34 Random Bits of TV Trivia Slurred to Us Across the Bar by the Town Drunk

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34 Random Bits of TV Trivia Slurred to Us Across the Bar by the Town Drunk

You guys are lucky we can understand drunk-speak. We’ve had a lot of experience trying to decipher our sloppy editors at the post-work happy hour, and it finally paid off! Today’s happy hour spot was playing some pretty awesome shows, and the local barfly was luckily well-versed in random facts about every show that came on. 

We hit record on our little voice recorder and just let him have it. Translating it to something that you fine folks can read and comprehend was no easy task, but here they are.

The Flintstones

The Flintstones was groundbreaking for its time. x HOME It was the first show to depict a couple sleeping in the same bed, and also dealt with heavy issues like suicide and infertility. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Saved by the Bell

Promoting his 2009 book Behind the Bell, ostensibly about the seedy behavior of the cast of Saved by the Bell behind the scenes, Dustin Diamond said he wrote it because the E! True Hollywood Story episode about the cast never said anything about any of the good stuff. DUSTIN DIAMOND BEHIND THE BELL Since 2014, he has maintained that it was written by a ghostwriter, and that he had no input on the final manuscript. CRACKED.COM

The Office

the office One of Angela Kinsey's all-time favorite moments was the Yankee swap during the very first Christmas episode. You know, the one featuring that bizarre jazz babies poster. It's so weird. They didn't let us see the poster until we did the first take, and we all lost it. CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

There were guns on the set of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That On Television. YOUCANT DOTHAT ON TELEVISION Show creator Roger Price kept multiple guns in the studio. At one point, he held a gun in his hand and told crew that, if they gave the kids on the show drugs, he'd shoot them. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Rachel Dratch was originally cast as Jenna. Dratch ended up playing various smaller characters on the show. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Duke

The Duke always wears his late mother's enamel brooch The brooch is diamond and emerald-encrusted, fit for a Duke. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Dick Towel is a real product. Dicktowel.com is an actual website where you can purchase merchandise. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Power Rangers

Angel Grove, California POWER RANGERS Bar CRACKED COM The Power Rangers' hometown is thought to be based on Los Angeles, which is convenient because that's where the series was filmed.

Parks and Recreation

They created April Ludgate after a casting director met Aubrey Plaza. The director called Parks & Rec writer Michael Schur and told him I just met the weirdest girl I've ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show. So Schur met with her, and wrote her into the show. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Seinfeld George Costanza is Larry David. Jason Alexander based his performance on Woody Allen, until he realized George was a self-insert for the show's co-creator. When Alexander questioned a scene, David retorted: This happened to me, this is exactly what I did. CRACKED.COM

Avatar

Dwayne Johnson directly inspired a character in Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's The Boulder (well, of course), and they even tried to get The Rock to voice the character-but that didn't work out, unfortunately. CRACKED.COM

South Park

South Park's Kenny was based on a Kenny from Trey Parker's childhood, who also wore an orange coat and always mumbled. Не went missing all the time, and other kids would be like, What happened to Kenny? Is he dead? CRACKED.COM

BoJack Horseman

Raphael Bob-Waksberg based BoJack Horseman on how he felt after moving to Hollywood. Не felt isolated and alienated because he didn't go out too much, and that dichotomy of being simultaneously on top of the world, and also never more alone, was really the beginning of thinking about this character of BoJack. CRACKED.COM

Batman

Show: Batman: The Animated Series: Harlequinade Inspiration: The 1992 L.A. riots Arleen Sorkin, whose character in Days of Our Lives inspired the creation of Harley Quinn, was driving home with co-creator Paul Dini during the riots in downtown Hollywood: Paul was having a breakdown. There were fires everywhere...I just started singing to try to cheer him up. Не ed the song, 'Say We're Sweethearts Again, and put it in the show. We like to think she was in full costume at the time. CRACKED.COM

Westworld

CRACKED.COM Show: Westworld Inspiration: BioShock Director Jonathan Nolan explained: I was Ken Levine, the designer of those games...and he was talking about how much craft had gone into all the conversations that the non-player characters had...all their dreams and aspirations. Isn't that sad? And the player just ignores it all. The bastards. To absolutely no one's surprise, there's a BioShock Easter Egg in Season 1, Episode 3.

