40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Pilot Mumbled to the Whole Cabin When He Thought His Mic Was Turned Off
Why does he know so much about Don Rickles?
![40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Pilot Mumbled to the Whole Cabin When He Thought His Mic Was Turned Off](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/6/1218026_320x180.jpg)
A core plot point of Hocus Pocus forced one of its main actors to grow up real quick.
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Cardi B and Offset
![Cardi в and Offset actually got married early in their relationship. It happened in 2017 and, she says, We found someone to marry us, and she did, just the two of us and my cousin. I said I do, with no dress, no makeup and no ring! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/7/829817.jpg)
Kristen Wiig
![COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KRISTEN WIIG WROTE AN SNL SKETCH ABOUTTONY AND JOAN HAWAII, PI. And Lorne Michaels rejected them - Tony was kind of an Italian womanizer, and Joan Hawaii PI was, well, a Hawaiian Private Eye who, as Wiig said, kayaks everywhere.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/0/847710.jpg)
Source: 13 Rejected Saturday Night Live Sketches We'll Never Get To See
Amy Schumer
![COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM My mom's always saying really smart things, like, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?' Wish I'd listened to that one. Amy Schumer](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/2/812372.jpg)
Comedy Central
Starbucks
![CRACKED It's your moniker... It's unfair. HOWARD SCHULTZ, former Starbucks CEO and billionaire, about being called a billionaire. Words hurt!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/894586.jpg)
Captain America: The First Avenger
![Hayley Atwell's touching of Chris Evans' boob was totally spontaneous. She just impulsively grabbed it when she saw him topless for the first time, and they put that shot in the final version of Captain America: The First Avenger. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/7/0/783070.jpg)
Source: Vanity Fair
King Kong
![Awful Knock-Offs (1976) Ape Ape was such a copy of the 1976 King Kong that after a lawsuit it had to literally warn Not to be confused with King Kong on its poster. Anyway, the costume for South-Korean King Kong looks hilarious, and we would respect this movie if it had gone with one of its later titles: Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/9/1073119.jpg)
Johnny Depp
![JOHNNY DEPP 21 JUMP STREET CRACKED.COM It just started to become false. It started to become this action-packed can of soup, you know? Depp got so sick of Jump Street that he trashed his trailer in an attempt to get action-canned.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/874415.jpg)
Batman & Robin
![Batman & Robin In Time GUESSING SOMEONE'S PASSWORD IN FILMS IS SO EASY, YOU CAN DO IT IN MINUTES. JUST LOOK AROUND THE COMPUTER FOR HINTS, OR RECALL BIRTHDATES OF PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT AND YOU'RE IN! Lord of War War Games CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/1/1026131.jpg)
Coraline
![Spooky films to pair with Hocus Pocus 2 CORALiNE A disturbing stop-motion story from The Sandman writer Neil Gaiman that can easily bridge parents that enjoy spooky tales and their young ones. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/873537.jpg)
George A. Romero
![CRACKED.CON George A. Romero, the father of zombie flicks, actually got his first directing gig from Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy, di](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/1/636371.jpg?v=2)
Force of July
![Patriotic Superheroes Don't mess with the Force of July. A secret American government super team fighting not just villains, but anyone against America's best interests in gritty fashion. There's a reason many of them end up on the Suicide Squad. EEDS BUT YOU'RE FINISHED, ANY LAST S TRAITORS --YOU CAN TAKE С EN THAT FROM MAJOR VICTORY AND THE FORCE OF JULY! TY CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/3/856283.jpg)
Sources: DC Database, DC in the 80s
The Punisher
![THE PUNISHER SHAPE- SHIFTER IS so GLAD TO SEE YOU. In the interest of full disclosure, we should note that he's pictured mid-transformation, at left. He's actually meant to shoot darts out of his ass. CRACKED.COM http://www.collector-actionfigures com/dash/universe/catalog_item/AF-382048/](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/1033425.jpg)
George R.R. Martin
![Good sports about parodies George R. R. Martin allowed a burlesque show based on Game of Thrones to be performed at his Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe. The show was put on by the Virginia-based Blacklist Burlesque. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/8/893038.jpg)
