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January 04, 2025

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Pixar

Pixar Rules of Storytelling 16 What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against them. In Soul, if Joe doesn't get back to life, he'll never achieve his lifelongdream of being a professional jazz musician, making his life a waste! OK, cool, he made it- Oh, no, he's in the body of his cat! Aw, man, what next? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ghost of Goodnight Lane

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2014 GHOST OF GOODNIGHT LANE A movie about a haunted set filmed at said haunted set... had a haunted set. Before production, a specialized team considered Media World Studios actually haunted. Then, while doing the movie, lights flickered, things would move around, and disembodied voices could be heard. People felt slapped by invisible forces, and even reported visions of unknown figures. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wonder Woman

WONDER WOMAN VILLAIN EGG FU IS A GIANT YELLOW EGG WITH A FU MANCHU MUSTACHE WHO SPEAKS IN BROKEN 'ENGRISH.' THE AMELICANS WOULD BE WARNED IF THE LOCKET WERE FIRED AT RONG RANGE! SO--WE WILL WAIT UNTIL THEIR FLEET COMES TOO CLOSE FOR THEM TO ESCAPE ANNIHILATION ! AND OUR SCOUT PLANES LADAR WARNS US THAT WILL BE VELY VELY SOON! HEEEE-HO! HE'S A COMMUNIST WHO TRIES TO TORPEDO THE NAVY FLEET. CRACKED COM Wonder Woman #157. 1965. — Source: 28 Cringeworthy Comic Book Storylines the Movies Left Out

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Bridgerton

The Duke always wears his late mother's enamel brooch The brooch is diamond and emerald-encrusted, fit for a Duke. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: E! Online

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South Park

In the South Park song Let's Fighting Love, the lyric mistaken for kickassu is actually kenka suru, Japanese for quarrelling or squabbling. The rest of the Japanese lyrics are either admitting to how stupid the song is or talking about the singer's genitals. (Perhaps foreshadowing for the public nudity incident later in Good Times With Weapons, the episode the song is from?) CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Tambor got kicked off of Transparent because of alleged harassment. nt m That was the decision Amazon Studios took after an investigation that looked into those harassment allegations. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meet the Parents

CRACKED.COM Baffling things done by the CIA Messing with Meet the Parents Originally, Ben Stiller was supposed to find out Robert De Niro's character was CIA after finding torture manuals, but the agency demanded he find photos of De Niro with famous people instead. Planning coups for corporate overlords is one thing, but messing with mediocre comedies? Too far, CIA. — DreamWorks SKG, Universal Studios
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Chevy Chase

chevy bill CHASE MURRAY GRACKED.COM SNL cast members already resented the departed Chase before he returned to host in 1978. When Chevy brought his prickly, bossy attitude with him, Murray called him out. After trading insults about unsatisfied spouses and bad skin conditions, the two grappled before Belushi pulled them apart. — Source: “I’ll Put A Bullet In Your Head”: 15 Comedy Feuds That Weren’t Always Funny

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Tim Roth

TIM ROTH is sorry for his flattering portrayal of FIFA boss Sepp Blatter. - DEPARDIEU NEILL ROTH UNITED PASSIONS THe TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD CUP Roth — THR

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Cyborg

The main characters in the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme flick cyborg are all named after music instrument companies. There's Van Damme's character, Gibs — Sources: Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikipedia

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Julia Garner

JULIA GARNER, MUSOPHOBIC CRACKED.COM You wouldn't think Ruth Langmore would be afraid of anything, but she has a serious phobia of mice. The scene that has her pick up a mouse by the tail caused a borderline panic attack, and a hand double was required to finish the scene. — Source: youtube

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Blade Runner

CRACKED.COM The title of Blade Runner came from an unrelated novel. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was certainly an ungainly title for a movie. After considering Android and Mechanismo, the filmmakers took the title of Alan Е. Nourse's The Bladerunner, a novel about smugglers of surgical equipment (people who run blades). — Source

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man Movie Villains Spider-Man: No Way Home That clip of Sandman is reused footage from Spider-Man 3. The character is entirely CGI until the very end of the film, when the real Thomas Hayden Church makes a brief appearance in a piece of footage from Spider- Man 3. With non actual performance from Church, the character may as well be called sans-man. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jackie Shane

Singer CRACKED.GOM Jackie Shane The Black trans R&B singer had a Canadian hit with her 1963 cover of Any Other Way which included the lyric: Tell her that I'm happy/tell her that I'm gay. Her anthology was released in 2017 and received a Grammy nomination. — Source: New York Times

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Skittles

S S S All Skittles actually S taste the same. All the differently-colored candy pills are made of the same thing - sugar. The differences you experience come from fragrances and colors (yes, even colors can trick the tasting part of your brain). So you're smelling (and seeing) the rainbow, rather than actually tasting it. S S S SV S S CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Little Mermaid

The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. A The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screenrant

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Mama Mia!