Hawkeye

Turns out, Hawkeye is inspired by, uh... Hallmark Christmas movies. I couldn't say they did not inform the Christmas of the show, a little bit. In the same way that those movies are comforting, I was reading those comics so many times, said head writer Jonathan Igla. CRACKED.COM

Samurai Jack

A 1960s Japanese animated movie inspired the show Samurai Jack. SAMURAI JACK It's called The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky said it had what he wanted for that show: A lot of lighting and mood...very little dialogue, about the action, simple stories, and the character. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad took many, many style cues straight from The Godfather. In particular, Breaking Bad's use of color filters and different lighting schemes for different scenes, to give each one its own look and feel, is based on The Godfather. CRACKED.COM

Mad Men

Mad Men was partly inspired by a particular old-school French movie. The movie is Les Bonnes Femmes, and it was shot in Paris, in the era in which Mad Men takes place-and it influenced the show's production design. 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

Stranger Things

Season 3 of Stranger Things was inspired by a semi-obscure '80s movie. It's Fletch, a film about a reporter who's paid to kill a millionaire for a small fortune -- thinking he's about to die anyway - and trouble ensues. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

The second season of Picard was inspired by Star Trek: The Voyage Home. Akiva Goldsman said that his co-showrunner Terry Matalas suggested 'Hey, let's do The Voyage Home.' And we kind of dug it. CRACKED.COM

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother seems pretty light, but it was influenced by 9/11. It informed HIMYM in very subtle ways, the creators said, as that forced them to learn that life really is about chapters closing and things coming to an end. CRACKED.COM

Inspired by David Fincher

David Fincher's Se7en actually inspired a Marvel show -- Loki. LOKE LOKI The story is about a mystery, so film noir and detective stories - and especially Se7en - were a big inspiration. Episode 2 even has a reference to the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

The Good Place is heavily based on a 1944 existentialist play by Sartre. His No Exit is about three people who can't stand each other trapped in the afterlife together, with nothing to do but to talk to each other forever. CRACKED.COM

SNL

A Saturday Night Live performance ended up shaping an Inside Out character. They took inspiration from Debbie Downer from SNL for Sadness (and also Wednesday Addams). And their first idea for her? A teardrop. CRACKED.COM

Loki

The big bad's hangout in Loki is based on a real ,castle and Citizen Kane. The Citadel at the End of Time was strongly inspired by Citizen Kane's Xanadu and Xanadu's real-life inspiration, Hearst Castle. CRACKED.COM

24

Keifer Sutherland found out there was a 24 drinking game - drink when he said damn it! So he decided to say it as often as possible. For the college kids. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Snoop Dogg

The dial code of the Czech Republic is 420, and the country is among the highest s of cannabis in the world. During an appearance on The $100,000 Pyramid, Snoop knew that fact without delay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

Emilia Clarke has suffered two brain aneurysms. Her charity, SameYou, provides treatment for stroke & brain injury patients. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough like Winston Zeddemore. Arsenio Hall got the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Friends

Friends continues to generate massive revenue. The show earns $1 billion/year for Warner Bros., which translates into $20 million annually for cast . NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Big Bang Theory

Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never met while making Star Wars. Their first face-to-face meeting was in 2014 on The Big Bang Theory. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

George Clooney

George Clooney's first role on TV was playing a down-to-earth handyman in 1985 on the sitcom, The Facts of Life. CRACKED.COM Early on in his career, before ER turned him into a superstar, he was also seen on Roseanne and even The Golden Girls.

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