36 of the Best Jokes, Segments and Recurring Gags in the History of Late Night

36 of the Best Jokes, Segments and Recurring Gags in the History of Late Night

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ll Double If You Don’t Even Out Our Trivia Deficit

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ll Double If You Don’t Even Out Our Trivia Deficit

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12 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Found Perfectly Spelled Out in Our Alphabet Soup

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21 Musical Side Projects That Reminded Famous Folks to Not Quit Their Day Jobs

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Even Bill Maher Fans Are Finally Sick of Bill Maher

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Slap Like That Jam, You Know The One

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Slap Like That Jam, You Know The One

April 09, 2025

The Pacifier could have been Jackie Chan’s big break.

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Love and Monsters

THE LAST OF US HOMAGES IN LOVE AND MONSTERS The director said that the game inspired him quite a bit, so not only did he name the protagonist Joel (same as the protagonist's name in the game), but Joel also wears the same kind of sunset t-shirt as Ellie. CRACKED.COM

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Carter Pewterschmidt

Rich Jerks Family Guy Carter Pewterschmidt Не has the same voice as Dr. Hartman. Seth McFarlane plays both characters using the same voice. This was joked about in the episode Believe Or Not, Joe's Walking on Air. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scene on YouTube

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is set in the 1720s, SO the Union Jack shouldn't have the Cross of St. Patrick incorporated. The red diagonal cross was added to the flag after Ireland became a part of the UK in 1801. The correct flag would look like this: CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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Rocky Balboa

CRACKED.COM ROCKY IS A STORY ABOUT PERSEVERANCE. ROCKY BALBOA NEVER QUITS, NO MATTER WHAT. THAT'S JUST THE FINISHED MOVIE, THOUGH. ORIGINALLY, НЕ DID QUIT. The first script had Rocky throw the fight after realizing he didn't actually want to be a boxer. — Source

36

The Lost Boys

Peter Pan The Lost Boys is a retelling of Peter Pan. The film switched the fairy tale setting for grungy Santa Cruz, and pixie dust for blood. But it kept the pseudo-creepy, immortal trickster bit. CRACKED.COM

35

Twitter

TWITTER twitter The idea behind Twitter was a service allowing users to share personal status updates via SMS to groups of people, which was a noble goal in 2006. It didn't take long to realize that no one cared about status updates, and Twitter devolved into a tool to locate and harass anyone who speaks ill of your favorite K-pop group. CRACKED.COM — More: 5 Great Ideas That the Internet Has Ruined

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The Shining

THE SHOOTING WENT WAY OVER SCHEDULE. THE SHiNiNG The movie was supposed to be shot over 17 weeks. Kubrick's strademark fastidiousness turned that into a full year. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Bone-Chilling Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'The Shining'

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Chuck Lorre

Chuck Lorre gave his crew a fat wad of nothin' TWO AND A HALF MEN CRACKED.COM After it was reported that the crew of one of the most successful sitcoms of all time got a going away present of jack sh*, the show relented and sent everyone American Express gift cards.

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The Justice League

The Justice League needs macho, macho men. OOOOH.I'M >HAW'E WHATEVER SHAKIN! AIN'T IT PAST YOU'RE SELLIN' YOUR BEDTIME, I AIN'Te GRAMPAZ WHAT DOES THE uu STAND FOR? SENILE2 CRACKED COM In issue two of the 1996 comic miniseries Kingdom Come, Superman crashes a club packed to the brim with villains to — Source: Comic Book Resources

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Creature from the Black Lagoon

There was love on the set of Creature from the Black Lagoon. - The actors beat Guillermo del Toro by several decades -- too bad the filmmakers were to — Source: 10 Backstage Photos That Make Scary Movies Look Hilarious

30

Matthew McConaughey

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY USED ZOOM TO HOST A BINGO GAME FOR A TEXAS NURSING HOME. Lots of the residents held up green paper sheets (because he said that re

29

The Wizard of Oz

CRACKED COM ASBESTOS WAS ONCE SOLD AS FAKE SNOW FOR HOUSE DECOR. ASBESTOS Pure White FIRE PROOF EM CONTENTIN SNOW LOOKS LIKE REAL SNOW CLEANEST WHITEST-MEST It was used in this scene in The Wizard of Oz.

