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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Tried to Flush When the Cops Showed Up

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Tried to Flush When the Cops Showed Up

February 16, 2025

A movie critic once called Bambi “entirely unpleasant,” so keep that in mind if you ever find yourself listening to the opinion of a movie critic.

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Jon Heder

CRACKED JON HEDER WAS A POP CULTURE ICON FOR A COUPLE YEARS. Napoleon Dynamite became a household name in 2004, and after leading roles in School for Scoundrels and Blades of Glory in 2006, he left Hollywood for the Pacific Northwest, where he feels a lot more comfortable. — Game Rant / Knox News

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BowieNet

We could have had a David Bowie internet. CRACKED.COM After releasing the first downloadable song by a major artist in 1996, David Bowie later launched BowieNet to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and uncensored Internet access. — The Guardian

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RoboCop

The credits for 1987's RoboCop lay out especially severe consequences for copyright violation. THIS MOTION PICTURE IS PROTECTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE

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Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn PSYCHO CRACKED.COM The usually snarky giant Vince Vaughn took an unusual turn in the late 90's with his portrayal of the creepy Norman Bates in the 1998 remake of Psycho. Unfortunately most critics wondered what the point of this mostly shot-for-shot remake ultimately was. — Source: IMDB

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Pamela Anderson

CRACKED.COM The X-Files Pamela Anderson was almost Dana Scully. According to Gillian Anderson, she was originally told that the producers were looking for someone bustier, taller, leggier than she was. — Source

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Halloween

Halloween Then vs. Now The influence Halloween paved the way for your Fridays, Nightmares, and Screams. But Halloween's influence extends beyond the mere slasher. It's a cinematic classic, and like The Exorcist or The Shining, an unavoidable reference for movie-making in general. CRACKED.COM — The Take, IndieWire

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Star Trek

ST:VOYAGER Threshold DOES STAR TREK HATE EVOLUTION? Lt. Paris and Capt. Janeway fly at warp 10 (we won't go there) and somehow become a future stage in human development. Evolution doesn't do whatever this is. Individuals don't evolve, populations do; and evolution does not follow a set path, so there's no such thing as a future stage. — Sources: Memory Alpha, Understanding Evolution

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Friends

Marcel the monkey FRIENDS CRACKED .COM Katie the monkey was supposed to be a series regular, but blew her shot by pooping, puking, and eating worms at every opportunity. David Schwimmer famously hated his scene partner: wish it were dead. — Source: EW

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Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian spammed social media with useless diet lollipops. Marketing sugar-filled lollipops with unproven secret ingredients as a weight loss tool may seem incongruous, but what's even less rational is posting an Instagram advertisement for such a product during Mental Health Awareness Week. kimkardashian Follow kimkardashian #ad You guys... FLATTUMMY @flattummyco just dropped a new LOLLIPOPS product. They're Appetite Suppressant LO Lollipops and they're literally unreal. Apparite Suppression They're giving the first 500 people on their website 15% OFF so if you want to get your hands on some... you need to do it quick! #suckit Load more comments Which

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The Legend of Zelda

LINK THEN NOW Silent protagonist who lets you experience the thrill and serenity of exploration by pushing the limits of video game technology. CRACKED COM — Source: Iconic Video Game Characters Who Have Changed Dramatically

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Prison Break

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Tried to Flush When the Cops Showed Up

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Atomic Energy Lab

ATOMIC ENERGY LAB GILBERT physics - ... ATOMIC ENERGY LAB PERFORME DMIN 150 - بهد - - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - available - - - - Epecting! Safe! - GILBERT VALL DE SCIENCE .... CRACKED.COM SILBERT CLOUD CHAMPIER Did the Atomic Energy Lab come with actual uranium? Why, yes. Yes, it did. — Source

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Laurie Metcalf

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LAURIE METCALF WAS ON SNL FOR BASICALLY ONE WHOLE MINUTE. She had one of the shortest SNL tenures of anyone, ever, and appeared in a single episode (that did not even have a host). — Source

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Orange Is the New Black

0 IORANGE The accidental death of is BLACKI the new Poussey Washington was a sad and shocking twist; however, it glossed over a lot of complex issue

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It

In It (2017), Pennywise suddenly appears in the mural. Battle and ad de departidos Barle CRACKED.COM — Source

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Split Personalities

GRAGKED.COM Your personality won't split just because your life sucks. Dissociative identity disorder is understood to be caused by repetitive childhood trauma (such as abuse). Tyler Durden won't come along to keep you company because you feel alienated by a consumerist society.

