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Robin Wright

CRACKED.COM Princess Buttercup Everyone loved Robin wright. We all fell in love with her because she's just a wonderful, sweet human being, Cary Elwes has said. It's hard not to fall in love with Robin. — Source: The Wrap

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Mr. Robot

CRACKED COM IN MR.ROBOT CHARACTERS ARE OFTEN FRAMED AS IF BEING SUFFOCATED BY NEGATIVE SPACE IN ORDER TO DEPICT THEIR LONELINESS — Source

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake RECEIVING 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel's anti-communist metaphor is classic sci-fi noir, with many remakes. The worst one is The Invasion, with Nicole Kidman. The best? That'd be the 1978 one, which adds always reliable '70s paranoia, closely followed by Abel Ferrara's 1993 version. 1993 2007 1978 CRACKED.COM

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12 Monkeys

APOCALYPSE? HOW? 12 MONKEYS A disease accidentally getting airborne, in a plot that has barely anything to do with Bruce Willis' main character in this twisty Terry Gilliam film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Katy Perry

Katy Perry used to pretend she was Zooey Deschanel. Newly arrived in Los Angeles in 2002, a teen- aged Perry really enjoyed the club scene - and would often pass herself off as Deschanel to be admitted into clubs. I had no money, and I had no clout, I had nothing, and sometimes I would pose as to get into the club, Perry admitted in 2020. — More: Katy Perry Pretended To Be Zooey Deschanel To Get Into Clubs In The Early 2000s

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Randy Quaid

In 2010, Randy Quaid and his wife fled to Canada, claiming that their lives in Hollywood were in danger from a network of star whackers who had already murdered Heath Ledger and David Carradine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Always Be My Maybe

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE Ali Wong and Randall Park both grew up loving romantic comedies. Wong is a big fan of John Hughes movies and the chemistry between his characters, and Park loves The Apartment, Notting Hill, and has seen When Harry Met Sally more than any other movie. BEHIND — Glamour

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Tropes

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The Lion King

Disney behind the scenes The Lion King They brought goddamn real lions. Animators brought in live lions to study and draw. Or maybe they were just bored and wanted to hang out with some cool big cats. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Behind-The-Scenes Shots From Disney Movies That Are Magic

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Robin

The death of Robin was inspired by Saturday Night Live. Batman: A Death in the Family famously let readers decide Jason Todd's fate - a move DC lifted from an SNL sketch, where Eddie Murphy asked viewers to vote on whether a lobster would be boiled or spared. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mario and Luigi

L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. L The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM — Source: 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

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Mozart

Mozart's filthy love letters to his cousin. CRACKED.COM Mozart wrote a bunch of impressively raunchy letters to his cousin, Maria Anna Thekla. In one, he instructs her to shit in your bed with all your might, and in another, ponders a severe burning sensation: Oh my ass burns like fire! What on Earth is the meaning of this! Maybe muck wants to come out? Yes, yes, muck. — Source

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ESPN

CRACKEDcO uir BE uir B 12 o ESPN is hoping Korean baseball can save it. With sports events cancelled pretty much everywhere, ESPN is trying to get wha — Source: The New York Times

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Michael Fassbender

ORVIO Michael Fassbender based his acting in Prometheus on an Olympic diver. — Source: 7 Insane Ways Actors Got The Ideas For Famous Performances

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Batman Returns

CRACKED.COM Batman Returns Danny Devito got bitten by a monkey. The monkey was trained to deliver a letter to the Penguin, but instead leapt at him and bit him on the crotch. Fortunately for DeVito, the Penguin costume had extra padding in the area. — Source

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Sylvester Stallone

In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dan Brown

Foreshadowed in a cipher. a ATX YOUR TIMES BESTSELLING DAN BROWN THE DA VINCI CODE NOVEL DECEPTION POINT CRACKED.COM The last page of Dan Brown's Deception Point contains a coded message featuring a string of numbers and letters. Savvy readers replaced each number with the first letter of its corresponding chapter, and when you unscramble the message it reads: THE DA VINCI CODE WILL SURFACE. The Da Vinci Code was released two years later. — Source: 7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Publications

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Shakespeare

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Miley Cyrus

THE ACTOR: Miley Cyrus THE ROLE: Title role in Hannah Montana WHY SHE Cyrus says being in the public eye at such a HATED IT: young age gave her body image issues, and sparked anxiety attacks and hot flashes. CRACKED.COM — 24 Characters Actors Wish They'd Never Played

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Paul Feig

The Office made a calculated decision to lean into internet culture. I always credit YouTube for changing the way we look at things, says director Paul Feig. YouTube was real life captured and you have The Office, where the humor is all behavioral. It's about how people are reacting to each other. CRACKED.COM — The Office: How The Show Made A Calculated Decision To Lean Into Internet Culture

