28 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Everyone Seems to Love But Are Actually a Real Pain to Work With On Set

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28 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Everyone Seems to Love But Are Actually a Real Pain to Work With On Set

Sure they put on a face for the cameras, but man are these TV facts a bunch of whiny divas. It’s a good thing that this list was filmed in front of a live studio audience, because we at least get a glimpse of their charm. 

Their attitudes might be fabricated, but their tidbits are true — and this a welcome break from their usual salty selves.

Power Rangers

Product Placement Power Rangers KRISPY KREME Director Dean Israelite buried the Zeo Crystal under a Krispy Kreme donut shop because he thought it was funny. Really, that was the whole reason for that bit of product placement. Krispy T S® DOUGH CRACKED

Fear the Walking Dead

CRACKED.COM Fear the Walking Dead star got arrested on the CBS studio lot. In May 2016, Frank Dillane allegedly tried to get past a security checkpoint on the CBS backlot, and then punched a guard who tried to stop him. The guards detained him with a citizen's arrest, and he was later arrested for battery. The most bizarre part of the story is the fact that Fear the Walking Dead doesn't even shoot on the CBS lot.

Donald Glover

Donald Glover bought forbidden snacks CRACKED.COM When Jimmy Kimmel asked him how he spent his first 30 Rock check, he said Can I be honest? Like, Gushers. I wasn't allowed to have candy as a kid, SO I was like, 'I'm balling.

The X-Files

The X-Files There were a ton of knock-offs. Some were classier, like Fringe. But then there was also Profiler, Sleepwalkers, VR.5, FreakyLinks, Prey, Dark Skies, Nowhere Man, Strange Luck, American Gothic, PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, and the chef's kiss of the genre: Baywatch Nights. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR teaches Homer what it's like to be Bart CRACKED.COM Homer s a fathering enrichment class, where he casually mentions choking Bart. To show Homer what it feels like, Dr. Zander enlists the 7' 2 Abdul-Jabbar to do some choking of his own. Dr. Zander, you made me see my life through Bart's neck!

Chris Pratt

CHRIS PRATT - - CRACKED GOM Most of us first met a looser version of Star-Lord on Parks and Rec, but teens in the mid 2000s knew him as Bright Abbott on the teen drama Everwood, and as Che on The О.С.

Avatar

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS AANG WAS GOING TO HAVE A FULL HERD OF SKY BISON. is AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER Bryan Konietzko pictured Aang as shepherding 20 bison. But then his partner Mike DiMartino said, Where are we going to put all of these giant creatures in every episode? CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Law & Order

In season 4, Ben Stone resigns when his boss doesn't allow him to retry a case that ended with a hung jury. LAW & ORDER Michael Moriarty's character was written out after the actor publicly opposed the Attorney General of the United States, who thought shows like Law & O dre inspire real-life violence. CRACKED.COM

Adult Swim

Adult Swim causes a citywide bomb scare in BREAKING NEWS TURNER BROADCASTING ITS HOAX CRACKED.COM Adult Swim had local artists across the US install little Lite-Brite murals of Mooninites as part of a guerilla marketing scheme. The good people of Boston thought they were bombs, and shut down bridge, highway, and river traffic as they investigated and detonated the objects. Adult Swim wound up owing the city $2 million.

The WWE

Wrestling Celebrities W LAWRENCE TAYLOR The two-time SuperBowl champion and NFL MVP main evented Wrestlemania XI in a special match against Bam Bam Bigelow. It was his first and last wrestling match. CRACKED.COM

Project Runway

Auf wiedersehen LAME HEIDI KLUM GRACKED COM Auf Wiedersehen is a regular way of saying goodbye in German, and Heidi Klum just kind of started spontaneously using it as Project Runway judge - and she did it for years and years.

Faraway Hill

The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Faraway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS GRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV.

Star Trek

Red Shirt, Short Life Number of crew deaths in Star Trek: The Original Series: 59 Number of Red Shirt Deaths: 43 79% of dead crew- wore red shirts. CRACKED.COM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

in SEASON 1 OF BUFFY, A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TURNS OUT TO В e A PREDATORY insect. AND NOBODY Does ANYTHING ABOUT THE eGGS she LEAVES BEHIND. It was early in the season, and Xander caught the eye of a sexy substitute teacher. Turns out she's a gigantic she-mantis who mates with virginal men and kills them post-coitus. Buffy saves the day, but as the episode ends, we see a cache of eggs hidden in the teacher's classroom. And one of them is hatching. CRACKED.COM http://www.buffyworld. com/buffy/transcripts/004_tran.html

TV Dating

BOB SAGET KATIE COURIC GRACKED.COM Couric confessed to Howard Stern that she went out with the Full House dad. Couric reports that Saget was fun but she didn't think I did it for him. After their date, Saget never called her again.

Ren & Stimpy

GRACKED.COM REN &STIMPY CREATORS OFTEN PUT IN RED HERRING JOKES TO DISTRACT CENSORS. In one particular episode, Prehistoric Stimpy, censors missed the red herrings and mistook a stylized palm tree for marijuana. The only note was to remove the marijuana trees from the background. All the off-color jokes stayed.

Avatar

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS AANG GOT HIS ARROW FROM A ROBOT MONKEY. AVATAR THEANT AIRBENDER. A cyclops robot monkey from the initial drafts ended up becoming the non-robotic Momo. The arrow on its head was inherited by the bald kid, as he had a good canvas for it. CRACKED.COM

The Grinder

Rob Lowe was furious about THE GRINDER CRACKED COM The notion of a show as acclaimed, as original wouldn't have a home anywhere on television, it seems a little outrageous, complained Lowe. That it doesn't have a home on network television tells you all you need to know about network television.

The Office

CRACKED.COM Awful Sitcom Tropes The Jim Halpert John Krasinski looking at the camera was a perfect straight man gesture, creating complicity between the mockumentary format and the audience. After every show started following The Office's template, however, it grew tiresome, as they just had to have the smartass glancing at us to tell us how dumb everyone else was.

Shark Tank

The Sharks SHARK TANK CRACKED.COM PER EPISODE $50,000 Each of the six investors are doing pretty well just showing up for work.

The Danny Thomas Show

The First Major Character Death 570 Jean Hagen Actress Jean Hagen left The Danny Thomas Show in 1956. Producers decided an unexplained death would be less controversial than divorce. CRACKED.COM

The Fresh Prince

CRACKED.COM NORTH ULF Tyra Banks' first speaking role was on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Before she screamed her belief in us, Banks had a recurring role as Jackie, Will's friend/ex-girlfriend from West Philadelphia who got to University of California on a basketball scholarship.

Game of Thrones

Maisie Williams is beloved for her role as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. CRACKED.COM She recently itted that she only accepted the role so she'd have the money to buy a laptop!

Glee

Characters made for their actors Glee Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel After Colfer auditioned for Artie and lost the role, they wrote a new role to accommodate him. CRACKED.COM

True Blood

Same series, almost a different role TRUE BLOOD ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD as Bill Compton Does this mean if Skarsgard had gotten the role, he and Anna Paquin would be married now? CRACKED.COM

SNL

GRACKED ADRIEN BRODY GOT BANNED FROM SNL Without Lorne's knowledge, he donned faux dreadlocks and improvised a 30+ second Sean Paul intro with a cringeworthy Jamaican accent. This got him banned for life.

Homer Simpson

28 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Everyone Seems to Love But Are Actually a Real Pain to Work With On Set

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