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Breaking Bad only takes place in New Mexico because they couldn’t afford to shoot the pilot in California.

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Rodney Dangerfield

RODNEY DANGERFIELD when a heckler gave him no respect: You ought to save your breath. You'll need it later to blow up your inflatable date. — Source: The Telegraph

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Spider-Man

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Hellboy II

IN HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, HELLBOY DISPOSES OF MONSTERS INSIDE AN AUCTION HOUSE. ISR The reporter interviewing Tom Manning outside the auction house is Ron Perlman's daughter, Blake Perlman. CRACKED.COM

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee was initially worried that blind people would take offense to the character Daredevil. CRACKED.COM Lee was worried about how far he exaggerated the way a blind person's other senses are enhanced, until he received letters telling him that blind peo- ple greatly enjoyed having the comics read to them. — Source

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Quentin Tarantino

GRACKED QUENTIN TARANTINO: DOG POOP CLEANER Quentin Tarantino's first job in Hollywood was working as a production assistant on a Dolph Lundgren workout video called Maximum Potential. Не and Roger Avary had to clean up a huge area of dog poop in Venice Beach for the shoot. — Empire Online

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Robin Williams

AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS In order to convince Williams to voice Genie, Disney did a test animation of Genie to part of his stand-up routine. Robins quickly signed on, seeing the potential of voice acting and starting a celebrity voice acting craze. CRACKED.COM — Source: LA Times

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Vince Gilligan

Vince Gilligan planned on setting Breaking Bad in Riverside, CA. THE IMPROVISATION: They shot the pilot in Albuquerque, NM, because it was the only lo

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Rogue Nation

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Placed Gingerly in the Barrel of the Rifle Being Pointed at Us by a Military Cop

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Behind-the-scenes Drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer RIGS charisma carpenter was written out because she got pregnant (according to her). That was reportedly her latest in a long line of sins against regime head and Buffy god Joss Whedon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apocalypse Now

CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to secure his casting ill this epic film. He said he was 16 to get the part of a 17 year old. Appeddene Now He was only 14 years old. — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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The Superfans

THE SUPERFANS HAD POLISH SAUSAGE LODGED IN ITS HEART UNPRODUCED B CHICAGO g CRACKED.COM CHRIS FARLEY'S MOVIE CAREER TOOK OFF JUST AS THE SUPERFANS MOVIE WAS BEING DEVELOPED. WHEN IT NO LONGER MADE SENSE FOR FARLEY TO DO AN ENSEMBLE PIECE, DA MOVIE WAS DOOMED POUR ONE OUT FOR THE INEVITABLE DITKA CAMEO. — The Ringer

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Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne swore he could ride a horse... ELIZABETH CRACKED.COM Two weeks later, we were in Lithuania, and 0 was on top of this gigantic stallion

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Golden Girls

GOLDEN GIRLS' SOPHIA, BEST KNOWN FOR HER ZINGERS, HAS BRAIN DAMAGE. As the official introduction to the show tells us, a stroke destroyed part of her

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The Wolf of Wall Street

CRACKED V RNE VULGARITY HISTORY The most curse words in a movie The honor usually goes to The Wolf of Wall Street because of its popularity in the U.S. But its 715 curse words (569 F- bombs) is overshadowed by 935 F-bombs in the 2014 Canadian film Swearnet. — Source

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Ice-T

CRACKED ODAFIN TUTUOLA LAW AND ORDER: SVU Ice-T's character Fin has these gruff, no nonsense zingers that aren't belly laughs, but they'd pair well with a zany neighbor. Like an Urkel to his more hardcore Carl Winslow, or a Bob to his Red Forman. — YouTube / The Sun

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Steve Rannazzisi

STEVE RANNAZZISI LIED ABOUT BEING IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON 9/11. In 2015, The League star came clean and admitted that he came up with the story to get people to like him after moving from New York to Los Angeles. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Head-Scratching Lies (Told By Famous Actors)

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife

NOSTALGIA SEQUELS Ghostbusters: Afterlife THE DIRECTOR WAS A PART OF THE GHOSTBUSTERS UNIVERSE. The movie was helmed by Jason Reitman, son of original director Ivan Reitman. Jason is the kid who tells the 'Busters, my dad says you guys are full of crap in Ghostbusters II. CRACKED.COM — Sources: On the Bright, Ghostbusters/YouTube

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Mike Tyson

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn The legendary actress was born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Celebrities Who Changed Their Name (And Why)

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Linda Cardellini

LINDA CARDELLINI KEPT HER CHARACTER'S ICONIC ARMY JACKET CRACKED.com It's signed by the cast on the inside. It even survived a fire. — Vanity Fair

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Grandmaster Flash

GRANDMASTER FLASH COLLECTS MUGS The rapper keeps his collection of 5,000 souvenir mugs in a temperature-controlled room. — Source: BBC

