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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know

February 15, 2025

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The Shawshank Redemption

Underappreciated Sidekicks The Shawshank Redemption 3020 Ellis Boyd Red Redding The movie would be very different without Red being a constant, supportive friend always giving great life advice, in the Morgan Freeman giving great life advice tradition. Not to mention that his smuggling skills help Andy to survive poop-pipe hell. CRACKED.COM — Source: Ranker

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The Incredibles

THE INCREDIBLES Fly home, Buddy. I work alone. Et votre tenue est totalement ridicule! If you didn't pass French class, Bomb Voyage just added And yo

38

Rock Hudson

In 1955, Phyllis Gates roarried Hollywood hunk Rock Hudson. Rock Hudson was gay. It turns out the pair had entered a lavender marriage, which is a s

37

Dynasty Warriors

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know — Source: The 21 Most Ridiculously Frustrating Video Game Moments

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Flip this House

Realtor Sam Leccima was featured on an episode of A&E's Flip this House. FOD SOLD CALS He didn't actually own, fix up, or sell the houses. Leccima had his friends and family pose as buyers and sellers, and staged cosmetic renovation scenes for the camera. Not only did he not own the homes, he would not have been able to sell them. His realtor license had been revoked. CRACKED.COM http:/fwww todav.com/id/18985912# VhFe(RNVhBc — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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Malcolm in the Middle

MALCOM IN THE MIDDLE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS CRACKED.COM The story behind it was quite odd. The sitcom had not even been pitched, it was just a pilot, says TMBG'S John Flansburgh. They wanted a strong song title... We had said no to SO many interesting gambits over the years, I don't know why we said yes. — news.com.au

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The Nona Tapes

Mockumentaries The Nona Tapes Alice in Chains did their own mockumentary to promote their third album. Columbia Records was pissed, and took their revenge by selling the short against the band's wishes when it became a cult hit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Movie Myths

A hole is unlikely to suck you out of a plane. The decompression will be hard indeed, but it will be over in a matter of seconds. You may be sucked out, but you have to be right next to the hole when it opens, and it has to be a huge hole to begin with. — More: 5 Myths About Flying Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

32

Barney Stinson

CRACKED BARNEY STINSON HAS SOURED ON ROBIN. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Robin, girls are like cartons of milk. Each one has a hotness expiration date, and you've hit yours. — YouTube / IMDB

31

Brad Pitt

A Big Helping Of Little-Known About Movies (And Other Stuff)The line You're Rick F*ak*ing Dalton in Once Upon A Time in — Source: CinemaBlend

30

Ashton Kutcher

IUAL If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food... we could solve obesity and hunger at the same time. Ashton Kutcher, solving the world's problems while trying to mathematically figure out how you can have 2.5 men CRACKED.COM — Source

29

John Goodman

JOHN GOODMAN GRACKEDCOM 13-time host (third place all-time!) but it was a hard no when he auditioned for the cast in 1980. — Source: Screen Rant

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The Goodies

England, 1975 Alex Mitchell LAUGHED HIMSELF TO DEATH. Mitchell laughed for a solid half hour watching his favorite TV show - then, he collapsed. His w — Source: BBC

27

Laura Innes

IDAO A DECADE SPENT USING A CRUTCH FOR THE ROLE OF DR. KERRY WEAVER LEFT LAURA INNES WITH REAL-LIFE SPINE CURVATURE.

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Clerks: The Animated Series

CRACKED.COM kevin smith The was a clerks animated series. The series was aired out of order, and then canceled. It briefly featured the voice of Bryan Cranston. — Source: 16 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Kevin Smith And His Movies

25

Conan the Barbarian

SUBOTAI was kicked out of the Conan movies. Producer Dino de Laurentiis ordered that no one but Conan should return for the sequel to Conan the Barbarian, forcing the writers to come up with a completely new sidekick for the Cimmerian. — Source: Starlog Magazine (via archive.org)

24

Squid Game

Hwang Dong-hyuk had to stop writing Squid Game to sell his laptop. He was living with his mother and grandmother at the time, and they were pretty at one point, he had to sell his laptop for laptop $675). CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

23

Lord of the Rings

eowyn AND FARAMIR found each other and fell in love, despite all the conflict and strife of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Just ignore the fact that for the majority of her screen time, Eowyn was in love with Aragorn. CRACKED.COM Return of the King. 2003. — 22 Famous Movie Romances You Never Realized Are Creepy

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Comedy Stereotypes

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM STEREOTYPES. Every white girl on twitter All men are CAPRICORN SCORPIO AQUARIUS LIBRA VIRGO LEO trash Women DO be shopping! Lazy, offensive caricatures of broad demographics based on race and gender have been a mainstay in comedy for ages, and they've aged as poorly as a Romanian chimney sweeper.

21

Looney Tunes

Granny LOONEY TUNES CRACKED.COM The doddering old bitty is too ancient to care for this, or any, animal if she is so unaware of her surroundings she doesn't notice that the little yellow bird is being hunted at all times by a vicious tom cat.

