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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Played on the Jukebox When We Punched It Just Right

April 05, 2025

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40

Gilligan’s Island

Think it was odd that the Professor on Gilligan's Island could build a Geiger counter out of coconuts but never even tried to just patch the Minnow? Actually, he did try. MINNOW In an early episode, he tried to repair the holes with glue made from tree sap. The glue failed and destroyed the boat permanently. CRACKED.COM

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iCarly

Cringey Cameos iCarly Michelle Obama Because Nickelodeon fans are known for their active political engagement, the former first lady appeared in Season 4 as herself (but also as a strange parody of her own husband's style and mannerisms). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Disney

UNTIL 2001, LAUNDERING OF COMPANY-ISSUED UNDERWEAR WAS so SUB-PAR, DISNEY PARK EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN STINKY, STAINED UNDIES-AS WELL AS PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. IT TOOK THE TEAMSTERS UNION TWO MONTHS TO CONVINCE DISNEY TO ALLOW EMPLOYEES TO TAKE UNDERWEAR HOME TO WASH THEMSELVES. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spike

Buffy the Vampire Slayer FIRST APPEARANCE Buffy the Vampire Slayer School Hard SPIKE The Ultimate Badass... Who gets a chip stuck in his head, joins the good guys, and regains his soul. LAST APPEARANCE Angel Not Fade Away CRACKED.COM

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Game of Thrones

The North FIRST LINE “In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name.” LAST LINE “The Queen in the North! The Queen in the North! The Queen in the North!” The first line from the North is Ned Stark, Lord of the North, proclaiming judgment under the name of Robert Baratheon, then ruler of the Iron Throne. The last line out of a mouth of the North is everyone bowing to Sansa, new Queen of the North, with her brother on the Iron Throne. — Sources: Script for the pilot, Script for “The Iron Throne”

35

Clue

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CLUE (1985) SIX GUESTS ARE MYSTERIOUSLY SUMMONED TO A DINNER PARTY AT A STRANGER'S MANSION, AND THEY MUST IDENTIFY A KILLER THAT IS PICKING THEM OFF. WHY IT WORKS: Still the best adaptation of a board game seen on the big screen. Multiple endings were shot and edited, so audiences would get a different experience depending on which version they saw.

34

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey got dumped while her fiancee was making wedding plans. James Packer was planning his wedding vows aboard his yacht, and he suddenly decided he can't go through with the wedding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ali Wong

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Ali Wong is a talking beer can. Coors PURE LIGHT BEER Wong the Coors Pure Light Beer Can encourages a beaten-down mom to take a swig--she's earned it by going on a half-hearted run. Hard to think of a more depressing tag line than Because you tried today. New Coors Pure. — Ad Age

32

Saturday Night Live

NANCY KERRIGAN MARCH 12, 1994 CRACKED.co Time Magazine called Kerrigan's hosting gig a supremely awkward performance.! At least she didn't get kneecapped. — Time

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Lorraine Bracco

Lorraine Bracco demanded real jewels. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Props wouldn't do she needed to really feel Karen Hill's lavish lifestyle, and Scorsese backed her. Production designer Kristi Zea had to run and rent as many pieces of expensive gold jewelry as she could find. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'Goodfellas'

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The Ring

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The shadows under all the actors in The Ring were removed. CRACKED.co In order to give the viewer an unsettling feeling from the movie, cinematographer Bojan Bazelli used very deliberate lighting to remove shadows under the actors and have them look like they're floating in space.

29

Welcome to the Dollhouse

AS TOLD BY GINGER was influenced by Welcome to the Dollhouse The Sundance winner was a coming-of-age dark comedy about an upopular outcast. It inspired Emily Kapnek to create a Nick version, with storylines about absent parents, depression, and unrequited love. — Entertainment Weekly

28

Breaking Bad

Bulgaria translated Breaking Bad as In Satan's Shoes. Somehow, Prada didn't use that as a marketing tagline first. — Source: IMDB, Google Translate

27

Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie carefully planned Naomi's accent for The Wolf of Wall Street. She wanted Naomi to have muted her original Brooklyn accent (to hide her h — Source: IndieWire

26

Alyssa Milano

CRACKED cO Ariel, the little mermaid, was based on childhood photos of Alyssa Milano.

25

The Twilight Zone

Special 9900 Jackpot The TWILGHT ZONE The 17th episode of the anthology series, The Fever, is one of the only bad episodes, and it's as bad as the r

24

Toy Story

SPACE RANGER LIGHTYEAR LRSERT In Toy Story, if Buzz Lightyear doesn't believe he is a toy, why does he freeze around people?

