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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stuffed Deep Down Inside Years Ago

January 06, 2025

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No Time to Die

DR. No HOMAGES IN No Time TO Die The opening title sequence starts off with the same colored circle design of the first James Bond movie, and Safin's villain lair on a remote island is another callback to the very first bigscreen Bond villain. CRACKED.COM — Source: Digital Spy

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Spider-Man

Adult jokes in children's movies The spectacular spider-Man spider sperm After Spider-Man's web catches Black Cat's hand, she warns him in a flirting tone, You better not get your goop in my hair. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Flamingo

VILLAINS BATMAN SHOULD FIGHT IN HIS NEXT MOVIE FLAMINGO Eduardo Flamingo, the most effete assassin of all-time This villain is perhaps the only one who can outcamp Batman (or Robert Pattinson). CRACKED.COM — Source: Batman Fandom

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Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves made a movie because someone faked his signature. A friend put a fake Keanu signature on the contract for The Watcher, and since Keanu couldn't prove for sure it was fake, he did the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 1982 Art Direction Film Editing Sound Sound Effects Editing Visual Effects Raiders of the Lost Ark The movie features a cameo by С-ЗРО and R2D2 on the walls of the room the Ark of the Covenant was kept in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michael Clarke Duncan

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Michael Clarke Duncan Duncan got his start as a guest role on the TV show Renegade, with his final role as a coach on the boxing film The Challenger. CRACKED.COM — Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Wishing Well Pictures
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Jessica Biel

cartoon celebrities BoJack Horseman Jessica Biel Biel herself pushed the writers to hold nothing back and be really mean to her in her recurring appearances. That's how put-downs like attempted movie star and future hard Jeopardy! question were born. CRACKED.COM — Sources: /Film, Vulture

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George Lazenby

Big Actors Who Had Never Acted Before GEORGE LAZENBY in On Her Majesty's Secret Service Not exactly the most memorable James Bond, but he was James Bond, which most actors can't say - and he landed the part after being only in commercials. — Source: Express

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The Police

Iconic by random chance The laugh in Roxanne At the recording session for The Police's song, Sting fell backwards onto the piano, resulting in a laugh at the beginning of the track. They just kept it in. CRACKED — The Police/YouTube
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The Flintstones

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The Toxic Avenger

THE TOXIC AVENGER MUSICAL ToXe THE AVENGER MUSICAL THE CRACKEDGON The show-stopping finale features the deformed mutant crooner vowing to end global w

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Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks wears luxurious dresses in front of the camera, but in real life, she is extremely frugal. At one point, her accountants had to remind her

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Terry Pratchett

LIFE AND LEGACY OF SIR TERRY PRATCHETT PRATCHETT ORDERED HIS UNFINISHED MANUSCRIPTS TO BE CRUSHED BY A STEAMROLLER FOLLOWING HIS DEATH. And so it came to pass. The late author's hard drive was crushed by a steamroller named Lord Jericho in 2017. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Carrie Fisher

AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER She was told to lose 10 pounds after being cast as Princess Leia She joked, Well, I weighed about 105 at the time, but to BE fair, I carried about fifty of those pounds in my face! CRACKED.COM — Source: Wishful Drinking

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The Wonder Years

The big brother from The Wonder Years used to be a PR shill. Jason Hervey (whom you might remember bullying Fred Savage) was in 2003 the head of PR at

25

Entourage

JEFFREY TAMBOR JOKES ABOUT HIS OWN SCANDAL. ENTOURAGE GRACKED Не was accused of groping by his former assistant, and they jokingly allude to a similar scandal years earlier. Ari says, There was that little incident on Arrested Development, and Tambor replies, You haven't heard about it, there's no reason to hear about it. — Source

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O.J. Simpson

O. J. Simpson finally found Hertz's limit. SHEFET 3INP501 SMYTH Hertz stood by The Juice through thick Calleged domestic battery) and thin (the ensuin

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Lorde

Ella Yelich-o'connor, better known as Lorde, has been into royal stuff since she was a kid, and thought that Lord was a great stage name- she just add

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Rob McElhenney

Rob McElhenney had a nightmare that inspired the show. Glenn Howerton describes, The show started as a night terror, basically. A late-night sweating station. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source

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Silly Putty

CRACKED SILLY PUTTY WAS DEVELOPED AS A RUBBER SUBSTITUTE. It was originally thought to be useless until the scientists examining it whipped it out at parties, which were really boring in the 1940s. — Source

