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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Recorded on Our Parents’ VCR Like 20 Years Ago

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Talking to HAL 9000 was slightly better than talking to a brick wall. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY In 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) had HAL's lines fed to him by various actors, since voice actor Douglas Rain was hired in post production. CRACKED.COM — NY Times

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Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

Fictional Presidents THE house I PER UHM EX PRESIDENT Idiocracy Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Terry Crews auditioned five times to get the role, and nailed every audition. It got to a point where he said, Dude, if you find somebody better, just give it to him. CRACKED.COM — Source: The A.V. Club

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf could've replaced Armie Hammer in Call Me By Your Name. Actually, Shia was the first choice, and Hammer only signed up when they put in a new director (who picked Hammer). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Deadpool 2

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's photo makes a cameo in Deadpool 2. She's one of the candidates Deadpool's considering for X-Force. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Lazenby

Careers built on a lie From zero to Bond overnight: George Lazenby's outrageous lie. Lazenby lied to producers about his acting resume to get the role of James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Despite his mediocre acting, the producers bought it and gave him the part. CRACKED — United Artists
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Hot Tub Time Machine

In Hot Tub Time Machine, Lou decides to stay in 1986, forming GRACKED.COM Mötley Lüe and writing Home N MAIN Sweet Home. MOTLEY CRUE Quite the feat, since Mötley Crüe had been around since 1981, and released Home Sweet Home in 1985. TRENTRE OF PRINT — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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Phyllis Smith

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Phyllis Smith Cast The Office NETFLIA I RT II E OA The Office A Phyllis Smith was originally a casting director for the show and was pulled in to play Phyllis because the directors liked her so much. Thank you producers, I live off of the way Phyllis says Popkern. — Source: Yahoo

33

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey went to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards disguised as a wild-haired, Jim Morrison-like hippie. He didn't tell anyone about the disguise, including his friends, so Samuel Jackson talked to him for 15 minutes without knowing who he was. Later, he asked Carrey Man, why'd you do that to — Source: MTV

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Michael Cera

Michael Cera is just a widdle teddy bear. 3 D CRACKEDcO The famously mild-mannered everydweeb started his career something appropriately mild-mannered: voicing Brother Bear in ThE Berenstain Bears.

31

Ender’s Game

Spoiled by the tagline ENDER'S GAME THIS IS NOT THIS A NOT GAME CRACKEDG COM GAMF The fact that the events of the movie are real and not a game is the — Source: Digital Spy

30

Captain America: Civil War

How Is The Conflict Between Tony Stark And Bucky Barnes Never Mentioned Again? CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Tony Stark fights Bucky Barnes and Captain A

29

Will Ferrell

23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf - Will Ferrell’s brother, Patrick Ferrell, plays a security guard at the Empire State Bui — Source: IMDb

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Reign

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

A deleted scene from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer explains why Cornelius licks his ax. After Rudolph guides Santa to the Island of Misfit Toys, Cornelius picks up his ax after throwing it in the air, then licks it and says Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it rich. So he was just licking his ах to see if he'd finally found peppermint. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

26

Bill Murray

Hunter S. Thompson nearly killed Bill Murray. X ANIZZU NADY LING While Murray was staying at Thompson's home, the two got into a drunken argument about who'd make a better Houdini (as these guys would). Thompson tried to settle the argument by tying Murray to a cast iron chair and throwing him into his pool, for him to escape. Luckily, someone else pulled Murray out. CRACKED.COM — Source

25

Little Women

Little Women Laurie and Jo swap a vest during the film, symbolizing both Jo's want to transcend social limitations placed on her gender, and her way of keeping Laurie close to her. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Leslie Mann

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Trust the comedy instincts of LESLIE MANN CRACKED.COM Apatow thought her scene should end with cops finding a gun under her seat. And Leslie said to me, 'No, I really think I need to throw up in his face.' And then she made her own vomit out of strawberry yogurt and some sort of breakfast cereal. And it turned out to be one of the biggest laughs of the movie. — Source

23

Deadpool

GET OUT BA as 22 RO RVICE The finale of Deadpool was supposed to be a huge shootout. The studio took $7 million from the budget at the last moment, forcing the filmmakers to improvise. That's why Deadpool forgets all the guns he packs, and has to storm the bad guy's lair without them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Princess Bride

Westley is pretty straightforward with Humperdinck. The Princess Bride I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon. CRACKED — Source

21

Grand Theft Auto

CRACKED PARENTS, DON'T LET YOUR KIDS PLAY GRAND THEFT AUTO- IT'S APPARENTLY BAD FOR THEM. Emmanuel Macron asked parents to stop their kids from taking part in the riots of June 2023. Не said that some of the young people seemed to be copying what they had seen in violent video games, which had intoxicated them. M O T E SUNSET HORES — Channels TV / Slant

