30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Surrounded Us Menacingly Just As We Were Closing in on the Bad Guy

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30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Surrounded Us Menacingly Just As We Were Closing in on the Bad Guy
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We were on the hunt for the number one fact down at the very bottom of this list, but it sent a ton of its henchmen to stop us. Little did it know, like a slightly overused trope in movies and TV, we wanted to be caught.

It’s unknowingly given us all these facts to knock out and drag into our brain. Then, once we’ve worked our way through them all, nothing will stand between us and that coveted number one fact.

Michael Cera

Michael Cera played Brother Bear on PBS' The Berenstain Bears. Не started playing Brother Bear a year before he signed on to do Arrested Development, and kept the job after Arrested Development got started. CRACKED.COM

The overlap is incredibly jarring.

Alf

ALF TOOK FOREVER TO FILM, AND THE SET WAS A NIGHTMARE. The soundstage had dozens of built-in trap doors for the show's creator and puppeteer Paul Fusco to walk ALF around the set. The actors had to watch their every step so they wouldn't accidentally fall through one of these trap doors. No one was really that sad when the show ended. CRACKED.COM

Money Heist

THE MONEY HEIST SCRIPTS ARE WRITTEN PARALLEL TO THE FILMING OF THE SHOW. While the writers have an outline for each part (what we'd call a season), the scripts are written based on what happens during shoots. Creator Alex Pina doesn't like to plan too much, and prefers giving actors space to improvise. Scripts are then written according to those improvisations. CRACKED.COM

Downton Abbey

DOWNTON ABBEY HAD A NO-WASH POLICY, WHICH MEANS THE COSTUMES WERE PRETTY SMELLY. Many of the outfits weren't washed because they had to look authentic, apparently. The designers at least added some patches under the armpits that could be taken out and washed separately. So that's something. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

THE CAST OF THE WALKING DEAD HOLDS DEATH DINNERS EVERY TIME A CHARACTER GETS KILLED OFF THE SHOW. These farewell dinners include bonfires, playing games, and sometimes even singing Backstreet Boys on a karaoke machine. CRACKED.COM

The Handmaid’s Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE SHOW MADE STREAMING HISTORY. THE HANDMAID S TALE In 2017, the Hulu original became the first streaming show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama. CRACKED.COM

Beyond Westworld

BEYOND 3 WESTWORLD EPISODES had no future GRACKED Before НВО, there was a CBS show about Westworld's head of security hunting evil robots. It wasn't exactly Blade Runner.

David Cross

DAVID CROSS FOUGHT FOX TO KEEP HIS MUSTACHE IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. According to Cross, Fox had three rules for men in comedy: no baseball caps, no puffy sleeves, and no facial hair. But when the actor read the script, he knewTobias Fünke had to have a mustache. The network caved, but demanded that he keep the mustache trimmed. CRACKED.COM

Friends

CRACKED.COM The F.R.I.E.N.D.S gang was almost not there for you if test audiences got their way. NBC Research did a pilot run of the show and found that audiences did not relate to the characters and thought the humor was not clever or original. The report concluded that viewing intentions for a series based on this pilot were not encouraging.

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis auditioned for That '70s Show. She said she'd be 18 on her birthday. That was technically true, but not on her next birthday. Or the one after that, or after that. She was 14. Luckily, when the producers found out the truth, they were amused enough to let her keep the job. CRACKED.COM

The Golden Girls

A 25-year old Quentin Tarantino appeared as an Elvis Presley impersonator in one episode of THE GOLDEN GIRLS GRAGKED.COM

Game of Thrones

Jack Gleeson says Joffrey's funeral was one of his NYL favorite days on the GOT set. I was on a cliff with stones in my eyes and I just got to sleep all day. So that was fun. CRACKED.COM

The Jim Gaffigan Show

JIM GAFFIGAN wanted to spend time with the kids JIM GAFFIGAN SHOW GRAGKED.COM That's the reason TV Land gives for not extending Gaffigan's show beyond two short seasons. The show is based on the Gaffigans' real life experience raising five kids in a two-bedroom New York apartment. Sounds more like a horror movie.

The Office

The Office CRACKED.COM It's timeless either way. The show's ratings and critical ac- claim peaked in season 5, and with no shortage of reasons why they probably could have called it quits after Michael Scott's departure, seasons 8 and 9 just felt like a spin-off of sorts.