23

Pikachu

There is a bird that looks like Pikachu. CRACKED.COM The male Cream Colored Woodpecker has the same coloration as the cartoon character Pikachu, from the Pokémon series, including the red cheeks. These birds are found in South America. — Source

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Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's entire mainstream career lasted just 4 years. Hendrix altered the course of popular mu- sic before his career ended abruptly with his death in 1970, at the age of 27. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

21

Guardians of the Galaxy

Those markings on the Guardians of the Galaxy characters' prison outfits represents their crimes. James Gunn explained that the color of each stripe signifies the type of crime, and the patterns of the stripes show the crimes' detail and severity. In Gunn's words, it's a sort of criminal law morse code. CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Genre-Switching Episodes NINER VERS ER Star Trek: IN ER Deep Space Nine Take Me Out to the Holosuite Captain Benjamin Sisko and his senior staff play a game of baseball against their Vulcan foes in order to win a bet. The episode is an ode to baseball as well as a celebration of teamwork. CRACKED — Paramount Pictures
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19

Friday the 13th

'Friday the 13th' was nominated for a Razzie when it came out. 1980 marked the first Razzie awards, and its first 'Worst Picture' nomination with 'Friday the 13th.' The winner, though, was The Village People's disco movie, 'Can't Stop the Mu- sic.' CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — CBR

18

Alec Guinness

CRACKED.COM obi-wan Kenobi Alec Guinness had a bad time playing obi-wan. Classically trained actor + wooden dialogue + hot sands = a terrible time. — Source: Looper

17

Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson's first three wives were named Joan, Joanne, and Joanna. CRACKED.COM Carson married wife #4, Alexis Maas Carson, two years before retiring from The Tonight Show after a 30-year run. — Source: Cheatsheet

16

Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning movie, Almost Famous, is heavily based on his escapades as a CRACKED.COM teenage rock journalist in the '70s. Just like the film's William Miller, Crowe was hired by Rolling Stone to travel with bands like Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. And, uh, he really did lose his virginity to a bunch of groupies. — 22 Eyebrow-Arching Ways Creators' Lives Influenced Their Work

15

How Do You Know

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM How DO You Know REESE WITHERSPOON OWEN WILSON PAUL RUDD and JACK NICHOLSON HOW DO YOU KNOW I FILM BY JAMES L BROOKS SHE'S IN LIMBO. HE'S IN LOVE HE'S IN TROUBLI HE'S IN DENIAL This romantic comedy had big names like Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson, but ended up with a 24% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a whopping 70 million dollar loss at the box office. — Source: The Numbers

14

Hawkeye

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM HAWKEYE Nobody would know. Nobody. Last I saw him, Ultron was sitting on him. Just a man with a bow and arrow, facing off against androids, aliens, and wizards.

13

Jurassic Park

VELOCIRAPTORS WEREN'T THE SIZE OF A PERSON. A velociraptor could be almost seven feet -from nose to tail. It only stood 1.6 feet at the hip, so the real danger was that it might reach up and bite your crotch. — Source: Live Science

12

The Matrix

CRACKED.co It's established that to enter The Matrix, YOU need an 'Operator' in the real world to dial you in and out... SZN NF the Non Sozwho dialed Cypher in and out when he ON-OUR met with Smith and betrayed the group? — Source: 17 Gaping Plot Holes in Famous Movies

11

Matt Damon

MATT DAMON LIED TO GET HIS FIRST ACTING GIG. USE YOUR SMARTS In order to secure his first acting job for a program on a local Boston TV station, Damon lied about being able to ice skate. He says he went on to injure himself during the shoot, and that he cost the production money. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Lies Actors Told (To Get Big Breaks)

10

Kobe Bryant

Shaq reminds us that not all heroes wear capes. Some wear deli meats. TAKERS CRACKED.COM Kobe always tired to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

9

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges wore the same shirt in The Big Lebowski, Cold Feet, and The Fisher King. x V 24 & 12 14 Those movies span almost a decade, so if it's the exact same physical shirt, that's pretty impressive. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

8

Zac Efron

Zac Efron used to have a YOLO tattoo. YOLO You may only live once, but that saying only lived five minutes. Efron was smart to get it removed (or let it fade.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Seventeen

7

Kevin Federline

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6

The Kremlin

The Kremlin IN MOVIES IN REALITY MNAMIMAM Some sort of Entire city, Disney-inspired surrounded by a gingerbread palace wall filled with Does not inclu

5

Movie Tropes

Characters talking to each other while driving, seemingly unconcerned about oncoming traffic lor turning the wheel correctlyl. CRACKED COM

4

Calvin and Hobbes

CHEWE AND HAN ARE CalviN aNd HObDES .Tall animal is friends with short guy Guy is ook-dumb but very clever Guy is super antagonistic to his crush, who

3

Iron Fist

Iron Fist CRACKEDCO Usually, you answer the phone before actually talking through it, Ward Meachum.

2

Modern Family

Alex from Modern Family knows her mother better than her mother. realizes. Alex Dunphy To: Mom Revised New Updated Version Revamp Nietzsche believed t

1

Snow White

In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, CARATS 20 CARATS the dwarfs mine diamonds everyday. But what do they do with them? Why aren't they rich?

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