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

Pop culture inspirations Everything Everywhere All at Once Stephanie Hsu drew inspiration ة A from JIM CARREY and JOAQUIN i s PHOENIX's performances as ? ? The Riddler and The Joker for فة C her role in the sci-fi epic. ? م د. 6 CRACKED is — Source

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Action Park

ACTION PARK'S GRACKED.COM LOOPING WATER SLIDE Built at the infamous Action Park in New Jersey, this looping water slide was only open to the public for one month before it was shut down by The Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety. According to employee accounts, the looping slide resulted in several bloody noses and back problems during the time it was open with at least one person actually geting stuck in the loop. Employees were offered $100 to test the slide. According to legend, it actually dismembered some crash test dummies. — Source: 21 Failures That Should Have Been (Really) Obvious

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Disney World

Disney World is hiding an abandoned island. Disney used it as a wildlife observatory, but shut it down in 1999 when they opened Animal Kingdom and moved all the animals there. Today, it's an overgrown jungle of empty animal cages, ruled by vultures (the actual kind, not the cartoon Disney kind). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Daria

DARIA didn't wake up dead! DARIA CRACKEDCO While some musical episodes feature a song interlude or dream sequence, Daria! The Musical went wall-to-wall song. Cartoons like The Simpsons often went this route, but the one-off nature of this ep made it a Daria standout. — AV Club, YouTube

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Ellen DeGeneres

You used to be cool ELLEN DeGENERES' shattered reputation. After BuzzFeed detailed allegations of racial insensitivity, sexual harassment and bullying, Ellen's 30 years of likability were shattered. A Twitter thread asked people to share stories of Ellen being mean, and it quickly received over 2,600 replies. CRACKED — Source

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Six Flags

BATMAN: THE RIDE The Dark Knight is the inspiration for this thrilling inverted roller coaster ride. In other words, Six Flags painted this bad boy bl

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Scabbers

CRACKED.COM Harry Potter films The twist that Ron's rat Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew has horrifying implications. Ron has spent years fondling and shar

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Burger King

Ninja Burger BURGER KING NIN BURGE CRACKED.COM BK has tried several different black burgs in different parts of the world, with various ingredients dyed black with bamboo charcoal and squid ink. One version includes an oversized, floppy strip of meat to simulate the tongue of a popular anime ninja. — Source

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Avatar

AANG WAS GOING TO HAVE A FULL HERD OF SKY BISON. Bryan Konietzko pictured Aang as shepherding 20 bison. But then his partner Mike DiMartino said, Where are we going to put all of these giant creatures in every episode? — Source: Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Art of the Animated Series)

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Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: Ragnarok Valkyrie is referred to as Scrapper 142. The character first appeared in issue #142 SEES of Incredible Hulk. HURLI DEA WC — Source: CBR

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Atari

Indigo Prophecy CONTROVERSY...WHAT CONTROVERSY? FAHEENHEIT CRACKED.COM Gamers everywhere except North America know it as Farenheit. Atari was worried Americans would conflate it with Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. — Source

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Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills 90210 spanned the decade, 996 airing from 1990 - 2000. 1002 1002 1004 1005 1006 100 1485 1997 1998 19HR 1990 1991 In one fell swoop it 1997 1998 1999 pioneered the 1991 teen soap 1996 1997 1994 1995 drama and spawned a 1992 1993 small army of 1995 copycats. a and 1991 1999 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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Liam Aiken

Liam Aiken was nearly Harry Potter. I think I had this feeling that it wouldn't work out,' he says, But it was fine. I would have just been Harry Potter from then on. — Source: New York Magazine

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Show Dogs

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now Show Dogs Blasting from a past in which jokes about sexual abuse were funny (2018? Really?), this family comedy featured a dog being evaluated fora competition, while being told to focus on not reacting and instead go to his happy place. The scene was cut while the movie was still out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Butler

LEE DANIELS' CRACKEDCON THE BUILER the of an African-American who served the White House for over three decades, needed 41 producers. Independent fina

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Tales from the Crypt

Anthology Shows 1989 - 1996 TALES FROM THE CRYPT For older readers, this edgy HBO show means two things: boobs and blood. Isn't that what life is all about? No? Whatever. Based on the classic 1950s ЕС Comics stories, the iconic Cryptkeeper would pun his way through chilling tales of ghosts, monsters, and madness. Today, the IP is a mess, so don't expect a revival any time soon. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Last Jedi

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Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle secretly tied the knot with Bridgid Coulter during the pandemic. They started dating in 1992 and only got married almost 30 years later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dell

To promote a tablet, a Dell employee dressed up as a robber. Dell employee Bryan Chester entered a crowded Dell store wearing a biker mask and carryin

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Ted Lasso

Stupid plots that became reality On Ted Lasso Footballer Jamie Tartt leaves his club to go on the reality show Lust Conquers All. In reality Footballer Jamie Allen left his club to go on the reality show Love Island. CRACKED.COM — Apple TV+, ITV
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