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A SILENCER DOESN'T WORK LIKE IN THE MOVIES A silencer muffles the sound of gunshot, only comparitively. It's much louder than the noise that is used for movies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bruce Lee

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - The mirror room scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 was an homage to the 1973 Bruce Lee flick — Source: Film School Rejects

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Tron

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Programs fighting other programs in the Disc Arena was Tron's way of paying homage to Spartacus. — Source: Film School Rejects

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Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson's favorite Jackson movies aren't what you think. It's not, say, a bunch of Tarantino movies - his list of his favorite movies only includes one Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, and movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight from 1996 and The Red Violin from 1998. — Source

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Aladdin

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - In Aladdin, when Jafar ends the Prince Ali reprise by launching Aladdin and the tower — Source: Film School Rejects

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Seems like it caught on fine

The title for Shawshank Redemption was too much of a mouthfull. Despite being one of the most beloved prison movies (or even just movies) of all time, audiences gave it a hard pass when it came out in 1994. Both Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman have claimed (perhaps with a wink) that it failed because no one could remember the name Shawshank. — Sources: Vanity Fair, IndieWire

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Heidi Moneymaker

SCARLETT JOHANNSON'S BLACK WIDOW STUNT DOUBLE... HEIDI MONEYMAKER. NOTABLE MOVIES: All the movies in which Black Widow appears,Sucker Punch,The Hunger Games movies, the John Wick movies. MOST MEMORABLE STUNT TO DATE: The reshoots for Black Widow. I...talked to Scarlett and I said, 'Hey, are you doing more of these Black Widow movies?' She goes, 'I don't know.' I said, 'Just wondering, am I about to go out there and do my last stunt as Black Widow?' She goes, 'Maybe?' It wasn't even a big stunt. I was jumping 16 or 17 feet off the platform and rolling and crashing, but — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Star Wars nerds alert

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - The Last Jedi riffed on an ancient Star Wars parody. The shot of what turns out to — Source: 5 Ridiculously Detailed Movie Gags (Almost Nobody Caught)

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Michael Pena While the actor has featured in quite a few movies and TV shows recently. it was his performance in the Ant-Mal movies that made us want

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Dinosaurs

From B-movies to B-movies It's no wonder dinosaurs are a B-movie staple. Here's a fine selection of some classic and modern awful dinosaur movies: 1951's Lost Continent, 1961's Reptilicus, 1977's The Last Dinosaur, 1978's Planet of Dinosaurs, 1990's A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, 1991's Adventures in Dinosaur City, 1994's Dinosaur Island, and 2001's Jurassic Park III. — Wikipedia

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How Far We’ve Come

CRACKED THE FIRST TV REMOTE CONTROL WAS CALLED THE LAZY BONES. It was invented in 1950 and was connected to the TV by a wire. It used a flashlight-like device to turn the TV on and off, change channels, and adjust the volume. — Animaflora PicsStock/Shutterstock
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It's a wonder we didn't have an Avengers TV show in the '80s. The Incredible Hulk was the most successful, but Captain America, Thor, and Doctor Strange all had their own abortive TV attempts. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho as an episode of his TV show. THE IMPROVISATION: Hitchcock shot Psycho with the crew and assets of his TV show Alfred Hit

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Over a decade before albums got those “parental advisory” stickers.

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first TV show with a warning label In 1975, because of controversial characters like prostitutes, illegal immigrants, and one of the first gay couples on TV, the Norman Lear show Hot I Baltimore was the first TV show to be slapped with a warning label before each episode. — ABC
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Reality TV Blindness

CRACKED COM RACE WORST REALITY TV TROPES REALITY TV BLINDNESS A staple of reality TV is people acting like they don't know they're in reality TV. We get that they're expected to be spontaneous and ignore the cameras, but by now you should learn to drive stick if you're going to The Amazing Race, you know. — Source: TV Tropes

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Sydney Sweeney is killing it on TV, despite what some casting director said about her looks.