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Blacklist Burlesque
Mike Tyson
![Mike Tyson caught his ex-wife cheating on him with Brad Pitt. Tyson walked in on the two the day he was going to di- vorce her. Angelina Jolie got Pitt an autographed poster of Mike Tyson for his 50th, signed, Yo Brad! Still love your taste in women. Happy 50th Dude. Best Wishes, Mike. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/1122655.jpg)
Indiana Jones
![The rope bridge in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom must be in the middle of untouched wilderness, right? Nope, it's a few hundred yards south from Sri Lanka's tallest dam, the Victoria Dam (which was being built during filming). That wide shot from the movie? It was filmed from what is the center of the Dam today. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/2/801252.jpg)
Muhammad Ali
![CRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... MUHAMMAD ALI An FBI break-in by activists led to exposure of the FBI's secret Counterintelligence Program which illegally targeted groups and people of interest in the civil rights movement, including Muhammad Ali. That break-in was ironically timed with The Fight of the Century, featuring Ali himself, with the assurance that the fight would keep the agents glued to their screens.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/9/990879.jpg)
Don Rickles
![Celebrities on dating shows Don Rickles was on one episode of 1969's The Dating Game. (Not as a competitor, but as an inquisitor that got to pick out a date for the woman contestant.) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/2/879342.jpg)
Pacific Rim
![CRACKED At the movie's climax, Mako Mori transmits to Stacker Pentecost an untranslated line: Sensei aishitemasu. Which is Japanese for Sensei, I l](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/8/531478.jpg?v=1)
Doctor Who
![Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie Doctor who I hate pears. This two-minute sequence was entirely created to be fast-forwarded through by Martha. However, some bits have remained canon, including the Doctor hating pears. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/0/835250.jpg)
Source: YouTube
Psycho
![It took seven days to film Psycho's 45-second shower scene. Hitchcock used a total of 78 setups and 52 cuts for that scene.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/7/776177.jpg)
Source: The Independent
Chris Mitchell
![40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Pilot Mumbled to the Whole Cabin When He Thought His Mic Was Turned Off](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/2/735372.gif?v=1)
ME!
![SONG ME! LYRICS But one of these things is not like the others Like a rainbow with all of the colors The song ME! (which was released on Lesbian Visibility Day) is a song about self-confidence, celebration, and accepting yourself fully for who you are, an especially important lesson for LGBTQ+ people who have to live with constant anti-gay rhetoric. Also, the rainbow could be a reference to the pride flag. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/5/5/871755.jpg)
Source for International Lesbian Day
Hidalgo
![CRACKED Based-en a true.story HIDALGO Viggo Mortensen stars in this movie which is advertised as being based on a true story, but it's actually not true. The cowboy and his mustang never actually went to the Middle East for a long horse race across the desert.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/6/891696.jpg)
Buena Vista Pictures
Hocus Pocus
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Thora Birch learned the meaning of virgin because of the script In the movie, a virgin lights the Black Flame Candle, starting a night of mischief. The 10-year-old actor had to have the word ex- plained to her.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/796503.jpg)
Source: US Weekly
The Coen Brothers
![The Coen Brothers and their movies They always had final cut privileges. Final cut is a privilege studios only give to proven directors, but coming from indie cinema, the Coens have worked like this since the very beginning. They have had final cut privilege since they got it in their indie classic Blood Simple, and up until today. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/871653.jpg)
Tom Hiddleston
![Tom Hiddleston MULTIVITAMINS CRACKED.COM If your fetish is prolonged eye contact with Loki as he makes you a nice breakfast, reminds you to take your meds, then apologizes for being a workaholic... then have we got a Chinese commercial for you!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/3/1001033.jpg)
Tyler Perry