Steven Universe

April Fools's jokes that became real steven Universe Uncle Grandpa crossover On April Fools' Day, Steven meets up with Uncle Grandpa in a non-canon episode... which later turns out to be canon, as it has a reference to Steven being a diamond (not known then) and being the first time he ever uses his powers on purpose. CRACKED.COM

Roseanne

Roseanne Barr is Kraang Prime nickelodeon™ TEENAGE MUTANT NIADA TURTLES Of all the big stars who showed up to voice characters in the most recent reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Kelly Ни, Cassandra Elvira Peterson, Sean Astin, and Corey Feldman), none were bigger (and more inexplicable) than Roseanne Barr. She played Kraang Prime, a villain that's basically a bulbous pink squid stuffed into a robot suit. CRACKED.COM

The Biggest Loser

THE BIGGEST 32 27 16 29 30 37 23 26 م LOSER We've picked out your fat person coffin. The Biggest Loser might seem like an LUSER extra-tough workout, but the show has pushed contestants until their feet bled, Alas and sometimes even to the point of hospitalization. Meanwhile trainers inspire them using phrases like, You're going to die, just like your mother, or the classic, We've picked out your fat person coffin. Some contestants have tried to get an edge by dehydrating themselves. One did it for so long he started urinating blood. CRACKED.COM

Cameras in the NBA

The NBA installed I tons of tiny cameras. - - 8.10 MP P=S(1-n-d) Since 2013, SportVU cameras have tracked players' movements, which has led to an almost unrecognizable pace of acceleration and record numbers of 3-point attempts per game, thanks to the concept of 3 >2. CRACKED

Adventure Time

Easter Eggs for Polyglots Adventure Time DO you wanna try gettin' some, Finn? Lady Rainicorn keeps making saucy remarks in Korean. Other dirty jokes include, Come on, my darling. Wrap your legs around me, and, Jake and | merge our bodies into one all the time. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Freaks parody. In Butters' Very Own Episode, Butters' parents cover up his murder by joining a support group made up of people involved in famous murder cases. To join the cult, the group chants, One of us! One of us! Gooble Gobble! Gooble Gobble!. It's a direct line taken from the 1932 film. CRACKED.COM

Da Bears on SNL

DA BEARS ROB SMIGEL Smigel cooked up the Super Fans from two tasty ingredients: The Sportswriters on TV, a Chicago-based roundtable discussion, and the overweight, mustachioed, Old Style-swigging fans he'd see at Cubs games. Bonus: Sunglasses meant Smigel could easily read cue cards without learning his lines.

Jared From Subway

GRACKED THE MUPPETS' COMMERCIAL WITH JARED FROM SUBWAY. 1.80 - - - - - - SUBWAY BAKING rn real Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the Swedish Chef were featured alongside Subway Guy Jared Fogle, in a February 2014 commercial. Less than a year later, the FBI uncovered child pornography on his computer.

Schitt’s Creek Finale

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real.

In the Heights

The HAMIL TON Easter egg in In THe HeIGHTS The song You'll Be Back plays over the phone while Kevin Rosario is put on hold by the Stanford admissions office. CRACKED.COM

A TV Crew’s Grisly Discovery

CRACKED.COM In 1976, a TV crew working in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, found that a corpse in the haunted mansion wasn't a prop. IT WAS A REAL CORPSE. It was the body of Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who died in a shootout in 1911. It wasn't his corpse's first job, either- McCurdy worked the carnival circuit posthumously for years before he ended up in California.

Firefly

Han Solo pops up all over in Firefly. Apparently, the prop department made a prop of Han Solo frozen in carbonite for Nathan Fillion (who's a big Star Wars fan) and then, just for fun, they ended up putting it in the background all the time. CRACKED.COM

SpongeBob SquarePants

Stephen Hillenburg graduated with a degree in Natural Resources Planning, then went on to teach marine biology and study animation. A comic book entitled Intertidal Zone which he created for the Ocean Institute would later on evolve into SpongeBoy, and finally into SpongeBob Squarepants. GRACKED COM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer The entire show was hailed as a shining example of feminist TV. Then we learned of the allegations about Joss Whedon. All those female empowerment scenes ring kind of hollow now, after the show's actresses came forward. CRACKED.COM

Lindsay Lohan on SNL

COMEDY NERD Lindsay Lohan hosted SNL in 2012 - that was her fourth time ever, in fact. According to Hollywood Reporter's summary of the critics' consensus, the best that could be said was that it was not the worst thing that's ever happened to the late-night show. CRACKED.COM

Tiger King

34 million -amount of viewers who tuned in to watch Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness on Netflix GRACKED COM in the first 10 days.

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