12 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Yell the Next Time Your Drill Sergeant Asks You a Stupid Question

Cage has some thoughts on A.I. in Hollywood: “I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one A.I. robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only.”

A study of sequels over the past several decades found that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the highest Average Online Rating (8.64/10), Avengers: Endgame had the best box office performance ($3.17 billion) and The Godfather Part II had the most Oscar nominations (6). 

Weighting all three categories equally, the study found that The Dark Knight, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are statistically the best sequels of all time.

In 2018, Hart drunkenly stormed the field and tried to climb the steps to the podium, but was stopped by security. He calls it the “stupidest thing I’ve done.”

Craven says an incident in the early 1990s made him rethink his career: “A little kid of around 12 came up to me and said, ‘You should do a real goddamn movie again because the movies you’ve been doing have been getting softer and softer.’ And that just stuck with me.”

Comedian and actor Kate Berlant is the daughter of a pop artist and a prop builder who made the tiny Stonehenge set from the film. She was surprised to find that this qualified her for Vulture’s list of nepo babies: “I don’t know if you saw, I guess I’m a certified nepo baby.”

Walken has revealed that Severance producers send him special DVDs to watch the show, because he doesn’t have any streaming subscriptions. But his tech avoidance goes much deeper: “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered. I’ve never had a watch either. But if I need the time, I just ask somebody.”

The last third of the film Michael was supposed to focus on the sexual abuse allegations brought by the Chandler family in 1993, but a settlement from the 1990s stipulates that they and their story cannot be dramatized. The film’s lawyers apparently didn’t catch that little detail until the whole thing had already been filmed.

SNL has added a ton of phrases to the English pop lexicon, like The Delicious Dish’s “good times,” David Spade’s “buh-bye” and the phrase “Debbie Downer.”

Barkley went to a hockey game at SUNY Fredonia-Plattsburgh State, then announced at a nearby bar that drinks were on him while he picked the next five songs.

Newly acquired internal emails have found that the New Orleans Saints were quite hands-on in a massive PR campaign to shield local church leaders from allegations of abuse. The team’s owner, president and other C-suite members pulled strings and offered advice to keep some clergy members off of publicly available lists, and provide crisis PR advice.

He said trying on the various Batman cowls forced him into a weird headspace: “Once you put the cowl on, you have to get someone else to take it off, so there’s something about being locked into it. I wore Val Kilmer’s, and it still held a human scent.”