28

Sixteen Candles

CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want. — Source

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Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling told Alan Rickman the end to Snape's story arc before he ever appeared on camera. CRACKED.COM As a result, he often ar- gued with directors about knowing something that they didn't. Rickman used this knowledge to subtly inject affectations that would point to his hidden motives. — Source

26

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Tender memories as character motivation Throughout the film, Charlie seems to confront teenage life's challenges by relying on loving memories of his deceased aunt. The third act, however, reframes those memories as painful flashbacks. She wasn't sweet and caring, but, well, something bad. Trope: depressingly subverted. The Perks of Being a Wallflower CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Camp Crystal Lake

Keddie Resort is a real-life Camp Crystal Lake. Keddie Resort was a popular tourist destination in California -until four people were violently murdered there. Yet despite the brutal crime scene, no one heard anything. Not even the children sleeping in another room. KEDDIE RESORT UNSOL VE CRACKED.COM — Source

24

The Phoenix

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1982 The Phoenix From a Peruvian Sarcophagus rises Bennu of the Golden Light, an alien being with the power of having the clunkiest name ever. Beginning as a TV movie in 1981, it was supposed to be the next big thing, but only lasted one season. CRACKED.COM

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Televisions

In the US, there are almost 12,000 injuries per year due to falling TVs. To compare, there were only 57 unprovoked shark attack bites worldwide in 2020. Be more afraid of your beloved TV showing JAWS than a shark attack. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Prince

Prince was (probably) one of the very first Oregon Trail players. In 1971, Prince Rogers Nelson was an 8th-grader at Bryant Junior High, in Minneapolis - meaning he was in the class of Don Rawitsch, the teacher who came up with Oregon Trail to keep his students engaged. Sadly, there's no record of how many times (if any) he died of dysentery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hilary Swank

GRAGKED.COM a BVLGAR n S Hilary Swank competed in swimming in the Junior Olympics, and was ranked the fifth all-round gymnast in her state. — Source

20

Guns N’ Roses

Cringey lyrics from the '80s Guns N' Roses One in a Million Racial and homophobic slurs that we'd care to not repeat. EXCLUSIVE - . - - N - DRUGA Sort frees shet of by WITH gong THE SHOCKII Serving - - - - GTO USED TO Elephant giv LOVE HER HE - - - One In A - - - - - - - - Controversial even at the time, many questioned why Slash (who is half black) played on a song where Axl drops the worst possible word that begins with an N. CRACKED — Source

19

Twilight

TWILIGHT BE CRACKED.COM The books and films are famously set in Forks, Washington, but when Edward shows Bella Vampire Baseball, Oregon's Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge can clearly be seen behind home plate. — Source

18

The Karate Kid Part II

IMMEDIATE SEQUELS THE KARATE KID PART II After Daniel wins (by cheating), the first movie ends with Mr. Miyagi smirking like the proud father figure we never had. At the opening of the 1986 sequel, we see them exiting the tournament and then Miyagi badassedly honking the villain's nose. CRACKED.COM — Ending, Sequel Opening

17

The Rock

The Rock's first acting role was on 'That 70's Show' playing his father, Rocky Johnson. Dwayne Johnson even ref- erenced himself, as Rocky, by mentioning a son that he predicted would be the most electrifying man in sports entertainment. Af- ter his fanny pack phase, of course. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Screenrant

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Sarah Connor

NOSTALGIA SEQUELS Terminator: Dark Fate LINDA HAMILTON REFUSED TO DUMB DOWN SARAH CONNOR. Hamilton had an active role in her reprisal, even rejecting lines of dialogue she characterized as dumb. Something she did not reject? A fake butt - for those classic Terminator butt shots, we assume. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Cinemablend, Cinemablend

