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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Worth Pennies on the Dollar in the Marketplace of Ideas

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Worth Pennies on the Dollar in the Marketplace of Ideas

April 03, 2025

The real Jack Reacher is like 6-foot-6, 300 pounds. Tom Cruise is not that.

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Exhibit A

Disturbing Movies 2007, United Kingdom Dir. Dom Rotheroe Exhibit A A found-footage film about the suburban nightmare of financial problems, family drama, and a violent father slowly losing his grip on reality-until the highly distressing conclusion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ghostbusters

VILLAIN: Walter Peck MOVIE: Ghostbusters VILLAINY: Tries to investigate the heroes who are catching and storing ghosts. BUT WAIT! Не works for the EPA and is right to be concerned about unlicensed nuclear devices and environmental damage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jordan Peele

CRACKED JORDAN PEELE WILL NOT HAVE YOU DISMISSING JOHN CARPENTER. WEE H OR I Peele rejected one fan's claim that he was the best horror director ever, saying, Sorry. I love your enthusiasm but I will just not tolerate any John Carpenter slander! — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock,
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Will Ferrell did his own ice skating. Ferrell apparently got his training out of the way when shooting Blades of Glory, so he was ready to strap on the skates himself for those scenes. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Lark Voorhees

saved by the Bell Lisa Turtle was written as a Jewish-American princess. After Lark Voorhies was in for a guest role, she was asked to read for the part. They said, 'She's not black.' And I said, 'She is now. - Peter Engel, executive producer. CRACKED.COM — Source: Today

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Miley Cyrus

THE CONSPIRACY: Disney assassinated Miley Cyrus. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Miley wanted a childhood, but Disney wanted money. So they offed her and readied the next clone. — Source: 24 Super-Ding-Dong Theories About Celebs

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Zack Snyder

SUPERMAN VS. WONDER WOMAN 6 CRACKED.COM Warner Brothers must really love the idea of Superman punching Wonder Woman- -seen here in George Miller's storyboards -- since this scene was resurrected by Zack Snyder for Justice League.

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The Spy Who Loved Me

CRACKEDCON Elon Musk bought the submarine car from The spy Who Loved Me. PPW30681 The lost car from the James Bond film was originally found in an aba

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The Terminator

Skynet keeps failing to put a stop to the human rebellion. Throughout the Terminator film series, Skynet goes to ridiculous lengths to try to snuff ou

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Harry Potter

Students who graduate from Hogwarts enter MAGiCAL PROFESSIONS. They can work as teachers, magical shopkeepers, officials at the Ministry of Magic, and

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Evan Peters

EVAN PETERS REGRETS SOME OF HIS AMERICAN HORROR STORY SCENES. The actor has played some disturbing characters in the series, and says some of it has affected him psychologically. A strange one was when I was Mr. March (in American Horror Story: Hotel). I was doing this butterfly razor cutting of this poor girl while I was having sex with her. It was just horrific and weird and sad. CRACKED.COM

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Malcolm in the Middle

A Little House on the Prairie Actor Created Malcom in the Middle. MALC IN THe LM MIDDLe Linwood Boomer, who played Mary Ingalls' husband, based the character of Malcom on himself as a kid. CRACKED.COM

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John Cena

John Cena auditioned for Blue's Clues. When the show was revived in 2019, one of the persons who auditioned to host was John Cena. Yes, that John Cena. They actually entertained the idea of hiring someone mostly known for elbow-dropping people to talk to a cartoon dog. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Community

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Community The body swap Community gave its spin on the old body switching trope with 2013's Basic Human Anatomy, in which Troy and Abed only pretend to swap bodies to avoid the awkwardness of Troy and Britta's anniversary. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alec Baldwin

You used to be cool ALEC BALDWIN verbally assaults his 11-year-old daughter. Basically the '90s John Hamm, he was a hot movie star who was legitimately funny. At that point, he had hosted SNL 13 times. In 2007, we heard a leaked voicemail of him screaming you're a rude, thoughtless little pig to his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland. CRACKED — Source

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Toby Flenderson

CRACKED COM the office SUFFERING FROM FATIGUE, TIREDNESS, DEPRESSION, AND HAIR LOSS, IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT TOBY FLENDERSON IS SUFFERING FROM A CASE OF VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY. — Source

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Eddie Murphy

CRACKED EDDIE MURPHY KEPT HIS JOB BY EATING DOG FOOD Curmudgeon/ Head Writer Michael O'Donoghue fired the entire cast from SNL except for Eddie Murphy due to his commitment to one bit live on air. Murphy was doing a bit on Weekend Update playing off the fact that old people were eating dog food in the news, and so Murphy ate the dog food live on air. O'Donoghue respected Murphy's commitment to the bit so he let him stay, but Murphy didn't tell O'Donoghue that it was really just hash in a can, not dog food, until after he had — Source

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Pierre Brassard

CRACKED SONY PIERRE BRASSARD In October 1995, Queen Elizabeth II was tricked into thinking she was talking to the Canadian Prime Minister... but really it was a radio host trolling her for 17 minutes. She agreed to give a speech on TV asking for everyone in Quebec to come together. — Source

