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January 01, 2024

Truth is stranger than fiction! Except in this list, where you’ll see Charles Barkley dunking on Godzilla and Stephen Colbert swinging with Spidey.

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THE SIMPSONS Julian Assange CRACKED.COM Possibly the :00 most top-secret cameo of all time, since even the producers didn't know where Assange was recording his lines. — Source

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FAMILY TIES Tom Hanks CRACKED.COM Не has a 3-episode drunk uncle arc in which he ultimately horks down enough vanilla extract to slap Michael J. Fox in his Michael J. Face. — Source

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HOT FUZZ Cate Blanchett CRACKED.COM Edgar Wright thought it would be funny to get an Oscar winner in there but not see her face. And it was! — Source

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THE BIG BANG THEORY Carrie Fisher CRACKED.COM This appearance was, bizarrely, the first time she ever met Star Wars co-star James Earl Jones. — Source

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SMALLVILLE Amy Adams CRACKED.COM If you look closely, you can see Adams hiding behind a fat suit, CGI, and a bonkers storyline about binge-eating kryptonite and humans. — Source

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Robin Williams GRACKED.COM Williams plays an audio engineer who does voices to scam people over the phone, and later give himself an alibi. — Source

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THE LITTLE MERMAID Alyssa Milano CRACKED.COM Milano didn't even know she made this cameo. She only found out that she was the model for Ariel when asked to do DVD commentary. — Source

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER Sarah Silverman CRACKED.COM The Voyager travels back to 1996 and meets Silverman's quirky astronomer character. We can parse this from the constant 90's references, and how she says I'm a scientist! — Source

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Geraldo Rivera gets 'stache- bashed, again. COPSY! 'LL HA!!! THERE'S ONE THING ITS DUCK! ICAN po... BLUNK! OW! NOT AGAIN CRACKED.COM Count Duckula let us relive that glorious moment when a skinhead tossed a chair at Geraldo's big stupid mustache. — Source

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KISS whispered sweet nothings to Howard The Duck. HOWARD, MEANWHILE THAT'S WATCHES WITH DRUG THE WORD! INDUCED APATHY... PASS IT ON! GRACKED.COM AN Gene Simmons loves Marvel, and Marvel was desperate in the 70's, so the band popped in for a 4-page nonsense cameo. — Source

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Colbert gets to sling webs. CRACKED COM Famous nerd Stephen Colbert helped Spider-Man defeat Grizzly. While running for president. Against Obama. — Source

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Orson Wells discovers a real Martian invasion. GRACKED.COM Wells famously freaked everyone out with his War of the Worlds broadcast. Superman fell for it again when Wells delivered a report from Mars on an incoming invasion. — Source

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Thing fanboys over The Beatles. THE ALICIA!WE ALMOST BEN! LOOK IT'S THEM!MY B-BEATLES!!! RAN RIGHT PAST WHO THE GALS EVER-LOVIN' THEM!! ARE WITH! IDOLS!! BE HEY... STOP STILL, MY ! SHOVIN', YOU PATTERIN' BIG APE! HEART! HELP! SOME- THING TERRIBLE JUST HAPPENED! IF WE'RE REAL WHAT'S QUIET, YOU CAN WRONG, HEAR THEM CRACKED COM DEAR? BREATHING! The Fantastic Four bumped into The Beatles, and Ben Grimm lost every last ounce of cool. — Source

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JFK meets Superman (in 1964). CRACKED.COM Eagle-eyed readers may recognize that as the first year that JFK wasn't alive. Production was already underway when he was assassinated, and Lyndon В. Johnson gave DC the all-clear to print it posthumously. — Source

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The Avengers guested on Late Night. CRACKED.COM Letterman gets to interview the team, and even knock out a villain - a substantially better outcome than that time Frank Miller's Joker gassed him and his audience to death. — Source

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Tim Gunn makes the Iron Man Armor work. GRACKED.COM Gunn helped solve a murder and save the New York Fashion Museum (by flexing and biting his lip, apparently). — Source

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Rodney Dangerfield saves Tony Stark. WHAT? SOME CRACKED COMLESS Titanium Man almost caught Stark, who was supposed to be giving a speech at a Lion's Club, but found Dangerfield's punchable face instead. — Source

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Charles Barkley dunks on Godzilla. IN YOUR WHOOPS! ? FACE THERE SOPIULA! IT IS! GRACKED.COM Barkely mopped the floor with the kaiju. Then he gave him a pair of (gargantuan) Nikes, told him to practice up, and challenged him to another game in 100 years. — Source

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The Glee and Archie crews try not to hook up. GRACKED COM They spent four issues trying not to tear space-time by getting too cozy (sharing milkshakes). — Source

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Princess Diana was (briefly) a zombie mutant. CRACKED.COM Marvel brought her back from the dead to join the X-Statix. They eventually made the character a generic pop star instead, after pushback from the royal family. — Source

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Freddie Prinze Junior dates The Hulk's ex. HULK WANT FREDDIE PRINZE JUNIOR! CRACKED.COM While they never show his face, and it wasn't a real date, Bruce Banner tracks down Freddie and Betty Ross and f*s up their dinner plans. — Source

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Muhammad Ali KO's Superman. GRACKED.COM It turns out that Superman actually took a fall - which is messed up-in order to thwart an alien invasion - which is pretty cool of him. — Source

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Jay Leno won't leave Spider-Man alone. THIS IS NOT A MOTORCYCLE,* MY FRIEND THIS IS MY BABY. SO WHO'S TRVIN TO KILL ЧА? TU ME? THOSE GUYS ARE AFTER YOU, MAN. OH, PLEASE. I'M A COMEDIAN. NOBODY WANTS TO GRACKED.COM KILL A COMEDIAN. Leno would appear randomly at the end of various Marvel comics in 2002, when he had already overstayed his welcome on late night TV. — Source

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Anderson Cooper calls Black Widow an assassin. ASSASSIN? CRACKED.COM Actually - because he has journalistic integrity - he questioned whether she was an assassin. — Source

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Barry O'Bomber daps up Spider-Man. ...PARTNER. CRACKED.COM When two Obamas showed up to inauguration, Spidey made them reveal Obama's high school nickname. The imposter guessed Barasket Oballma, which is maybe a lot cooler? — Source

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The Punisher kills Eminem's crew. CRACKED.COM They then inexplicably teamed up to take on Barracuda and ...the Parents Music Council. — Source

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Elmer Fudd hunts Batman. ZEE Weeks GRACKED.COM In one of several gritty Looney Tunes crossovers, Fudd met Bruce Wayne and began stalking him all over Gotham. — Source

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Tom Wolfe is pals with Doctor Strange. DIVINES THIS and IS THE BEST BECAUSE GIRLP THE ONE HAVEN'T GOT A PARTY YET ME TEARS WHO BROUGHT DOWN AN OLD HULK HERE? SECOND FOR OLD BUILDING NOW AND EE THIS 15 ALL FRIENDS AND I JUST DON'T THEN! A TRAP HULK SEE NOW THE WILL SMASH-- JOURNALISTS? ARMYCAN GO SMASH YOU ON PERSECUTING ALL! HIM THAT WEY-- DON'T WORRY... I WON'T ASK FOR ANY FREE ASPIRIN! ISN'T ME JUST TOM! ADORABLE, LIZABETH HE'S BEEN TOM CRACKED.COM SAYING THAT ALL DAY WOLFE! To thank Wolfe for the shout-out in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Marvel invited his likeness to a — Source

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