34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Got All Accordioned Up After Smashing Into a False Cave Painted on a Brick Wall

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Got All Accordioned Up After Smashing Into a False Cave Painted on a Brick Wall
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Cookie Monster started out as a cheap sock puppet to shill potato chips.

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Predator

Arnie's cigar wasn't really lit at the start of Predator. Somehow, they couldn't get it to light up, so they gave up and added the glow as a visual effect. CRACKED.COM

Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster was created for an ad for Munchos potato chips. ncho In the ad, he ate up a whole bag of the chips, to the slogan of There's more to a Muncho! Later, he made his way to Sesame Street and found a love of cookies rather than chips. CRACKED.COM

Superman

Clancy Brown AUDITIONED FOR Clark Kent SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES CRACKED.COM Brown first auditioned for the Man of Steel, but the role was man-of-stolen by Tim Daly. Brown had to settle for being the go-to voice of Lex Luthor in all things animated.

Tyga

Rapper Tyga claimed he grew up in Compton. Then made a video about growing up in the Valley. Tyga later said that this video was scripted. To this day, the public doesn't know which story is the truth, so we just have to be satisfied with knowing that at least one of them was a filthy lie. CRACKED.COM

Cavemen

Disastrous Comedy 2007 Cavemen Geico's original so easy a caveman could do it ads were pretty funny, but did not warrant their own show. The ABC sitcom only lasted six episodes, and was dubbed one of the worst ever. CRACKED

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Viserion

Game of Thrones FIRST APPEARANCE Winter is Coming LAST APPEARANCE The Long Night VISERION Fright to wight. CRACKED.COM

Nancy Cartwright

Bart Simpson has roots in the real world. CRACKEDCO Nancy Cartwright's most notable role by far is Bart Simpson. But a few years earlier, she got a tiny little part in 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie, where she's very appropriately banished to a cartoon universe.

Aunt Vivian

THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR Aunt Vivian CRACKEDO JANET HUBERT-WHITTEN DAPHNE MAXWELL REID Hubert-Whitten left because she had major beef with producer

Ridley Scott

WHY DO THE engineers HATE HumAns? Jesus. Ridley Scott says the Prometheus engineers sent an emissary to Earth, and that emissary was killed. He says t

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee actually power- kicked a dude in Enter the Dragon. After an actor accidentally injured him, Lee got his revenge by demolishing the guy's che

Guardians of the Galaxy

DID MEREDITH QUILL GET HER HANDS ON THE TIME STONE? Those rockin' mixtapes that Star-Lord's mother gave him before she passed away in 1988 GUARDIANS T

Hercules

Lion King's Scar shows up in a grisly way in Hercules. When Hercules poses for he's a vase painting, wearing the lion skin he's known for In classical

Vin Diesel

VIN DIESEL SAID НЕ USED TO BE A BEASTIE BOYS BACKUP DANCER. EAST FURIOUS When Ad-Rock was asked about his claim, the musician said that it wasn't true. Не thinks Adam Yauch might've helped Diesel get into a dance club once and that the actor might've misinterpreted that as being a part of the band in some way. CRACKED.COM

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Got All Accordioned Up After Smashing Into a False Cave Painted on a Brick Wall

Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM

Good Charlotte

CRACKED.COM Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous GOOD CHARLOTTE, 2002 For their second studio album, Good Charlotte complains about famous people complaining, All they do is piss and moan / Inside the Rolling Stone / Talkin' about how hard life can be. It's interesting that this single launched them into becoming the rich and famous. (Hey, at least they preemptively gave us permission to rob them.) Joel Madden ended up marrying Simple Life's Nicole Richie, whose public persona embodies the song.

Nina Dobrev and Emmanuelle Chriqui

CRACKED.COM CELEBRITY LOOKALIKES Nina Dobrev & Emmanuelle Chriqui ENTOURAGE THE VAMPIRE DIARIES ERNATION ATIONAL. N DI of G O 20 N Despite Nina Dobrev looking just like both Victoria Justice and Emmanuelle Chriqui, we don't think Justice and Chriqui look alike and we can't explain why this is.

Sub Rosa

... TELL US NOW. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION SUB ROSA Tim C. nominated this episode as the most ridiculous Star Trek moment, saying, Beverly Crusher boinks a ghost. They finally give her an episode of her own, and it's a cheesy romance novel. CRACKED.COM

Tony the Tiger

TONY THE TIGER'S NOSE IS BLUE, NOT BLACK. elloggs 8.001 FROSTED IFLAKES CRBREATI occzes MIN D NGIWTA4OZ.LR7 OZ Why in God's name would you paint a ti

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