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March 11, 2025

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Aladdin

VILLAIN: Jafar MOVIE: Aladdin VILLAINY: Tries to trick the sultan and seduce the princess with his magic staff. BUT WAIT! Aladdin does the same thing with a magic lamp. Aside from Jafar being older and having a job, they're the same guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bob Odenkirk

CRACKED.COM NOBODY BOB ODENKIRK TRAINED FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. In order to be convincing as a former government assassin, Odenkirk spent one and a half years at 87Eleven, an action-shooting and fight training facility. Не also went to Taran Tactical to learn how to shoot firearms. — Source: Vulture

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Final Destination

CRACKED.COM Final Destination was conceived for The X-Files. In 1994, Jeffrey Reddick wrote Flight 180, a script he intended for The X-Files, his favorite show. The original death cheater was Scully's brother. — Source

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Andy Dwyer

PARKS AND RECREATION Andy Dwyer FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE INDIA CRACKED.COM Extremely jacked Borderline megastar. So hot abusive doofus and popular, the boyfriend with whole show a six-episode folowed him to contract. London. — Source

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Breaking Bad

The hardest plot point in Breaking Bad's final season was the machine gun. They put it in a teaser, and Vince Gilligan thought they'd figure out how to weave it in-but it was so hard, he literally pounded his head on the wall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roar

The 1981 movie Roar left 70 people injured. Filming, which lasted 11 years, involved 100 untamed lions, leading to severe injuries by the stars - - for example, Melanie Griffith was mauled so badly that she needed over 100 stitches plus surgery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cars 2

In international releases of Cars 2, Jeff Gorvette is replaced in one scene by a unique car representing that country. Max Schnell Germany Carla Veloso Brazil Raoul ÇaRoule France CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ted Lasso

Stupid plots that became reality On Ted Lasso AFC Richmond's sponsor Dubai Air is owned by a company that has caused major environmental damage to star player Sam Obisanya's homeland. DUBAIAR M In reality Liverpool's sponsor Standard Charter is partnered with a - HAND and adidas = LEC company that has caused major standard environmental damage to star chartered player Luis Diaz's homeland. CRACKED.COM — Apple TV+, ph.FAB/Shutterstock
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Not Another Teen Movie

Smart Dumb Comedies Not Another Teen Movie Unjustly lumped together with the rest of the Movie movies, this parody of teen comedies is disgustingly raunchy, yes, but it also has a great script with witty jokes and smart twists on the usual tropes of the genre. CRACKED.COM — Source: What Culture

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The Black Cauldron

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Steve Carell

Steve Carell owns the 158 year old Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield Massachusetts. O M CRACKED.COM Carell and his wife, actress Nancy, grew up in Massa- chusetts. Nancy's sister mentioned that the histor- ic general store was up for sale, and Carell cinched a deal to purchase the busi- ness in 2008. — Marshfield Hills General Store

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Marnie

It's difficult enough to watch the rape scene in Hitchcock's MARNIE It's even more difficult after reading TIPPI HEDREN's account of the director's repeated attempts to sexually assault her during filming. WORSE YET: Hitchcock's onscreen proxy is SEAN CONNERY - who once openly advocated violence against women. CRACKED CON — Source: 15 Movies And Shows That Make You Go 'Not Cool' Now

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The Golden Girls

THE GOLDEN GIRLS CRACKED.COM Dorothy's marriage was supposedly spurred on by a pregnancy, and after 38 years her husband left her. This would make her oldest at least 38, but when we do see her children they appear to only be in their early 20s. — Source: Buzzfeed

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The Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a collection of about 15 luxury watches. We don't know much about the collection, but it includes two Rolexes and a Patek Philippe pocket watch he got as a gift from FDR himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Reno 911!

RENO 911! BEHIND THE SCENES Facts DO YOU REMEMBER THIS GUEST STAR? RENO 911! Simon Helberg, Christina Applegate, Jonah Hill Oscar Nunez, Rainn wilson and Paul Rudd all guest starred on the original series. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDB

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Saturday Night Live

COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories A PETIT DEJEUNER Sean Connery's generous mispronunciations are a recurring bit in the series, but the reading of A Petit Dejeuner as Ape Tit was the pinnacle.

