41 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Your Dad Won’t Tell You to Turn Off and Go Outside to Play Instead

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41 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Your Dad Won’t Tell You to Turn Off and Go Outside to Play Instead

You know the feeling: You’re watching your favorite cartoons on a Saturday morning when you hear those grown-up feet coming down the stairs. Your eyes are already mid-roll when good ol’ dad asks how you could be down in a dark basement on such a nice day! 

Well, today’s going to be a lot different. When dad comes down and sees that you’re reading these wildly interesting batch of TV tidbits, he’ll forget those chirping birds and join you in that dank, dank basement. Finally, something to bond over.

Sense8

CRACKED COM The only reason that Sense8 got its two hour finale was massive outcry from fans. Following the show's cancellation after Season 2, fans successfully organized with what Lana Wachowski called passionate letters, the petitions, the collective voice. One Change.org petition had over 500,000 digital signatures, which inspired Netflix to give the show closure.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The SPIKE we've grown to love from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER was never meant to last or be likeable for that matter. Buffy the According to James Marsters, who plays Spike, Joss Whedon, the showrunner, told him early on that he was supposed to die after only 5 episodes. However due to his popularity amongst fans he became a regular part of the main cast. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

STAR TREK was saved by writing letters-to: the studio. Now Paramount's leading franchise, Star Trek was saved in its second season by thousands of fans protesting the show's cancellation. Back when this entailed purchasing stamps, writing letters, and sometimes actually trekking to post offices to mail them, the studio received enough complaints to persuade them to create enough episodes to syndicate the series, forging a path for it to become the juggernaut it is today. CRACKED.COM

Doctor Who

CRACKED.COM Fans have been demanding a female Doctor for at least a decade. CE the BOX DOCTOR WHO In 2008, a group of women scientists even called for the Doctor (an alien that can change race and gender) to be a woman. The gender question in 2016 was resolved when Jodie Whittaker was cast as the 13th incarnation of the Doctor.

What We Do In The Shadows (Again)

July on hulu July 13 What we DO In the shadows season 4 Much of the show is shot at night and takes long hours, with cast members taking naps on couches (as coffins are the only alternative). CRACKED.COM

Cory Monteith

Cory Monteith On July 13, 2013, while Glee was still on-air and successful, Monteith died from a toxic combination of heroin and alcohol, losing a long battle with substance abuse at the tragic age of 31. CRACKED.COM

Everybody Loves Raymond

CRACKED EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND Before landing on the Love, alternative titles were That Raymond Guy, Lucky Raymond, Nice Going, Raymond, and Um, Raymond.

Stranger Things

Celebrity tattoos 011 Millie Bobby Brown has a 011 tattoo, after her Stranger Things character CRACKED.COM

Top Gear

CRACKED TOP GEAR JEREMY CLARKSON Jeremy Clarkson got the boot from Top Gear after getting into a fight with a producer. It started because the producer told Clarkson the hotel kitchen was closed and he couldn't get a hot meal.

Oprah

Oprah LETTERMAN CRACKED.COM Oprah has ascended to the pantheon of single-name fame, but she didn't do it on Letterman. Their feud began with Letterman pranking her into paying for his dinner, but they've since made up. You know the rules: if you want a free dinner, check under your seats!!!!

Matt Groening

Matt Groening disowned and refused to be credited for a particular episode of The Simpsons. An episode in season 6 called A Star Is Burns features Jay Sherman, the main character of the animation The Critic that was launched in 1994 by producers of The Simpsons. Groening hated the fact that his show was used to promote this new animation, and he was annoyed that the cameo implied some kind of shared universe. GRAGKED.COM

What We Do in the Shadows

They put a bat fight in What We Do in the Shadows because they couldn't afford actors fighting. Deacon and Nick were supposed to be in human form during their fight in the air, but the movie had no money for the wire work needed to keep them in the air r - so they changed into bats. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The shot-for-shot creation of They Live. In the second episode of season 5, Timmy and Jimmy get into an elaborate fight that lasts over two minutes. It's a recreation of the fight between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David in John Carpenter's 1988 movie. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

CRACKED.COM Frasier There were two Eddies. Eddie was played by father and son Moose and Enzo. A dog dynasty.

Westworld

CRACKED.COM Luke Hemsworth got his biceps injured a couple days before shooting a fight scene for WESTWORLD. The scene was rewritten so Stubbs gets shot in the arm and has to fight one-handed.

Glee

Lea Michele and Samantha Ware really, really did not get along on Glee. Michele tweeted at Ware, Remember when you made my first television gig a living hell?!?! Cause I'll never forget. believe you told everyone that if you had the opportunity you would 's- in my wig! CRACKED.COM

Bobby Moynihan

BOBBY MOYNIHAN is an old-school fan CRACKED.COM Being a part of the legacy of 'The Simpsons' is insane, Moynihan says. I remember watching them on 'Tracey Ullman,' I remember spending my allowance on a drawing that Matt Groening had done on a piece of paper. Get your geek on, Bobby!

