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38 Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Scream at the Top of Your Lungs While You Wait for That Post-Credits Scene

August 15, 2024

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The longest walk and talk was three minutes long. The now-tropey Aaron Sorkin walk and talk had its longest run in the episode Five Votes Down. It took nearly 500 extras and half a night to shoot. The West Wing CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The X-Files Pamela Anderson was almost Dana Scully. According to Gillian Anderson, she was originally told that the producers were looking for someone bustier, taller, leggier than she was. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Us Jordan Peele is terrified of rabbits. A reason why rabbits play a major part in the horror film is Peele's fear of the Peter Cottontails. Не explains this by his childhood exposure to bunny-infused yet horrifying Watership Down and Night of the Lepus. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas hated Han Solo's I know. According to director Irvin Kershner, Lucas thought that Harrison Ford's improvised line would cause people to laugh. Preview screenings proved him wrong. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Lord of the Rings Christopher Lee was the only cast member to have ever met Tolkien. Lee met the author by chance in a pub in Oxford. Не was a huge fan of the books when they came out in the 1950s. — Source

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Celion Dion and James Cameron both hated My Heart Will Go On. Titanic Dion didn't much care for the song in general, and Cameron just didn't think a pop song would fit the epicness of the movie's story. It's not often when you are both wrong and get richer at the same time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Schindler's List They got costumes via newspaper ads. The costume designer needed outfits for over 20,000 extras for a scene in Plaszow, so they advertised in Krakow newspapers Krakow asking for period clothing in mint condition. And it worked! — Source

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Brokeback Mountain The movie almost starred Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix. Those were Gus Van Sant's choices, back when it was his project. Damon reportedly told him, Gus, I did a gay movie (The Talented Mr. Ripley), then a cowboy movie (All the Pretty Horses), I can't follow it up with a gay cowboy movie! CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dick Tracy The movie only uses seven colors. To get that newspaper comic strip feel, the film only uses red, green, fuchsia, orange, суап, blue, and yellow in its aesthetics. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Golden Girls Rue McClanahan (allegedly) kept all of Blanche's clothes. McClanahan had so many of Blanche's polyester pants, padded blouses, and dresses that she had her apartment's kitchen transformed into a closet. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arnold Schwarzenegger got $21,429 per word. Arnie was paid $15 million for the movie, and with only 700 words of dialogue, the math checks out. It sure beats his $75,000 paycheck for the first Terminator. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Will Smith auditioned at Quincy Jones' party. Smith did an impromptu audition in front of executive producer Jones, who had lawyers in attendance draw up contracts on the spot. — Source

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Adventure Time

Adventure Time Every episode has a small snail in it. Hidden in all the episodes of the show is a snail that is waving to the audience, usually as a running gag but sometimes hidden on an Easter-egg level. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM American Beauty S The cheerleader dance was choreographed by Paula Abdul. She made the dance a little flawed on purpose, so it would replicate how teens would dance rather than trained professionals. S S S — Source

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CRACKED.COM ICE DELA Pulp Fiction The dance scene came from a Jean-Luc Godard film. Critics likened the scene to one in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, but Quentin Tarantino stated that the scene resembles the dancing in Goddard's Bande à part. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Saved by the Bell Scott Gale wrote both shows' theme songs. Not only that, but Gale is responsible for all the music in the Saved By the Bell original series. The Golden Girls — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Simpsons D'oh! comes from a Laurel and Hardy actor. Homer Simpson's voice actor Dan Castellaneta based the now-iconic uttering on Jimmy Finlayson, but shortened it from d'oooohhhhh for pacing. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Batman (1989) Batman's boots are sneakers. The boots, which were made by Nike as part of an endorsement deal with Warner Bros., had black sneakers incorporated into them. — Source

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Cringey Cameos The О.С. Chris Brown Brown appeared as a well-mannered A-student back in 2007, before becoming a synonym for violent, toxic masculinity. The stint lasted 3 episodes, but his legendary douchebaggery lives on. CRACKED.COM

