22 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Come in Nice and Clear If Your Brain Points Its Satellite Dish A Little to the West

Facts good enough to fall off your roof for
22 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Come in Nice and Clear If Your Brain Points Its Satellite Dish A Little to the West

It’s not everyday that we condone life-threatening behavior, but these TV facts would be just perfect if you get up on your roof and fiddle around with the dish. They’re just that good!

It won’t be too bad. Put one of your kids in front of this list with the windows open and have them yell when the reception is perfect!

Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. GRACKED COM

Star Trek

Star Trek A German network classified Star Trek as a children's show in the 1970s, resulting in some inventive dubbing. In Amok Time, for example, Spock's terminal horniness becomes a space fever. CRACKED.COM

Mr. Robot

The first season finale of the show Mr Robot was inspired by Fight Club. Fight Club was one of my big inspirations for the show, said creator Sam Esmail, and The Pixies' Where Is My Mind in S1E9 was a nod to that. CRACKED.COM

Michael Cera

There was a Muppet that was inspired directly by Michael Cera. It's Walter, and his puppeteer said They told me to think about Michael Cera-that if he was a puppeteer he would already have the job. CRACKED.COM

South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CARTMAN'S MOM IS BASED ON A REAL PERSON. SOUTH PARK Trey Parker based Liane, Cartman's sexually promiscuous mother, on one of his ex-girlfriends from college who dumped him after cheating on him. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Jenna and Pete were almost a couple. The storyline didn't make it past a table read. People didn't like how Pete would be cheating on his wife. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Party of Five

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE SALINGERS WERE ALMOST EVEN WORSE OFF. party of five According to the show's creators, the Salinger family was much poorer in the original pilot. Fox executives made them change the family's finances to something that wouldn't freak out audiences.

Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS THE FIRST EPISODE WAS WRITTEN IN SIX HOURS. Rick ne MoRty Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland wrote the first episode on the same day they sold the show to Adult Swim. Roiland was scared that it might take them months to write the episode if they didn't start immediately, so the two cranked it out in about six hours. CRACKED.COM

The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE Shoutout EXPANSE to Dorie Miller ARRIVALS PUER STELLA DOCKED LANDING TERMINAL A THUTHOSE'S LOTUS ON TIME 6 SHAKA ZULU ON TIME UNN INTREPIO ONLINE UND DORIE MILLER ONTIME In season 5 episode 10, an arrivals log shows the UNN Dorie Miller ship soon to dock. It's a reference to WWII hero Doris Dorie Miller, the Black mess attendant who helped save the lives of many during the Pearl Harbour attack. In 2020 he became the first Black American to have an aircraft carrier named after him. CRACKED.COM

Community Easter Eggs

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS HEY, LATVIA! community In season 2's episode, Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design, the study group gives chase to Professor Garrity through the blanket fort, only to be stopped by a group crawling by in a Latvian Independence Parade. The episode aired on November 18, which is the Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia. CRACKED COM

Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS GRAVITY HIRSCH'S FALLS BIRTHDAY HACK 40 MA b 1 8 RIP 10 The number 618 seems to pop up in every episode. It's a reference to Hirsch's birthday, June 18th. CRACKED.COM

Batman

EASTER EGGSTRA I BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES PRODUCER CAMEO PKINSMO BRUCE. TIMM ERIC RADOMSI BRUCE TIMM'S NAME CAN BE SPOTTED ON A ROW OF LOCKERS AS BATMAN WALKS BY. CRACKED.COM

Newhart

Newhart had a finale that rendered the entire series pointless. The llast two minutes of the finale had Bob Newhart waking up as his character from an earlier sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and announcing that the whole thing - - all eight seasons of Newhart, including all its characters - was just a weird dream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Spock

Spock was originally supposed to have red skin. But TV sets at the time were still black-and-white, so Spock would have looked black on screen. So, thankfully, Gene Roddenberry dropped the idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Big Brother

The contestants of Big Brother weren't told about the 9/11 attacks when they happened. BIG BROTHER DINNIN CRACKED.COM The show had a policy of keeping the contestants in total information isolation. They had to change the policy after one of the cast's family members was lost at Ground Zero.

The Muppets

Muppets started the trend of post-credits scenes. 1979's The Muppets Movie kickstarted the trend in the '80s, which Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a part of f-- and Ferris inspired the post-credits scenes in the MCU. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian literally couldn't have been made without fans. The crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes for a Season 1 scene, so they got in touch with the local members of the 501st legion, a group of fans who wear and make super-accurate Stormtrooper costumes. The legionnaires showed up, in their own suits, and played the remaining Stormtroopers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Friends

Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ted Lasso

TED LASSO WAS ORIGINALLY A CHARACTER FROM 2013 NBC SPORTS COMMERCIALS. CRACKED And even though it took almost 10 years to get the show on the air, Jason Sudeikis' soccer knowledge still only comes from Playstation.

Jimmy Kimmel

ANDY SAMBERG ABSOLUTELY HATES LATE NIGHT HOSTING GIGS. JIMMY KIMMEL HAS COVID AGAIN CRACKED On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Samberg talked about his stint guest hosting the show. Не claimed it was super stressful and he'd never do it again.

Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec!

Nick Fury

The first on-screen Nick Fury wasn't Samuel L. Jackson, but David Hasselhoff. Не played Fury in the 1998 TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he said he'd love to play him again (for what that's worth). CRACKED.COM

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