30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Calling to Us From the Darkness in a Muffled Imitation of Our Mother’s Voice

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Calling to Us From the Darkness in a Muffled Imitation of Our Mother’s Voice

Laurie Metcalf was in exactly one SNL sketch before a Writers Guild strike cut her time on the show short.

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The Clone Wars

The Clone Wars' K2-B4 is a nod to Kobe Bryant. Animators designed the droid to honor Bryant, who wore the LAKERS number 24 on his purple and yellow Lakers jersey. CRACKED.COM

Simon Pegg

THANDIE NEWTON LOVED PRANKING SIMON PEGG. On the set of Run Fatboy Run, Newton used Mars bars to mold a turd and placed it in Simon Pegg's toilet. Pegg wasn't safe even after the filming wrapped - during the press tour, Newton put vodka in all of Pegg's mineral water bottles. CRACKED.COM

The Black Cauldron

One of the only acknowledgments of The Black Cauldron in Disneyland is in Tokyo. GRACKED COM Tokyo Disneyland once hosted a Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour, featuring encounters with classic Disney vil- lains, ending with the Horned King.

The Nanny

This Is Spinal Tap Fran Drescher brought Bobbi Fleckman to The Nanny. CRACKED.COM 13 years after the movie came out, The Nanny aired an episode called The Bobbi Fleckman Story. In a catastrophic failure of the Bechdel test, Drescher played two different women fawning over a rich man.

Malcolm in the Middle

The house in Malcolm in the Middle was being rented to the production for $3-4,000 per day. The house (used for exterior shots -- interiors were shot by a soundstage) was owned by a doctor, who earned around $100,000 for letting his house be used for exterior shots. CRACKED.COM

Black Adam

BLACK ADAM НЕ WAS A FAMILY MAN. Black Adam was happiest when he was with his wife Isis and his brother-in-law Osiris. That is, until a Horseman of the apocalypse killed them both, leading back to the path of rage. CRACKED.COM

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Starfire

Movie and TV Aliens Teen Titans Starfire's co-creator never watched her on TV or film. It's not that the late George Perez hated Titans, Teen Titans Go! or any other show. Не just couldn't get past the visual differences with the look he created. CRACKED.COM

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Avril Lavigne

CRACKED.COM Avril Lavigne's best advice for getting the man of your dreams is to just sort of wait for him to take all the initiative. Men like a cha

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Calling to Us From the Darkness in a Muffled Imitation of Our Mother’s Voice

Keith Urban

-One of Keith Urban's fans threw a prosthetic leg at him. During a concert, a fan asked the singer to sign her leg. He expected her to get up on the s

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