Sydney Sweeney is having a moment, appearing on some of the biggest TV shows around. This success is despite what a casting director once told her, that she would never be on TV because of her looks. CRACKED.COM — PaperMag

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Touchscreens

In Defense of Touchscreens Preschoolers can learn from educational TV, but toddlers learn more from interactive media, like apps and video chats, than TV alone. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Fast Facts About Child Development (To Explain Why We're The Way We Are)

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TV

CRACKED.COM A24 Movies They also do TV A24's TV side is mostly known for HBO's Euphoria, but they're also responsible for At Home with Amy Sedaris, The Carmichael Show, and Eric Andre: Legalize Everything. These shows sound like the type of stuff Cracked fans would love. — Source: A24

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The Office

ITunes basically saved The Office. Colloge In the first week TV shows became available on iTunes, four of the five most popular NBC TV episodes were f — Source: New York Times

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Netflix

Oddballs & Outcasts Fight-the-SystemT TV Shows A NETFLIX TAGGER gets paid to watch Netflix all day. They're the ones who make sure every movie and TV

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Crimson Peak

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Crimson Peak They built the entire mansion. You could just walk around the thing. — Source

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Dangerous Liaisons

CRACKED.COM Sex scenes Dangerous Liaisons John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer had an affair. Their behind-the-scenes liaison lasted about as long as their filming together. — Source: Business Insider

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Twilight

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Twilight Bella meeting Jacob's wolf counterpart was an important development in their relationship, but behind the scenes it was a man in gray being pet by a lesbian. — Source: YouTube

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Tina Fey

Tina Fey's first name is Elizabeth, like her character's. Tina comes from her middle name Stamatina. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Vogue

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

MARSHALL SARAH The film grossed FORGETTING $105 million worldwide SCENES on a THE $30 million budget. BEHIND — The Hollywood Reporter

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Christopher Robin

Disney behind the scenes christopher Robin The film looks less whimsical behind the scenes. Pooh and the gang were represented on set by stuffed animals propped up on metal rods. CRACKED.COM — More: 6 More Blockbusters That Looked Hilarious Behind The Scenes

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Prince Friedric's sideburns were fake. Actor Freddie Stroma, understandably, couldn't grow them himself. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: Glamour

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WTF Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Major Movie Sets - The LivE And Let Die set was pretty racist. — Source: 6 Behind-The-Scenes Stories That Prove Hollywood's Crazy AF

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The Godfather

Behind the scenes of The Godfather, the actors liked to moon each other. It started with James Caan and Robert Duvall dropping their pants and mooning

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CRACKED.COM that's not always Hugo weaving behind V'S mask. A few scenes of V for Vendetta feature James Purefoy, a.k.a. Mark Antony from Rome. At the

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Trey Parker's phone number. THE SCOTT MALKINSON SHOW STREAMING RIGHTS NOW AVAILABLE! CALL TREY (719) 838 - 4002 At the end of season 23's Basic Cable episode that deals with the vast amount of TV shows currently available, Trey Parker's phone number ends up on screen. Dialing — Source

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South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SPIDER-MAN EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Toby Maguire dance. The producers were worried that audiences would not get the throwback to Maguire's Peter Parker dancing down the street in Spider-Man 3. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Bad Janet FOR ET The costume was inspired by Olivia Newton-John's clothing at the end of Grease. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The hidden aliens. There are cameos of aliens (called Visitors) throughout the show, and the reason for them makes perfect sense: The Visitors work for a universal TV company called Nerzod Productions, and they are there to help fix the thousands of satellite dishes hidden in — Source

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South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Chewbacca on Halloween. There's a running theme throughout the show, with every Halloween episode featuring at least one character dressed as Chewbacca. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Chinpokomon reference. BEST ERE eroer BUY Chinpokomon was an episode in season 3 that dealt with the Pokemon craze of the '90s. All the kids in South Park had to have a Chinpokomon doll. In season 10's episode, Make Love, Not Cr Warcraft, you can — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPASE AM The Bill Murray joke that was more true than funny. When Daffy asks Murray how he was able to get to Looney Tune Land, Murray says: Producer's a friend of mine. Just had a Teamster come and drop me off. Murray was, in fact, friends with — MEL Magazine

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EASTER EGGSTRA Charles Barkley SPAGE AM references a rumor about himself. In the early '90s there was a tabloid rumor making the rounds that Barkley was dating Madonna. Barkley, who was married at the time, denied it and said that the media's attention had led to his mother-in-law having a — Film clip, Seattle Times

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EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite A continuity error was left in, deliberately. During the scene where the Kims are hanging out in the Parks house, Ki-jung is eating jerky and holding the packet in her left hand. When the doorbell rings, a wide shot shows Ki-jung holding the packet in her right — Variety

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