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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Deceased Father Bellowed Down to Us From a Great Cloud, ‘The Lion King’-Style

February 24, 2025

Odd that Nintendo Power never wrote about the Yakuza hit on the guy that made the Game Boy, isn’t it? It’s a conspiracy theory, sure, but you’d think they’d write one article about it.

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Indiana Jones

Embarrassing moments in dignified franchises Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones survives a nuclear blast Fans have followed Jones through some wild, barely believable stunts, but when he emerges unscathed from a nuclear blast blowing him (and his fridge) hundreds of feet in the air, it's just too much. CRACKED — Paramount Pictures
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Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove THE ALTERNATE ENDING: Kubrick's comedy about bureaucracy and atom bombsended with an actual pie fight in the War Room. The scene today can only be seen with authorization from the Kubrick estate, but there are photos available. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doc Ock

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Spider-Man 2 A puppet nightmare in the original, Doc Ock returns as, uh... floating Alfred Molina. Which is better than half the supervillains out there, so we'll take it. Spider-Man: No Way Home — Source: JoBlo Superheroes/YouTube

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Stanley Tucci

Irving Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci went to State University of New York together and were roommates. In fact, it Tucci's was idea for Rhames to ch

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David Webb

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BRAIN SURGEON It's not exactly brain surgery is a common enough idiom. It's one, however, that takes on a distinctly infuriating tone when uttered by an ACTUAL brain surgeon, played to smug perfection by David Webb. You may see the jokes coming, but it still manages to land every time. — YouTube

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Cop Tropes

Homicide detectives work way fewer cases than you think. Put on a cop show, and you'll see detectives solving a different murder every week. But in real life, the average homicide cop works maybe five cases in a year. Even in such a stab-happy place as Detroit, the number barely goes up to eight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jack Parsons

15 Bizarre Habits Of Incredibly Successful People - Parsons founded NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He was also a famed occultist, who believed in sex magi — Source: The Guardian

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Sir Ian McKellen

CRACKED Sir lan McKellen was Gandalf and Magneto. Between 2000 and 2006, he starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the original X-Men trilogy. Between 2012 and 2014, he reprised his role as Gandalf in The Hobbit trilogy, and Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past. — Source

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John Mayer

AT A GLANCE JOHN MAYER John Mayer wrote Your Body Is a Wonderland when he was 14. The song is about his first girlfriend. — Source: VH1 Storytellers

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Green Arrow

WHY I STARTED ARRO WATCHING It's GREEN ARROW! He's one of DC'S unsung badasses! WHY I STOPPED: Too much brooding No curly blonde Van Dyke beard Not ev

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Rory McCann

Rory McCann didn't have his audition script. His sister printed out just the opening lines, by mistake. When he came to the audition, he saw everyone else had prepared a long speech he knew nothing about. So with nothing prepared, he just acted crazy ... and got the part. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jurassic Park

JURASSIC PARK The film's ending shows the characters riding into the sunset. In the book, the whole island was napalmed by the military, killing almost everyone. Ista Nublar CRACKED.COM

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The Office

GRACKED.COM MIZUNEL SCOTT - Quality Certificate Of Authenticity This certifies that MICHAEL SCOTT is the proud owner of a Quality Seyko timepiece CERTIFICATE NUMBER CONAZURA the office In his office, Michael Scott has a framed certificate of authenticity for his watch. Note that it's for a Quality Seyko, not for a Seiko watch. Не was tricked into buying a knock-off and lets the world know. — Source: 28 Sneaky Jokes Tucked Into Movies And Shows

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The Muppets

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved THE MUPPETS aren't for the small screen. After their TV heights from 1976 to 1981, Muppets movies did well but two separate Disney revivals, Miss Piggy and Muppets Now, were complete flops. CRACKED — Disney
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Tim Horton

Не Owned a Car Dealership First 59LARK les CRACKED.COM Beyond hockey and, like, family or whatever, Hor- ton seemed to love two things: cars and doughnuts. Не never actually retired, playing hockey well into his forties until literally the day he died, but you never know when an injury is going to take you out, so he opened a series of businesses in the '60s, the first of which were a car dealership and a gas sta- tion. After deciding food was where it was at, he opened a chain of burger restaurants that failed be- cause he was ignoring — The Atlantic

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Nintendo

A conspiracy theory exists that says the creator of the Game Boy was murdered by the Yakuza. SELECT START VIRTUALBOY. As the story goes, Nin- tendo's President Gun- pei Yokoi hired the Yakuza to murder Gun- pei Yokoi for the fail- ure of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Kotaku

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The Terminator

CRACKED.COM James Cameron and his movies The Terminator was born from a fever dream. came from a dream that I had while I was sick with a fever in a cheap pensione in Rome in 1981. It was ... a chrome skeleton emerging from a fire. When I woke up, I began sketching on the hotel stationery. — BFI

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Dune

The Easter egg Jason Momoa snuck into Dune for his son. For his climactic fight in the movie, Momoa included moves from the native Filipino martial art, Kali. Не specifically chose these moves because his kid practices Kali, too, and said it was his way of signalling to his son. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Transformers

Product Placement Transformers: Age of Extinction BUD LIGHT The fourth Transformers movie has so much product placement that it's a total joke, like Bud Light cans everywhere (and Mark Wahlberg drinking one of them). It becomes totally distracting. BUD f 2 I I LH2 В ana CRACKED — Paramount Pictures
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Superman and Murder Man

