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January 18, 2025

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Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China started as a western. Jack Burton didn't drive a truck in the original script, as it was set in 1880. The movie was drastically rewritten, as making it a western on top of everything else was too much. — Source: Den of Geek

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Drew Barrymore

Scream Drew Barrymore was going to play Sidney Prescott. According to Barrymore, she was peeved that big-name actors can always be safely assumed to survive horror movies - so she took the minor role of Casey Becker to change that. — Source: People

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Disney

Disney behind the scenes Disney animators create Disney smut, apparently. While never confirmed, animators have long been rumored to have made XXX Disney films. (And some Disney atists have just done a ton of pin- ups. Just ask Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders.) CRACKED.COM — Source: Cheezburger

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Jane Fonda

Punchline to Appreciated Then vs. Now 139813 C LEVELAND 126 32 y e Jane Fonda Fonda was the butt of decades of jokes over her political activism, back when anti-war hippies were easy targets. With a still ongoing legendary film career (and being on the right side of pretty much every single issue), we'd say she came out on top. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Evan Almighty

IN EVAN ALMIGHTY, EVAN HAS TO BUILD AN ARK BEFORE THE GREAT FLOOD COMES. The filmmakers actually built a giant ark and used thousands of real animals.

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Jonah Hill

Farts on and off-screen JONAH HILL'S FART MACHINE Julia Louis-Dreyfus bought Hill a fart machine he used on press tours. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mashable

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Dances With Wolves

KEVIN COSTNER DANCES GRACKED.COM WITH WOLVES This movie set the bar for White Savior tropes in Hollywood. It won Best Picture over Goodfellas. WINNER OF SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE 1990 OAM.P.A.S. — Source

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Straight Outta Compton

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The Bad News Bears

Fictional Sports Franchises HOME TEAM RS BE ARS a BEARS BEARS The Bad News Bears The Bad News Bears Are the Bears the best baseball team? No. Are they the baseball team that taught a whole generation of Little Leaguers how to swear? Damn right they are. CRACKED COM

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Carrie Fisher

THE ACTOR: Carrie Fisher THE ROLE: Leia in the early Star Wars movies WHY SHE Fisher used to say she wouldn't have taken the HATED IT: role, if she'd known how big the franchise would become. She didn't like being famous. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Sopranos

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NCAA Football

CRACKED SEC 75 T ~ SEC ر AUBURN'S VISITING LOCKER ROOM DOESN'T HAVE DOORS ON THE BATHROOM STALLS. Jordan-Hare Stadium took the doors off of the bathroom stalls in the visiting locker room. Tennessee's Jerome Carvin said, They're terrible. You walk past dudes like in the stall... It was the worst experience away that I had. — Source

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is a master at getting the audience to feel the GRAI emotions of his OF characters. He achieves this through close-ups of the perform

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Coolio & Larry King

cartoon celebrities coolio & & Larry King In the episode Headhunters, Grunkle Stan's wax statues come to life, including Coolio and King, voiced by the real- Gravity Falls life, non-wax versions. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Reservoir Dogs

Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs was played by an actual felon. The actor, Edward Bunker, went to prison for robbing banks, forging checks, assault etc. Не also wrote novels and screenplays, and eventually became an actor. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Miss Piggy

CRACKEDCON Miss Piggy was inspired by jazz singer and actress Peggy Lee. The Muppet was even originally named Miss Piggy Lee, but that was changed s

24

Batman: The Animated Series

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BoJack Horseman

Raphael Bob-Waksberg based BoJack Horseman on how he felt after moving to Hollywood. Не felt isolated and alienated because he didn't go out too much, and that dichotomy of being simultaneously on top of the world, and also never more alone, was really the beginning of thinking about this character of BoJack. CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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Kramer

Kramer SEINFELD CRACKED.COM Kramer is based on Larry David's neighbor, Kenny Kramer. Не was actually named Kessler in the pilot, but the real Kramer reached an agreement with NBC to use the rights to his last name, which sounds like a genuine Kramer subplot. — BusinessInsider

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Gravity Falls

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs ? Gravity Falls society of the Blind Eye Grunkle stan tosses some items into Rick and Morty's world. Stan has a pen, a pad, and a coffee mug sucked into a portal. In Rick and Morty, those same items fall out of a portal. close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind CRACKED.COM — Source: Decider

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Guardians of the Galaxy

Chris Pratt dropped the ball. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY CRACKED COM Even though it was perfectly in character, Pratt wasn't supposed to drop the orb upon presenting it to the Collector.

