40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked While Out on a Hike and Now We’re Developing a Nasty Rash

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked While Out on a Hike and Now We’re Developing a Nasty Rash

The guy in the original Nickelodeon logo looks as creepy as the whole network turned out to be.

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Clerks

Clerks $28K CRACKED.COM Considering it made Kevin Smith a household name (and also $3.2 million at the box office), it's unfathomable that the budget was measured in K's.

Dirty Dancing

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12 Years a Slave

CRACKEDCO William Ford, the lave-owner in 12 Years a Slave is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch as a pompous hypocrite and a weak man. But in the ac

Annie Murphy

Schitt's Creek's Annie Murphy had $3 in her bank when she landed the role After two years of not getting any roles and her apartment burning down, Murphy had decided to quit acting only two days before receiving the call that she had gotten the role. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Prometheus

DAVID - Michael Fassbender based his acting in Prometheus on an Olympic diver. He ed the image of U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis walking on a diving board in a measured way, his arms stiff, and partly based his performance as David on that. CRACKED.COM

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage was paid $20 million for a movie that was never filmed. EASY BUCK$ In 1998, Tim Burton cast Cage in Superman Lives. Cage was paid before production began, and when the film was scrapped, he got to keep it all. The rest of the budget went to the Will Smith movie Wild Wild West. CRACKED

The Exorcist

Pop culture inspirations The Exorcist René Magritte's series THE EMPIRE OF LIGHTS explores mind-bending oxymorons, and William Friedkin recreated this work for the movie, capturing the disharmonious spiritual aura that surrounds the home. CRACKED

The Wolf of Wall Street

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Plucked While Out on a Hike and Now We’re Developing a Nasty Rash

Bruce Banner

THE AVENGERS Bruce Banner CRACKED.COM EDWARD NORTON MARK RUFFALO Norton hated the character and refused to promote the movie at all, thinking it was a sinking ship. Enter Ruffalo, who came on board just in time to ride the MCU rocketship into the stratosphere.

Friends vs. Seinfeld

CRACKED VS MARRIAGE FRIENDS SEINFELD CRACKED.COM The series begins George's fiancee after Rachel runs Susan was a out of her own walking I hate wedding. Ross and my wife Boomer Rachel get married trope and was while drunk in Vegas, resulting in killed off by quick divorce. poison envelopes. a WINNER: MEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Space Jam

EASTER EGGSTRA SPASE JAM The Schlesinger Gym where the Tune Squad practice is a reference to a cartoon producer. FuL SCHLESINGER GYM Leon Schlesinger, whose production company later became Warner Bros. Cartoons studios, brought the Looney Tunes series to life.

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter was partly inspired by Anthony Hopkins' drama school teacher. His movement teacher Christopher Fettes had a cutting voice, and he would slice you to pieces. His analysis of what you were doing was so precise. So he made Lecter act the same way in Silence of the Lambs.

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George Clooney

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Ed O’Neill

Actor Ed O'Neill is hardcore into martial arts. He's not just a fan he's - a jiu-jitsu black belt. The Modern Family and Married With Cbildren star ha

Star Wars Detours

In 2012, George Lucas green lit a series called Star Wars Detours. Picture Seinfeld in space. It was a CG-animated show with all the characters hangin

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