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Final Fantasy

FINAL FANTASY Final Fantasy got its name because its creator + figured he was done. Square was out of money after a + string of unsuccessful games. Hironobu Sakaguchi chose the name Final Fantasy because he thought it would be his last game. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine LETTERMAN CRACKED.COM Director of Lisa Frank ketamine dream Spring Breakers and famous weirdo Harmony Korine was banned from Late Night with David Letterman after stealing from Meryl Streep's purse backstage. I assume Meryl Streep's purse is filled with Oscars. — Source: 19 Celebs Who Got Themselves Banned From TV Shows

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Sherlock Holmes

sherlock Holmes said The game is afoot! only once. It's become a Holmesian catchphrase, almost on par with Elementary, dear Watson (which he never actually said). But the game is afoot appears in a single story-and Holmes was, in fact, quoting Shakespeare when he said it. CRACKED.COM — Supanova

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Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove GRACKED.COM If Dr. Strangelove had followed the original script, we would have been introduced to an alien named Nardac Blefescu, who made the movie from historical records found on a bombed-out earth. Nardac never made the final script, however, nuking their chances at the first Oscar win for an extraterrestrial. — Cracked

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Audioslave

AUDIOSLAVE Monthux CRACKED.COM After Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine, they began auditioning new frontmen. Realizing that adding Chris Cornell would not be Rage's signature sound, they formed Audioslave, recording 3 full-length albums from 2001 to 2007 (going multiplatinum and reaching #1 on Billboard) before reuniting with Zack from '07-'11. — Source: Whatculture

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Miss Piggy

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Worth Pennies on the Dollar in the Marketplace of Ideas — Source: 20 Onscreen Relationships That Should Never Have Existed

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MCU

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM YELENA - This thing that you do when you whip your hair when you're fighting, with the arm and the hair, and you do like a fighting pose? Stop making us like you! Despite being a Black Widow assassin like her make-believe sister, Natasha, Yelena still seems to be having fun with it.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was actually a very serious and responsible person, despite being famous for playing silly and funny characters. And her natural hair color was brown. CRACKED.COM — 19 Celebs Who (In Private) Aren't Like Their Public Personas

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George of the Jungle

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE GOT IN THE SWING OF THINGS For some reason, Brandon Fraser was the go-to guy for cartoon-to- comedy movies. Not only was he George (scoring as a goof who can talk to apes), he also starred in major dud Dudley Do-Right. — Walt Disney Pictures

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Starsky and Hutch

STARSKY AND HUTCH Paul Michael Glaser / David Soul CRACKEDO COM ORIGINAL REMAKE 2004: David 1970s: David Starsky and Ken Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, two Hutchinson, guys who sell So-Cal cops. Huggy Bear a Gran Torino. — Source: 15 Stars Who Passed The Torch By Appearing In Their Franchise’s Remake

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British Film

A British director made a 10-hour movie showing paint drying (as a big troll). PAINT DRYING A FILM BY CHARLIE LYNE He made the censors at the British ratings body BBFC sit through it, to protest their charging indie and Hollywood movies the same for a rating. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

TELL US NOW. BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO Tony D. jokes, ...just because of the title. All sequels should contain the words 'Electric Boogaloo.' CRACKED.COM

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Love, Death & Robots

Released in 2019 David Fincher and Tim Miller announced their own version of Heavy Metal in 2008. As the rights had been snatched when Netflix got interested, their animated sci-fi anthology was named LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS. — Source: IGN

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Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens CRACKED Steven Demetre Georgiou's girlfriend once told him he had eyes like a cat, a comment that would inspire a decades-long stage name. But he now goes by Yusuf Islam, having had a religious experience while almost drowning, and later converting to Islam.

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Trader Joe’s

what's the deal with TRADER JOE'S? Return anything NOQUESTIONS ASKED INFORMATION TRADE JOE'S CRACKED.COM Look for the sign at your local Trader Joe's, rendered in whimsical chalk: We tried it, we liked it. If you don't, bring it back for a full NW refund. SW — Delish

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Jack Reacher

TELL US NOW. TOM CRUISE AS JACK REACHER JACK REACHER Junnior D. laments, I've read the books. He's supposed 6'6 pushing like 300 lbs, with dirty blonde hair. We were given Tom Cruise... CRACKED.COM

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System of a Down

SYSTEM OF A DOWN MAY 7, 2005 CRACKED.COM Is dropping an F-bomb still a thing? NBC received no complaints after the band slipped one past censors but s — Entertainment Weekly

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Alien: Covenant

Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled Off Special Effects - Alien: Covenant's shot of the Covenant ship landing site was all real. — Source: New Zealand Film Commission

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Danny DeVito

Just out of high school, he was unsure of what to do So he took a job at his sister's hair salon. A Ond od the boms YEARS Oruto frotn musician and his — Source: Biography.com

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Wu Assassins

IF YOU LIKED BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA CRAGh THEN YOU'LL ENJOY WU ASSASSINS IT COMBINES MARTIAL ARTS WITH MAGIC AND IS FUN AS HELL.

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Bambi

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Lord of the Rings

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