30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got a Huge Thanksgiving Turkey Stuck on Their Head

They might even do a little dance for you too!
30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got a Huge Thanksgiving Turkey Stuck on Their Head

Would you happen to have a comically large pair of sunglasses on you? We need it for a quick sitcom scene, but we have to warn you, theyll probably get some raw turkey juices on them. Deal-breaker? Come on! You can rinse them off before wearing them to, well, wherever youd wear something like those.

Man, TV sounds like a really fun place to work. Drumming up ridiculous scenes like this and putting in the work in to bring them to life. Sign us up! For now, all we can do is write about it, but maybe someone in a props department somewhere is hiring! 

Well go find out while you give these random TV facts a once over.

Monty Python

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET TOOK ITS NAME FROM A MONTY PYTHON SKETCH. In the bit, which appeared on an album, Eric Idle was making fun of rock bands with ridiculous names. Не had no idea one of the names had been chosen by an actual band until he heard them on the radio. CRACKED.COM

Theresa Caputo

Theresa Caputo has talked to the dead for 14 seasons on TLC. X Just like John Edward and countless others before her, she's simply quite skilled at an age-old technique known as cold reading. In fact, her flim-flammery earned her the Pigasus Award, which is given to scam artists. CRACKED.COM

Jeffrey Tambor

JEFFREY TAMBOR JOKES ABOUT HIS OWN SCANDAL. ENTOURAGE GRACKED Не was accused of groping by his former assistant, and they jokingly allude to a similar scandal years earlier. Ari says, There was that little incident on Arrested Development, and Tambor replies, You haven't heard about it, there's no reason to hear about it.

House of the Dragon

Pop culture inspirations House of the Dragon Director Greg Yaitanes watched HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON to prepare for the dragon fight inthe Season 1 finale. Не took inspiration from the film's cinematography for the scene. CRACKED

And that one dragon fight scene in House of the Dragon is probably one of the only good things about that show. 

Wednesday

Pop culture inspirations Wednesday Jenna Ortega choreographed the iconic dance scene taking inspiration from SIOUXSIE SIOUX, BOB FOSSE, LISA LORING, LENE LOVICH, DENIS LAVANT, and archival footage of goths dancing in clubs in the '80s. CRACKED

Succession

The Sulzbergers were part of the inspiration for Succession's Roy family. The Sulzbergers control The New York Times, but they weren't the only inspiration -- the biggest one was probably media mogul Rupert Murdoch. CRACKED.COM

Loki

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind partly inspired, of all things, Disney's Loki. LOKI INTERNATIONAL That movie (like, say, Scott Pilgrim), had a lot of elaborate practical sets that look like CGI - and Loki did too, to make its world feel like a real environment. CRACKED.COM

Ducktales

The DUCKTALES reboot was influenced by X-MEN. Showrunners Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones have said they took cues from Chris Claremont's X-Men comics, with their self- contained stories that feed an ongoing narrative. CRACKED.COM

Seth MacFarlane

SETH MACFARLANE QUAGMIRE GRACKED.COM My father used to buy me old radio dramas, and commercials from the '40s and '50s had this high-pitched voice. So Quagmire's a 50's radio jockey on coke combined with a sex-crazed pervert. Giggity.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad took many, many style cues straight from The Godfather. In particular, Breaking Bad's use of color filters and different lighting schemes for different scenes, to give each one its own look and feel, is based on The Godfather. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

THE SIMPSONS (1998) YARD WORK SIMULATOR CRACKED COM FARMVILLE (2013)

Full House

An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

ENJOYING YOUR KFC DOUBLE DOWN? 30 ROCK THOUGHT OF IT FIRST. Minha KFC Sin - Tracy Jorden MEAT MACHINE MEAT IS THE NEW BREAD! KEEP Presenting the by W Ax / Tracy Jordan Meat سند SEETTON معد Jorder Machine, which saved you from suffering through the bread part of your sandwich, in 2006. The Double Down came out in 2009. CRACKED.COM http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/30-rock-rural-juror-head-and-hair-209499

