40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You’ll Have to Shuck Yourself

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You’ll Have to Shuck Yourself

It’s very possible that Sid from Toy Story canonically died to end up in Coco.

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Gilligan’s Island

CRACKED.COM Gilligan's Island was almost rebooted in the '90s (with more cannibalism). According to James Gunn, Charlie Kaufman managed to get a Gilligan's Island reboot greenlit, with the starving castaways killing and eating each other. The project was nixed by Gilligan's creator Sherwood Schwartz.

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The Hulk

EVERYONE KNows THAT RAGE MAKeS THE HULK STRONG. BUT THE THING THAT STARTED HIS FITS OF RAGE? CHILD ABuSE. NO CHILV YOUK AGE SHOLLD BE ABLE TO BUILD SO

Days of Thunder

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS Reilly raced with Duvall and Cruise in DAYS OF THUNDER TALLADEGA NIGHTS Wins CRACKED.COM THE BALLAD OF RICKY Bobby NASCAR One of John C. Reilly's first big jobs was on the Tom Cruise racing epic. My only advice to Adam and Will when it came to my Days of Thunder experience, says Reilly, was to tell them to ignore my entire acting performance.

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Autistic Movie Characters

CRACKEDco COM Autistic movie characters almost always have incredible abilities. But real-life autistic people are no more likely to have incredible a

The Get Down

CRACKED COM glee If you miss and need a show where characters suddenly break into song, you might want to try... THE GET DOWN ..a musical drama ON set

She’s All That

'90s Teen Rom-Coms She's All That M. Night Shyamalan ghost wrote an early draft. Yes, that M. Night Shyamalan. We bet he added the plot twist that she was not actually all that. CRACKED.COM

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Berserker

Leo had to distance himself from Mel Gibson. BERSERKER CRACKEDCO After Gibson's unhinged, violent, racist voicemail went public, DiCaprio had no choice but to drop out of Berserker, which the two were slated to co-star in.

Lady and the Tramp

SI AND AM The Lady and the Tramp antagonists rely on heavy Asian stereotypes to taunt Lady and cause havoc. CRACKED.COM

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes The Looney Tunes used to be all about actual tunes. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were mostly plotless musicals (like Disney's Silly Symphonies, which they were ripping off). Tunes eventually became zany comedy - but they kept the name, even though music was no longer the focus.

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Hidden Figures

Fourth of July Movies The real Katherine Johnson didn't need Kevin Costner's help to fight segregation. The cringeworthy white-savior scene with the NASA boss destroying the colored bathroom sign never happened -Johnson just used the white bathroom in defiance of Jim Crow laws, like a true badass. Hidden Figures CRACKED.COM

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Howard the Duck

LONG BEFORE THEY BOUGHT MARVEL, DISNEY FORCED HOWARD THE DUCK TO WEAR PANTS. SIDNEY BEFURE IMET DEMENTED PEFENDERS FIND YOU! OF DECENCY, DUCKY HELPED LAND BY A HABER- DASHER? CLOTHLINESS NEXT CONSERVATIVE TO GODLINESS is CLASSICK CRRE CRACKED.CO In 1977, Disney demanded to redesign Marvel character Howard The Duck for being a ripoff of their own IP, Donald Duck. Marvel accepted the redesign, which put Howard in pants, and wrote a story to explain it. In the story, businessman Wally Sidney, a cartoonist that opens the Sidney Land clothing emporium, creates a market for pet clothes and demands all animals be

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn manifested herself. CRACKED.COM Arleen Sorkin's turn as a mischievous jester in a bizarre episode of Days of Our LivES directly inspired Paul Dini to create Harley Quinn. Sorkin voiced the clownette in Batman: The Animated Series, and in lots of subsequent cartoons and video games.

The Three Stooges

CRACKED.COM Comedy doesn't age well There's a reason we're all not watching The Three Stooges. And it's not because they weren't talented! It's because our society and collective comedic sensibilities has evolved. The references aren't relevant anymore. Comedians have built off their slapstick humor and found newer ways to surprise and delight us. And we can (hopefully) all agree that even though we didn't realize how terrible it was when they did blackface when we first saw it, we can see why that's not funny anymore.

Vanity Fair

Media blunders NUAL ARS! ONE VERY MOMENTOUS YEAR Photograph by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ 2018 VANITY FAIR REESE and one retiring editor WITHERSPOON HAS THREE LEGS The 2018 Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair had a cover photo of Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, but it showed them with extra limbs. Witherspoon had three legs, and somehow nobody noticed this before publication time. CRACKED

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Drax

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DRAX I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye. Being big, green, and shirtless, the Destroyer is unintentionally hilarious.

Ms. Marvel

Doubles in MCU's Phase Four MS. MARVEL A fan girl dresses as her favorite superhero once she finds out she has powers of her own. CRACKED COM

King Kong

CRACKED.COM KING KONG The original King Kong The remake in 2005 got way (1933) too distracted by the human was a straightforward film that characters,

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