRACKED.COM ... Dallas Buyers club The makeup budget was $250. The makeup to transform Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey into AIDS patients was less than the cost of a modern video game console. The movie was nominated for an Oscar in makeup and hair styling. — Source: Vanity Fair

18

Kingdom Hearts

CRACKEDcO KNGDbJeS LDE on HO connnn Attack Magic MHD Items Summon Right before you fight possessed Riku, there's a very long cut scene. A cut scene yo

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Jamie Foxx

Miami Vice Jamie Foxx forced the ending to be changed. After shooting in the Dominican Republic turned out to be too dangerous, Foxx refused to leave the U.S. again- SO the planned ending to be shot in Paraguay had to be scrapped. — More: 6 Pissed-Off Actors Whose Demands Radically Changed Movies

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Mick Foley

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Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire TROPIC THUNDER MTV MOVIE AWARD Best Kiss Winner TOBEY MAGVIRE CRACKED.COM In this faux-trailer for a schlocky forbidden love story, Maguire pokes fun at his notoriously moody take on Peter Parker from Spider-Man 3 just a year earlier. — Source: YouTube

14

Joseph Stalin

YOUNG JOSEPH STALIN LOOKED LIKE THE KIND OF GUY WHO'D HAVE A VERY METICULOUS RANKING OF LOCAL CRAFT BEERS... OLD MAN JOSPEH STALIN LOOKED LIKE A GRUMPY GRANDPA WHO DABBLED IN ATROCITIES. (AND PROBABLY DRANK NATTY ICE) CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrity Photos That Are Completely Unrecognizable

13

Grand Theft Auto

GRAND THEFT AUTO CRACKED.COM Grand Theft Auto, originally titled Race'n'Chase, struggled to find its identity during development. The game first gave players the option to play as law enforcing police, but after realizing playing as a criminal was more fun, they decided to lean into the mayhem the series became known for. — Source

12

Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS DANIELLE community HARMON ALL 5 Dances At the dance during the season 1 finale, the Dean announces the nominees for the Transfer Dance Queen. One of the names is Danielle Harmon, a shout-out to the show's creator, Dan Harmon. CRACKED COM — Video clip

11

Watchmen

WATCHMEN HAS A CLEVER TITLE SEQUENCE THAT PERFECTLY SETS UP THE MOVIE'S ALTERNATE UNIVERSE TO THE TUNE OF BOB DYLAN'S THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN' MINUTEMEN 19 o WATCHMEN UAN ARLA GUGINO STUNG BY KRISTY CARLSON, C.S.A. VISUAL EFFECTS SUPEL ISOR JOHN DJ DESJA DIN NIXON ELECTED FOR THIRD TERM SADLY, IT'S FOLLOWED BY 3+ HOURS OF ZACK SNYDER'S SOULESS PANDERING CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Shining Moments That (Almost) Redeemed Terrible Movies

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Prince Albert

Prince Albert of Monaco was a big bobsledder (he was in the Olympics). MON ACO TOMMY KILFIGER He competed in the Olympics for over a decade, and even stayed in the olympic Village with the hoi polloi -- I think it's a must. It's part of the Olympic experience. CRACKED.COM — Source: ESPN

9

Dune

YOU CAN COLOR IN BARON HARKONNEN'S WEEPING PUSTULES IN THIS DUNE-THEMED ACTIVITY BOOK FOR KIDS. DUNE ACTIVITY BOOK I - - - - Dune was a trippy sci-fi drama about space drugs, complicated galactic political intrigues and Sting in his underwear. CRACKED.COM http://oihouse.net/2011/03/franchised-goodies-for-the-children-of-dune/ — Source

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The Oscars

Of the 84 Oscar Best Picture winners from 1929 to 2013, just nine were set in Asia. 9 4 Four were set in Africa, and none in Australia or South America. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr.

27 Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Goodfellas

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Found Us As Orphaned Infants, Took Us In and Cared for Us As If We Were Their Own — Source: NY Daily News

5

Grey’s Anatomy

Dr. Erica Hahn was a breakout character on Grey's Anatomy. But in season 6, she walked out to her car and was never seen again. She was an open lesbia — Source: ABC News

4

Scream

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The voice actor for Ghostface was kept out of view of the actors. CRACKED.co In the Scream series, the voice actor for Ghostface (Roger L. Jackson) was hidden on set when he voiced his lines to keep the on-screen actors believably unsettled by him. When characters are taunted by him on the phone, he really is talking to them from somewhere out of sight. He also voiced Mojo Jojo on The Powerpuff Girls, so there's that. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies

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Tenet

Nolan wrecked a plane, for... reasons TENET CRACKED.COM While he never really explained why or how, Christopher Nolan said in an interview that, compared to CGI or building miniatures, it would actually be more efficient to buy a real plane of the real size. — Source: Newsweek

2

Invader Zim

Movie and TV Aliens Invader Zim Zim was fully conceived in an hour (during a sleepless night). Johnen Vasquez couldn't fall sleep, so he thought up Invader Zim's characters and story beats within an hour's time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cheerleading

CRACKEDcO AlI cheerleading is run by a single company. Varsity Brands owns American cheerleading. All of it the competitions, the cheer camps, the uni — More: Monopolies Normal People Have No Clue Exist

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