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40 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia DM’d to Us by Our Second-Dumbest Coworker

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40 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia DM’d to Us by Our Second-Dumbest Coworker

January 28, 2025

They might be dumb, but we must say, they do seem to know interesting trivia. In fact, we might promote them to just our fourth-dumbest coworker.

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Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant THE DAILY SHOW CRACKEDCO According to Jon Stewart, the affable Brit was not SO affable on set, being a bit of a nightmare to deal with. As — Source: ScreenRant

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The Dana Carvey Show

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Mainstream met 'nerd pirates' on the DANA CARVEY SHOW CRACKED.COM ABC wanted Carvey to play his famous characters, while his writers wanted to bring bleeding-edge comedy to prime time. The tension shows up in the first sketch where Carvey plays Bill Clinton (good!), opening his shirt to breast-feed baby animals (cue ABC execs passing out). — The New Yorker

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Bob Hoskins

Who Framed Roger Rabbit BOB HOSKINS jumped at the chance to play Eddie Valiant, being a self-described cartoon buff. A lot of people have worked with Laurence Olivier, but I've actually worked with Bugs Bunny! — Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Malcolm in the Middle

Producers didn't let Aaron Paul audition for the role of Francis. MALC THe IN LM MIDDLE On Malcom in the Middle, Bryan Cranston and Paul could have been coworkers a lot sooner, but they rejected him even though he desperately wanted it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Cena

CRROR In late 2007, John Cena tore his pectoral and was supposed to be out six months to a year. He returned three months later, winning the 2008 Roya

35

Old Valyria

In Game of Thrones, OLd VALYRIA is a long-dead city of wonder that was once the capital of a great empire. It's a lot like Ancient Greece. Both were p

34

Eddie Murphy

Eddie murphy got sick of his most popular character and killed it. Murphy hit it out of the park with an adult version of Little Rascals' Buckwheat on SNL. But he eventually came to resent being known just for one character, and shot a sketch when Buckwheat was murdered. — More: How Eddie Murphy Saved SNL From Extinction

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Ashton Kutcher

When David Letterman asked Brittany Murphy for thoughts about her ex-boyfriend Ashton Kutcher and his relationship with Demi Moore, she outed him for his, ahem, shortcomings: suppose the crux of their relationship basically means, you know, to him that age doesn't matter, and to her that size doesn't matter? CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Celebs Who Got Revenge (In Hilariously Nasty Ways)

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Detective Pikachu

Easter eggs in video game movies Detective Pikachu Mewtwo references an event 20 years ago. This film came out 20 years after Pokémon: The First Movie, about Mewtwo's origins. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Minecraft

Minecraft isn't made up of blocks. It's a giant model that looks like it's made of blocks. This is done by having an enormous list of points (called

30

Elijah Wood

Lord of the Rings Stars' Side Projects Elijah Wood Wood has plenty of weird side-projects: His obscure early TV movies like Child in the Night and Day-0, misguided nonsense like North and Radio Flyer, his wonderful thrillers like Maniac, Grand Piano, and No Man of God, or his producing work on Nicolas Cage's trippiest recent movies. Still, you know our favorite: his Back to the Future Part II early gig, obviously. CRACKED.COM — Scene on YouTube

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Scream

CRACKED.COM The Following was born from Scream. Kevin Williamson came up with The Following while working on Scream. Не also used ideas from his abandoned script for Scream 3. — Source

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones owes his sense of style to Deborah Nadoolman Landis. CRACKED.COM Steven Spielberg handpicked Landis to design Indiana Jones's iconic loo

27

Casino Royale

007 CRACKED.COM CASINO ROYALE It's insanely lucky that James Bond left the casino just in time to notice the villains kidnap his girlfriend on the oth

26

Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson was a beloved talk show host. BUT The man America welcomed into their living rooms was a bitter, bullying wreck of a man. He was meanest

25

Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck CRACKED.COM Magnum P.I. moved out of the guest house and bought a farm. He's taken up avocado farming --even though he hates the fruit, yet finds it sexual, and was caught stealing public water to grow it. — Source

24

Mark Hamill

Not many people saw 1989's post- apocalyptic flic Slipstream, but we're fully expecting that MARK HAMILL's bearded, bleached baddie changes that now. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Celebrities As (Probably) Never Seen Before

23

King of the Hill

The theme song was some band's sound check. CRACKEDC The Refreshments, out of Arizona, were asked to submit a demo to Mike Judge. They recorded a live set, and encouraged the crowd to really hoot and holler during their sound check jam, which they named Yahoos and Triangles. — Source: CityBeat

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Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau Truth made an appearance on the show. BOT Before he was a pretty successful actor and an extremely successful director, Favreau was the — Source: YouTube