20

Chris Pratt

JURASSIC WORLD CHRIS PRATT JOKINGLY PREDICTED HIS LEAD ROLE In a Season 2 Parks and Recreation DVD extra, Pratt pretends to get a text from Steven Spielberg, courting him to be in the next Jurassic Park movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Parks and Rec Clips/YouTube

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Burt Ward

BURT WARD CROBIN THE BOY WONDER) R CRACKEDG Ward and Adam West became sexual vampires. Thousands of young women were inseminated with our Batsp*rm ou

18

Alan Moore

CRACKED VS. The final straw CRACKED.co DC COMICS ALAN MOORE When it was announced Moore denied saying any that there would be a film such thing, and asked DC adaptation of Moore's to retract Silver's remarks critically acclaimed V for because at that point, Vendetta, producer Joe Moore was firmly against Silver claimed that they all these adaptations of his had talked to Moore and comics. DC basically that he was very excited ignored his request, and about the movie. that was it. — Source: CBR

17

Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS Bunnies, DOnnie Darko Where. The most obvious one comes in the form of the famous song in the movie, The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen. At one point a Volkswagen Rabbit drives by at a bus stop, and Donnie's sister Elizabeth has a stuffed rabbit where she sleeps. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Wrap

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Benedict Cumberbatch

CRACKED.COM Benedict cumberbatch не hates the term cumberbitches. While a good chunk of his female fanbase have given themselves that name, he isn't flattered by it. I think it sets feminism back so many notches, he's said. You are... Cumberpeople. — Source: Marie Claire

15

Jaws 3-D

Early drafts of movies Jaws 3-D The movie was going to be a straight spoof. Written by John Hughes and to be directed by Joe Dante, National Lampoon's Jaws 3, People o was going to be a mockumentary about the filming of a third Jaws movie. Spielberg apparently threatened to leave Universal if they didn't stop mocking the franchise, which means no one has told him what the third Jaws movie actually ended up being. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

Alfred Hitchcock

The distrust of the police in ALFRED HITCHCOCK films isn't some political point - -Hitchcock literally had a phobia of cops. When he was a child, his father had him locked up in a police cell to punish him. He was afraid of the police ever since. — Sources: Talk Film Society, Newsweek

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Panic ensued when a Missouri movie theater hired fake agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., complete with fake weapons, to storm a screening of IRON MAN 3... CRACKED.COM less than a year after the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. — Source

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Kissing Tropes

CRACKED COM It's time for writers to retire interrupted kisses. The X-Files Zombieland Were we supposed to feel anything other than The Guardians of annoyance? the Galaxy — Source

11

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah was the voice of Griot in Black Panther. If that talking A.I. sounded familiar, it's almost certainly because you've seen an episode of The Daily Show. Considering a griot is an African storyteller, Noah (who grew up in Apartheid-era South Africa) was an appropriate choice. And he was able to understand Xhosa without subtitles, too. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

Colonel Sanders

KFC 1952 New الله CRACKED.COM After varied careers, Colonel Harland Sanders began selling food out of his gas station in 1930. It wasn't until the invention of the pressure cooker in 1939 where he perfected his quickly fried chicken with 11 herbs and spices. In 1952, he franchised the business. — Source

9

Adrien Brody

COMEDY NERD Adrien Brody got banned from the SNL set after hosting it one time. When he introduced musical guest Sean Paul, he sported dreadlocks and used an awful fake Jamaican accent, which did not go over well at all. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Apollo 13

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know — Source: The New York Times

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Carrie Fisher

AT A GLANCE CARRIE FISHER Carrie Fisher was a script doctor. She worked (uncredited) to polish scripts to films like Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon, and The Wedding Singer. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Mary Sue

6

Grandpa Munster

Grandpa Munster was more than a decade younger. THE MUNSTERS CRACKED.COM Al Lewis lied about his age to get the part, and kept up the old man ruse for the rest of his life. — Source

5

Sideways

Sideways made pinot noir wine a top seller (and damaged merlot). The California wine industry credits Sideways with boosting the popularity of pinot noir, with production nearly doubling since the movie came out. Conversely, this Sideways Effect has been blamed for making merlot a shunned wine, as Paul Giamatti's character refuses to drink it. — Source: NPR

4

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy 1953 CRACKED.COM The first televised birth (well, not graphic birth) goes to Lucille Ball, who wasn't even allowed to say the word 'pregnant' because it was too taboo. — Source: AV Club

3

Mark Wahlberg

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia the Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know — Source: WhatCulture

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Army Man

Comedy hotbeds Army Man America's Only Magazine Astonishingly Primitive Debut Issue! #1 ARMY Second Printing Not A Collector's Item Why I Love America first day MAN WI ur Why do I love America? yees of the Well, maybe love is a an initiation little strong... I mean, to break I think it's a good coun- meone whacks try. Definitely. But a shattering lot of that is cause I the delicate Liner. TOU may be shocked to find was born here, and have- your iced tea full of broken glass, but brother, n't seen that many other you'd better just drink — archive.org
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The Conjuring

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The real doll that inspired The Conjuring was a normal Raggedy Ann. WARNING POSITIVEL CRACKED.COM DO NOT In The Conjuring, and the Annabelle spin-off, the evil-possessed doll is a creepy, ventriloquist-dummy-looking toy with wooden skin and large, unblinking eyes. In reality, the toy that inspired the series is a regular Raggedy Ann, which is locked up in Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, ст. — Source: 14 Behind The Scenes Facts About Our Favorite Horror Movies

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