28 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Are Gearing Up for the Big Surf Competition That Will Save the School and Finally Make Them Popular

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28 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Are Gearing Up for the Big Surf Competition That Will Save the School and Finally Make Them Popular
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Like two hands worth of water splashing your face in the morning, this random batch of TV facts is about to soak your brain and help wake it right up! It didn’t have time for a shower, so getting the eye crusties out is the least it could do. Hey, maybe some will splash up onto its hair and help eliminate that bedhead. 

Either way, you and your crusty, hairy brain are both about to start your day off on the right foot. 

Hey Arnold!

'Hey Arnold!' was not set in New York City but in a fictional city called Hillwood, Washington. 3 CRACKED COM Craig Bartlett has stated that the city the show takes place in is some- where in the Pacific North- west, and is an amalgam of three cities that he lived in: Seattle, Brooklyn, and Portland.

The Cleveland Show

CRACKED DAVID LYNCH APPEARS IN ONE OUT OF FOUR EPISODES OF THE CLEVELAND SHOW. Не plays Gus, the local bartender. Не never explained why he agreed to voice the character other than a writer asked him.

Failed Pilots

COMEDY NERD Craig Ferguson and Zach Braff made a pilot for a TV show called High. ec со COMIC That was in 1989, and the cast included a young Gwyneth Paltrow, but the pilot never gained any traction. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: Voyager

GRACKED.COM Scarlett Pomers is widely known as Naomi Wildman from Star Trek: Voyager. After quitting acting, she founded Arch- Angels, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people with eating disorders.

Rugrats

Rugrats spoofed a highly sexualized psychological thriller. CRACKED G COM In Season 3, Episode 25, Cradle Attraction, a new girl stalks Chuckie in the same manner as Alex (Glenn Close) with Dan (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. They even replicate a shot from the film.

Stephen Colbert

STEPHEN COLBERT CRACKED.COM Colbert logged eight years as Jon Stewart's Daily Show cohort before ascending to top dog at the Colbert Report. His adventures with Truthiness led to Letterman's late night spot on CBS. Colbert is the American Dream - and so can you!

The Red Wedding

CRACKED.COM The Red wedding borrows from real history. During the Black Dinner of 1440, a plate with a beheaded black bull was presented to an Earl, believed to be a usurper, before he was arrested and beheaded. The Glencoe Massacre of 1692 had the same type of twist, but here it was the dinner guests who massacred their hosts.

Punk’d

Donald Faison made Zach Braff think his Porsche was being ruined (which led to a child getting assaulted). t A AT&T VU AT&T VULT ULTURE TURE A AT&T For an episode of Punk'd, he had a bunch of kids stand around Braff's Porsche so that it looked like they were spray-painting it. It worked too well, because when Braff saw them, he chased down one of them (a 12-year-old) and beat him up. CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

The Sopranos Tony Soprano didn't sound like someone from New Jersey. The pilot was shot two years before the show was picked up. James Gandolfini got busy in the meantime, and got a coach to help him nail Tony's accent. CRACKED.COM

Scrubs

In the first season of Scrubs, Dr. Elliot Reid has no problem saying the clinical terms for genitalia, but as the show progresses she suddenly cannot utter those words. Instead, she starts using ridiculous euphemisms and blames it on her uptight upbringing. CRACKED.COM

Laurie Metcalf

LAURIE METCALF TWO-TIME TONY WINNER CRACKED.COM METCALF DESCRIBES HER SNL TENURE AS A WHIRLWIND FIVE DAYS. SHE NEVER MADE IT TO AIR AND DESPITE HER SUCCESS ON STAGE, 'ROSEANNE, AND 'LADYBIRD,' SHE'S NEVER HOSTED. I WOULD HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT IT BEFORE AND AFTER.

Gunther

The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

COMEDY NERD In the pilot, Rachel Dratch was actually a prominent part of 30 Rock. She played TGS star and Liz's friend Jenna, but Jenna then got totally rewritten and Jane Krakowski got the role. CRACKED.COM

Da Bears

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.

TV Breakfasts

A typical breakfast on TV beats anything you'll ever eat. Expect a giant fruit platter, freshly squeezed juice, and a mountain of homemade pancakes. In real life, almost none of us have time to sit down to each such a meal, let alone time to prepare it. CRACKED.COM

Friends

Bruce Willis' role on Friends was the result of a lost bet. Matthew Perry bet him that their film The Whole Nine Yards would open at No. 1, and if it did, Willis would guest-star on Friends for free. It did, and Willis did three episodes of Friends.

John Mulaney

JOHN MULANEY ALL STAR CRACKED.COM After his audition, Mulaney got a call from Seth Meyers with a writing job offer. I want to be clear, said Meyers, this is not the cast. Mulaney responded, I want to be clear. I would never think I would be in the cast.

Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM Game of Thrones SHAE never cared for Tyrion in the books. Tyrion is just another client for Shae in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice -a particularly rich client, but that's all. She isn't at all heartbroken when she's forced to betray him.

The Good Place

CRACKED COM The Good Place is actually Michael's personal Bad Place. From the mid-point of Season Two and on, Michael has been in a constant state of anxiety, always worrying that he's about to be erased from the universe. That's the exact variety of torture that he had arranged for the humans when he was creating a Bad Place to torture them in forever.

Workaholics

COMEDY NERD The Comedy Central show Workaholics had cameos from The Black Keys. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney played two guys involved in a small claims court case that had to do with, uh, the sale of a hovercraft. CRACKED.COM

Westworld

CRACKED.COM Show: Westworld Inspiration: BioShock Director Jonathan Nolan explained: I was Ken Levine, the designer of those games...and he was talking about how much craft had gone into all the conversations that the non-player characters had...all their dreams and aspirations. Isn't that sad? And the player just ignores it all. The bastards. To absolutely no one's surprise, there's a BioShock Easter Egg in Season 1, Episode 3.

Brie Larson

BRIE LARSON CRACKED.COM At 9 years old, Larson's very first professional gig was a commercial parody for Barbie, titled Malibu Mudslide Barbie, in a 1998 episode of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. From there, she started steadily booking TV and film roles.

Extras

THE 2005 SHOW EXTRAS FEATURES A FICTIONAL HOLOCAUST FILM STARRING KATE WINSLET. SAYS WINSLET, CYNICALLY: DO A FILM ABQUT THE HOLOCAUST, YOU'RE GUARAN

The Little Rascals

Child stars often lead hard lives. But nothing can explain the Little Rascals curse. Between The Little Rascals TV show and the Our Gang shorts, there

Reno 911

CRACKED Nick Swardson as Terry Bernadino on Reno 911. As a recidivist sex worker on roller blades, he became a fan favorite, appearing in 28 episodes, and the short A Very Terry Christmas.

The Simpsons

James L. Brooks has a condition in his contract that the Fox network cannot interfere with 'The Simpsons.' Не was able to do that, be- cause Fox back then was a minor fledgling network. Former showrunner Bill Oakley compared working on the show to working in a bubble due to the lack of interference. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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