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January 17, 2025

Betty White played the same character in four different sitcoms.

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Ellie Kemper

Sport Celebrities Ellie Kemper was on the championship team for field hockey at Princeton University. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chelsea Handler

A Penis-Shaped Plant For her 22nd birthday, Chelsea Handler gave Miley Cyrus a phallic plant. — Source: MTV

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Larry David

Comedy Late Bloomers Larry David started stand-up in his 30s. Не began stand-up later than most, and he did get that one sketch on SNL in 1985, but his real success came at 42, when Seinfeld aired in 1989. CRACKED — HBO
New York Post

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That’s So Raven

CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS THAT'S so RAVEN AND SAVED BY THE BELL Both shows were shot on the same school set, and the schools have the same name - Bayside High. BELDING CLUO THIS THURA CLASSROOM 82 CRACKED.COM — Source: Disney Wiki

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Kylie Jenner

Kylie Jenner compared her secret pregnancy to pandemic isolation. In March 2020, Jenner posted on Instagram: Another daily reminder to take this social distancing seriously and self quarantine. I'm on day 8. My pregnancy prepared me for this. :( I didn't leave the house for months. Yeah, voluntarily hiding from the public while still seeing friends and family and filming your show and having people run your errands for you is totally the same thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ralph Breaks the Internet

Avnature Ralph Breaks the Internet Bill Hader wasn't credited, for some reason. His condition was that the coffee was hand- delivered by Ryan Reynolds. Fair trade (the price to get Pitt, not the coffee itself). ebay RUG CRACKED.COM — IMDb, Entertainment Weekly

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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Anthology Shows 1997-2002 BEYOND BELIEF: FACT OR FICTION Spooky stories with spooky twists - with the gimmick of having to guess whether the stories were true or fictional. James Brolin hosted the first season, but who are we kidding, the only reason anyone knows this show is Jonathan Frakes' cheesy delivery while telling us поре, false, the story was a fake-the stuff of meme legends. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Betty White

A Rose by any no other name She's - very consistent Betty appeared in four different TV shows, over the course of seven years, as the character Rose Nylund: The Golden Girls (1985), Empty Nest (1988), Nurses (1991), and The Golden Palace (1992). CRACKED.COM — Source: Biography

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Mariah Carey

Celebrity overseas gigs MARIAH CAREY promotes Hostelworld To combat hostels' grimy perception, an ad for the Ireland-based company showed Carey staying in a hostel for a night, where she ends up having a pretty good time! CRACKED — Hostelworld
YouTube

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Farmville

FARMVILLE Farmville F is a shameless ripoff of a game called + Farm Town. Farmer Farm LEARNING DE ROPES Farm Town Farmville HAMP Farm Town debuted just months before Farmville spammed its way into Facebook history. The gameplay and visuals are virtually identical. CRACKED.COM — 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Shia LaBeouf

You probably remember Shia LaBeouf as that dude who constantly gets arrested for assault. But in 2012, he spent his birthday hanging out with poor Rom

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Faith No More

Mike Patton voices video games. Have you ever played The Darkness? Mike Patton, lead singer of Faith No More, is The Darkness. That screeching shadow demon telling you to do bad things is Patton turning his vocal cords into a slinky. He's also done voice work for Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Metalocalypse. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spider-Man

Hugh Jackman was supposed to have a small cameo as Wolverine in the original Spider-Man. As awesome as that would have been, it didn't happen because Wolverine's suit was lost in storage at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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Facebook

CRACKED CO Do you feel like there's something seriously wrong with you for Facebook stalking your ex-partner? Like, almost EVERYONE does it. One stu

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Tetris

Tetris, when played after a trauma, positively affects people. СНПУЧ CRACKED.COM Research has shown that playing everyone's favorite Russian puzzle can stop the formation of bad memories associated with trauma. — Source

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME EASTER EGGS DANGLING... FOR 30 MINUTES! Loki and Doctor Strange have something in common - а distaste for younger, upstart magicians keeping them trapped. The way Strange says he was dangling over the Grand Canyon for 12 hours is almost an exact match for Loki's indignation at having been falling for 30 minutes in Ragnarok. CRACKED.COM — Source: YouTube

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Tom Brady

TOM BRADY FAMILY GUY 54 12:28 D 68 CRAGKEDCOM Seth MacFarlane must be a Brady fan -- he cast the QB in Ted 2 in addition to numerous mentions on Famil — CinemaBlend

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Drunk History

CRACKED TWO DRUNKS HAD A BRIGHT IDEA, AND COMEDY CENTRAL SAID, WHY NOT? In 2007, two drunk guys had an idea to make a show about people getting drunk and telling stories about historical events. They filmed the first episode in a backyard, and eventually Comedy Central picked it up as Drunk History. — Comedy Central
A Very Intoxicating Oral History of ’Drunk History’

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The Ring Two

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE RING TWO A burst water pipe flooded the production office, and weeks later a five-gallon water jug burst wide open and flooded it yet again. Then, on the set, a swarm of bees attacked and then simply vanished. Finally, a set decorator saw an antlered buck running in her direction (no reports on whether it was dodgy CGI, though). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Iron Man

Iron Man had rocket powered roller blades at one time. CRACKED.COM In Tales of Suspense #45, jet-powered roller blades that popped out of his metal boots could allow Iron Man to reach speeds of 60 miles per hour. — Source: Bleeding Cool