21

EarthBound

EARTH ARTHIBOLND gC EARTHBOUND'S TEXT SYSTEM IS A COMPLEX SCRIPTING LANGUAGE THAT'S BARELY COMPREHENSIBLE EVEN TO MODERN PROGRAMMERS The text system u

20

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood CRACKEDO COM There Will Be Blood, ironically, is about the fact that there won't be blood for oil tycoon Daniel Plainview because his bloodline ends with him. Plainview can't have kids. That's why he has to adopt a son, H.W., when he wants to present himself — For details, read: 7 Famous Movies That Are Secretly All About Sex

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They Live

The bubblegum line in They Live was an ad-lib. Roddy Piper just blurted out I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum on one take, and they kept it in. CRACKED COM — Source: NPR

18

Donnie Darko

GRACKED DONNIE DARKO Directed by Richard Kelly, the movie was filmed in a seriously short amount of time - just over four weeks. Coincidentally, that matches the 28-day countdown in the movie, but that's all it is --a coincidence. — No Film School

17

Spoorloos

Disturbing THE FEMME A DISPARU LYA 3 ANS 1988, Netherlands Dir. George Sluizer Spoorloos Rex becomes obsessed with the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend. Не eventually gets contacted by the kidnapper, but trust us, he shouldn't have chased the truth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Che Guevara

CRACKEDG .COM This clean cut, handsome young man became the poster boy for future revolutionaries-Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. — Source: 34 (Unrecognizable) Famous People

15

Chain Chomp

40 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia DM’d to Us by Our Second-Dumbest Coworker

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Jake Gyllenhaal

CRACKED.COM Tolkien Movies Jake Gyllenhaal auditioned for Frodo. Не gave an awful audition, as he didn't even know he had to use a British accent. — The Hollywood Reporter

13

Mario

Mario was only created because Nintendo couldn't get the rights to Popeye. When Shigeru Miyamoto was making Donkey Kong, Nintendo tried to license the Popeye characters, but that fell through, so he came up with new onesc. including Mario, the player character. CRACKEDGOM — Source: New Yorker

12

Tina Fey

Tina Fey's first name is Elizabeth, like her character's. Tina comes from her middle name Stamatina. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Vogue

11

Alfred Hitchcock

CRACKED.COM Reduco OBESITY Sensebonal SLAYER New The BEFORE AFTER to Just Four Months.. YOU TOO Con be Slender! DAW GLO - 4b - - - - - ALERED HITCHCOCK SAFE and Alfred Hitchcock Не had cameos in 40 of his 54 movies. For 1944's Lifeboat, he took advantage of his own ongoing weight loss to appear as both the before and after in the ad for a Reduco, a fictional weight-loss medicine. Hall Ford CITY — Source: History

10

Saturday Night Live

NANCY KERRIGAN MARCH 12, 1994 CRACKED.co Time Magazine called Kerrigan's hosting gig a supremely awkward performance.! At least she didn't get kneecapped. — Time

9

Halloween

WHICH CAME FIRST, THE SHATNER MASK OR THE HOCKEY MASK? CRACKED 1978's Halloween is often credited with kicking off the slasher in a mask genre, and only 2 years later, we got Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th. Another slow-moving, seemingly unstoppable masked killer with a tragic past. — Screen Rant / Parade

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Pornography

The world's oldest porn shows bisexuality. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs are over 3,000 years old and show fertility ceremonies. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

7

PlayStation

The US Defense Department used 1,760 PS3s as a supercomputer. PLAYSTATIOR In 2010, the fastest supercomputer in the entire U.S Defense Department was primarily comprised of 1760 PlayStation 3 consoles, built to undertake highly specific military tasks at about 500 trillion calculations per second. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — CNET

6

In Bruges

In Bruges A deleted flashback from In Bruges gave us a glimpse of a young Harry (Ralph Fiennes). What was he up to? Smashing mailboxes? Jazz cigarette — Source: Cracked

5

Guardians of the Galaxy

Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team was Taiwan's name for Guardians of the Galaxy. MAPEL EAEIET (Uonam X ALSA 2014.07.31(09) 68 B It wasn't made c — Source: 9 Famous Movies That Have Cooler Titles in Foreign Countries

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Fantasy Football

FANTASY FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano hand-picked a dream team of pro soccer players and flew them to Escobar's private field. Today, fans of every sport play in virtual fantasy leagues, and many believe this was the very first Fantasy game ever played. — Source: 15 Embarrassingly Kooky Details From The World Of Organized Crime

3

How I Met Your Mother

How / Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM — Source: WhatCulture

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Patrick Dempsey

Grey's Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey used to be a professional juggler. Не even joined and won second place in a national juggling competition. In turn, this landed him his first acting job. GRACKED.COM — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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The Flintstones

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