12 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia to Delight the Disconsolate

The first trailer for Where the Wild Things Are played before How the Grinch Stole Christmas on December 9, 2000. Due to technical difficulties and directorial shuffling, the movie wouldn’t premiere for another nine years and two days.

Drescher says that she has a “rotation” of casual flings, but has one primary friend with benefit: “It’s delightful and delicious, but I’ve got a big life. (We’re) very comfortable with each other and we have our routine.”

The sometimes reclusive Modern Family star said he absolutely bombed his first audition for the show. He calls his performance “stiff,” while producers at the time told him point-blank that he was “not funny.”

In an homage to the episode where Michael Scott holds the Dundies at a Chili’s, a franchise six miles north of Scranton is decking itself out in its mid-2000s decor with some Dunder Mifflin memorabilia sprinkled in.

Astaire started skateboarding with local beach bums at the age of 77, and was given a lifetime membership in the National Skateboard Society before breaking his wrist at age 78, forcing him to hang up his wheels.

Ledger’s father has shared excerpts from a journal he kept while getting into character for The Dark Knight, chronicling some of the time he famously spent locked away in a hotel room. There are sketches and crazed writings like, “IT’S SIMPLE. KILL THE BATMAN.”

Production company Ketchup Entertainment has acquired the much-hyped film that was infamously trashed by Warner Bros. despite being nearly completely finished, and reportedly very good. The movie should eventually wind up in theaters.

Conan is auctioning off an opportunity to appear with him in his “Clueless Gamer” segment, playing Borderlands 4. Bidding is expected to reach about $15,000, all of which will benefit the charity NEXT for AUTISM.

In the most Christopher Walken admission ever, he told Ben Stiller that “a lot of times I’ve played roles as if I was Bugs Bunny, but nobody knew.”

Now that we’ve all had time to digest 2021’s 468-minute Get Back, filmmaker Sam Mendes has announced that a four-part film series will be dropping next year. Each movie will focus on a different member of the band, and it’s hard to imagine them all being the same length.

Mr. and Mrs. Met come in third with 72,000 followers, the Atlanta Braves’ Blooper is second with 136,000 and the Phillie Phanatic is number one at 219,000.

The Phillie Phanatic has been armed with a vehicle-mounted, high-pressure hot-dog cannon, which he used to fire tubesteaks into the crowd and snipe a pig mascot. God help us all.