40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’re Enacting a Large and Pointless Tariff on if You Want To Import Them Into Your Brain

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’re Enacting a Large and Pointless Tariff on if You Want To Import Them Into Your Brain

The ‘90s were a simpler time, when an animated MC Hammer could use his magic shoes to fight crime.

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange left Malcolm McDowell unable to see for a while. The apparatus he wears in the Ludovico Technique scene was really painful, and he complained that he scratched his left eye's cornea, was in pain and couldn't see. Stanley Kubrick told him, Let's go on with the scene. I'll favor your other eye. CRACKED.COM

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Anaconda

These series both began LAKE PLACID with A-listers, with VS Jennifer Lopez and ANACONDA Bridget Fonda battling colossal reptiles. Decades later, there are five Placids, four Anacondas KC and a crossover with the baffling title (the crocodile isn't called Lake Placid), Lake Placid Vs Anaconda. CRACKED

Frasier

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Ryan Klesko

Major League Baseball player Ryan Klesko hurt his back lifting a lunch A tray. His upper back seized up in a restaurant when he tried to pick up his l

Supernatural

In Supernatural's Hollywood Babylon (S2E18), a tour guide announces that they have reached the set of Gilmore Girls and comments that if they're luc

Johnny Carson

الا In 1974, Johnny Carson asked NBC to stop broadcasting reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends. CY fill To the on Saturday nights; NBC came gap up with a new variety show: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CRACKED.COM No

Emoticons

The first emoticon: 1982 5-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economic things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For thi :-( GRACKED.COM People have always struggled to communicate sarcasm online. Computer scientist Scott Fahlman proposed the Carnegie Mellon comp-sci department mark humor with a simple :-).

Shrek

Donkey from Shrek may be one of the boys from Pleasure Island that was transformed into a jackass in Pinocchio. 1. Most of the characters in Shrek are from fairy tales or nursery rhymes (such as The Three Little Pigs, The Three Blind Mice, Pinocchio). 2. Не seems to have memories of being a human (re wedgies and swirlies). 3. Despite the fact that other animals can talk, a talking donkey is treated like an anomaly. 4. When Donkey and Puss in Boots switch bodies, Puss can't control his 'hee-haws, much like the boys from Pleasure Island. CRACKED COM

Louie, Louie

Louie, Louie cheated the songwriter, but in the end, everything turned out okay. Richard BERRY Louie Louie CRACKED.C Richard Berry sold the original Louie, Louie and a few other singles to his label, for $750, when they didn't catch on in the 1950's. In the decades that followed, it was one of the most recorded songs of all time, but Berry thought he gave away his rights to it. It turned out that the law actually protects songwriters in these cases, and in 1982 he regained ownership of half the song and made $15,000 in royalties. Then he figured life

Hammerman

TELL US NOW. Hammerman CRACKED Ken T. coming in with the putback slam: The only thing crazier was MC Hammer fighting crime with magical shoes.

Star Wars Holiday Special

THE ENDING LOOKS CHEAP BECAUSE THEY RUN OUT OF MONEY. When the time came to shoot the Life Day ceremony, the production had run over budget. The solu
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Rhea Seehorn

AND THE EMMY DOESN'T GO TO: RHEA SEEHORN & SCIENCES ARTS OF TELEVISION ACADEMY Seehorn's brilliant performance as Kim Wexler was one of the best addit

Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon was discovered while skipping class. Talent scouts for the film Over the Edge were roaming around schools in New York, looking for ordinar

Avengers: Endgame

AENEES ENGERS CRACKED.COM ENDGAME As the final battle heats up, Ant-Man tries to hotwire the time machine van. Then in the very next scene he can be s

Megan Fox

CRACKED COM MEGAN FOX BELIEVES IN LEPRECHAUNS. Fox has said that she believes in the little green Irish dudes. (But not the pot of gold, because rea

A Very Brady Christmas

CRACKED COM W W W A great way to Marital strife honor the legacy of a Bitterly divorced lighthearted, fluffy sitcom Having affair is to make a with bo

Battlefield Earth

JD Shapiro's script for Battlefield Earth (which is a movie based on L. Ron Hubbard's book) was pretty much completed... ...until John Travolta's asso

Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg made his fans believe that he was abducted by a ghost. 1. After a few tweets about his attic door opening and closing on its oWn, Pegg post

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) was rejected by every major studio in Hollywood because they didn't think the franchise could work if it were shot

Guns N‘ Roses

HIGH FOR DESTRUCTION APPETITE debut album Top selling spawning of ALLTIME, 1987 #1 singles- FOUR GUNS N' ROSES Axl brings An out-of-breath the 2002 LO

Christian Slater

Christian Slater just picked up a Golden Globe. Almost makes you forget about his meltdown. It was 1994, and he was partying with some friends. After

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