![Tyler Perry, CEO of Tyler Perry Studios, usually works 18 hours a day for three to four consecutive months before taking a break and doing it all over again. The successful actor, writer, director, and producer - who's worked on several films (including six number one movies of his own) and TV shows - - once shot a movie in eight days. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/2/2/858722.jpg)
Kris Kristofferson
![Kris Kristofferson went into music after studying at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. CRACKED.COM Не moved to Nashville and made ends meet as a heli- copter pilot. After trying un- successfully to get Johnny Cash to hear some of his songs, he finally got Cash's attention by landing a heli- copter on his lawn.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/9/856719.jpg)
Vulfpeck
![Vulfpeck beats Spotify with the sound of silence. EFFECTION GRACKED.COM The Michigan-based funk band created a playlist of short, silent tracks, with titles like Zzz and Zzzzz, and encouraged fans to play it while they slept. That helped them collect more of the penny slivers that Spotify pays out for the music they stream.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/792513.jpg)
Danny DeVito
![In 2018, Danny DeVito gave a fan a unique shout-out. OY'S High school senior and big fan of It's Sunny in Philadelphia Alison Closs brought a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to her prom and posted about it on social media. A month later, DeVito posed with a cardboard cutout of her in Paddy's Pub in the show. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/9/1136709.jpg)
Borat
![A scene where Borat visits a porn movie set was cut from the first Borat film. Borat was supposed to participate in the porn shoot, but complained to the director Why would you have cameras while we are making sexy time? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/7/779797.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Predator
![Unclean water on PREDATOR They shot the 1987 movie in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, and many of the cast and crew got sick with travelers' diarrhea because of the unpurified water. Kevin Peter Hall said, Predator wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/1013104.jpg)
Third Rock from the Sun
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Third Rock from the Sun Dick tells Sally he's an alien, she accepts it (that sweet woman), and wants to still be with him now that the gang returns to their home planet. So Dick knocks her unconscious to make her forget about him, and leaves her alone on the ground. You know, for her safety.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/7/4/1125974.jpg)
Daniel Boone
![Daniel Boone didn't actually wear his supposedly signature hat. Boone thought raccoon was not stylish and exclusively wore beaver hats. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/801156.jpg)
The Shining
![IT WASN'T A FUN EXPERIENCE FOR SHELLEY DUVALL. An emotionally and physically taxing role, compounded by an abusive director, made Duvall have a really shitty time. She considered quitting acting after the movie was done.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/772432.jpg)
Source: The Vintage News
HBO
![HBO's first original programming was polka. Back when it was a regional TV provider that only broadcast movies nine hours a day, HBO first flexed their production muscles by broadcasting the Pennsylvania Polka Festival in 1973. It was a really long way to robot cowboys and dragon boobs. HBO GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/9/2/814892.jpg)
Source: 16 Random Facts to Satisfy Your Craving for Knowledge Without Leaving Home
Enter Sandman
![Heart ICE-T METALLICA Kirk Hammett ganked part of the solo from Enter Sandman from Heart's Magic Man. But I didn't get it from Heart's version, explained Hammett. I CRACKED.COM got it from a cut off Ice-T's Power album, where he used it as a sample. The guitarist said he kept hearing the lick and thought, I have to snake this!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/1/1049671.jpg)
Emma Stone
![At the Oscar nominees luncheon, a reporter told Emma Stone, You look beautiful, as always. Stone replied, Oh, thank you. That's all that matters.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/6/7/611967.jpg?v=2)
The Thing
![The practical effects in John Carpenter's The Thing made the monsters SO believable they still freak us out to this day. The prequel instead utilized](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/4/1/724741.jpg?v=2)
J. Jonah Jameson
![CRACKED.COM Spider-Man J. Jonah Jameson is an over-the-top Stan Lee. Lee has admitted that the publisher of the Daily Bugle is an exaggerated version of himself. I thought, ifl were a grumpy, irritable man, which I am sometimes, how would I act?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/4/8/822348.jpg)