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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

CRACKED ТОМ HANSEN WAS THE PROTOTYPICAL NICE GUY. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER planet earth savosing NA ISPY FROM NOWHERE ONONNA DO TOO VSOUN LOVE WILL TEAR US APART 1501 1SOT 19N01 After years of hearing what nice guy Tom was, Joseph Gordon-Levitt said, I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. — GQ / IMDB

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Top Five

COMEDY NERD Jerry Seinfeld has a cameo in Chris Rock's R-rated comedy Top Five. Seinfeld warns Chris Rock's character Don't get a mistress! Whack off! Even if she finds a live vagina in your pocket, deny it! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rock Hudson

CRACKED.COM THE FBI KEPT FILES ON... ROCK HUDSON Although Hudson was never the subject of an FBI criminal investigation, the FBI kept files on the leading man whose main complaint of his (very redacted) file was alleged to be a homosexual and/or bisexual. — Source

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Spider-Man

We only have Spider-Man because Stan Lee wouldn't take no for an answer. His publisher didn't like the character (he thought people hated spiders, and Peter Parker was too young and troubled to be a superhero), so Lee snuck Spider-Man into the last issue of Amazing Fantasy comics. It sold so well, the publisher said they should do a series about Spider-Man. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Little Caesars

LITTLE CAESAR'S Little Caesar's PIZZA TREAT CHICKEN-FISHSHRIMP CARRY OUTS-DELIVERY MINUTE SERVICE Little Caesars 1959 GRACKED.COM The Little Caesar's mascot has remained almost entirely unchanged since the 50's, even keeping his tuft of exposed chest hair (Yum!). What is disturbing is the inclusion of FISH and SHRIMP anywhere near my pizza treat. No thank you. — Source

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Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

... TELL US NOW. INCREDIBLE HULK: ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION Joshua В. says, It was a great base for a game. Give it a modern look and flesh it out, and it could be amazing. If the original devs don't wanna do it, get Insomniac games to make it with the level of polish as PS4 Spider-Man. CRACKED.COM

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Natural Born Killers

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers intended to satirize the glamorization of violence and serial killers by the media and public. NATURAL BORN KILLERS Instead, people thought the movie itself glamorized violence and serial killers, and was even blamed for instigating several murders. Meanwhile, theaters found audiences rooting for the movie's murderous protagonists and cheering for them at all the wrong moments, thereby proving Oliver's point. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Lauren Conrad

When Lauren Conrad and Jason Wahler split up, she nearly changed the locks. P R NAL S N® EXT. Or, at least, she threatened to. We broke up. I said you have three days to get your stuff out, I'm having the locks changed on Monday, is how she describes what happened. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Into the Spider-Verse

EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Romita Ramen OPEN The shop is a shout-out to Spider-Man artist John Romita Sr. While Steve Ditko was Spidey's first artist, Romita Sr. used Ditko's creation and redesigned the character to make him look like the lean, muscular hero he is today. CRACKED.co — Vanity Fair

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Midsommar

Midsommar included a cull-smashing scene that took a few takes. POW! So the team created a self- imploding mechanical skull. The crew needed a solution that would last longer than just one hammering, so they built a head that would implode, then un-smash itself with pneumatic cylinders. And to get the sound right, the foley dude smashed a severed pig's head. CRACKED.COM — 26 Movie Effects That Look Like CGI, But Nope

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The Fonz

The Fonz has alien superpowers The first apearance of Mork from Ork was in a Happy Days extended dream sequence that saw The Fonz nearly beat Mork in a magic thumb war. They later reshot the ending so that Mork was real, SO he could get his own spinoff.

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Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba FANTASTIC FOUR CRACKEDCON After playing Invisible Woman, she said F--- it. I don't care about this business anymore. To be fair, that's

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American Psycho

American Psycho In the movie: A lot of crazy stuff happens, but nothing quite as shocking as... In the book: ...an entire rape scene that ends with ge — Source: LitCharts

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Kylo Ren

THERE IS A GOOD REASON WHY KYLO PRODUCTION THE RISE OF REN WEARS A MASK. SKYWALKER And no, it's not because he wants to imitate Darth Vader. He wears

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

At the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine is rescued from the river by Stryker, who is revealed to be Mystique in disguise. The plot twist s

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Godzilla (2014)

2014's Godzilla snuck concealed jokes into the credits. THE SCIENTIST AND OCCULT AUTHOR RICHARD T. JONES HAS CLAIMED UNIQUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CREATUR

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Robert Downey Jr.

