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November 05, 2024

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The Nagging Wife Trope

Awful Sitcom Tropes The nagging wife A super-cool wife easily becomes a one-dimensional manic pixie dream girl. But can't wives just be two- dimensional? From Home Improvement to Modern Family, the shrill, killjoy wife is a sitcom staple. Thankfully, the half-sitcom, half-drama Kevin Can F**k Himself has done a lot to nag this trope away. DETROIT XXL 5 and Be - LIONS I CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lucas Cruikshank

GRACKED A YOUTUBER'S FAILED SITCOM MARVIN MARVIN Nickelodeon thought Lucas Cruikshank's insufferable act warranted his own sitcom. Terrible writing and acting aside, the alien among us premise was a rip-off of Mork and Mindy, and 2 other Nick shows, Invader Zim and The Journey of Allen Strange. — Youtube / YSB Now

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Rick and Morty

The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy Tropes subverted by Rick and Morty The dumb sitcom father Yes, Jerry has gone through a lot of changes. But The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy takes his dumb sitcom dad shtick and expands on his emotional complexity, tense relationship with Rick, and even repressed issues (with the help of some time-space- twisting, trippy psychedelics). CRACKED.COM — More: Clip on YouTube
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Quack Pack

They tried to spin off a standard '90s sitcom from DuckTales (unsuccessfully), QUARK Disney's PACK It was called Quack Pack, and it took the regular sitcom formula and tired to put the DuckTales characters into it. It lasted a total of one season. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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Lucky Louie

LOUIS C.K. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always — Mint

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Emily’s Reasons Why Not

CANCELED RIGHT AWAY EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT ABC committed to a sitcom starring Heather Graham without even seeing its pilot. After the pilot aired, programming chief Steve McPherson said It's not going to get better, and immediately canceled it. CRACKED — Sony Pictures Television
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Teen Angel

Teen Angel 1997-98 CRACKED This morbid sitcom involved a teenager dying and returning to Earth as a guardian angel for his best friend.

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Bill Hicks

BILL HICKS was in a sitcom? BULBA BILL HICKS CORPORAL, LSMLC Yep. Or at least, a sitcom pilot. Bulba was a made-up island near India and Hicks worked in its goofy U.S. embassy. The counterculture comic played Phil, a bumbling marine who didn't wear pants. Maybe it's a good — Dangerous Minds

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Complete Savages

CRACKEDCON COMPLETE SAVAGES An underrated sitcom from The Simpsons writers Mike Scully and Julie Thacker. The show follows the shenanigansof five unru

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WandaVision

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE CAST HAD TO GO THROUGH A SITCOM BOOT CAMP. STA CLEASE In order to learn the style and structure of each specific sitcom decade portrayed on the show, the actors had to attend a two-week sitcom boot camp where they watched and analyzed several different classic sitcoms. — The New York Times & YouTube

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Inside

Disturbing Movies 2007, France Dir. Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury Inside A relentlessly brutal and bloody horror flick about a pregnant woman suffering from a home invasion. Not awful enough? The invader wants to take her baby. So yeah, gory body horror ensues. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Return to Babylon

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 RETURN TO BABYLON Not a horror movie, but the story is too juicy to pass. During production, actresses Jennifer Tilly and Maria Cochita Alonso said they felt weird presences. Then, while editing the film, the director saw ghostly images and distorted faces (that were left in the final film.) CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis Oddly, she's not a horror movie fan. I do not like horror movies. I do not say this for a joke, although it gets a laugh, I really don't. There's nothing I like about being scared. I mean, f**king Aladdin scared me. CRACKED.COM — Universal Pictures,
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Masters of Horror

Anthology Shows Stephen King scholar Mick Garris led this anthology horror series boasting some of the best names in the genre - people like Tobe Hooper, Don Coscarelli, Dario Argento, Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon, and Lucky McKee. John Carpenter's episode, Cigarette Burns, is an underrated masterpiece, and Takashi Miike's Imprint turned out to be too horrific even for such a visionary show. 2005 - 2007 MASTERS OF HORROR CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Amityville Horror

Horror Classics Then vs. Now The Amityville Horror The 1979 film is somewhat respected, but the loosely connected franchise soon devolved into a grand total of 37 movies. The 2005 remake, and especially the successful Conjuring movies, have lent the fraudulent original story some new life. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia
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The Woman

CRACKED.COM Jack ketchum's The woman The horror film made a woman faint on release. — Source: IndieWire

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Aquaman 2

Aquaman 2 takes its inspiration from a campy '60s Italian horror flick. The movie is Planet of the Vampires, and director James Wan said, You can take the boy out of horror, but you can never take the horror out the boy. CRACKED. .COM — Source

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The Lawnmower Man

18 Horror Movies That Did It First - The first horror movie to use body motion capture suits was an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man (19 — Source: Popcorn Horror

