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

The Academy announced that starting at the 100th Oscars (the 2027 movie season), there will be an award for Stunt Design. That should be enough time to get the Jackass crew back together for one last concussion.

Bowie was loath to make a run-of-the-mill Christmas carol, and considered backing out of his collaboration with Crosby, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy." But his mom was a huge fan and told him, “No, you have to work with Bing Crosby!”

Bacon lost a bunch of money in the largest Ponzi scheme in history, an experience he says “sucked.” More eloquently, he said he and his wife decided, “What do we got? We love each other. We love our children. We’re healthy. No one took away our ability to make a living. So we got back to work.”

Ovechkin just broke Gretzky’s record for career goals scored, putting up 895 goals in 1,487 games. Incredibly, it took Gretzky the exact same number of games to set his record at 894.

The Lonely Island has confirmed that, despite his cameo in “Jizz in My Pants,” Timberlake didn’t sing on the track.

A 48-year-old man allegedly texted an administrator at a Connecticut college, for some reason, “THE NEXT TIME YOU HERE FROM ME I WILL BE ON CNN FOR EXPLODING A BOMB IN SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AUDIENCE.” Police were contacted, and it appears to be the same person that Scarlett Johansson took a restraining order out against.

SNL knock-offs have periodically been attempted in the U.K., like Saturday Live in the 1980s and Saturday Zoo in the 1990s. But Lorne Michaels himself is producing an official U.K. franchise on Sky starting in 2026.

Saturday Night Live Korea is currently in its 15th season.

France’s Le Saturday Night Live lasted exactly one episode in 2017.

A writer has recently come out to say that making the Black Ranger a Black man and the Yellow Ranger an Asian woman was “such a mistake.” But Walter Jones, who played the Black Ranger, has said, “I understand the impulse to address what might be seen as cultural insensitivity. ... It wasn’t a mistake; it was a milestone. It was an honor.”

Teens are erupting over a part where Jack Black yells “chicken jockey!” heralding a rare character, causing so much disruption that people are regularly taken out of theaters by police.

Some theaters offered sing-along screenings of Wicked to satiate theater kids, and likewise, at least one theater in the U.K. is offering special “chicken jockey” screenings where people are encouraged to be loud and annoying.