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Quantum Leap

in QUANTUM LEAP, SAM BeCKeTT SPenT HIS DAYS TIME-HOPPING INTO OTHER People's BODIES. lon Dr. Sam Becket 65 never returned home. AND не neveR FOUND HIS WAY Home. Each episode of the series opened with a brief narration explaining the premise, concluding that Sam hopes his next leap will take him home. In the last episode, Sam somehow leapt into his own body in some kind of odd purgatory-like dimension that looked like a bar. It concluded with a title card (with his name misspelled) stating that he never got home. CRACKED COM — Source

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Mac Tonight

In 2007, McDonald's revived Mac Tonight, a mascot from the early '90s, for their Southeast Asian market. McDonalds B After appearing in a video meme, the character CRACKED.COM caught on among alt-right amateur producers, who now use Mac Tonight in synthesized videos with racist themes that frequently promote hate- fueled violence. — Source: 19 Things The Internet Ruined

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Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks' family is a textbook case of shared parenting done right. Not only did he, wife Trisha Yearwood, and first wife Sandy Mahl all take time off from their careers to focus on their daughters, but they also made sure that the girls saw each parent every single day. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With Impressive Parenting Skills

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Christmas Evil

Christmas Evil CRACKED.COM In this 1980s holiday psychological horror thriller, a man who was mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, goes on a murderous rampage dressed as-you guessed it-Santa. — Source

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The Legend of Zelda

The Triforce has roots in Mongolian invasions. CRACKED.COM It's based on the emblem of the Hoja Clan, who successfully fought off Mongol invaders and helped popularize Zen Buddhism. — 14 Behind-The-Scenes Zelda Facts

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Stephen King

LIFE AND LEGACY OF STEPHEN KING CRACKED.COM He bought the van that nearly killed him. King was struck by a minivan in 1999. After his recovery, he purchased the van for $1,500, joking that he was going to destroy it with a sledgehammer.

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Zootopia

Zootopia continues a joke started by Frozen. In Frozen, Alan Tudyk voiced bad guy the Duke of Weselton (who demanded people stop calling him the Duke of Weasel Town). In Zootopia, Tudyk is again a bad guy, called Duke Weaselton. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Lords of Salem

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2012 THE LORDS OF SALEM Some sequences were shot at the Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, which has an infamous spooky reputation. Filming in the basement would make people sick, and the crew would report weird and random sounds at other empty parts of the hospital. CRACKED.COM — Source

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True Detective

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolato cleared up Julie's fate at the end of S3. ROON Ultimately, that is really her at the end. And I think it's enough to know that she made it, he said. CRACKED COM — Source

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Superman

CRACKED COM Weird Superhero Endorsements Superman teamed up with the Quik Bunny. For reasons only advertisers know, Superman needed the aid of the Nestlé Quik mascot once. Of course, they fueled up with a powdery liquid that is chocolate milk and also not chocolate milk. — Source

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Steve Jobs

Macintos Mac OSXSnoteepad tBoxk one of the two or three most important things I've done in my life Steve Jobs Apple founder Steve Jo

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Black Noir

CRACKED.COM THE BOYS BLACK NOIR'S ACTOR IS ALSO ALLERGIC TO NUTS. In Season 2, Queen Maeve takes out Black Noir by shoving an Almond Joy down his throat. Actor Nathan Mitchell reportedly also has a nut allergy, and Eric Kripke incorporated that into his character. — Sources: IGN, Looper

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The Little Mermaid

In The Little Mermaid, Ariel's voice is taken away by Ursula. In the original fairy tale, her tongue gets cut off.

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Thomas the Tank Engine

Your childhood memories might include Thomas and his friends having fun adventures. But do you remember Henry? He refused to leave his tunnel, SO he w

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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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Big Little Lies

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Big Little Lies Mean rich lady During the first season, Laura Dern's Renata is an uptight, snobbish rich lady, particularly focusing her classist scorn on Shailene Woodley's Jane. By the end of the season, however, she realizes she was wrong, apologizes, and offers friendship like an actually fallible human being. We were not ready for such emotional maturity, to be honest. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Press Your Luck

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Van Gogh

One of Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflower paintings was destroyed in the bombing of Hiroshima. CRACKED.COM The Japanese collec- tor who owned the painting could not res- cue it from the flames because the elaborate frame was too heavy. — The Guardian

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME Vanessa being revealed as a killer fembot is a ballsy opening to an acceptable sequel. Undoing Powers' character growth, however, might have opened the way for the series' true villain: the third part 0 CRACKED.COM — Ending, Sequel Opening, Sequel Opening

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Comedy Tropes

TIRED COMEDY BITS I'M OKAY! Even overdone in cartoons, but at least the absurdity of an I'm okay after a building falls on someone is way funnier than a live action character just falling, giving a dramatic pause, then proclaiming, I'm okay! Extra hacky points for the thumbs up. CRACKED — Source

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