25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Are Slightly Better Than Staring at That Weird Test Pattern That Came on at the End of the Night

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25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Are Slightly Better Than Staring at That Weird Test Pattern That Came on at the End of the Night

Worry not, friends. Nothing is wrong with your brain. We just need to plunk in this color test card to make sure these facts are coming through at the highest quality. Much like those classic broadcasts, it’ll be annoying in the moment, but these random bits of TV trivia are really gonna pop when we’re done.

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New Girl

MOST OF THE INNUENDOS ON NEW GIRL WERE WRITTEN TO PLACATE THE NETWORK'S CENSORS. ODEEN GRACKED Because the show was aired on network television, the writers had to get creative around weird rules. For example, they could only say penis 5 times in one episode.

Friends

Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec!

Jimmy Fallon

They had to push Jimmy Fallon's jeep in his Band of Brothers cameo. It was a real WWII jeep, and he was a pretty bad driver, so he couldn't make it move. Two guys ended up having to push the jeep forward at the right moment while Fallon pretended to drive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The High School Set You’ve Seen Everywhere

140 141 IC AL The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM

Mad Men

Mad Men was partly inspired by a particular old-school French movie. The movie is Les Bonnes Femmes, and it was shot in Paris, in the era in which Mad Men takes place-and it influenced the show's production design. CRACKED.COM

Lost

Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. 0 ST CAST AWAY CRACKED.COM

Happy Days

on HAPPY DAYS, RICHIE HAD An OLDER BROTHER nAmeD CHUCK. OR не DID, unTIL THE seconD SEASON. Chuck was away at college for much of the first season, and his defining characteristic was that he always carried a basketball. Не didn't just disappear without explanation- he completely ceased to exist. In later seasons Howard Cunningham would claim that he had just two children. CRACKED.COM http://onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/gavanoherlhy.html

The Muppets

The Muppet Show CRACKED.COM Before there were Muppets, there were just freaky-ass puppets. Kermit looks positively traumatized by his first castmates on Jim Henson's Sam and Friends, a local Washington DC kids' show.

Home Improvement

Home Improvement BUDDIES CRACKED.COM Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer made a cameo on Tool Time that became an instant classic. They were rewarded with a spinoff starring Chappelle and... some other guy. Breuer was replaced after a few rehearsals, and the show was cancelled after 5 episodes.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad took many, many style cues straight from The Godfather. In particular, Breaking Bad's use of color filters and different lighting schemes for different scenes, to give each one its own look and feel, is based on The Godfather. CRACKED.COM

All in the Family

The first content warning 1971 The program you are about to see is ALL IN THE FAMILY. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. CRACKED.COM All in the Family featured several of the first slurs to appear on TV, and was preempted by this warning to contextualize them-kind of like how Disney+ warns kids about their racist crows and cats.

Ted Lasso

TeD LASSO'S HOMAGE TO Scorsese's CLASSIC Season 2's Beard After Hours episode pays homage to the 1985 dark comedy After Hours and drew inspiration from the film to create the entire plot of the episode. CRACKED.COM

The Office

the office One of Angela Kinsey's all-time favorite moments was the Yankee swap during the very first Christmas episode. You know, the one featuring that bizarre jazz babies poster. It's so weird. They didn't let us see the poster until we did the first take, and we all lost it. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Elaine's dad was supposed to be a reoccurring character, but the actor scared the cast. Julia Louis-Dreyfus called Lawrence Tierney a total nutjob. Не stole a butcher knife from the set. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

On every Star Trek movie from II to VI, they burned down the sets after filming. Each time, they didn't think there'd be a sequel, so there was no point in storing the sets. CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

There were guns on the set of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That On Television. YOUCANT DOTHAT ON TELEVISION Show creator Roger Price kept multiple guns in the studio. At one point, he held a gun in his hand and told crew members that, if they gave the kids on the show drugs, he'd shoot them. CRACKED.COM

Chevy Chase

Behind-the-scenes Drama Community Make Your chevy chase and Dan That Harmon the kept fighting. behind Pierce's disappearance reportedly from the show. was reason CRACKED.COM

Rachel Dratch

Rachel Dratch was originally cast as Jenna. Dratch ended up playing various smaller characters on the show. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Duke

The Duke always wears his late mother's enamel brooch The brooch is diamond and emerald-encrusted, fit for a Duke. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Jerry Stiller

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM JERRY STILLER ALMOST PLAYED HESH. ONE Söpranos Stiller dropped out of the project just days before the pilot was supposed to be shot. The casting director then reached out to Jerry Adler, who was friends with David Chase, and offered him the role.

The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE A DON DOESN'T WEAR SHORTS LINE CAME FROM ACTUAL MOBSTERS. Söpranos In season four, Tony, who is often seen wearing shorts, is told that a real don doesn't wear shorts. This was an actual critique David Chase received from some mobster who didn't like that Tony was wearing shorts on the show.

30 Rock

30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

Star Trek

The uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation smelled awful. The crew wore spandex uniforms for the first two seasons, and spandex retains smells very, very well. Which is a problem when people wearing all spandex are trapped in an enclosed space together for the better part of a day. Mercifully, they got wool uniforms in Season 3. CRACKED.COM

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