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Captain America

Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea changed this movie's title to MARVEL STUDIOS THE FIRST AVENGER

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart wasn't really a tough guy. According to James Cagney, Bogart was about as tough as Shirley Temple. In a time when studios pretty much owned the actors, everything about Bogie's public image was a fiction carefully constructed by Warner Bros. They even went so far as to rewrite Bogart's life history to make him fit his niche. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Doom

Someone calculated just how fast the Doom guy is. Redditor u/Phytor has done the math on this long-debated issue. Не concluded that Mr. Doom Man weighs 1,204 lbs, and still manages to walk at a speed of 49.5 miles per hour. That's faster than Usain Bolt (on a motorbike). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Boy Meets World

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 1993-2000 Boy Meets World The original show was a beloved coming-of-age story. While not as impactful, the spin-off was well received for maintaining the style, updating the problems and lessons, and including including Cory Matthews as the wisdom-imparting teacher. Girl Meets World 2014-2017 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terminator

Terminator used time travel to make 08 MIRI the movie cheaper. Setting an entire movie in the future costs a lot of money-money which no one would give to James Cameron at that point in his career. So he came up with the time travel angle, to be able to afford the movie about a killer cyborg he wanted to direct. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Peanuts

CRACKED CHARLES SCHULZ MADE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN PEANUTS. Since his death in 2000, the Charlie Brown creator has generated a total of $730.5 million. $157 million of that came in 2020, then another $204 million in 2021. — Newsweek / Britannica

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After Earth

Will Smith got the idea for AFTER EARTH from the TV show I Shouldn't Be Alive. Discovery SHOULDN'T CHANNEL 1 BE ALIVE It was originally intended to be about a father and son who have to survive after a car crash. It was then turned into a sci-fi story. CRACKED COM — Source: 16 Movies That Owe Their Existence To Other Films

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Melinda Clarke

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MELINDA CLARKE Melinda Clark from The ОС played Jerry's girlfriend Alex in season 8 in The Muffin Tops. She likes Jerry smooth like a seal, scaring him that the hair will come back in terrifying amounts like Kramer's pubes. — Source: IMDB

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Kevin Hart

WEIRD WORLD Kevin Hart took out billboards in LA, NYC, and Atlanta just to troll Nick Cannon. in Cannon has seven kids by four different mothers, and the billboard says For any advice on fatherhood? Call my best friend Nick Cannon. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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TV Breakfasts

A typical breakfast on TV beats anything you'll ever eat. Expect a giant fruit platter, freshly squeezed juice, and a mountain of homemade pancakes. I

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Mike Tyson

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Masters of the Universe

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Kanye West

GOLD DIGGER KANYE WEST Ironically, Kanye West wrote the song just for the money, admitting he never cared for it. Не said in an interview, I knew I would get paid for doing 'Gold Digger. CRACKED — Source

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Miley Cyrus

MILEY CYRUS was not a tool of Barack Obama GRACKED.COM Political philosopher and Korn front man Jonathan Davis claimed Miley Cyrus was distracting the American public so Barack Obama could implement his plan to become a tyrannical dictator. At the very least, she was distracting America from paying attention to Korn. — Source

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Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon got arrested for protesting her husband's DUI. The charge was disorderly conduct - she tried to defend her husband rather than stand by. Later, she called it embarrassing and dumb. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Sitcoms and real world events The Mary Tyler Moore Show hilariously echoed a Supreme Court decision. In 1972, the same year that birth control was made available to all unmarried women, Mary's mother shouts, Don't forget to take your pill, and Mary and her father both respond, I won't! Her embarrassed look is a TV moment for the ages. CRACKED — CBS
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Bill Maher

CRACKED REAL ME WITH В Bill Maher has a double major from Cornell University. After graduating from Cornell with a double major in History and English, Bill Maher confessed his comedy dreams, began performing all over NYC and quickly landed The Tonight Show. — College Consensus / NBC

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Jeff Bezos

CRACKED.COM Jeff Bezos isn't actually that rich. There's a lot wrong with Amazon and other corporations, but the headlines that Bezos or anyone else is worth 700 bajillions are misleading. Those figures are about the market value of their stocks-so it's cash they could have, in theory, if they sold all their shares (which isn't an easy thing). — Source: 15 Random Facts About the World We Didn't Suspect

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Psycho

The Bates Motel in Psycho was based on an Edward Hopper painting. 4OFFIC Hitchcock took a painting of an old house standing on its own next to a railroad, and turned it into the Bates mansion. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Sting

Gordon Sumner often wore a yellow and black sweater his girlfriend had knitted for him. His bandmates at the time mocked him, telling him he looked li

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Abbey Road

The Beatles were too lazy 626 to shoot a cover photo at EVEREST the Himalayas for their 1th album called Everest, named after Everest EXTRA MILD cigar

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Eurotrip

CRACKEDo In Eurotrip, Scotty drinks absinthe and begins to have hallucinations of a fairy. Scotty doesn't know that absinthe doesn't actually cause ha

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Ozzy Osbourne

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Masiela Lusha

Masiela Lusha played the older daughter, Carmen Lopez, on the sitcom George Lopez. Now she's a children's book author and a humanitarian. Lusha became

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