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Baby Driver

CRACKED COM BABY DRIVER Baby has such a massive crush on Debora that the black heart graffiti btoo notton turns red as soon nic as he sees her. SONTOS — Source: 28 Sneaky Jokes Tucked Into Movies And Shows

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Emma Stone

AMERICA IN GOD TRUST ME LIBERTY Emma Stone QUARTER DOLLAR believes her grandfather's ghost drops quarters around the house CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sitcom Tropes

TIRED COMEDY BITS Mets THE FAT MAN-CHILD AND HIS HOT WIFE After Homer Simpson (who ironically was created to satirize the American man), the fat idiot who is helpless without his capable (out-of-his-league) wife became the biggest sitcom trope. CRACKED — Source

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Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough like Winston Zeddemore. Arsenio Hall got the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cloris Leachman

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers TT TURNER C CLORIS LEACHMAN as Meryl Leachman portrays a lonely retiree that finally gets to dance with an old flame after some Bob's Burgers-ian shenanigans. SEASON 6 SECRET ADMIRAL-IRER CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dracula

CRACKED VS. Strengths DRACULA FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER Super strength (Van Helsing Dude's colossal, standing says he has the muscle of 8 feet tall with a huge frame. 20 strong men), hypnotism, Extremely supple, pretty fast. Well read, fast learner and weather control. a intellectual his Can command an (unlike shapeshift, primitive and stunted portrayal nocturnal animals, in most film adaptations).. An somewhat defy gravity, turn artificial humanoid, so who others into vampires, and really knows what he's capable drink blood without of. Can withstand extreme vomiting. environments. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Syfy, Universal Monsters Wiki, Frankenstein EBook

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Abercrombie & Fitch

It took a Supreme Court ruling to end Abercrombie & Fitch's tyrannical dress code. A&C notoriously refused to stock clothes bigger than Large - and yet, employees of all sizes were forced to wear them (among other draconian rules). All this ended when a Muslim woman sued them for firing her over her headscarf, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aaron Sorkin

CRACKED.COM Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar- winning screenwriter, broke his nose while writing. Не was working on some dialogue while looking into a mirror and accidentally headbutted it. — Source

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was supposed to be over 3 hours long. That was John Hughes' original cut, but it was lost, and his guess was that it was rotting away in a vault somewhere. CRACKED.COM — Source

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January Jones

JANUARY JONES NOVEMBER 14, 2009 CRACKED.COM In the awkward first sketch, on live television, Jones looked around and asked Which camera? The night didn't get much better from there. — Mediaite

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Human Traffic

Illegal filmmaking Danny Dyer took actual drugs for Human Traffic For the 1999 movie, the British actor later admitted he was high out of his mind for the entire shoot. It was six weeks of debauchery. It's weird for me to watch it now. That's me out of my nut on screen! CRACKED — Source

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when Caesar enters the apes' common space through the tunnel for the first time, that's director Rupert Wyatt's nod to Maximus entering the arena in Gladiator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Pratt

MONKEY BOY CHRIS PRATT CRACKED.COM Monkey Boy was my nickname. My dad named me that because I had a small head, but my ears and teeth were the same size they are now. I liked bouncing around. It just kind of stuck. — ET Canada YouTube

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Superheroes

STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEART OF EVIL WITH FISHNETSTOCKINGS CRACGKED.COM FIRST OFF. YOUR LEGS WILL GET COLD. SECOnD: THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO RUN AT THE FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE: MAYBE A NICE PAIR OF JEANS?

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The Shining

THE MAZE SCENES WERE HELL. The set was hot, the fake snow was difficult to run on, and the smoke pumped in to make the environment misty made it hard to breathe. At one point, the crew resorted to wearing gas masks. — Source: American Cinematographer Magazine (via visual-memory.co.uk)

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Home Alone 2

The luggage tag CARD IDENTIFICATION me PETER McCALLiSTER on Kevin's bag in Home Alone 2 dress 671 LiNCaN BLUA State ILL WINNETKA in JK5-1658 DE Back Page features the real-life address of the house used in the movies. CRACKED COM — Source

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Alien

RDSMEET o ASK TO DATE ALIEN 7.8 km away About me: I'm ready for a short term relationship. Looking for someone to bear my children, have been wounded

2

Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf had a hidden message that insulted people who went looking for it. In the episode Backwards, everybody speaks, well, backwards. If you rev

1

Gwen Stefani

HOLLABACK GIRL WAS GWEN STEFANI'S RESPONSE TO COURTNEY LOVE. Stefani heard Love criticize her as a cheerleader and got fired up. She wrote this song in response, stating that she doesn't typically get involved with sh*t-talking - even though this sh*t- talking took her to a platinum record. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Cut

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