40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Just Got Inducted Into the Hall of Wow

Remember when that Popchips commercial was the worst thing Ashton Kutcher had ever done?
40 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Just Got Inducted Into the Hall of Wow

The human species has spent as much time playing World of Warcraft as we have evolving into the human species. 

Click right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox.

The "Star Wars" Easter egg hidden in "Cowboy Bebop"

The show's props and weapons master Nick Komornicki revealed that Han Solo's blaster is hiding somewhere on the Bebop. Fans are trying hard to spot the Star Wars Easter egg.

Source: CBR

OG Ghostbuster director's movies

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Director Jason Reitman revealed that he paid many tributes to his dad Ivan Reitman's past films. Paul Rudd's character talks about Cujo in his class and says it's like if Beethoven got rabies (Beethoven was produced by Reitman). There's also a theatre in the movie showing Cannibal Girls. CRACKED.COM

Source

Talk about imposter syndrome

Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo thought the movie would be a failure. Those were his exact words when he saw it in the theatre, he left ASAP and went home to tell his wife the whole thing was a failure. CRACKED.COM

Source

That literally happened, metaphorically

CRACKED DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Daniel Day-Lewis said he literally saw his father's ghost when he was performing in Hamlet at the National Theatre in 1989 - though he later denied it in an interview with Time Magazine, and explained he meant it metaphorically.

Source

A fake Dutch reality show highlighted the lack of donor organs

There was a fake Dutch reality show where patients competed for a dying woman's kidney. It was created with the intention of raising awareness about the lack of organ donors. Six weeks after the show aired 12,000 new donors had signed up. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

BBC

A fool and his money, etc.

$400 million CRACKED.COM Even though he sold 61 million albums, Michael Jackson was $400 million in debt when he died.

Source

Marvel gave an assist to Build-A-Bear

Build-A-Bear Workshop saw a spike in sales during the first quarter of 2019 with an increase from $1.2m to $84.4m. Build-A-Bear Workshop CEO, Sharon Price John, credited this to a throwaway line in Avengers: Endgame when Tony Stark uttered I thought you were Build-A- Bear to Rocket Raccoon. CRACKED COM

Source

The first high five was documented in 977.

The first ever documented high five was between LA Dodger teammates Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke on Oct 2, 1977. After Baker hit his 30th home run of the season, Burke met him at home plate with his hand held high over his head and Baker smacked it, later saying It seemed like the thing to do. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

ESPN

Call me when it flies

TS a A Czech Republic Lego Model EAL Shop made a 5.3 million brick Star Wars X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. Weight: 23 tons Wingspan: 44 feet Time: 17,336 hours CRACKED.COM

Source

Maybe one day we'll beat it

Collectively, mankind has spent 6 million years playing World of Warcraft. 5 10 6° ... 15 50 20 45 25 40 35 Join 30 That's about as long as we've spent evolving as a species. CRACKED.COM

Source

Lamborghini began as a tractor manufacturer that was fed up with bad Ferrari clutches.

An Italian tractor manufacturer was SO upset with the bad clutches in Ferrari's cars that he complained to Enzo Ferrari himself. When Enzo Ferrari arrogantly dismissed his concerns, the tractor maker, Ferruccio Lamborghini, decided to make his own cars to compete. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Funding Universe 

Marvel uses female heroes to sell romance novels.

Marvel has licensed their characters She-Hulk and Rogue to be used in romance novels to lure women into comics. - - TONOS The two novels feature strong, smart heroines seeking happiness and love while battling cosmic evil. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Guardian

I can't believe they made the cars from "Cars" real

The Cars franchise generated $8 billion in merchandise in the first five years after the original movie's release. Over that period, over 200 million toy cars were sold. R S N adidas WOP - REPUBLICA OS OMEZI NEW CHEEZ-IT LA imaginext 95 CRACKED.COM