GRACKED COM Jukebox Musicals Mamma Mia! Pierce Brosnan didn't know what the movie was even about when he signed up for Mamma Mia! All he knew was that Meryl Streep was in it. — Source: 15 Facts About Jukebox Musicals We're Singing Along To

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Dan Aykroyd

We could have had a Ghostbusters movie set in Hell. In a script Dan Aykroyd prepared for a Ghostbusters sequel, the ghost-hunting quartet is transported to a Hell version of Manhattan (called Manhellton), run by a Trump-like demon. Aykroyd said the idea was solid, but it'd need a couple movies' worth of build-up. PEGGIA CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelle Pfeiffer

CRACKED SHADY TIES MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND THE BREATHARIANS The group claims to get all their nourishment from the sun. They were very controlling, Pfeiffer said. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially draining. When researching cults for a film, she realized she was in one, and left. — Matteo Chinellato/Shutterstock
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Nelly

CRACKED NELLY AND TIM MCGRAW In 2004, they teamed up on Over and Over, and were met with trepidation from their record labels. The rap/country track reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, far exceeding the naysayers' expectations. N416CG — The Boot / Taste of Country

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Leslie Mann

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS Trust the comedy instincts of LESLIE MANN CRACKED.COM Apatow thought her scene should end with cops finding a gun under her seat. And Leslie said to me, 'No, I really think I need to throw up in his face.' And then she made her own vomit out of strawberry yogurt and some sort of breakfast cereal. And it turned out to be one of the biggest laughs of the movie. — Vulture

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Shakespeare

CRACKED IN MUCH ADO, NOTHING IS KIND OF A PUN. In Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing, the title is a pun, because nothing was a slang word for vagina in Elizabethan times. — John Taylor/Wiki Commons
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Stunts

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first car chase stunts 1958 Car stunts had been done (notably 1955's Rebel Without A Cause), but Cary Loftin and his team's work on Thunder Road was ground zero for the modern action movie (although driver safety became a new issue). CRACKED — Source

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Translucent

THE BOYS TRANSLUCENT WAS CREATED FOR THE SHOW. The invisible member of The Seven replaced the comic's Jack from Jupiter. Showrunner Eric Kripke reportedly removed Jack (who is an alien) in order to keep his adaptation more grounded (even though the show still has eye lasers and blood showers). CRACKED.COM — Source: Looper

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Toy Story 2

Toy Story 2 1999 In the wake of allegations against former Pixar CEO John Lasseter, they took out the blooper where Stinky Pete gets handsy with the — Source: Variety

14

The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie (2014) 4 YEARS CRACKEDCO There's a reason why sequels and reboots are the most popular films lately -- making an original story is hard. Once the killer story was finalized, they went to excruciating lengths to make this CGI masterpiece appear to be stop-motion animation.

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Jerry Garcia

GRACKED 'TIGER' (JERRY GARCIA) Custom built by Luthier Doug Irwin, who also built instruments for 'Tiger' was Grateful Dead maestro Jerry Garcia's instrument of choice from 1979 to 1989. We assume it was built entirely out of spent hash pipes. — Extra Chill

12

Con Air

Con Air Nicolas Cage did his own stunts. There were explosions five feet behind me, Cage said, flaming helicopters dropping right behind me, ball-bearing bullets over my head. So there was a level of intensity, fear, you might say. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Robert Patinson

Robert Pattinson pretended to be American for his Transformers 2 audition. As in, he literally tried to sell the filmmakers on him being American, even though they already knew he was English. I always kept thinking that if you say you're English then they judge your American accent.... So they — MTV

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers CRACKED.COM Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea insisted he didn't mind being made fun of by Yankovic, he was just un- impressed with the final product. I didn't think it was very good. I en- joy Weird Al's things, but I found it unimaginative, said the man who has recorded 127 songs about Cali- fornia. — LATimes

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George Lucas

Good sports about parodies George Lucas was totally cool with Spaceballs- but he made a deal with Mel Brooks that stopped any Spaceballs toys, like action figures, from being sold. Basically, You can make fun of me, but not make serious money off of it. CRACKED — Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock,
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Caddyshack

MICHAEL O'KEEFE LIED ABOUT BEING A GOOD GOLFER. CADDY SHACK O'Keefe says the filmmakers wanted at least one person from the cast to have some golfing experience, so he told them he knew how to golf. In reality, he hadn't touched a golf club since he was 12. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Lies Actors Told (To Get Big Breaks)

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Jaleel White is best known for his role as Steve Urkel. Не is also the voice of Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog (1993-1994) CRACKED COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Katy Perry

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5

I Love Lucy

The First Birth I Love Lucy would never say the word pregnant, only that Lucy was expecting. But it still featured the first (semi-) on-screen bir

4

Jurassic Park

The mosquito in Jurassic Park actually doesn't suck blood. That species, Toxorhynchites rutilus, is the only species that doesn't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lili Taylor

Scream Queens Lili Taylor is a scream queen and a feminist icon. Her horror cred includes The Haunting, Leatherface, The Conjuring, and Eli. She has also serious indie cred, playing Valerie Solanas in /Shot Andy Warhol, and was nominated for an Emmy for appearing on The X-Files. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, Wikipedia

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Toshiro Mifune could have been Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Seven Samurai star turned down the offer because he thought it would cheapen the image of samurai, his daughter says. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Looney Tunes

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