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March 27, 2025

Ultron could have been way cooler, and Groot was almost way more boring.

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The McElroys

CRACKED.COM NEPOTISM BABIES The McElroys Griffin, Justin, Travis McElroy (and Fam) The Work: My Brother, My Brother and Me, The Adventure Zone, Monster Factory, Polygon.com, Trolls World Tour The Dad's Work: Multiple comic projects including Freejack, Green Hornet, Universal Soldier, Blood is the Harvest — Source: Marvel Database

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James Gunn

James Gunn had Guardians of the Galaxy VFX artists scan his dog's mouth and incorporate it into the mouth of the Rocket Raccoon CGI model. DR. yon SPE

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Goodfellas

The guy from Goodfellas was kicked out of witness protection. CRACKED.COM Despite Goodfellas ending with Ray Liotta's character Henry Hill in witness protection and seemingly on the straight-and-narrow, the real Henry Hill was arrested for meth possession (as the movie's end card states). Hill also remarried while still married to his first wife Karen, and racked up arrests from public intoxication to resisting arrest, forcing the feds to drop him from witness protection. Decades later, in 2005, now 60 years old, Hill would be arrested again for trafficking cocaine and for more meth charges. — Source: 16 Random Facts Better Than Anything You Learned In School

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Jim Gaffigan

JIM GAFFIGAN WAS A WALK-ON PLAYER FOR A BIG TEN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL TEAM. PURDUE 60 Gaffigan played for the Purdue Boilermakers after walking on the t

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Goku

Justin Chatwin GOKU CRACKED.COM Landing the role of Goku should have launched Chatwin to stardom, but Fox fumbled 2009's Dragonball Evolution so badly that we haven't heard much from him since. — Source

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Secret Toilet

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SECRET TOILET In the episode Therapy Lois and Hal discover an extra toilet in the closet at the end of the episode. We never see or hear of this toilet ever again. I get that it's supposed to be a secret but they fill the closet back up! — Source: Malcolm in the Middle

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The Meridian Trench

The Meridian Trench was where Luke made his final attack run on the Death Star. It only existed because the model maker was lazy. The material used by Colin Cantwell to craft the Death Star tended to shrink, and the final model had a gap around the middle. Rather than putty it in, Cantwell suggested it be part of the plot. http://www. originalprop com/blog/2014/11/13/colin- CRACKED.COM cantwell-video-interviews-star-wars-prototype-models-nasa/ — 27 Mind-Blowing TRUE Star Wars Behind The Scenes Stories

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Red Dead Redemption 2

The Pinkerton agency tried to sue the makers of Red Dead Redemption 2. Shortly after RDR2 came out, the historical detective agency sent Take-Two Interactive a cease-and-desist letter, demanding a slice of the profits for their appearance in the game (while complaining about being made out to be baddies). The suit was eventually dropped. — More: 7 Ways The Pinkertons Became Who They Are

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Sunnydale

Sunnydale BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER CRACKED.COM Creator Joss Whedon has said the location was loosely based on Monterey, California, even if from the name alone, it would seem associated with Sunnyvale, California. — Source

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Battlestar Galactica

Worst TV Finales Battlestar Galactica (original) The gang has just defeated the Cylons in battle, and just before leaving to celebrate, a random butt bump actually catches the Earth signals they've been looking for all this time, but there's no one there to see them. It's not irony, it's space irony. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Randy Newman

CRACKED RANDY NEWMAN: TOY STORY THEME SINGER. Randy Newman won an Oscar for his song You've Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story. They always mentioned friendship. he said about the instructions he got, so he rolled with that. — Source

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From Dust till Dawn

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN QUENTIN TARANTINO GOT $1,500 FOR WRITING THE SCRIPT. Well, it was his first paid writing gig, after all. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wi-Fi

'Wi-Fi' is a made up word that doesn't stand for anything. CRACKED.COM IEEE 802.11 didn't have much of a ring to it, and the industry association wanted a catchy name. They came up with wi-fi, and that's what's been used ever since. — Source

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Society

Amazing effects made without CGI Society Spoilers for this 1989 classic by Brian Yuzna: The rich are cannibalistic aliens! Not only that, but they melt into each other in a shapeless, Akira-like blob. The bonkers effects were done by cult Japanese artist Screaming Mad George. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pink Panther

Pink Panther 5in 1 Spy Kit INSIDE THIS BOX ONE PINKPANTHER 5-1SPY KIT MADE OF STURDY PLASTIC SECRET MESSAGE ACTUAL SIZE SLOT 5% INCHES SECRET SIGNAL WHISTLE SECRET TELESCOPE CRACKED.COM Anyone remember Pink Panther Flakes? In 1973, the short-lived Pink Panther Flakes offered an all-purpose spy kit with a secret whistle, magnifying glass, telescope, and a message slot all hiding in what looked like a harmless Pink Panther figurine. — Source

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Sarah Silverman

STAR TREK: VOYAGER Sarah Silverman CRACKED.COM The Voyager travels back to 1996 and meets Silverman's quirky astronomer character. We can parse this from the constant 90's references, and how she says I'm a scientist! — Source

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Anthrax

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker ANTHRAX CRACKED.COM The heavy metal guitarist said touring with Anthrax became mundane, and more like a job. So he quit the band to pursue his lifelong love of tinkering with timepieces. — Source

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Axl Rose

THE RIFF FROM SWEET CHILD O' MINE IS A GUITAR EXERCISE. When Axl Rose heard Slash's string-skipping exercise, he insisted it be spun into a song, using a poem he'd written to his girlfriend as the lyrics. When it came time to record it, their producer asked for a dramatic breakdown for the middle. Rose's Where do we go now? was literal-he didn't know where to go with the lyrics. CRACKED.COM http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=628 — Source