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Cars

The Pixar film Cars earned 22 times its total box office gross in merchandise. 95 CRACKED.COM By 2011, the sales fig- ures made Cars mer- chandise the biggest seller in history, earn- ing the company $10 billion. — BBC / Wikipedia

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Disney World

Lethal monorail crash In July 2020, an accident occurred at Disney World when a monorail crashed, killing the 21-year-old driver. Thankfully, the eight passengers, including a family of six, were all unharmed. CRACKED — James Kirkikis/Shutterstock
CNN

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Gilligan’s Island

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Tried to Flush When the Cops Showed Up — Source: YouTube

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Patton Oswalt

CRACKED PATTON OSWALT called his past offensive material lazy. About his march for gay r-ded people bit, he said, When I look back at the bit, it's just lazy. I'm trying to say the word 'r-rd' and get that easy laugh. I'm rarely embarrassed by anything offensive | do, but I'm very embarrassed when I've done something lazy. — Joe Seer/Shutterstock
Vulture

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Rihanna

Rihanna used to be an army cadet... ...and Shontelle used to be her drill sergeant. CRACKED.COM

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan had to do community service. She handled Whitney Houston's body bag. Or so she claimed, calling it an annoying chore criminals shouldn't have to do. The coroner's office debunked the story. No one in the probation program came near Houston, who was never even CRACKED.COM in a body bag. — Source: Bizarre Lies 19 Famous People Thought They'd Get Away With

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Rachel Zegler

Musical movies west side story Rachel Zegler had never professionally acted before being cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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The RZA

CRACKED WUTANG THE RZA Before forming the Wu-Tang Clan, he was a solo artist on Tommy Boy Records, and released Ooh / Love You Rakeem in 1991. The bright clothes, tux, braids, and overall ladies man vibe was manufactured for him, and it completely flopped. — Bustle / The Purist Online

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Bob Neuwirth

It took a lot of courage to be nonviolent, especially when people had clubs, dogs, handcuffs and all that s*t. Bob Neuwirth, singer/ songwriter, tal

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CSI

MYTH: CSI teams sweep through the scene of a crime and solve it, fast. FACT: That's only on TV. Crime scene investigators don't solve cases. Their role is to collect enough evidence to support a case against the suspect who has been identified by old-fashioned police work. And the process isn't quick. Some laboratory tests, such as DNA samples, toxicology, and blood reports, can take weeks or even months to process. Also, while DNA criminal databases do exist, less than 1/10th of all criminals are a part of it. CRACKED.COM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4284335.stm — Source

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Woops!

WOOPS! 10 All bad! EPISODES CRACKED A sitcom about the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse needs a careful tone balance that 90s TV couldn't handle. — Source: Vulture

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Movie Myths

MYTH: Being a hitman requires a special skill set. FACT: Fancy hitmen don't exist in the real world. A U.K. study of hitmen showed that the stereotype of the suit-wearing, surgical, master assassin is far from the truth. Most hitmen are average Joes (aside from the killing people thing). They're usually first-time, local individuals who are so hard up for money they can't even leave the area after the kill. Incidentally, they also get caught a lot. CRACKED.COM http://manbcmedia.msn.com//MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/HOJOTheBritishHitmanIR2.pdf — Source

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Josh Brolin

When asked about Jonah Hex, Josh Brolin says he hated it. Hated it. It would have been better to shoot a movie about the making of it, he says they had to reshoot 66 pages in 12 days, which apparently didn't give a great result. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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Iain Glen

IAIN GLEN who plays Ser Jorah Mormont in GAME OF THRONES, had an encounter with a fan in an airport who asked him to look her in the eye and say, KHALEESI. The fan was thrilled when he obliged. CRACKED — HBO
The Guardian

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Vogue

It would cost $343,368 to buy every product in a Vogue magazine. UN 120 adu VO Or at least from a June 2014 issue. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Glenn Close

HOOK Glenn Close CRACKED.com She plays the nervous pirate who was forced into the Boo Box and introduced a generation to claustrophobia. — 22 Surprising Celebrity Appearances Everybody Forgets About

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Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt collects dead bugs. His collection led to his marriage to Anna Faris- she also collected them, and they had instant chemistry. CRACKED.COM

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Jar Jar Binks

THIS CANDY TREAT LETS YOU FRENCH-KISS JAR JAR BINKS. doo I JANES Binks JUI ART adidas COMM I PISODE WARS STAR dom I ORIGINAL We're assuming it tastes like thinly-veiled racism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fripp the Polarisoid

TMNT Cartoons' Worst Villains Fripp the TURTLES TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA Polarisoid Perhaps the dopiest character in TMNT (and that's saying something), Fripp is an alien visiting Earth on vacation with a camera that transports whatever he takes a picture of into another dimension. His high-pitched, giggle-feather voice doesn't help either. CRACKED.COM — Turtlepedia, Ranker

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Bambi

Bambi made no money early on, and critics called it stuff like entirely unpleasant. They said the movie was awful because the animals were so animal-like, unlike Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. CRACKED.COM — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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Donald Glover

EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Donald Glover shout-out For years, Glover was a fan-favorite to step inside the Spidey suit. In Community. a gag was even added showing his character Troy waking up in Spider-Man pajamas. In the movie, Miles visits his Uncle Aaron. The episode of Community can be seen playing on the TV screen. CRACKED.COM — CBR

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MTV

MTV had a very fitting first music video. At 12:01a.m. on August 1st, 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles became the very first music video on MTV. The video was released in 1979, so the band definitely saw the changing of the guard and capitalized. CRACKED — Source

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The Mummy

The Mummy was an inbred teen The Mummy as a monster was inspired by 1922's opening of Tutankhamen's tomb. The real King Tut stood 5'6, had several health issues and a club foot that probably made him walk with a cane. Не died when he was 18. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gladstone Library and CNN

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Toy Story 2

TOY IS ABOUT STORY REJECTING 2 IMMORTALITY. When Woody is injured, he is confronted for the first time with the fact that his time is limited, and he

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