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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Have Battling It Out Inside of Us Instead of Those Two Wolves Everyone Else Has

February 03, 2025

When Eddie LeBec complained about having to kiss Rhea Perlman on Cheers, the writers had his character brutally murdered by a Zamboni.

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NCIS

NCIS CRACKED.COM The source of several spinoffs is, itself, a spinoff of JAG. Four main castmembers from JAG went on to appear in various NCIS...es.

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The Simpsons

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Al Green

Al Green is an ordained pastor CRACKED.COM After his girlfriend assaulted him with a pot of boiling grits in 1974, he was inspired to become a reverend, and continues to preach weekly at the Memphis church he established. — Source

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The Office

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Doom

Doom aimed at being Aliens meets Evil Dead II. The reason you get a chainsaw is because Ash has one. — Sources: Doomworld, DoomWiki.org

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Tangled

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Have Battling It Out Inside of Us Instead of Those Two Wolves Everyone Else Has — Source: 30 'Family' Movies With Horrifying Implications

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Elijah Wood

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps a donkey and a miniature horse. They're called Whiskey and Lulu, and he keeps them in his house - they go upstairs, they go downstairs, they're all over the place, Schwarzenegger said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Celebrities Who Keep Truly Weird Pets

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Video Games

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Peggy Sue Got Married

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED THE CREW WORKED 20 HOURS A DAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK. Francis Ford Coppola stood to lose final cut privileges if he didn't didn't finish the movie on a very tight deadline. It's amazing that they still managed to pull technically intricate scenes under such conditions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Dark Knight

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The Flintstones

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Michael Biehn

Michael Biehn thought The Terminator really had nothing to offer him. His reaction to the script was Who the fuck is Jim Cameron? I've never heard of him, but his agent persuaded him to give it another chance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dennis Hopper

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Pink Floyd

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Mary Harron

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Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide when she was 27. The song is about growing older, even though the songwriter wasn't even 30. Nicks explains, You can feel really old at 27. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Snapple

UNADULTERATED FOOD PRODUCTS Make time for Snapple CRACKED.COM The guys behind the idea to sell simple fruit juices to consumers picked a company name that sounds like a business in Blade Runner. Eventually they renamed to Snapple. — Source: 12 Reasons These Businesses Have Ridiculous Names

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Fortnite

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Hans Memling

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Fear the Walking Dead

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Pretty Woman

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Bob Marley

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Young Frankenstein

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The Notebook

GOSLING MCADAMS THE NOTEBOOK HOW BAD DID IT GET? GOSLING APPROACHED DIRECTOR NICK CASSEVETES IN FRONT OF 150 PEOPLE DURING A SCENE WITH MCADAMS. WOUL — Daily Mail

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Scooby-Doo

CONS THING. A REAL SCOOBY-DOO-STYLE BE TO USED Belief in ghosts was more widespread in the past. And, of course, some took advantage of it for fun and profit. Someone in the 17th century pretended to be the ghost of a suicide victim haunting an establishment to scare gamblers off and steal their money. Having ghosts (or being one) could be very lucrative. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Amazingly Interesting Facts To Stick In Your Brain

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Tom Sizemore

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Cheers

Eddie Lebec died in CHEERS because his actor dissed Rhea Perlman. According to Cheers writer Ken Levine, Jay Thomas fielded a question in a radio show about how it was to be on the show. It's brutal, Thomas said. I have to kiss Rhea Perlman. Much more brutal than that was Eddie's death by Zamboni shortly thereafter. — Source: Looper

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake Timberlake owns William Rast, a fashion line best known for its jeans, which makes sense since the star's most iconic look was his denim moment. CRACKED.COM — Source: Billboard

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Betty Boop

A STAR IS BORN. She went on to become the reoccurring love interest for the dog Bimbo. CRACKED.COM — Source: Fleischer Studios

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Futurama

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Odama

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Ben Schwartz

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH GET WEIRD CRAGKEDCOM When Ben Schwartz wrote jokes for Letterman, he knew big news items would be well covered by staff. So he'd focus on the weird --squirrels and their nuts or cab drivers returning Olympic medals. Fresh angles increased his odds of making it — Newsweek

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Bicycle Thieves

Best Movies Ever Bicycle Thieves The ending is a tribute to Charles Chaplin. Director Vittorio de Sicca was a huge Chaplin fan, and the shot of Antonio and his son walking away was intended as an homage to his movies. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Love, Simon

BEHIND THE SCENES Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford drew inspiration from other love stories for their parts. For Robinson, it was Annie Hall. For Langford, it was Romeo Juliet and Titanic. — Stack Interview

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Expelled

Richard Dawkins was tricked into appearing in Expelled. Dawkins was told he was interviewed for a film called Crossroads, about how religious ideas persist. The actual film is about Big Science oppressing religious freedom, and the film blames belief in evolution for everything from communism to the Holocaust. — For details, read Famous Actors Who Were Tricked Into Being In Bad Movies

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Slash

It is rumored that SLASH senses the world through the superhuman vibrations of his guitar, but this photo from 1982 shows that he does have eyes. — Source: Vintage News Daily

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Mindy Kaling

MINDY KALING CRACKED.COM I had these fantasies of going to SNL and falling in love with some writer on SNL, of getting married and living in New York. Kaling wasn't cast but her Office job was a good consolation prize. — Source: 15 Comedy Stars Rejected By SNL

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