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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy

February 22, 2025

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Kristen Bell

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy — Source: YouTube

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Amores Perros

Crime Movies That Want To Be Pulp Fiction Amores Perros To call Amores Perros Mexican Pulp Fiction would be unfair, because it's way more than that. Still, the influence is clear: intertwined stories about crime, non-linear storytelling, even a car crash-it's all there. This is Alejandro González Iñárritu's first movie, and he also made Birdman and The Revenant, so dude's clearly a genius. 2000 CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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Emperor Palpatine

YOU KNOW SHEEV PALPATINE, EMPEROR OF THE GALAXY IN STAR WARS. BUT ORIGINALLY... HIS NAME WAS COS DASHIT. It's too bad he was renamed after the first draft. His original name was truly da shit, man. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Screwed

Improvised weapons in pop culture Screwed LAMP If you ever feel threatened, just grab a nearby lamp to conk a dude on the head. After that, they'll go lights out. (Yeah, we hate ourselves for that pun, too.) CRACKED.COM

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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey once got busted while dancing and playing bongos in the nude. He was spotted doing that at his home, and cops showed up and arrested him. Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts were all over Austin, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: NY Daily News

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Porky’s

Porky's is the fifth highest grossing movie of 1982, earning $327 million (adjusted for inflation). PORKY'S The teen sex comedy outperformed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, First Blood, and Best Picture winner Gandhi. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dr. Samuel Loomis

Halloween Then vs. Now From Donald Pleasance to after-death cameo Dr. Loomis went from being Myers' shrink to protecting Laurie's daughter, Jamie. In Curse, we last see him confronting Myers, fate unknown. Donald Pleasance died in 1995, so Malcolm McDowell took over in Zombie's films, before today's prosthetic recreation. Still, 1988's Return gave us two awesome Loomis moments: Jjumping off an explosion, and his final, desperate scream. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, 'Halloween Kills' Brought A Dead Actor Back The Old Fashioned Way

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Kirby (The Game)

KIRBY The Game Kirby's Dream Land 1992, Game Boy KIRBT ©Xn4 Kirby and the Forgotten Land 2022, Switch It took 30 years, but Kirby finally moved into 3D in this Breath of the Wild-esque adventure, where you can eat almost everything. CRACKED.COM — Source: Kotaku

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Hey, Arnold!

Helga's mom was a boozehound. HEY, ARNOLD! CRACKED.COM Helga's mother on Hey, Arnold! routinely slurred her words, and could barely stay awake. Her many community service bids had adults thinking possible DUl's. — Diply / Buzzfeed

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Orson Welles

CRACKED ORSON WELLES AND ADOLF HITLER Orson Welles ran into Adolf Hitler at a very early Nazi Party gathering, but it wasn't really memorable. The man sitting next to me was Hitler, and he made so little impression on me that I can't remember a second of it. — Far Out Mag / NPR

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Hellraiser

Hellraiser Then vs. Now From pleasure to pain - and beyond The Cenobites are not demons, and that the whole punishment thing in the later sequels is dumb. They do not punish transgression-they seek it. The basic Hellraiser concept is the ultimate oneness of pleasure and pain in sadomasochism. CRACKED.COM — Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy/YouTube

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Taco Bell

Taco Bell's Bell Beefer In the 1970s, Taco Bell introduced its chili burger. Basically a taco but with a bun instead of a shell. As if there weren't enough fast-food burger options, who thought we needed a harder-to-eat attempt? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King

HE WRITES SO MUCH HE'S FORGOTTEN BOOKS &Nuble CRACKED King has had struggles with addiction, but he's never struggled with writing, SO he has no memory of writing his killer dog book Cujo. — Source: The Guardian

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

SO there I was... wait, mother of God, there I am! When Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson self- insert sees a fantastical hallucination of himself in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the hallucination is none other than Thompson himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Three’s Company

Suzanne Somers was fired from Three's Company for asking for equal pay. Her co-star John Ritter, was getting $150,000 an episode, so she asked to get that (and not the $30,000 she'd been getting). Instead, they fired her, saying that Ritter is the star. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Finding Nemo

FINDING NEMO You had me at 'fish.' That's what Pixar's chief creative officer said to writer/director Andrew Stanton to give him the green light to start working on the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Empty Nest

Forgotten sitcoms 1988-1995 EMPTY NEST It's amazing this show is forgotten, considering it lasted for seven seasons (on friggin' NBC!). Originally a Golden Girls spin-off, it was about a widower pediatrician and his daughters. Plus, it featured the actor who played Joe Isuzu in those Isuzu ads (go ask your parents about that). CRACKED.COM — Sources: Wikipedia, A FUSCO/YouTube

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The Office

THE OFFICE The clown painting returns. am After Jim struggles to remove it from the wall, the painting shows up 2 seasons later at the garage sale. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wolverine

