35 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Will Be Back After These Messages

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35 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Will Be Back After These Messages

Pausing a TV show, pfft. You kids don’t even know how good you have it. Back in our day, you had to deal with your thirst or hold in your pee until the commercial break. With all that liquid management, watching TV was a lot like a road trip. 

Anywho, we’re about to kick off this list of TV facts, so you better do whatever it is you have to do now. This entertainment train doesn’t stop for anyone but its sponsors! 

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM

Jon Snow’s Furry Robe

Game of Thrones The furs were dolled-up IKEA rugs. In spite of having a multi-million dollar budget, the production wanted to save a few bucks in the costume department. So the costumers fashioned Jon Snow's furry robe and other Winterfell costumes out of $79 rugs from IKEA. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

Kelsey Grammer got Emmy nominations as Frasier Crane for three shows. Grammer was nominated for Cheers and Frasier multiple times-but in 1992, he was nominated for the same role in Wings. CRACKED.COM

Family Guy

CRACKED.COM Family Guy Chris' voice is based on Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Seth Green used to do that really silly voice when screwing around with his friends, and decided to use it while shooting the script.

A Different World

GRAGKED.COM A Different World The writing staff went on field trips to black colleges. Producer/director Debbie Allen would take the writers to Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, for them to capture that experience. under

Curb Your Enthusiasm

GRAGKED.COM Curb Your Enthusiasm The show proved a man was innocent of murder. Juan Catalan was a suspect, but he claimed that he was at the Dodgers Stadium watching the game. Не was doubted until he showed up in the background of a Curb episode that was shot there on that day.

Cheers

CRACKED.COM Cheers Ted Danson went to bartending school. Danson took bartending classes in order to become a mixologist, thinking it would help the show. By his own admission, he's the world's worst bartender.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Again)

CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002.

The Brady Bunch

CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom.

Judge Judy

Judy Sheindlin just set her own salary for Judge Judy. Every three years, she'd discuss her contract over dinner with the president of CBS Television Distribution - which meant she'd write down the number she wanted, put it in an envelope, and give it to him after dinner. The one time he tried to hand her an envelope, she didn't even open it, and told him This isn't a negotiation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

CRACKED.COM Bryan Cranston has a Breaking Bad tattoo. When shooting wrapped for the series, Cranston memorialized his iconic role on his body by having the show's logo tattooed on his finger.

Futurama

José Servo TEQUILA Futurama's Bender has Breakfast Club roots. The partying, heavy-drinking robot is named Bender after Judd Nelson's character in the '80s teen film, John Bender. CRACKED.COM

The International Space Station

CRACKED.COM Firefly is a part of the International Space Station's media library. Astronaut Steven Swanson brought DVDs of the space western to the ISS, and made it a permanent part of the station's entertainment options.

Friends

Friends' working title was Insomnia Cafe. When David Crane and Marta Kauffman were pitching the show, they named their proposal after what would become known as Central Perk. CRACKED.COM

Queen Elizabeth

CRACKED.COM Queen Elizabeth II loved The Golden Girls. The queen was such a fan that she requested the cast to fly out to the London Palladium to perform some scenes from the show in person.

Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM The Game of Thrones actors were discouraged from reading the books. According to lain Glen (who played Jorah Mormont), David Benioff and D. В. Weiss didn't want the actors to protest any changes to the material. In hindsight, this kind of explains a lot.

Halle Berry

CRACKED COM Halle Berry could have been the star of Homeland. The network really wanted Berry in the starring role, but the show's creators were dead set on Claire Danes (to the point that the character was named Claire in early drafts of the pilot's script).

Tyra Banks

CRACKED.COM NORTH Tyra Banks' first speaking role was on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Before she screamed her belief in us, Banks had a recurring role as Jackie, Will's friend/ex-girlfriend from West Philadelphia who got to University of California on a basketball scholarship.

The Sopranos

CRACKED.COM The Sopranos logo has a gun SO people wouldn't think it was about opera. The producers were worried the title would mislead audiences, so they made sure the logo clearly conveyed the show's genre. The Sopranos

Firefly

CRACKED.COM zac Efron played simon Tam. Efron's first TV role was as a young Doctor Tam in Firefly.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

CRACKED.COM Tara wasn't always going to stay gone in Buffy. Joss Whedon had a planned ending with her revival that made her cry.

The Golden Girls

CRACKED.COM Blanche from The Golden Girls wasn't going to have that accent. Rue McClanahan decided she needed it, though.

Marvel

It's a wonder we didn't have an Avengers TV show in the '80s. The Incredible Hulk was the most successful, but Captain America, Thor, and Doctor Strange all had their own abortive TV attempts. CRACKED.COM

Nicholas Brendon

CRACKED.COM Buffy's xander almost played Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds. Nicholas Brendon was Joss Whedon's first choice for the role of Captain Reynolds.

Annie Murphy

Schitt's Creek's Annie Murphy had $3 in her bank account when she landed the role After two years of not getting any roles and her apartment burning down, Murphy had decided to quit acting only two days before receiving the call that she had gotten the role. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis had a two-week trial run as a writer on Saturday Night Live Tina Fey comforted him after one of his sketches bombed during a table read. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Max Greenfield

Max Greenfield had a Saturday Night Live-themed bar mitzvah The New Girl star even had a Blues Brothers cake. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Parks and Rec

For Parks and Rec, NBC contracted the game designers behind Settlers of Catan to create Cones of Dunshire Although originally a throwaway joke, Mayfair Games eventually created a fully playable version. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Jim Halpert

Jim Halpert is named after Greg Daniels' friend. They have known each other since kindergarten. The real Jim Halpert is a corporate attorney in D.C. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Office

Bob Odenkirk was originally cast as Michael Scott. 167 have WHAT - MADE NOT JORDAN - 2012 - Case the a 123RF a - BILLY ALT - MARCH 2016 Steve Carell's NBC show was canceled after only 4 episodes, leaving Carell free to take over the role. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Animaniacs

The Animaniacs were ducks at first. The Warner siblings were ANIMANIACS conceived as cartoon ducks. This was dropped in pre- production because TV had too many ducks already. CRACKED.COM

The Inventor of the TV

The inventor of the TV was unimpressed by his invention until he watched the moon landing. His wife said, We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, 'Pem, this has made it all worthwhile.' Before then, he wasn't too sure. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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