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Demi Lovato

This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY CRACKED.COM If you ever wanted to see the former tween star stab herself in the heart with a hypodermic needle, have we got the episode for you! Spoiler alert: She's not crazy, she just has a hole in her ear. — Source: 15 Hilarious, Downright Weird Musician Cameos on TV Shows

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Scarlett Johansson

scarlett Johansson she dreams of being a Disney Princess. Despite being a famous actress worth millions (and having sued the company itself), she's still holding on to a little girl's dream. CRACKED.COM

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Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style was so popular, it broke the YouTube view counter. CRACKED.COM The counter previously only went up to 32 integers because YouTube didn't think a video could ever reach beyond that many views. — Source: BBC

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Dumb and Dumber

THEY WANTED MEL GIBSON AS MARY'S HUSBAND CRACKED.COM In an early draft, Mary's husband was Mel Gibson, and the plan was to have Gibson play himself in the movie. Since he was considered a hunk at the time, the joke was that Lloyd couldn't possibly compete with him. — Source: screenrant

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz's necklace is a fountain of youth. CRACKED.COM She claims not to be supersticious, which means she believes her necklace truly has magic anti-aging properties. — Source: 20 Bizarre Fears, Phobias, and Superstitions Of The Rich And The Famous

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Step Brothers

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Do not covet thy step-brother's wife. Even if she pleasures herself to the image of you striking Derek in the face and knocking him out of the treehouse. Even if you enjoy making sex with her. It was fun while it lasted, but it's never going to work long term. — Watch: Christmas dinner (Columbia Pictures)

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun Of The Dead $6.1 MILLION CRACKED.COM Before anyone saw it as the foundation of a massive comedy-horror trilogy, this overachieving -around spoof made a cool $30 million in theaters. — Source: RadioTimes

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Michael Moore

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Revenge is savory, MICHAEL MOORE TEAM AMERICA GRACKED.co Matt Stone was interviewed for Bowling for Columbine, but he hated the way Moore edited his words. So Stone turned Moore into a pizza-drunk slob filled with actual ham. That's what splatters the walls when puppet-Moore blows himself up. — Uproxx

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Cowabunga

Bart Simpson wasn't the first to shout COWABUNGA HOWDY DOODY CRACKED.COM Today, it's used to express delight, but Howdy Doody writer Eddie Kean originally made up the word for Chief Thunderthud to shout when he was mad or frustrated. Even though the word was co-opted by 1960s surfers, it's still a little bit racist. — Business Insider

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Schitt’s Creek

The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real. — NY Post

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Pharrell Williams

PHARRELL WILLIAMS offers to write Springfield's new town song MAYOR CRACKED.CO But the job has been promised to Lisa. When Pharrell starts to sing anyway, he is blindfolded, tied to a horse and sent packing. Undaunted, the exiled singer taunts the town with Shelbyville rules, Springfield drools! — Popbuzz

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

They skipped a choreographed fight scene because of dysentery. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK CRACKED COM This iconic scene, where Indy simply shoots the sword guy with a gun, was supposed to be a long, impressive fight scene. But Harrison Ford had the runs, and suggested they cut it short.

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Cobra Kai

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DMX

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Animal House

Illegal filmmaking Piano thievery on Be National Lampoon's Animal House. The production brought the Delta Tau brothers up to the University of Oregon five days before shooting to bond. They hit up a real frat party that involved hard drugs and a massive brawl, and they stole a piano. CRACKED — Source

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The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock installed a sexual harassment door. THE BIRDS CRACKED COM Hitchcock was a horrible creep to Tippi Hedren, stalking her and making shameless, aggressive sexual advances. The worst thing he did was threaten to ruin her if she wouldn't boink him; the dumbest was installing a door between her dressing room and his office so he could casually walk in on her changing. — Source

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Jackie Gleason

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David After Dentist

CRACKED David After Dentist 7-year-old David DeVore Jr. became an internet star when his dad posted a video of him groggy from a tooth extraction on YouTube - the viral classic David After Dentist. The DeVore family auctioned it as an NFT over a decade later, starting at 1 ETH ($3,296.95). — BuzzFeed

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Sega

The lead designer on a Sega arcade game intentionally messed up the colors to get more time to develop. NOW, WE'RE OFF TO THE FANTASY ZONE! SPACE HARRIER CRACKED.COM The president of SEGA insisted that if the graphics were done on Space Harrier, the game was ready for release. The lead designer rigged a switch on his desk that would mess up the colors whenever giving a demonstration. — Shmuplations / Wikipedia

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Se7en

S SE7EN The studio didn' t want that dark ending. Alternatives included a conventional cop thriller ending with them running to save the damsel in distress, an action movie ending with a church shoot-out, a twist in which the box contains the head of Mills' dog, and finally Somerset shooting Doe, for studio logic reasons. CRACKED.COM — 4 Movie Plot Twists That Were Originally Way Different