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Sean Bean

Sean Bean was afraid to fly in helicopters while filming LOTR. The cast and crew watched him climb cliffs in full costume to avoid flying. NOW YOU KNO — Know More

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Flickr

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Casino

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Duran Duran

DURAN DURAN NAMED ITSELF AFTER THE VILLAIN IN CHEESY SCIFI FLICK BARBARELLA. The villain was actually named Durand Durand. Also in Barbarella: Jane Fonda, pictured above in the Orgasmatron. CRACKED.COM http://www.bandnameexplained.com/2013/07/duran-duran-band-name-meaning.html — Source

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Interstellar

The interviews at the start of Interstellar are (mostly) real. One of them includes an actor (Ellen Burstyn), but the others are interviews with real people, describing what they lived through, from the 2012 documentary Dust Bowl. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Aquaman 2

Aquaman 2 takes its inspiration from a campy '60s Italian horror flick. The movie is Planet of the Vampires, and director James Wan said, You can take the boy out of horror, but you can never take the horror out the boy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wayne’s World

WAYNE'S WORLD without the Bohemian Rhapsody scene. WAYNE'S WORLD Director Penelope Spheeris and producer Lorne Michaels wanted to use a Guns N' Roses song for the iconic scene, because the band was more popular at the time. CRACKED.COM Mike Myers stepped in and threatened to quit the movie if Bohemian Rhapsody wasn 't used. — Source

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Paul Schrader

CRACKED.COM FIRST REFORMED UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS PAUL SCHRADER In some parallel dimension, Schrader is as respected as Martin Scorsese. Schrader wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and has also directed cult classics like Hardcore, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Affliction, and Adam Resurrected. One of his latest films, 2017's First Reformed, is pretty much a masterpiece. — More: Wikipedia
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2019, After the Fall of New York

Awful Knock-Offs (1983) 2019, After the Fall of New York This Italian flick steals from both Escape from New York and Mad Max 2. But it actually anticipates the fertility crisis from Children of Men-which means that we will absolutely be saying Children of Men is a knock-off of 2019, After the Fall of New York at parties. And yes, it is better than Escape from L.A. CRACKED.COM — Trailer on YouTube

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George Takei

Celebrities Who Ran For Office George Takei The Star Trek actor dabbled in the political arena throughout his life. Не was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972, and in 1973 he ran for LA city council. Не was appointed to the Southern California Rapid Transit District, serving from 1973 to 1984. CRACKED.COM Charm Chatranty Delegeta, Nester, Democracia Active smm Getty Eczees PESSAM Member, ARATION CEVER Scheet Sex - EDUCATION destain Moderater, Committee . affeire .. - DE 300m COUNCIL DESTRUCT FOR — Discover Nikkei

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Waluigi

Waluigi First appearance: Mario Tennis (2000) Latest appearance: Mario Party Superstars Waluigi doesn't care about toadstools, coins, or princesses. He's just here to have a fun time. CRACKED.COM — Source: Super Mario Wiki

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Louie Louie

Louie Louie by the Kingsmen SMEN Written by Richard Berry, the lyrics have were rumored to be so obscene that it caused an FBI investigation. But it's just a wholesome song about a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover. CRACKED.COM — Snopes

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Elton John

Elton John made a video at the Pinball Hall of Fame in 2004. ST Which wouldn't be too newsworthy on its own, but he didn't pay the owner (the sum was $500 and some concert tickets), and the owner is still angry almost two decades later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocket Raccoon

Rocket Raccoon's comment about unethical experiments on animals makes more sense if you read the comics. Guardians of the Galaxy His ancestors were basically lab rats. The robots that were entrusted with helping the patients at the Keystone Quandrant Asylum began to tinker with genetics, giving animals human intellegence and prosthetics to mimic human movement. CRACKED.COM — Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Steve Carell

I love lamp in Anchorman was just Steve Carell riffing while on camera. Co-writer Adam McKay told Carell We should have more lines for you, but we don't have any on the page, and asked him to just say something. He did. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield 1999 The pop singer made sure her cat was taken care of after her passing, demanding he be fed high-end baby food, have a bed made of Dusty's old clothes, listen to Dusty's records every night, and straight-up marry her friend's cat.

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Matthew Broderick

MATTHEW BRODERICK ELTA EA ING Ssrte While on holiday in Northern Ireland in 1987, Broderick collided with another car after he crossed into the wrong lane. A mother and a daughter in the other car died in the crash and the actor only received a $175 fine. CRACKED.COM — AP

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Elvis

THE CONSPIRACY: Elvis died of chronic constipation. CRACKED CON THE THEORY: Elvis never actually got fat. What we think of as fat Elvis was really nor — 5 Insane Celebrity Conspiracy Theories (That Make Sense)

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Lucasfilm

In 1986, Lucasfilm Games published Habitat the first persistent graphical world that could connect hundreds of people online. LUCASFILM'S HAitAt ALLOF

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