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Jack White

CRACKED Jack White IS a professional upholsterer. Former neighbor Brian Muldoon was an upholsterer, and at 15 Jack apprenticed under him as a job. They even joined a band together called The Upholsterers, and he opened his own shop, Third Man Upholstery. — MPH Photos/Shutterstock,
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Hilary Duff

CRACKED HILARY DUFF'S ANCESTOR DEFEATED BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE. As Governor of Virginia, her ancestor Alexander Spotswood sent Lieutenant Robert Maynard and his men to North Carolina to capture or kill Blackbeard. They were successful, and Maynard killed Blackbeard on November 22, 1718. hul LO — Youtube / Billboard

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

CRACKED NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Tyson was a real champ when it came to wrestling - he never lost a match in high school or college, and he was the leader of his high school wrestling team. — Huffpost / NPR

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Patton Oswalt

Comedians on depression A month without Prozac, my depression was a happy puppy just running through my body... I just wanted to give him a couple of days to- 'PUT ON YOUR BATHROBE FOR EIGHT DAYS STRAIGHT!' Oh, OK, depression, I know I haven't done this in a while, do you feel better? 'WATCH THE PRINCESS BRIDE ELEVEN TIMES IN A ROW!''' - Patton Oswalt CRACKED.COM — Joe Seer/Shutterstock
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Barney the Dinosaur

Baffling things done by the CIA Using Barney the Dinosaur to torture people The CIA has used bangers like Queen's We Are the Champions, Eminem's The Real Slim Shady, and the Bee Gees' Staying Alive as torture, but nothing compares to the true evil that is playing Barney's I Love You in a 30- hour loop. Something tells us it's not out of love. CRACKED.COM — HIT Entertainment
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Black Adam

OWN FROM SPACE BLACK ADAM НЕ DIED IN HIS FIRST APPEARANCE. The first time Black Adam showed up in 1945, he was easily tricked into reverting to his human form -which being 5,000 years old, died right away. FOR 5000 YEARS THE FARTHEST ST WHERE I WAS BANI BY OLD SHAZAM CRACKED.COM — DC
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Roots

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 1977 Roots Roots was a powerful, respectful miniseries that helped millions understand the history of slavery in the U.S. (and won a bunch of awards). The remake was very well received, had an impressive cast, and made some needed changes for historical accuracy's sake. 2016 CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia, Wikipedia

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Batman: Arkham City

In Batman: Arkham City, you briefly see this painting. It's called Cain and Abel: The Duality of Man, and it hangs in Harvey Dent's office. This is how the game ends. - CRACKED.COM https://youtu be/NN6CN7Upiml — Source: 21 Unnoticed Game Details That Were Insane Work

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Super Troopers

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SUPER TROOPERS How did this movie with a 35% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes get a sequel 17 years later? Most likely because the audience score is 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't know who this movie is for other than a middle school sleepover, but they are out there. — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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District 9

District 9's aliens could have looked like hobos. Bodbex Sarttex adidas An early idea was that they'd have such sensitive skin, they'd cover themselves with whatever they found nearby - from plastic bags to traffic signs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

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Voyager

Voyager's final episode established a romance between Seven of Nine and Chakotay. A romance that had almost no build up at all and was simply there as a plot device to give Janeway yet another excuse to alter time. What's worse, that last-minute made-up romance threw out of the airlock a believable relationship that had been 0 evolving for a couple of seasons between Seven and the Doctor. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Onscreen Relationships That Should Never Have Existed

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Bohemian Rhapsody

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Rick James

Rick James once got a custom drawing by Salvador Dali, but he ruined it. Dali sketched him at a party on a napkin, and gave it to James. James left it in his shorts, forgot about it, and went swimming in them the next day. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rolling Stone

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Groot

In one early idea, Groot was going to be much closer to a literal walking tree. He'd have leaves and branches growing all over him, and rather than being kinda skinny-looking, he'd have thick limbs and a powerful torso. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Game of Thrones

The Game of Thrones team really wanted to keep Ser Jorah alive til the end. They wanted him at the wall along with Jon and Tormund, but it turned out to be impossible to get him there in plot terms, so they nixed the idea. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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At Last the 1948 Show

At Last The 1948 Show CRACKED.COM This was essentially a precursor to Monty Python, featuring a pre-fame John Cleese and Graham Chapham. 10 of the 12 episodes have been recovered, but 2 remain elusive.

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Baby Driver

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS BABY DRIVER THE CASSETTE TAPE Denvaricy Steed SUPER SONIC July 100 LICHTANDING non RED LINE 180 CHOP WILD CHILD CITY SWIFT 60 SMALL FRY lay.com One of Baby's tapes is labeled RED LINE. Redline is a Japanese anime movie about, you guessed it, car racing. It also has a slapping soundtrack. CRACKED.COM — Twitter

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Frasier

THE SITCOM FRASIER RAN FOR 11 SEASONS. Who could forget Kelsey Grammer as the pompous Frasier Crane, his snobby brother Niles, or their down-to-earth

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Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum skipped the 2018 Oscar awards to stay home with his daughter. Then-wife Jenna Dewan said he was happy to be spending the night with the

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Ultron

Ultron could have had six arms. The Avengers' robotic foe was a big enough problem with just two arms. Can you imagine six of them?

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Michael Jackson

MICHAEL JACKSON WAS KILLED BY THE IRANIAN GOVERMENT As reported by The Telegraph, many believed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had The King of Pop murdered

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp was a dead-on Hunter S. Thompson. And SO was Bill Murray Murray played the iconic journalist in Where The Buffalo Roam back in 1980. Criti

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