34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Teaching Our Girlfriend to Dance and Getting Mighty Cozy With Her

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Teaching Our Girlfriend to Dance and Getting Mighty Cozy With Her

Sometimes a simple “What can I do?” gets you a major role in a major franchise.

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Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho as an episode of his TV show. THE IMPROVISATION: Hitchcock shot Psycho with the crew and assets of his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, because the studio didn't want to give him a cent for a new movie. THE RESULT: An instant classic that influenced pretty much all later horror films. CRACKED.COM

Choi Min-Sik

METHOD MADNESS OLDBOY CHOI MIN-SIK His character Dae- su spends 15 years in prison, so he branded himself once for each year. Не also ate an entire living octopus in a single take, then said, I felt sorry for the octopus. CRACKED

Madonna

You'll have gathered by now, Madonna really, really liked spending money on music videos. Mark Romanek's $5 million surreal masterpiece featured innovative CGI, morphing landscapes, flying witch hats and Madonna in maybe 15 different wigs. CRACKED

Russell Crowe

Hollywood feuds RUSSELL CROWE VS A GLADIATOR PRODUCER While filming Gladiator, Crowe allegedly threatened seasoned producer Branko Lustig, and said that he would kill him with his bare hands, because he was annoying the hell out of him. CRACKED

Bryan Singer

Original Directors Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody Singer was fired over his behavior and absences, but still, he hasn't had anything creative to say for a long time. Had he stayed, ,the movie would've turned out just as vapid and lifeless, except Singer's presence would have made the film's treatment of Mercury's sexuality even ickier. CRACKED.COM

Sources: Wired, CBR
Image Credit: 20th Century Studios

Batman

CRACKED.COM Detective comics #27 (1939) Heirs of zorro Batman The Caped Crusader and World's Greatest Detective. But does he know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? If he doesn't, a bus will explode. Trauma: His mom dropped some pearls once.

The Simpsons

A Simpsons character got killed off because the voice actress was too expensive. The character is Maude Flanders, and the show offed her rather than give the actress the raise she had asked for. CRACKED.COM

Centipede

CENTIPEDE Think you're a space ship shooting lasers, in Centipede? You're not. You're an elf named Oliver who lives in a magical forest. You usually get along fine with the centipedes, but a wizard enchanted them to attack you. Now you're fighting them off with your wand. CRACKED.COM

Charles Schulz

Charles Schulz created Franklin because of a fan letter. In 1968, former teacher Harriet Glickman, wrote to Schulz and suggested he add a Black character to Peanuts as a small of way of helping change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination of MLK and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate, and violence. After more correspondence, Schulz agreed, and came up with Franklin. CRACKED.COM

Community

Halloween costumes of fictional characters Rr ET YOUR KEIF are N B ALLEW T'e 14 IF ٨ Community BEST Abed and Troy as Calvin and Hobbes Most couples costumes are for... well, couples. But Troy and Abed found a great costume that fits their friendship, especially since Abed often blurs fantasy with reality like Calvin does. CRACKED.COM

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The Ladies Man

COMEDY 06 NERD CRACKED.COM The Ladies Man: Thanksgiving Whether there's trouble in your love life or not, there's nothing to be learned from Tim Meadows' Ladies Man in this Thanksgiving edition of the recurring sketch. Donning a pilgrim hat, he doles out relationship advice between sips of the cognac from the Courvoisier truck that jackknifed in front of his house.

Juno

Juno $7 MILLION CRACKED.com With Jason Bateman in a rare extremely-punchable role, the first major platform for Elliot Page's inimitable charm, and Michael Cera doing the whole Michael Cera thing, they raked in $231 million at the box office.

Source: EW

Star Trek: Enterprise

TELL US NOW: DUMBEST DEATHS Commander Tucker STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CRACKED Brian B. says it was a lazy death with no deeper purpose beyond shock value: In a series finale full of bad choices, his meaningless and bizarre death felt like the showrunners decided they needed to kill someone off, ran out of time, picked a character at random, and didn't bother to come up with anything to make it important or meaningful.

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34 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Teaching Our Girlfriend to Dance and Getting Mighty Cozy With Her

Friends

MATT LANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the

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