40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Sprinkle Into Your Brain Like Those Horrid Little Flakes That Goldfish Love

Monty Python wrote ‘The Lumberjack Song’ in almost as long as it takes to watch the sketch
40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Sprinkle Into Your Brain Like Those Horrid Little Flakes That Goldfish Love

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction wouldn't have gotten made without Danny DeVito. His production company Jersey Films bought the Pulp Fiction script from Tarantino. DeVito was the person who then shopped the script around, and eventually brought it to Miramax, which made the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Carrie Fisher

MYTH: Carrie Fisher was a script doctor on The Empire Strikes Back Carrie Fisher was a great script doctor, but she didn't actually rewrite the script for The Empire Strikes Back. The changes were actually made by the movie's director, Irvin Kershner. CRACKED

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a script editor for Doctor Who. He wrote three episodes of the TV series, but one script was never made. CRACKED.COM

Source: CNET

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou When she was a Calypso dancer CRACKED COM

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson went to the hospital after falling off his daughter's hoverboard. He hopped on board the 2015 trend only to fall right on his back. CRACKED

Charlize Theron

While filming Snow White and the Huntsman, Charlize Theron screamed so much that she tore a stomach muscle. She also said that she 'did enjoy just sc

Sammy Sosa

In 2004 slugger Sammy Sosa sneezed so hard that he strained a ligament in his back. He ended up on the disabled list and missed a full month of the Ma

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy injured her neck by wearing a very heavy candy cane costume while filling in for Jimmy Kimmel.

Rocky

In 1976, Sylvester Stallone bought two turtles for a scene in Rocky. He kept them. In 2018 he posted a photo of those same turtles on Instagram. They'

Chris Hayes

Not only did MSNBC host Chris Hayes direct Lin-Manuel Miranda in his first musical while they were in high school together, in college at Brown he dir

Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum burned the skin off the tip of his c*ck with boiling water. While shooting a scene for The Eagle in Scotland, he was forced into freezi

The RZA

CRACKED.COM CARA CELEBRITY ANIME FANS THE RZA The Wu Tang Clan was inspired by Asian media, so it's not surprising that The RZA has respect for anime. Не composed the soundtrack to Afro Samurai, and has used Dragon Ball Z as an allegory for growing up black in the U.S.A.

Source: Wired

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD THE ACTORS BARELY EVER BLINK. There are very few instances of blinking throughout the film, and this was intentional. The idea was to evoke the look of anime and manga, with the characters having a wide-eyed look the whole time. CRACKED.COM

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Leonardo DiCaprio

CRACKED.COM CELEBRITY ANIME FANS LEONARDO DICAPRIO In interviews, DiCaprio has professed his love of anime and Studio Ghibli films such as Ponyo and Howl's Moving Castle. Не also tried to get a live-action adaptation of Akira done for several years.

Source: Vulture

The Powerpuff Girls

CRACKEDCON CHE UWERUF SALLT theme song is based on a sample from the break in tthe James Brown song Funky Drummer.

Mrs. Potts

Disney composers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken originally wanted Mrs. Potts' song in Beauty and the Beast to be a rock song. CRACKED.COM

Frank Zappa

The song Valley Girl perfectly captured' '80s slang. That slang was rnade up on the spot as an insult. The spoken parts of the song were improvised

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