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I Wanna Marry Harry

Reality shows with dark sides I Wanna Marry Harry Gaslight Women The women of Fox's 2014 I Wanna Marry Harry knew right away that that guy was not Harry. Wanting none of that critical thought in their pretty heads, producers deployed a bunch of sleazy gaslighting techniques to make them doubt their own sanity. Only the actual royal family can do that, you know. CRACKED.COM — More: Dating Reality Shows That Achieved Full Berserk

14

The Flash

Rainbow Raider's lair in The Flash has an homage to his comic-book origins. In the comics, Roy Bivolo is a color-blind painter-and, on the show, his supervillain lair is stacked full of really, really bad paintings. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Comic Book Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Their Source Material

13

The Pacifier

CRACKED.COM Babysitter Movies The Pacifier The role was originally written for Jackie Chan, and the reason the family has a pet duck is because there was originally a racist joke about Chan wanting to cook and eat it. Racism? Yum! — Source: MovieWeb

12

Blade Runner

Blade Runner 2049 hints that Deckard's child was a girl, not a boy like K. In a memory, we see the mop-haired child chased through an orphanage by a group of boys with shaved heads. к visits the place, and only the girls keep their hair, so he couldn't be the grown-up child. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

11

Nikki Glaser

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM I have a crush on this guy who's totally marriage material. Because he's married. Nikki Glaser — Comedy Central

10

Demi Lovato

This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY CRACKED.COM If you ever wanted to see the former tween star stab herself in the heart with a hypodermic needle, have we got the episode for you! Spoiler alert: She's not crazy, she just has a hole in her ear. — Popsugar

9

The Big Bang Theory

MCD WE the BiGBANGTHEORY actress/ waitress Ph.D. in turned sales rep experimental physics extrovert introvert mocks the nerd nerd culture What will they talk about for the rest of their lives? CRACKED.COM — Source: 28 Doomed Movie And TV Relationships

8

The World of Oz

THE WORLD OF OZ IS MAGICAL AND IMAGINATIVE. THE nAme, HOWEVER, IS STRIKINGLY munDAne. The Wizard of OZ By L. FRANK BAUM With Pictures by W.W.DENSLOW According to L. Frank Baum, he was looking around his office trying to think of a name for his new magical world. His eyes fell to a nearby file cabinet with three drawers: The first was labeled A-G, the second H-N, and the third O-Z. So the stories could have just as easily taken place in the merry old land of Ag. https://news.google. .com/newspapers? CRACKED.COM id=QtwRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Tu8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3435,6178650 — 21 Horrifying Origin Stories Of Famous Characters

7

Gremlins

Gremlins The origins of Gremlins- Part III Screenwriter Chris Columbus initially wrote Gremlins as a spec script, and was inspired by the mice running around his apartment in Manhattan where he was an NYU grad student. The spec script found its way to Steven Spielberg's desk, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

6

Flightplan

I called the morgue, and they told me your daughter has died with your husband. Sorry lady, you're CRAZY. And your daughter's DEAD all along. FLIGHTPLAN Can I borrow your phone to call my parents, my friends, my neighbors, and my daughter's school teacher to double check? D Um...uure, why not? CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Gaping Plot Holes in Famous Movies

5

Prince of Egypt

It took 318,000 hours to render the parting of the Red Sea in Prince of Egypt. And that scene was a total of seven minutes long. CRACKED COM — Source: Optics.org

4

The Dark Knight

Movie Trivia Everyone Gets Wrong - Myth Heath Ledger improvised the Hospital Explosion scene in The Dark Knight because the explosives malfunctioned. — Source

3

The Sandlot

CRACKED.COM Looking for a Fourth of July movie but not into war stories? 30 SANLoT IHE This beloved classic celebrates the American pastime in a fully

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Silicon Valley

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The Death Star

Why didn't the Emperor feed the Alliance wrong information about the second Death Star? PALPATINE COULD HAVE GIVEN THEM THE RIGHT COORDINATES, BUT WRO

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