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Harbinger of Doom

TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK HARBINGER OF DOOM Horror movies are inherent masochistic, as we watch them knowing full well things are gonna get ugly. The crusty old man who warns the protagonists not to go any further makes this very clear. The meta-parody of all things horror The Cabin in the Woods had a character literally referred to as harbinger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone

Home Alone held a box office record for a grand total of 27 years. Specifically, it held the record of the domestically highest-grossing live-action comedy in Guinness World Records, and eventually lost that title to the Chinese comedy Never Say Die. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Harvard Lampoon

Comedy hotbeds THE HARVARD LAMPOON The undergraduate humor publication was founded in 1876, and produced Harvard funny folks like Conan O'Brien, SNL head writer Jim Downey, Fresh Prince creator Andy Borowitz, and comedy juggernauts Greg Daniels & Michael Shur. CRACKED — The Harvard Lampoon
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Premium Blend

PREMIUM BLEND Stand-up comedy was cheap and early Comedy Central needed cheap programming. Premium Blend featured short sets by soon-to-be-famous comics, launching acts like Mitch Hedberg, B.J. Novak, and Demetri Martin into their own Comedy Central Presents specials. CRACKED.COM — IMDB

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David Zucker

David Zucker, comedy legend Best: Airplane! More laughs per minute than AlRMi any other movie, this spoof is everything that every comedy should striv

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Derrick Comedy

Donald Glover was discovered through YouTube. While studying at NYU, Glover co-created a sketch comedy group called Derrick Comedy. The group was a hi

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Louis C.K.

COMEDY NERD Louis CK used to do absurdist comedy, but he can't stand those jokes now. I used to hear my act and go 'This is shit and I hate it.' I'd been doing the same hour of comedy for 15 years and it was shit, I promise you, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Times Comedians Flat-Out Regretted Their Old Jokes

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Beetlejuice

15 Early Drafts For Horror Movies That Are Totally Bonkers - Beetlejuice was almost completely devoid of comedy - The fantasy comedy horror was origin — Source: 6 Classic Movies That Were Almost Ruined By Horrifying Ideas

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Scream

SKEET ULRICH DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE COMEDY IN SCREAM. Ulrich couldn't understand why his co-stars were playing some of their scenes for laughs. Не said he thinks he was so focused on his character Billy's twisted motivations that he missed the comedy part entirely. Which, fair. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sammy Petrillo

COMEDY NERD Richard Pryor and Dennis Miller both got mentored by Sammy Petrillo. Petrillo was Jerry Lewis' double, and also did on-stage comedy in a double act with Suzie Fiore. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Albert Brooks

I can make a comedy about anything, thought ALBERT BROOKS LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD CRACKED.COM The movie's conceit is that Albert Brooks (playing Albert Brooks) is a huge comedy star in the United States, but his jokes don't translate to a Muslim audience. The movie's dismal box office says the yuks weren't appreciated by Joe Cineplex either. — YouTube

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American Psycho

American Psycho AMERI- CAN PSYCHO BRET EASTON ELLIS CRACKED.COM Author Bret Easton Ellis thought having a female director doomed the film from the start, because film requires the male gaze. — Source

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Evil Dead

EVIL CRACKEDOO THE DEAP A hammy film that takes itself too seriously. FVL HpP2 A hammy film that knows it's hammy.

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Woody Allen

MANHATIAN al A won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MERUAL - - - In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance with a teenage girl. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Malkovich

CRACKED JOHN MALKOVICH STARRED IN A MOVIE THAT WON'T BE RELEASED UNTIL 2115. The film will reside behind bulletproof glass until that year. — Troublemaker Studios
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Glorifying the American Girl

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first audible curse words in film The 1929 Paramount film Glorifying the American Girl has the first curse words in cinema history. They say damn six times, and jackass twice. — Source

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Taika Waititi

CRACKED COM PAUL Taika Waititi Не had the highest- grossing film-twice. In 2016, Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople became the highest-grossing film in New Zealand - supplanting Boy, also by Waititi. — Sources: New Zealand Film Commission

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The Zaddy of Cinematography

The first motion picture. 1885 GRAGKED.COM Louis Le Prince, aka The Zaddy of Cinematography, was the first to film a moving sequence on a film-like strip with a single lense camera. — Source: 16 Game-Changing Movie Firsts

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Lars von Trier

Danish film director Lars von Trier made some intolerable statements about Hitler at the 2011 Cannes film festival. I understand Hitler... I sympat

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Kanye West

Want to see Kanye West's short film? You'll need seven movie screens. It's called Cruel Summer. Kanye decided to spread the film across seven individu

1

Frozen

Author Isabella Tanibumi attempted to sue Disney for ripping off her life story in the 2013 hit film 'Frozen'. She claimed that the film is similar to

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