CRACKED VS COSTUME COMIC BOOK WOLVERINE MOVIE WOLVERINE CRACKED.COM Wears blue and Wears the yellow to stand same leather out, SO he can pull jumpsuit as his focus from teammates innocent because this bystanders while was the early fighting bad guys. 2000's

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Stranger Things

Dustin is the alpha nerd. DUSTIN HENDERSON, twelve, is the King Geek. He is overweight and wears oversized glasses. His supportive parents are nerds

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Cleveland

CLEVELAND GRACKED COM Mildly amusing as one of Peter's pals, Cleveland stunk as the star of the show. A toxic combination of witlessness and racial i — USA Today

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Jaws: The Revenge

WORST SEQUELS EVER JAWS: THE REVENGE So this film was directed by a nobody, right? Nope. Joseph Sargent had a long career on movies and TV. In fact, he directed the two-hour Kojak pilot in 1973, which Spielberg himself credited for inspiring him to hire Lorraine Gary to play Jaws' Ellen Brody (leading to her prominent role in this fourth part). CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Butler

LEE DANIELS' CRACKEDCON THE BUILER the of an African-American who served the White House for over three decades, needed 41 producers. Independent fina

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Dirty Harry

CRACKED DIRTY HARRY NEEDS A BODYCAM TO KEEP HIM IN CHECK. DIRTY HARRY In one of Clint Eastwood's most iconic films, this rogue cop is supposed to follow a strict code of conduct, but he violates civil rights, abuses prisoners, and kills at will. He's portrayed as good, but he's a menace to society. — Source

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Cinderella

Cinderella CRACKED COM In Cinderella IIl: A Twist In Time, her evil step-family finally catch wise to the Fairy Godmother. They get ahold of the magic wand, and use their newfound Thanos-level superpowers to go back in time and... change the size of the glass slipper. The prince simply falls in

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Rafiki

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy — Source

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Punky Brewster

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy — People

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Euphoria

Shows about mental illness EUPHORIA EVERYTHING/BEING BORN POST-WAR ON TERROR Seriously, everyone in here is messed up- depression, anxiety, schizophrenic, bipolar, dysphoric, borderline. If there ever was a fakeout mental hospital episode, almost nothing would change. CRACKED.COM — Source: Hollywood Insider

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Yalitza Aparicio

Big Actors Who Had Never Acted Before YALITZA APARICIO in Roma Going from aspiring schoolteacher to getting an Oscar nomination in a short time is quite a break-which happened because Aparicio's sister kind of tricked her into auditioning for Alfonso Cuarón's movie. — Source: E! Online

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Vince Vaughn

CRACKEDcO Vince Vaughn's portrayal of Norman Bates in the remake of Psycho was the opposite of that of a creepy murderer. Instead he looks like he is

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Maude

mauge Maude a TV series by CBS, aired a two-part episode called Maude's Dilemma' in 1972. In it, Maude, the main character, finds herself pregnant at

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Kate Moss

Kate Moss was the face of H&M, Chanel, and Burberry. Apparently, they didn't know she had been in rehab. In 2005, when pictures surfaced of Moss appearing to snort cocaine, she was promptly dropped by all three clotheries. They were shocked-shocked!- that a model who had popularized the fashion trend known as heroin chic would do drugs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Halsey

Halsey is an anagram of her first name, Ashley. It's also the subway stop in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TIE Fighters

The TIE Fighter scream is a blend of the sound of a car on Wet ground and elephant noises. To create a laser sound effect, sound designer Ben Burtt mi

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The Iron Giant

Brad Bird's loss of his sister partly inspired The Iron Giant. She died of gun violence, and he approached the movie from the angle of What if a gun had a soul? The connection was subconscious when he pitched it, but his feelings about gun violence definitely ended up in the movie, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Black Panther

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln influenced Black Panther. The challenge scene with M'Baku and T'Challa was directly inspired by it -- Ryan Coogler says he liked how Spielberg made political conversations animated and engaging. CRACKED.COM

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Cars 2

In Cars 2, the villains (Lemons) have a little celebration. You know, a LEMON PARTY. Isn't this a great party, Ivan? The Pixar movie snuck in a reference to the NSFW website that features a couple of elderly men having sex with each other. One of your jerk friends probably sent you the link once. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meteorologists

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy — Source: Mental Floss

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Dumbledore

MICHAEL GAMBON RUINED DUMBLEDORE AND WITH HIM THE BEST PARTS OF Harry otter PART 5 AND 6. HIS PORTRAYAL WAS AGGRESSIVE, IMPULSIVE AND INACCURATE. S im

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Despacito

Streaming Despacito used up more power than some countries produce in a year. It was streamed 4.6 billion times from January 2017 to early 2020, which consumed as much electricity as Sierra Leone, Chad, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Guinea-Bissau make in a year, combined. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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