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Captain Planet and the Planeteers

The sole American in an international group of superpowered environmentalists, Wheeler sported a leather jacket with rolled-up sleeves and a popped collar and fire-based powers. The episode where he visits Northern Ireland is incredibly offensive. CRACKED — Asuka the Disc Dog

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Drogon

For the sound of dragon wings in Game of Thrones, they used leather. Leather jackets, specifically- that, canvas, and a shammy (a new shammy that has never been wet, it has a really nice heavy sound to it, apparently). CRACKED.COM — Source

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PlayStation 4

Users could send a message that would brick any PlayStation 4 that received it. PS4 GRACKED.COM PlayStation users figured out a string of characters that, when received on another PlayStation, would instantly crash the console, without the other user even having to open the message. The Ask PlayStation UK team informed the public on Twitter that the code wasn't actually bricking consoles, just sending them into a crash loop, which is almost as unhelpful as their band-aid solution of telling the community to turn off messaging services.

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Wil Wheaton

EARLY GIGS OF STAR TREK ACTORS WIL WHEATON THE BUDDY SYSTEM The Buddy System - in which a child tries to set his mom up-is potentially the most forgettable comedy in the world. And it's where Wil Wheaton got his start before becoming Wesley Crusher, the role everyone in the world wishes they could forget. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Dodgeball

Behind-the-scenes Drama NO - - - - в Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story The team was supposed to lose. Keeping with its irreverent tone, the film originally ended with the team losing. When the studio changed that, the credits included Ben Stiller's White Goodman mocking the fact that they won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Romano Mussolini

Benito Mussolini's son was a respected Jazz musician. Romano Mussolini toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Mer- rill and Chet Baker. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Rob Schneider

seth rob ROGEN SCHNEIDER CRACKED.co This is a weird one. The increasingly conservative Schneider blocked Rogen on Twitter despite no interaction, presumably for the sin of being liberal. Rogen's fellow comics had a field day, tweeting reactions like You can't do it! and Makin' blockies! — AV Club

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Burger King

Ninja Burger BURGER KING WINO BURGE 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: YouTube

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Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES IT'S THE MOST PIRATED SHOW OF ALL TIME. According to TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones was the most pirated show from 2012 to 2016. The premiere of the final season was pirated 55 million times in just 24 hours. CRACKED.COM — The Verge

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The Phantom Menace

STARWARS EPISODE I THE PHANTOM MENACE Yes, that's an actor wearing a Jar Jar head (not a Jar Jar mask) in the dinner scene. Imagine trying to act in that with a straight face. CRACKED — BuzzFeed

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Me, Myself & Irene

CRACKED ME, MYSELF & IRENE THE MOMENT CHARLIE BECOMES HANK After a woman takes advantage of Charlie Baileygates' kindness, he morphs into his alter-ego, Hank, who calls for a price check on her Vagi-clean, and harshly questions her freshness in front of her kids. — Youtube

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The Princess Bride

Mandy Patinkin CRACKED.COM bruised a rib on the set of The Princess Bride. It wasn't from fencing, fighting, torture or revenge. It was from suppressi

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Elvis Presley

CRACKED.COM CONCERT PRESLEY ELVIS TEB NESTMORELANID KATHY Elvis, jaded that former fling, Kathy Westmoreland, had begun dating a member of the band, s

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Dave Matthews Band

CRACKED HIKE UP YOUR SKIRT A LITTLE MORE AND SHOW YOUR WORLD TO ME DAVE MATTHEWS BAND A whole lot of us had formative middle school dance moments to a song about peeping tommery. — YT

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Star-Lord

One initial idea for Star-Lord was making him look like a military officer. The Guardians of the Galaxy team based that on his early look in the comics, when he wore what almost looked like a Star Wars Imperial uniform. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screenrant

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Val Kilmer

CRACKED heatre nal Theatre I ON DATION Ed na FO 0 A VAL KILMER Val Kilmer and his daughter, Mercedes, starred in Paydirt together, 34 years after Val starred in Top Gun. Mercedes says she's proud to have been in the film with her father, who has a disability with his voice due to a tracheotomy. — Good Morning America / ET

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Terminator 2

The T-1000 transforming noise from 'Terminator 2' was made with a condom on a microphone. CRACKED.COM The mic was stuck into a goop made from flour, water and Dust-Off spray, which would make bubbles and sounds similar to a cappuccino maker. — Film Sound

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School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The kids recorded at a studio owned by SONIC YOUTH CRACKED.COM We would go from set every day to to rehearse at the Sonic Youth studios, says Весса (Posh Spice) Brown. Black would come along to jam. We felt like rock stars, says Kevin (Spazzy McGee) Clark, pledging allegiance to the band of Mr. Shneebly. — Complex

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Snoop Dogg

Celebrity Endorsements Snoop Dogg parodied himself for Hot Pockets. In 2012, Snoop recorded a parody of his hit Drop It Like It's Hot called Pocket Like It's Hot to advertise the microwavable calzone-ish pastry. Не even recorded a full-length music video for it. CRACKED.COM HOT POCKETS — Source: Ad On YouTube

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Raul Julia

Raul Julia was so sick, the shooting schedule had to be changed. Julia was positively emaciated due to his stomach cancer, and his scenes had to be postponed until he gained some weight. So action scenes were shot first - with no time to properly prepare or rehearse. — Source: Looper

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