40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out on A Chair in That Stunty ‘Avengers Doomsday’ Trailer

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40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out on A Chair in That Stunty ‘Avengers Doomsday’ Trailer

The plot of Animal House is pretty dicey as is; it was almost about a notorious cult leader.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Classic movies crushed at the box office Escape From New York was melted by Raiders of the Lost Ark. John Carpenter's 1981 film was released to 600 theaters and wasn't as successful as Raiders of the Lost Ark and other films of that year. Despite this, the movie developed a cult following over time. CRACKED

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Linda Blair

INTERVIEWERS FORCED LINDA BLAIR TO LEARN ABOUT RELIGION THE HARD WAY. When Linda Blair was literally bending over backward to portray the demon-posses

Michael Dorn

Michael Dorn can fly military jets. The actor, who played Worf in the Star Trek franchise, started piloting in 1988 and he has since flown many differ

Star Wars

Jedi ends with a satisfying boom and the redemption of Vader. It was almost a lot darker. In the original script, Han Solo is killed while trying to d

Rocky II

Sequels Better Than The Original 1979 Rocky II Rocky truly became an action franchise after Rocky III, which yes, is very fun. The first one is a great underdog drama where the final match is secondary to, erm, what's the word? Oh yes, feelings. Rocky II finds the sweet spot between the personal drama and the face- pounding action. Absolutely underrated. CRACKED.COM

Ryan Seacrest

Ryan Seacrest AMERICAN IDOL CRACKED.COM PER YEAR OF SHOW (2012) $45 million Seacrest's salary jumped from $5 million to $15 million in 2009.

The NeverEnding Story

CRACKED YOU CAN'T MAKE DARK, DISTURBING MOVIES FOR KIDS ANYMORE. In the '80s, we had The Dark Crystal, The NeverEnding Story, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Gremlins before everything brightened up in the '90s. Back then, a ghost gave Ray oral in Ghostbusters and Batman was made by Tim Burton.

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Iron Man 2

TELL US NOW. IRON MAN 2 Luther A. says, So Howard Stark was somehow able to predict the future, tell his son would eventually become a superhero with a terminal illness and need his help, so he decided to build his entire campus in the shape of an atomic diorama of a PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED ELEMENT that would just so happen to be the cure to his son's future illness? CRACKED.COM

David Wise

WHO WAS DAVID WISE? DID HE WORK FOR DISNEY? OF COURSE HE DID. Can you be a big name in the children's cartoon industry and not end up doing stuff for Disney? Wise wrote for two shows - Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and The Mighty Ducks (the one where the players are actual ducks).

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Anne of Green Gables

Japan has an Anne of Green Gables theme park that used to be super-popular. I The park got tens of thousands of visitors a day in the '90s, and has replicas of Prince Edward Island landmarks including the Green Gables house. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Wayne’s World 2

WAYNE'S WORLD 2 IS NOT WORTHY THE WORST MIKE MYERS MOVIES ARE GOOD FOR A FEW LAUGHS. BUT WAYNES WORLD 2 TRIES TOO HARD TO RECREATE BEATS FROM THE ORIGINAL RATHER THAN PARTY ON TO NEW BITS. STILL A STEP UP FROM THOSE CREEPY UBER EATS COMMERCIALS.

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Toy Story

40 Pieces of Pop-Culture Trivia That Missed Out on A Chair in That Stunty ‘Avengers Doomsday’ Trailer

Leave It to Beaver

The First Toilet In an episode of Leave It To Beaver, the boys hide an illicit pet alligator in the toilet. The network thought America wasn't ready t

Anne Hathaway

To pull off playing a British character in The Hustle, Anne Hathaway took inspiration from Stewie Griffin. While Hathaway looked at actresses like Jul

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka wanted his work destroved. Kafka burned many of his writings, and asked his friend Max Brod to burn the rest after his death. Brod ignored

Daniel Radcliffe

The second time Susan Hill's 1983 novel, The Woman In Black, was made into a film, the main character was played by Daniel Radcliffe -- a.k.a Harry Po

Star Trek: Voyager

Roxann Dawson of Star Trek: Voyager had a tough role as the half-Klingon, half-human engineer B'Elanna Torres. B'Elanna was by far the most emotiona

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