Source

It's appropriate that this show was popular among pirates

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Jane Lvnch Talks About 90% of Game of Cory Mo Healthidation Return To Rehab Thrones 's viewers did it illegally. h M GAME HRONES According to MUSO, a piracy monitoring Healing e firm, e the opener for 10 Remedies the seventh for season 6 Weird Facts was ab watched illegally by 182 million eMedTV people far surpassing the 16 million legal e al S viewers. as In total, the season was viewed filming, through illegal means a whopping 1.03 action at McKinley billion times times. But ures Stare - What Happened But that requires Ga CRACKED.COM Disea

Source

The Keaton Cinematic Universe

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a scene where Michael Keaton's Vulture flies in front of the moon, recreating a shot from Burton's Batman (1989) starring Keaton. CRACKED.COM

Source

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

CRACKED.COM the a SANOMAN H w We almost had a Sandman movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Among all the attempted adaptations, one was going to be produced by and starring JGL. Не left the project in 2016, citing creative differences with the studio.

Source: 15 Facts

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To

DELL WALT DISNEY'S Westem AdYenturE LORRO Zorro gives himself up to save his friends. Zorro, a Disney television series from the '50s starring Guy Wil

Remember When This Was the Worst Thing He’d Ever Done?

CRACKED In 2012 popchips released a commercial starring Ashton Kutcher in brownface. He played a Bollywood producer named Raj, complete with a mock In

Dan’s Dream Was Irrelevant and Silly, Said John Goodman

CRACKED ROSEANNE The finale of Roseanne got bad reviews from fans because it said the whole show was a dream and Dan had died. John Goodman, who played Dan, didn't like it either, calling it irrelevant and silly.

Cheat Sheet 

‘Twin Peaks’: Where Dreams and Nightmares Collide

CRACKED TWIN PEAKS Twin Peaks' finale was a daring, risky episode that pushed the boundaries of network TV. It's still remembered as one of the strangest hours of network TV ever, with a surreal nightmare and a cruel twist.

GQ 

Zombie Love Story Ends with a Bang... Literally

CRACKED SANTA CLARITA DIET Santa Clarita Diet followed Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant's characters, Sheila and Joel Hammond, as Sheila became a zombie. But it was canceled after 3 seasons, leaving fans with a wild cliffhanger as Sheila tried to turn Joel into a zombie.

CBR 

In a Way, Life Is One Big Game of ‘D&D’

Queer Fantasy series PER SITAR water OF H - FAMATE RUGATUS THESPAN SIMA CUIUS OB-L oz AB NVICAS INCITISSIMA CU ISSOLA 3 LLS 23 HAIR AMODO BEDA CRUARE INALI DEL TERFICEN NOSTR ZIEVE NT EXSAN VERSERM CABBULEMUR REAL CUPIDUM Dimension 20's VIAL ВХН MODILE Misfits and Magic Taking place in a magical world where magic makes about as much sense as it does in the real world, the story follows a whimsical chosen one (to a great darkness), just some basketball player, a YouTube celeb, and a non- binary former drama goth emo. CRACKED.COM

He Grew Up Right Before Our Eyes

CRACKED VS WARDROBE EARLY SERIES LATE SERIES Rogaine - / - CRACKED.COM Smart-Casual, The dingy high waisted baseball tees (size 31) jeans, really tucked in polos emphasize and white his Peter Pan sneakers. complex.

Skull Kid’s Afraid to Leave the Skull

MOST OVERRATED MOST UNDERRATED: Ganondorf Skull Kid EA - Motivation to be evil - Not evil per se. just a child unclear, most likely because handling a

So Relatable!

CRACKED VS CAREER EARLY SERIES LATE SERIES Jerry CRACKED.COM Taking Using his every day interactions occasional, well to build a stand paying gigs and up set, which is trying to sell his performed in a pilot smokey club with (unsuccessfully). no branding.

Maybe It’ll Get Promoted to a Reboot

Day One A 2010 sci-fi drama about about apartment dwellers who survived a mysterious apocalypse. It was slowly demoted from series to mini-series, to

You Got Your Favorites All Wrong

PULP.FICTION FILD BY DUENTIN TABANTIVO PRODUCED BY LAWRENCE BENDER Most Overrated: Vincent & Jules Incompetent Disorganized, Excitable Disrespected Cl

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?