Wild Superhero Deaths TO A FILE ROOM... ZUNIAL THE YES, SUPERMAN! I BECAME MURDER MAN! VISIBLE TO TAUNT YOU! THERE IS IF THAT ALIEN IS BEHIND NO ESCAPE FOR YOU FROM THE ARE THE MOST INTENSE GREEN KRYPTONITE BROADCAST! AYS I'VE EVER FELT!AM YOU'RE GETTING WEAKER... JOUGH TO FLY OUT OF R RANGE ? SLOWING DOWN! Superman #188 THE MURDER MAN MURDERED SUPERMAN Zunial the Murder Man trained with a bunch of Galaxy Crimeteers to assassinate Superman. Out of all them, he succeeded by using kryptonite radio waves. (Supes got better, though.) BEHOLD THE CORPSE OF SUPERMAN, THE MURDER MAN! KRYPTONITE — Source: Screen Rant

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Simon Pegg

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Deceased Father Bellowed Down to Us From a Great Cloud, ‘The Lion King’-Style — YouTube, Screen Rant

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Movie Tropes

Countdown from seeing a pool on screen to someone jumping into it. Almost Famous, 1 minute Lethal Weapon, 2 minutes Breaking Bad, 5 minutes CRAGKED CO

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James Horner

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John Mulaney

John Mulaney- Mulaney CRACKED.COM John Mulaney's sitcom Mulaney looks like it would have been a huge success on paper. The cast was stacked with Nasim Pedran and Martin Short as series regulars, but audiences just couldn't get into the Seinfeld-esc multi-cam sitcom. The series felt too dissimilar to Mulaney's normal style and Mulaney was unhappy with the sitcom medium, which he spoke about in an interview with The Washington Post. Mulaney said I don't like to say I'm glad it didn't work because a lot of people lost a job, but I'm glad it didn't work. It was like, the — Source

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Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THERE WAS A TON OF WORK PUT INTO SET DESIGN. WALK HARD Director Jake Kasdan says that compared to a regular comedy, the movie put much more effort into designing very detailed and authentic sets. Seven hotel rooms and three music studios for different time periods were built for the film. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

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Bart Simpson

When I Was in elementary school, my lunchbox was confiscated and my mom was called in to take it back. Sr Skate MP Roalty SIO BGT B 6 BART BKT They to

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Clueless

CRACKED MY BAD The term first surfaced in 1985, but was explicitly used in basketball. The 1995 movie Clueless brought it to the masses, and also gave us '90s hits whatever and as if. — Phrases / Insider

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Pizza Hut

A woman being held hostage used the Pizza Hut app in order to receive help. $0.09 THANKS FOR YOUR ROROER. DELIVERY TRACKER WEREMAING YOUR ORDER When h — Source: Ars Technica

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Patch Adams

DR. HUNTER PATCH ADAMS PATCH ADAMS CRACKED COM The actual Patch Adams was not amused by Robin Williams' take on his life and work, stating that his portrayal as simply a funny doctor inadequately captured the wide scope of his humanitarian and medical efforts, and telling Roger Ebert, I hate that movie. — Source: Buzzfeed

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Claire Danes

Playing Rose in Titanic was too much of a deja VU for Claire Danes. Danes says she didn't have it in her to go to Mexico to shoot a romantic epic alon — ELLE

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TV

YOUNG INVENTORS A KID INVENTED TV (SO WE CAN ALL WATCH TOO MUCH TV). 15-year-old Philo Farnsworth came up with diagrams on how to make an actual electronic TV system. In 1921. By 1927, he had created an image dissector that could indeed transmit images. Later, he developed a complete TV system, camera and all. VHE 13 86OL 12 17 - PICTURE UHF -88 PL ASTOJATI SOLID STATE HUE COLOR - CRACKED.COM — KsanderDN/Shutterstock
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Matilda

Mara Wilson's Matilda co-stars helped her deal with her mother's illness. Wilson's mother was seriously sick during the filming and died six months af

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Goodfellas

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Machine Gun Kelly

Roger Corman His first success was... Machine Gun Kelly? Did you know that before meaning try-hard, douchey mediocrity, Machine Gun Kelly was the name of an old-timey gangster? Corman directed a movie about him in 1958 - his first critically and commercially successful movie (especially in Europe). CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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No More Heroes

No More Heroes wants you to erect a sword. 1 . CRACKED.COM The Wii game, unusually horny for a Nintendo release, has more than a few suggestive portions. The most egregious is one you can't avoid, that charges Travis' beam katana by vigorously pumping the Wiimote, causing the limp weapon to become rigid. — Source: 16 Of The Strangest Mechanics In Video Games

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The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight After being defeated, the Joker sets up his classic dynamic with Batman: I think you and I are destined to do this forever. No one could predict that forever would end a few months after the movie came out, with Heath Ledger's untimely death. — Source: Movie scene on YouTube, Chicago Tribune

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Cobra Kai

The Kamen Estates Wines in Cobra Kai season 4 is kind of an homage. KAMEN Silver kicks a bottle from Kamen Estates in his cellar at the end of the season's first episode - and that's a real vineyard, that happens to be owned by The Karate Kid screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kevin Spacey

CELEBRITIES that tried stand-up bits TZE KEVIN SPACEY got the gong. Better known for dramatic acting and sexually criminal allegations, Spacey performed in stand-up competitions like The Gong Show straight out of high school. Не stated that his stand-up career was as rough as one would imagine. CRACKED — Yannik Bikker/Shutterstock
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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is based on a short story originally published in a women's interest magazine. GOOD Daphne HOUSTKFEPING du Maurier's Best

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