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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Hangin’ From the Corner of My Girlfriend’s Four-Post Bed

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Hangin’ From the Corner of My Girlfriend’s Four-Post Bed

March 09, 2025

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007

Being James Bond went to George Lazenby's head. On the set of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lazenby would frequently make crew members nervous by drunkenly tossing liquor bottles into the air and shooting them to pieces. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

CRACKED FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS Audience score Critic score 89% 49% In critics' eyes, this movie is like a pretty picture with no purpose. It's all over the place and you won't care about any of it by the end. — Rotten Tomatoes

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The Dark Knight

MYTH Heath Ledger improvised the explosion scene in The Dark Knight because the explosives malfunctioned. REALITY Nothing malfunctioned because the glitch was planned. A redditor claimed that the glitch was unplanned and Nolan just kept filming, but it's not true. Ledger knew exactly what was going to happen because they rehearsed the scene meticulously, even the part where Ledger's Joker looks back at the hospital that doesn't want to blow up. GRACKED COM — Source: 15 Pieces Of 'Movie Trivia' Everyone Gets Wrong

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Brie Larson

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BRIE LARSON Let's give Brie Larson her due here for a moment. 21 Jump Street, Room, The League, Captain Marvel, and Scott Pilgrim. She stands out in her dramatic roles and has great comedic timing.

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Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress and its ridiculously detailed combat system. CRACKED.COM The creatures you fight in Dwarf Fortress don't just have a simple number representing their overall health, they are made of flesh and bone and can BE killed in a variety of creative ways. If you don't sever an artery and cause immediate blood loss, don't worry because these wounds are permanent, SO a slow death from cumulative tissue or nerve damage is still on the table. — Source: Dwarf Fortress Wiki

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Swords

Swords were never quenched in living people. sing 1119 Stick soft, glowing-h hot metal into a bone- filled person, and chances are it'll bend. Even if it doesn't, you'll get an uneven cooling, resulting in a crappy sword. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 Things Movies Get Wrong About Swords (An Inside Look)

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White Castle

White Castle 1921 Castle 5 hite Castle 5 eler Established i HAMBURGERS in 921 Buy em by the Sack CASTL White Castle was the first American fast-food chain. Hamburgers were 5 cents and quickly served to exact specifications, which would later be copied by other chains. — Source: Mashed

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Seinfeld

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Hangin’ From the Corner of My Girlfriend’s Four-Post Bed

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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling was cast because he wasn't handsome. That sounds dumb now, but Notebook director Nick Cassavetes said, I want you ... because you're not like the other young actors out there in Hollywood. You're not handsome, you're not cool, you're just a regular guy who looks a bit nuts. — For details, read 6 Crazy Auditions That Landed Actors Their Famous Roles

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe married his first cousin. CRACKED.COM Poe married Virgina Clemm when he was 26 and she was 13. She died 11 years later, and Poe was often found in the winter sitting at her tomb almost frozen. — Source

30

Rosemary’s Baby

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1968 ROSEMARY'S BABY Shortly after release, composer Krzysztof Komeda went into a coma after falling off a cliff, and soon died. Producer William Castle got hate mail, developed kidney stones, and hallucinated about the film at the hospital, eventually screaming, Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife! And finally, there's the infamous fate of Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Knocked Up

GRACKED.COM (KNOCKED UP) The trope of the lead characters breaking up in the second act, just to get back together in the third act is one of the most overused cliches ever. You know they'll reunite. It's just a lazy way to create drama. — Source

28

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter

CRACKED RIP 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter Paul Hennessy John Ritter died unexpectedly in 2003 while filming 8 Simple Rules. The show paid tribute to him by having his character die in a similar way, just as suddenly and tragically. — ABC
Showbiz CheatSheet

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Go

Crime Movies That Want To Be Pulp Fiction 1999 Go Swingers and Edge of Tomorrow's Doug Liman had a go at the Pulp Fiction knock-off trend with this black crime comedy made up of three intertwining stories. Is it good? Well, it's not bad. The energy is fun, there's good music, and the cast is full of greats like Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie Holmes, Taye Diggs, and William Fichtner. CRACKED COM — Movie Trailers Brought To You By FlickDirect/YouTube

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Breaking Bad

BREAKING BAD HAS 62 EPISODES FOR A REASON. 4f66s2 62 Sm Samarium 150.36 The number 62 on the periodic table represents Samarium, an element that is used to treat cancers, especially lung cancer. CRACKED.COM — Cheat Sheet

25

The Transporter

Frank Martin, The Transporter, discovers that a package he's delivering contains a woman, Lai Kwan. THEY START A KIDNAPPING- BASED ROMANCE. Frank keeps Lai at arm's length, until she offers to have sex with him. Out of the blue. She does it to get Frank to help her, but they end up together based on about three sentences and 200 felonies. CRACKED.COM The Transporter, 2002 — 26 Icky Romances In Huge Movies

24

Tony Soprano vs. Walter White

CRACKED VS MARRIAGE TONY SOPRANO WALTER WHITE CRACKED.COM Walt lies to his wife Tony is a habitual to, in his mind, save cheater and her from his illegal abuser, often dealings, which just exploding at his drives a wedge wife Carmela and between them and then using leads to an eruptive expensive gifts to separation. win her back.