Scrubs

Scrubs The janitor knew Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. The janitor correctly predicted in 2007 that the U.S. should be looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, and a clip of this prediction went viral. CRACKED

Arrested Development

Predicting the Trump Wall. Arrested Development Season 4 predicted the idea of a US- Mexican border wall, which President Donald Trump later adopted, and the show acknowledged this in its fifth season. CRACKED

Supernatural

Easter Eggs Supernatural Show creator Eric Kripke had Castiel wear John Constantine's clothes, as a homage to DC's supernatural hunter. GRACKED COM

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The Birth of Venus Moira's long locks during the wedding is an homage to Botticelli's Italian Renaissance masterpiece. The idea came about when Catherine O'Hara suggested Moira be dressed like the Pope.

Futurama

BENDER STAYS ALIVE AND IN HIS PRIME. STUDIO 123' Rebirth Bender dances in a place called Studio 122133-the prime factorization of Studio 54. 122133 = 1 x 2 x 27 = 54 CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad House

The owners of the Breaking Bad house built a six-foot iron fence around it. For years, have been throwing pizzas on the house's roof (to recreate the scene where Bryan Cranston did that), and this was the only family's only remaining option to deal with it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Laura Innes

CRACKED.COM A DECADE SPENT USING A CRUTCH FOR THE ROLE OF DR. KERRY WEAVER LEFT LAURA INNES WITH REAL-LIFE SPINE CURVATURE.

Jessica Biel

cartoon celebrities BoJack Horseman Jessica Biel Biel herself pushed the writers to hold nothing back and be really mean to her in her recurring appearances. That's how put-downs like attempted movie star and future hard Jeopardy! question were born. CRACKED.COM

Jennifer Love Hewitt

cartoon celebrities The Weekenders Family Guy Jennifer Love Hewitt Hewitt isn't afraid to poke fun at her celebrity, voicing a version of herself on the raunchy Family Guy and also cameoing in the children's cartoon The Weekenders. CRACKED.COM

William Shatner

Actors Who Weren't Always In On The Joke PHA SASE Everyone (including William Shatner) has a William CUCK Shatner impression. His choppy Shatnerisms burst through Captain Kirk and every other character he's played. Не knew it as well as we did with a self-aware SNL sketch, and a role as Pompous Space Captain in Airplane II: The Sequel. CRACKED

Neil Patrick Harris

Actors Who Weren't Always In On The Joke Neil Patrick Harris killed Doogie Howser. Over a decade later, NPH was still known as Doogie Howser. Self-aware of his good-boy image, he played a coke-snorting, stripper-crazed version of himself in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and stole the show. CRACKED

Larry David

BERNIE SANDERS is David's distant cousin CRACKED.COM Larry David prayed Sanders wouldn't get the nomination as he didn't want to spend four years doing SNL. That would have beek OK by Bernie. I think we'll use Larry at our next rally. Не does better than I do.

Morgan Wallen

CRACKED MORGAN WALLEN USED SNL TO SAY WHY НЕ WAS BOOTED FROM SNL. I knew that really their only impression of me was thinking I'm a jackass. So I wanted them to see a more human side of me, you know? And see that I'm not too good to make fun of myself.

Doctor Who

The Fourth Doctor's huge scarf was the result of a misunder- standing. Doctor Who head costume designer Jim Acheson wanted the Fourth Doctor to have a scarf, so he gave a knitter lots of wool in many colors and asked her to make one. Apparently, she thought she was supposed to use it all, and knitted a multicolored, freakishly huge scarf. People thought the scarf fit Tom Baker's off-the-wall interpretation of the Doctor perfectly, so it stayed. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

An actress was originally supposed to be cast to play the part of Maris Crane, however, after only 3 episodes they had described her physical appearance as so bizarre that she had practically become uncastable. ? FRASIER GRAGKED.COM

Matt LeBlanc

MATT. LEBLANC 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 FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM

Lost

16-JARRAH N 42- 2% The magic cave in Lost was a last-minute substitute for a volcano. The show kept mentioning the inactive volcano on the island, and the finale was supposed to be set there, with magma spewing everywhere! But that was too expensive, so they came up with a glowing magic cave. CRACKED.COM

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