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American History X

Behind-the-scenes feuds American History X SF Edward Norton vs Tony Kaye After Kaye (the director) turned in his cut of the film, the studio demanded another with Norton's involvement. Kaye hated the Norton cut, publicly disowned the film, and punched a goddamn wall. Today he admits he got carried away by his ego. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Left 4 Dead

CRACKED.COM THE LEFT 4 DEAD SPECIAL INFECTED ARE ALL A ROYAL PAIN, BUT NONE AS MUCH AS THE HUNTER! FALL BEHIND THE PARTY AND YOU'LL GET JUMPED! ONCE THEY HAVE YOU DOWN YOU CAN'T FIGHT, AND THEY DON'T QUIT UNTIL YOU'RE DEAD — Source: 19 Hilariously Infuriating Video Game Enemies

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Deleted scenes Terminator 3 The likeness of the Terminators is revealed to be based on Chief Master Sergeant Candy, a giddy, smiling goofball of a man with a Southern accent. Yup, they had Schwarzenegger do a Southern accent. CRACKED.COM — More: 10 Deleted Scenes That Would've Ruined The Film

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Nintendo

CRACKED.COM First-person shooters exist because Nintendo didn't want Mario on the PC. In 1990, id Software created a Super Mario 3 demo and sent it to Nintendo, hoping to get a deal to port games to the PC. But Nintendo didn't want that, so id was left to do other stuff - leading to Doom and a new kind of game. — Source: 15 Random Facts We're Stroking Our Chins Over

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HERCULES IN NEW YORK CRACKED.COM In his first movie, he plays Arnold Strong with a dubbed voice to hide his evolving accent. In one scene, it's me wrestling a bear and it was a guy with this coat thrown over him. It was done so cheap. It was just so stupid. — Business Insider

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Nick Fury

Nick Fury is an iconic and enduring Marvel character. НЕ WAS CREATED (AND NAMED) TO SPITE CRITICS. Nick Fury is the leader of The Avengers, which is an objectively badass job. But Fury was originally launched as Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos. Не was created by Marvel heavyweights Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to prove they could sell a comic with the dumbest name they could think of. GRAGKED.COM http://www.webcitation.org/5unr2TLup — Source: 15 Things Created As Revenge

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Gremlins

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Cardi B

Rapper Offset literally served Cardi B a birthday gift on a silver platter. It was covered (of course), and when she took off the cover, she saw it was a ring with heart-shaped diamonds (called the Titanic Diamond). CRACKED.COM — Source: E! Online

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Brad Pitt and David Fincher

Brad Pitt and David Fincher had their friends' phone and power lines cut off. They were in a Mexican resort on December 31, 1999, and Pitt wanted to make them think society had collapsed because of the Y2K bug. Oh, and then he had (bribed) government soldiers with AK-47 rush in and arrest one of them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 4 Legendary Pranks Pulled Off by Celebrities

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Peter Wheat Bread

Peter Wheat PETER WHEAT BREAD CRAOKEDCOM Peter was a 2-inch tall toddler with a kill count higher than Rambo and Blade in a trenchcoat. In the late 40's, he was the star of a monthly comic in which, despite living in and among mostly cupcake batter, he spent most of — Source: The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time

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Die Hard

A Roundup Of Surprising, Little-Known Die Hard Facts - The scene where Gruber fakes an American accent came from goofing around — Source: SlashFilm

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Alfred Hitchcock

SO, DID THE BIRDS Just... STOP? Ag NOPE. Alfred Hitchcock had additional scenes planned, with Mitch and Melanie on the run and finding birds wherever

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Mark Kriski

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Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler was offered the part of the Bear Jew. Sandler was Quentin Tarantino's first choice to play Sgt. Donny Donowitz in Inglourious Basterds, b

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes doesn't always win. The Great Detective usually solves the mysteries, but not always in time to prevent a crime or catch the bad guy.

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1970s Box-Office Winners

In the 1970s, the highest-grossing films for eight out of ten years got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. But preferences are diverging VAEK t OEL

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Josh Brolin

JOSH BROLIN HATES JONAH HEX. Jonah Hex, hated it. Hated it. The experience of making it -that would have been a better movie based on what We did. As

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Alien 3

ALEN3 3 Right after the Xenomorph's assault at the passage shaft, Dillon turns on the sprinkler to put out the fire and you can briefly see a metal bu

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Zach Braff

Donald Faison thought it'd be hilarious to punk Zach Braff. Braff responded by beating up a kid. It was during the 2005 season of Punk'd, and Faison a

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Sammy Davis Jr.

EVER WONDERED WHY SAMMY DAVIS JR'S EYES SEEMED SO MISALIGNED? THAT'S BECAUSE HIS LEFT EYE WAS A GLASS EYE. HE GOT IT FROM AN ACCIDENT. AS HE WAS DRIVI

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