23

Double Fantasy

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album Double Fantasy was inspired by a random nightclub song. John Lennon Double Fantasy Yoko Ono Lennon heard Rock Lobster by The B-52s in a nightclub in Bermuda, while on vacation, and thought it sounded just like Yoko's music - so he said to himself It's time to get out the old ax and wake the wife up!' CRACKED.COM — Rolling Stone

22

Air Bud

Buddy, the titular star of Air Bud, was still able to shoot hoops after one of his legs was amputated In addition to Air Bud, the former stray was also in America's Funniest Home Videos and Full House. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — The Spokesman-Review

21

NBC

NBC had to issue an apology over an offensive episode. CRACKEDG .COM NBC had to issue an apology over an offensive episode. In the episode The Puerto Rican Day, as the gang is stuck in traffic due to the titular parade, Kramer accidentally sets a Puerto Rican flag ablaze and has to stomp it out. Subsequently, for this and other reasons, the episode was taken out of syndication until 2002. — Source: NY Times

20

Alec Guinness

ALEC Guinness Obi-Wanted nothing to do with Star Wars. It's no secret that Guinness hated the rubbish dialogue and didn't care to learn Harrison Tennyson Ellison Ford's name. But he was humble enough to critique his own acting chops: I find myself old and out of touch with the — Source: The Guardian

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Breakfast Prizes

1973 A miniature printer ALUE 2D ONE PLASTIC POCKET PRINTER 11110111 RPE ALLLLLLI EITHER LLLLLLLLIL ALPHABET EMBOSSER OR SYMBOLS NUMBERS EMBOSSER Printer is doing some heavy lifting here, as it was really just an inkless embossing stamp that clamped down and left the faint mark of a letter on

18

Dr. Strange

DR. STRANGE CRACKED.COM No, that's not Ron Jeremy starring in this 1978 Dr. Strange TV movie. Doc just borrowed his wardrobe and pornstache.

17

South Park

In the South Park song Let's Fighting Love, the lyric mistaken for kickassu is actually kenka suru, Japanese for quarrelling or squabbling. The

16

Scream 3

SCREAM 3 was a complete mess that lacked the charm and wit of the first two films. l was up for Princess Leia! So who gets it? The one who slept with

15

The Handmaid’s Tale

In THE HANDMAID'S TALE reading is forbidden in the Republic of Gilead. The show's Art Department had to create labels devoid of writing for every sing

14

Abercrombie & Fitch

It took a Supreme Court ruling to end Abercrombie & Fitch's tyrannical dress code. A&C notoriously refused to stock clothes bigger than Large - and yet, employees of all sizes were forced to wear them (among other draconian rules). All this ended when a Muslim woman sued them for firing her over her headscarf, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. CRACKED.COM — Source

13

News Corp.

CRACKED OFFER NECK СОНТН AX JIL HER #News Corporation body NEWS CORP. News Corp. sold Myspace for $35 million, a huge loss compared to the $580 million they paid for it in 2005. — Source

12

A Brave New World

Aldous Huxley imagined a Brave New World where mood-stabilizing drugs are not only free, their use is encouraged! Instead, all we have now are overpriced medications that are incredibly stigmatized. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Mitski

Wrong Lyrics Mitski Texas Reznikoff Texas is a land-locked state To be fair, Mitski says she knows that Texas isn't completely surrounded by land, and she says this line is a joke between her and the person the song was written about. CRACKED — Dead Oceans
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Suicide Squad

Rock songs in movies Suicide Squad Remember that Suicide Squad shoehorns in on-the- nose songs every two minutes to avoid actual storytelling? Now you remember. The worst example must be its trite use of the Rolling Stones' SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL to introduce Amanda Waller. Get it? Because she has questionable motives? And we also have to sympathize with her? CRACKED.COM — Warner Bros.
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First Movie Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now The very first dinosaurs on film Everyone says the first big screen dinosaur was 1914's cartoon Gertie The Dinosaur-but then there's also the 1914 caveman short film Brute Force, which had a T. rex in the background, and years before in 1905, the very first actual dinosaur appearance, in the short Prehistoric Peeps. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, Prehistoric Peeps (via YouTube)

8

Red Notice

Awful CGI RED NOTICE Generic Blandness: The Movie has awful green screen, but nothing comes close to Dwayne Johnson getting hit by a bull. The hit looks dodgy as hell, the physics of the impact are totally off, and it turns Johnson into a shapeless blob composited between the before and after shots. At least use the Scorpion King model, people. CRACKED.COM — Watch it on YouTube

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BoJack Horseman

COMEDY NERD Princess Carolyn from BoJack Horseman was originally going to be two characters. There was a male agent and an ex-girlfriend, and eventually they got collapsed into one person - Princess Carolyn. CRACKED.COM — Source

6

Gone Girl

If Tyler Perry had known Gone Girl was based on a book, with fans who wanted it adapted their way, he'd have turned it down. His agent, who knew about this, didn't tell him the movie was based on a book until after he took the role. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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Halloween

MICHAEL MYERS'S HANDS IN HALLOWEEN: In the beginning of the 1978 film where Myers open a kitchen drawer to retrieve a knife, we're actually seeing the hands of co-writer and producer Debra Hill. CRACKED.COM — Source: Film School Rejects

4

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book BALOO did teach Mowgli ... to be responsible, not to loaf around Does the word serious come to mind when you think of Baloo? That's how Rudyard Kipling's book describes the bear who is a Teacher of the Law, not some slacker. — Source: The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling (via Project Gutenberg)

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Jamie Lee Curtis

JAMIE LEE CURTIS, TRADING PLACES I have said no to gratuitous sex scenes. But at the same time, I can't deny that it's part of who I am and what I do in movies. If I say the nudity is based on the character, it sounds like Bill Clinton talking about inhaling. CRACKED.COM — New York Times

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Michael Moore

THAT TIME MICHAEL MOORE WAS BOOED OFF THE STAGE FOR HIS ANTI-BUSH SPEECH. While Moore got a standing ovation when Bowling for Columbine was announced as the Best Documentary in 2003, he was ultimately met with hostility from the Hollywood elite when he said that George W. Bush was a — Oscars

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