Masterfully Subverted Tropes The uptight principal Two years after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr. continued the trope subversion by playing Principal Gardner in this teen dramedy. Unlike, say, Dean Rooney in Ferris Bueller, Gardner is not a bitter villain, but a nuanced principal clearly going through some stuff. And indeed, RDJ gives this kind of character an unusual depth. Charlie Bartlett CO d CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd, almost won the first Oscar for best actor. The Academy be- lieved that this new idea of handing out these Oscars could possibly be damaged by the first Best Actor being a dog. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Kelsey Poe

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Wallace and Gromit

A CLOSE SHAVE Wensleydale cheese The 1995 Wallace and Gromit movie made Wensleydale cheese famous, which caused the cheese maker to export more of it around the world and work with the animation studio. CRACKED — Aardman Animations,
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John Fugelsang

Comedians on depression Depression is the soul's way of telling you to change something in your life, NOT to cut your own bangs. -John Fugelsang CRACKED.COM — Louise Palanker/Flickr
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The Batmobile

Batman FIRST APPEARANCE Detective Comics #48 (1941) THE BATMOBILE The car got a glow-up. LATEST APPEARANCE The Batman (2022) CRACKED.COM

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Jay Leno

COMEDY DE NERD In 1992, when Jay Leno got The Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall was out for blood. He told Entertainment Weekly that he was going to kick Jay's ass because Leno only got the show because he was anointed, apparently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps a donkey and a miniature horse. They're called Whiskey and Lulu, and he keeps them in his house they go upstairs, they go downstairs, they're all over the place, Schwarzenegger said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Armageddon

Armageddon EBERT'S RATING: 1 STAR CRACKED.COM The movie claims the asteroid is the size of Texas, so Ebert made some hyper-specific Texas references to explain how arbitrary that description is: Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot. — Source: Roger Ebert

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Eyes Wide Shut

The apartment that Tom Cruise's and Nicole Kidman's characters live in Eyes Wide Shut used to be Stanley Kubrick's. CRACKED.COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The Incredibles

The Incredibles 2004 CRACKED COM Mr. Incredible chops off his fingers at a neighborhood barbequeue, and has to try to hide his gruesome self-mutilatio — Source: Source

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Goku

IN THE DRAGON BALL SERIES, GOKU IS THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR, WILLING TO FIGHT ANYONE AND EVEN GIVE HIS OWN LIFE TO SAVE HIS FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND ALL OF EX

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Applebee’s

An Applebee's in Detroit once accidentally gave a 15-month-old toddler apple juice mixed with alcohol. GRACKED.COM Не was saying hi and bye to the walls, said the mother. Не even- tually laid his head down on the table and we thought maybe he was just sleepy. — Source

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Cameron Diaz

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Peek-A-Bone

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Cheers

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Madonna

Madonna PIERS MORGAN LIVE CRACKED.COM Piers Morgan announced that Madonna was banned from Piers Morgan Live for offenses spanning from bread-throwing to misinformation to dustups with photographers. Said Madonna, I don't get to hang out with Piers Morgan anymore? Dang! — Source: 19 Celebs Who Got Themselves Banned From TV Shows

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Zodiac

Easter Eggs NIXON Zodiac/True Detective In both, yellow stands for corruption and decay. In True Detective, it also stands for the villainous serial killer, the King in Yellow. CRACKED COM — Source: 15 Movie Easter Eggs (Just in Time for Easter)

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Blues Brothers

BLUES BROTHERS 2000 WRECKED 104 CARS CRACKED.COM THAT WAS ONE MORE THAN THE 103 TOTALED IN THE ORIGINAL. BOTH JOHN LANDIS AND DAN ACKROYD HATED THE SCRIPT, WHICH MAKES YOU WONDER HOW THIS CAR WRECK GOT MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE. BB 2000 LANDED AT #8 ON ONE LIST OF THE WORST SEQUELS OF ALL TIME. — Entertainment Weekly

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Game of Thrones

One Game of Thrones gladiatorial fight took months of fight choreography. It was Jorah's big scene in the fighting pits in Season 6, when he tries to prove he's loyal to Daenerys even after she's banished him twice. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Ashton Kutcher

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David Beckham

$1.8 Million Sex Toy It was rumored David Beckham bought his wife Victoria Beckham a platinum sex toy encrusted with diamonds after their third son was born. — Source: LA Times

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption In the movie, Red (Morgan Freeman) is a sweet and sympathetic character. In the original Stephen King story, it's revealed th

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Stand by Me

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