Gossip Girl

Leighton Meester CRACKED.COM Oh, yeah? says Leighton Meester, in our minds, because she was actually born in jail af- ter her parents were convicted of smuggling over 1,200 lbs. of weed from Jamaica. She said her family history made her very nonjudgmental and open-minded, a trait she had to suppress on Gossip Girl.

Another World

Another World 1964 CRACKED.COM The soap opera was the first TV show to address abortion. It would be another eight years until Maude's famous abortion storyline.

Ted Lasso

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE SHOW USED A REAL STREET MUSICIAN. TED LASSO The musician Lasso brings in from the street as a replacement for Robbie Williams is Cam Cole-a famous London street performer. CRACKED.COM

Green Goblin

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Green Goblin It was the third cartoon where Neil Ross voiced Norman Osborn - and yet, it was his first time playing the Green Goblin, who had a different voice actor in the previous shows.

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars NEVER PRETTY SIRU with 4% SECRET SARA SHEPARD Livers News 9 Analyst SARA SHEPARD NATIONAL WESTBELLING AUTHOR UP PLANETSE CRACKED.COM Sarah Shepard plays a substitute teacher in The Homecoming Hangover, and a news reporter in I'm a Good Girl, I Am.

Baywatch

BAYWATCH Mila Kunis CRACKED.COM As a kid, Kunis played two different precocious kids on the show.

Grey’s Anatomy

This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY GRACKED.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.

The Jetsons

CRACKED.COM IRobot Hoombe CLEAN The Jetsons had roombas. The future in the 1960s wasn't so different from our present, complete with video chat, flat-screen TVs, and robot vacuum cleaners.

The West Wing

The West Wing predicted the 2008 presidential election. A nonwhite Democratic legislator defeated an old-school Republican senator in fiction in 2006. Reality followed suit two years later. CRACKED.COM

Chappelle’s Show

CRACKED.COM Chappelle's Show predicted History Channel's Gangland. In 2003, audiences laughed at Dave Chappelle's skit that had the History Channel covering street gang wars. In 2007, it was no longer a joke. Gangland

Captain Kirk

CRACKED.COM Captain Kirk used me TO a cellphone long 14 A.C. 74 before you did. Your phone no longer has a flip top (probably), but William Shatner as Kirk still beat you to it by several decades.

Laugh-In

A comedy show predicted when the Berlin Wall would fall. In 1969, Laugh-In reported a piece of news from the future about the Berlin Wall being torn down in 1989. The show also joked that Ronald Reagan would be elected president in the '80s. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

41 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Your Dad Won’t Tell You to Turn Off and Go Outside to Play Instead

Boston Legal

William Shatner passed a kidney stone filming Boston Legal, then sold it for Habitat for Humanity. It raised $25, 000, Shatner joking, This takes organ donors to a new height, or a new low, maybe. CRACKED

SNL

Last month Chevy Chase announced he was selling scraps from his SNL Land Shark costume, a steal at a mere $500 for a tiny piece of sponge and a scrawled signature. CRACKED

Powerpuff Girls

CRACKED.COM THE POWERPUFF GIRLS theme song is based on a sample from the break in the James Brown song Funky Drummer.

Teen Titans

GRAGKED.COM R Teen Titans The theme song hinted at the episode's tone. Longtime fans of the show noticed that if the theme was in Japanese instead of English, that episode would be more wacky and comedic than usual.

Star Trek

Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. CRACKED.COM

The RZA

CRACKED.COM CELEBRITY ANIME FANS THE RZA The Wu Tang Clan was inspired by Asian 19 media, so it's not surprising that The RZA has respect for anime. Не composed the soundtrack to Afro Samurai, and has used Dragon Ball Z as an allegory for growing up black in the U.S.A.

Jimmy Kimmel

Melissa McCarthy injured her neck by wearing a very heavy candy cane costume while filling in for Jimmy Kimmel. CRACKED.COM

Jeopardy!

Kevin O'Leary has a great nose for business. Luckily for him, general knowledge isn't a category for investments. $12,800 $2,800 KEVIN AARON Celebrity aty Mr.Wonserfull In 2015, he was a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy! and bombed, correctly answering only a few (music) questions. CRACKED.COM

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a script editor for Doctor Who. Не wrote three episodes of the TV series, but one script was never made. CRACKED.COM

He-Man

Low-Effort Pop Culture He-Man's Orko He-Man's companion originally went by Gorpo. To get the most out of the animators' work, the character was renamed as Orko, so that when the footage was flipped, it would look exactly the same and they'd get double the amount of animation. CRACKED

Power Rangers

Low-Effort Pop Culture Power Rangers For about 30 years, Power Rangers has been using scenes and footage from the Japanese show Super Sentai, cutting out any stuff that was too Japanese or violent or just strange, and using it to fill around a third of each episode. CRACKED

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