20

Andrew Lloyd Webber

CRACKED THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Andrew Lloyd Webber might have ripped off Pink Floyd's song Echoes for the title track of The Phantom of the Opera. It probably is actionable...But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f*cking Lloyd Webber, said Roger Waters. — Cheatsheet / Broadway Direct

19

Clerks

view Askewniverse clerks After dropping out of film school, Kevin Smith made a bet with Scott Mosier that whoever finished their script first would make their movie, with the other working as producer. Smith won. Quick STOP GROCERIE I ASSURE You WE'RE OPEN! AB06703 لجنة - GRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Facts About Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse

18

Homer Simpson

Homer's signature D'oh comes from Laurel and Hardy's James Finlayson's D'oooooh The expression was shortened for time. Laurel and Hardy supposedly used it as a fill-in for d**n. In the script, it only reads as annoyed grunt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Facts About The Simpsons (In Case You Run Out Of Episodes To Watch)

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Benedict Cumberbatch

CRACKED.COM Benedict cumberbatch Не has been made into chocolate. Twice. In 2015, Cumberbatch won UKTV'S Dishiest Drama Actor award. The prize? A life-size statue of himself, made entirely of Belgian chocolate. The following year, the same artist made chocolate Cumberbunnies for Easter. — Source: Mental Floss, Mental Floss

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Futurama

CYGNUSX-1 ISN'T SPACE LAS VEGAS. BUTURAM The prisoner of Benda WHAT HAPPENS IN I CYGNUS X-1 STAYS IN CYGNUS X-1 The caption at the start of the episode isn't just a shout-out to the city of vice- - Cygnus X-1 is a black hole, so it's physically impossible for anything not to stay there. CRACKED.COM — The Infosphere, Astronomy Magazine

15

Chinpokomon

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Chinpokomon reference. BEST HERD BUY Chinpokomon was an episode in season 3 that dealt with the Pokemon craze of the '90s. All the kids in South Park had to have a Chinpokomon doll. In season 10's episode, Make Love, Not Warcraft, you can spot the kids Chinpokomon Gerbarad merch throughout the show. CRACKED.COM — Source

14

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

During one of the first scenes in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE a character explains how slaughterhouses kill animals using sledgehammers. The animals don't die instantly. and they squeal while being bashed two or three times. This is exactly how the first kill goes down. * insert squeals CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Horror Movies With Diabolically Clever Foreshadowing

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No More Heroes

No More Heroes wants you to erect a sword. CRACKED COM The Wii game, unusually horny for a Nintendo release, has more than a few suggestive portions. The most egregious is one you can't avoid, that charges Travis' beam katana by vigorously pumping the Wiimote, causing the limp weapon to become rigid. — Source: Destructoid

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South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Iggy Pop

PETE & PETE Iggy Pop was Michelle Trachtenberg's dad. He shows up in five episodes as the oddball James Mecklenberg, occasionally referring to himself as Pop and even serenading his daughter at a school dance. — YouTube

10

You’re Whole

You're Whole 2012-2013 CRACKEDCO Created by and starring Michael lan Black, this eight-episode series parodies self-help infomercials.

9

Elf

23 Son Of A Nutcracker Facts About The Christmas Classic Elf - In the original script, Buddy was a much darker character.

Favreau said that when he l — Source: Rolling Stone

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Community

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E.T.

Michael from E.T. is now WPACE BVADER a mailman. Robert MacNaughton stayed in show-business for 13 years after his break-through role, but he was cons

6

Gravity Falls

In Gravity Falls Season 1, Episode 6, Tyler can't decide whether to buy a puma shirt or a panther shirt. SEASON 1, EPISODE6 SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 OKE! I

5

Leighton Meester

Leighton Meester wasn'talwaysa Gossip Girl. In fact her life before she was famous is the stuff ofmovies. She was born in prison to a mother who was a

4

Tour de France

Cyclists in the early '90s Tour De France that were on steroids had to exercise through the night. BMC The cyclists took so much EPOs (Erythropoi- etin) that if they let their bodies rest they would have heart at- tacks during the night while they slept. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Dead Space

The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team modeled them using photos of actual car crash victims and war casualties. CRACKED COM — Source: 21 Unnoticed Game Details That Were Insane Work

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Saturday Morning Cartoons

WHO WAS DAVID WISE? HE KEPT RECYCLING HIS PLOTS. In Day of the Machines, He-Man has to deal with a creature made of energy that affects electronics. In Kremzeek, the Autobots have to deal with... exactly the same thing. Everybody recycled plots back then, Wise has admitted. — Sources: Wiki Grayskull, Transformers Wiki

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Return of the Jedi

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