30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Sat on the Bench All Season and Are Ready to Show ’Em What They’re Made Of

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Sat on the Bench All Season and Are Ready to Show ’Em What They’re Made Of
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Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds ruined superheroes for everyone CRACKED.COM Before making a remarkable comeback as Deadpool, Reynolds says his 2011 flop Green Lantern made studios skeptical of superhero movies: I represented the death of the superhero for a while.

Wyatt Russell

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS WYATT RUSSELL LIED ABOUT BEING A MARVEL FAN. THE FALCON WINTER SOLDIER Russell admits that he was never a comics guy growing up and that he pretended to be a knowledgable fan of the MCU during the auditioned process. Не eventually came clean and asked the producers to explain the universe to him. CRACKED.COM

Slice O’ Life

COMEDY NERD Marc Maron and Rainn Wilson were both going to do a sitcom called Slice O' Life. It'd be about a TV news show about human interest stories. Maron would be a producer's assistant while Wilson would be a sound guy. CRACKED.COM

Elder Scrolls IV

Elder Scrolls IVis packed with NPCs. And they've got lives of their own. For example, this guy, Roderick Pierrane, is having an affair. If you follow him around, you'll catch him sneaking out of his house to sleep with another woman once a week. He's an inconsequential background character with no role in gameplay. CRACKED.COM http://uk.pc. gamespy.com/p/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion/558955p4.html

Coffee Talk

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE '90S, THEY WANTED TO MAKE A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S COFFEE TALKS SKETCHES. Studios wanted something that'd be as successful as Mike Myers' Wayne's World, so they hit up SNL sketches for material - and, for some reason, sketches like Coneheads got picked over Myers' Coffee Talk.

Get Out

CRACKED.COM Get Out The movie was inspired by an Eddie Murphy stand-up bit. Jordan Peele loved Murphy's comedy bit about watching Poltergeist, and how a black family would just leave the house at the first sign of ghosts. Не fleshed out the rest of the story from there.

Eli Roth

Eli Roth apologized to the Cabinet of Iceland CRACKED.COM 2005's Hostel painted lots of nationalities in an array of unflattering tones. While he repeatedly made the (excellent) point that people still went to Texas after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out, he did end up apologizing to Iceland's Minister of Culture and getting a pardon from the President.

Ezra Miller

CRACKED EZRA MILLER WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND HARASSMENT AFTER AN INCIDENT AT A BAR IN HILO, HAWAII. The actor allegedly became agitated when people at the bar began singing karaoke, grabbed the microphone from a young woman who was singing, and later lunged at a man who was playing darts.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. ARE UNDER CLOSE SURVITELANO They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM

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The Three Stooges

CRACKED.COM Comedy doesn't age well There's a reason we're all not watching The Three Stooges. And it's not because they weren't talented! It's because our society and collective comedic sensibilities has evolved. The references aren't relevant anymore. Comedians have built off their slapstick humor and found newer ways to surprise and delight us. And we can (hopefully) all agree that even though we didn't realize how terrible it was when they did blackface when we first saw it, we can see why that's not funny anymore.

Blade

CRACKED.COM MCU Phase Four and Legacy BLADE Rumor has it Marvel wants original Blade Wesley Snipes back for an undisclosed role

SNL

COMEDY DEL NERD CRACKED.COM Best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Categories AN ALBUM COVER Not the most creative Sean Connery mispronunciation, but the most complete. The catharsis of Anal Bum Cover feels like using every tile on one turn in Scrabble.

Kim Kardashian

A Hologram of Dad For her 40th birthday, Kanye surprised Kim Kardashian with a hologram of her father, who passed seven years prior. CRACKED.COM

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Have Sat on the Bench All Season and Are Ready to Show ’Em What They’re Made Of

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