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Cringey Cameos My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie Harvey Weinstein Seeing Weinstein act all cool and aloof while teenage girls swoon over him is the very definition of creepy. In fact, we could call it The Very Definition of Creepy: The Movie, which would make for a less clunky title. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Dice James Woods Woods had a bafflingly boring appearance in Andrew Dice Clay's short-lived TV show. Clay's entire schtick was empty misogynistic bravado, but at least he recently appeared in A Star is Born. As for Woods, however, his spiral down the far-right rabbit hole is one for the ages-and a cautionary tale in itself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Rick and Morty Elon Musk We can expect such fluff from The Simpsons or some mediocre Marvel sequel. But Rick and Morty is the sort of show that should to know better than to have a Musk running on the last fumes of his claims at being a revolutionary man of science. Rick Sanchez, you pseud. CRACKED.COM

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Cringey Cameos iCarly Michelle Obama Because Nickelodeon fans are known for their active political engagement, the former first lady appeared in Season 4 as herself (but also as a strange parody of her own husband's style and mannerisms). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Matt Lauer In the show's pilot, the disgraced news personality interviews the gang, who up to that moment had been held captive by a creep, and utters the now infamous line: I'm always amazed at what women will do because they're afraid of being rude. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Donald Trump Of all of Trump's cameos, this one remains a creepy classic, perhaps because this movie is a beloved reminder of more innocent times, while Trump has gone down as, well, a slimy, racist grifter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos The Man Who Drew God Kevin Spacey This is actually a coming appearance that travels back in time and makes us go yikes right now. Spacey will appear as a police detective investigating (get this) a man wrongly accused of molesting a child. Classy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Iron Man 2 Elon Musk Musk appeared next to Tony and Pepper back when his façade as a visionary futurist was still minimally sustainable. Today we know that he would probably unban Thanos from Twitter for being a victim of intergalactic cancel culture, or something. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Roots O.J. Simpson Simpson's cameo remains a stain on the series' legacy, and it is indeed hard watching his scene without remembering... well, everything that happened afterwards. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos The Masked Singer Rudy Giuliani The Fox News and Borat 2 star was the masked singer in, uhm, The Masked Singer, which made comedian and actually talented performer Ken Jeong leave the stage after going, I'm done. We feel you, Ken. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Saturday Night Live Louis С.К. Louis С.К had pervy creep as part of his comedic persona for years before allegations made the joke a bit too real. Still, his SNL sketches tended to insist on the joke of being super pushy around women. All jokes aside, always ask for consent, people. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Seinfeld Lori Loughlin The actress appeared in Seinfeld back in 1997, but by now she has become the poster child for privilege, entitlement, and corruption thanks to her better-known sitcom The 2019 College Admissions Bribery Scandal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Better Call Saul Jay Johnston Johnston's cameo in a 2020 episode happened less than a year before he was photographed right in the 2021 Capitol attack. Call us old-fashioned, but we don't find anti-democratic mobs very funny. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos YOU TO URI GELLER! TO BE A MAGICIAN GELLER? OR SOMETHING-- I'VE HEARD YOU BEND METAL, OF YOU. KEYS AND SUCH, I BELIEVE. Daredevil NOT A MAGICIAN Uri Geller According to legend, Stan Lee wanted Geller in a comic as soon as he met him. Geller was a known psychic during the '70s (we now call them grifters), and even convinced the assigned Marvel writer of his powers. If anything, the cameo makes us doubt Daredevil's super intuition. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Men in Black 2 ANTAROTICA 2 - - - - 100 MARYLAND 5684 Michael Jackson Considering what we now know about Jackson, this cameo (pretty much the only thing we remember about the movie) comes off as super icky - but it already was back then, when the child abuse allegations were a bit too abundant and convincing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Bristol Palin Former Teen Mom mom and daughter of walking self-parody Sarah Palin appeared in the ABC show back in 2010, and her wooden acting was a low even for a show made up of wooden acting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Super Size Me Jared Fogle Subway Spokesman Jared Fogle In the 2004 anti-fast food documentary, the former Subway spokesperson and current prisoner for child sex tourism and child pornography possession speaks about his only vice not being drinking or smoking, but food. Are you sure about that, Jared? And he tells this to high school kids, to really amp up the yikes factor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cringey Cameos Dodgeball Lance Armstrong Armstrong drops by to give Vince Vaughn some encouraging words about not quitting, so as to not regret it forever. Не didn't hook Vaughn up with his dope dealers, though. That was kinda rude, Lance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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