29 Random Bits of TV Trivia That All Turned Into Babies for Exactly One Episode

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29 Random Bits of TV Trivia That All Turned Into Babies for Exactly One Episode
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Talking babies in TV and movies is always a surefire success, right? It’s never once failed to deliver the comedy goods, right? 

We sadly don’t have time to delve into that research right now, so you’re on your own there. We’re too busy rounding up random TV tidbits that’ll get you amped up to search for those baby-related facts yourself.

You know the old saying: “Give someone a fact, and their brain will eat for a day. Teach someone to fact-hunt, and their brain will eat forever.”

Ren & Stimpy

GRAGKED.COM REN & STIMPY CREATORS OFTEN PUT IN RED HERRING JOKES TO DISTRACT CENSORS. In one particular episode, Prehistoric Stimpy, censors missed the red herrings and mistook a stylized palm tree for marijuana. The only note was to remove the marijuana trees from the background. All the off-color jokes stayed.

Blackmailing Letterman

David 2009 Letterman CRACKED.COM revealed to his studio audience that he was being blackmailed. The Late Show host was being extorted by a CBS executive for $2 million for having affairs with female staffers, specifically Stephanie Birkitt, who made appearances on the show for over 10 years. Letterman did not pay the money; instead he chose to come clean on his show.

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was intended to be a pilot for a TV show for ABC, but it was ultimately rejected due to its violence. Не later added an ending and turned it into a critically- acclaimed feature film. CRACKED.COM

Crossroads

Crossroads CRACKED COM A wildly successful British soap opera in the 70's and 80's, its short-lived revival in the early 2000's used its finale to claim that it had all been a bored cashier's daydream.

Late-Night Comedy

Watching late-night comedy TV increases how much you talk about politics. Political satire was found to be just as effective as regular political news in encouraging discussion among its viewers. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM SHE WAS AN NBC PAGE Aubrey wasn an NBC intern and later an NBC page, which is coincidental considering she played a page on an episode of 30 Rock. The gold standard of playing what you know.

Chris Evans

CRACKED.COM Chris Evans His brother is also an actor. While he hasn't been in any Marvel films, Evans' brother Scott has a successful acting career as well. He's best known for the soap opera One Life to Live and the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie.

Terrible Predictions

TV won't last 6 months. 20TH CENTURY FOX CRACKED.COM Studio exec Darryl Zanuck predicted that people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Staring at that box is the only thing that gets us through the day!

Family Guy

COMEDY NERD In the Family Guy pilot, Meg was actually voiced by Lacey Chabert. In a later episode where they revisit the pilot, Stewie hears her and says Oh my God, what's with Meg's voice? She sounds like someone who's about to give up a huge opportunity. CRACKED.COM

Timeless

CRACKED ures TO ASS GO BY Timeless was revived by NBC thanks to die-hard fans. Show co-creator Shawn Ryan was in disbelief when NBC reversed their decision to cancel the time- travel drama after only three days. Thanks to fans who created a devoted online community and negotiations between NBC and Sony (the show's producer), Timeless got ten more episodes.

Family Matters

Characters that weren't supposed to last Steve Urkel on Family Matters Jaleel White's nerdy neighbor was only supposed to be for one-off appearances, but got so popular with viewers that he eventually became the central character of the entire sitcom! CRACKED.COM

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H CRACKED COM With a 2 hour finale on February 28, 1983, CBS honorably discharged M*A*S*H. The famous ending had stones spelling out goodbye as Hawkeye flew off, and the 105.9 million viewers made it the most watched TV event of all time, until the 2010 Super Bowl nudged it out with 106.5 million viewers.

Power Rangers

Low-Effort Pop Culture Power Rangers For about 30 years, Power Rangers has been using scenes and footage from the Japanese show Super Sentai, cutting out any stuff that was too Japanese or violent or just strange, and using it to fill around a third of each episode. CRACKED

He-Man

Low-Effort Pop Culture He-Man's Orko He-Man's companion originally went by Gorpo. To get the most out of the animators' work, the character was renamed as Orko, so that when the footage was flipped, it would look exactly the same and they'd get double the amount of animation. CRACKED

Doctor Who

Douglas Adams was a script editor for Doctor Who. Не wrote three episodes of the TV series, but one script was never made. CRACKED.COM

Jeopardy!

Kevin O'Leary has a great nose for business. Luckily for him, general knowledge isn't a category for investments. $12,800 $2,800 KEVIN AARON Celebrity ty Mr.Wonderfull In 2015, he was a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy! and bombed, correctly answering only a few (music) questions. CRACKED.COM

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy injured her neck by wearing a very heavy candy cane costume while filling in for Jimmy Kimmel. CRACKED.COM

The Rza

CRACKED.COM CELEBRITY ANIME FANS THE RZA The Wu Tang Clan was inspired by Asian media, so it's not surprising that The RZA MU has respect for anime. Не composed the soundtrack to Afro Samurai, and has used Dragon Ball Z as an allegory for growing up black in the U.S.A.

Star Trek and Anime

Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. CRACKED.COM

Teen Titans

CRACKED.COM Teen Titans The theme song hinted at the episode's tone. Longtime fans of the show noticed that if the theme was in Japanese instead of English, that episode would be more wacky and comedic than usual.

The Powerpuff Girls

CRACKED.COM THE POWERPUFF GIRLS theme song is based on a sample from the break in the James Brown song Funky Drummer.

William Shatner

William Shatner passed a kidney stone filming Boston Legal, then sold it for Habitat for Humanity. It raised $25, 000, Shatner joking, This takes organ donors to a new height, or a new low, maybe. CRACKED

The Simpsons

29 Random Bits of TV Trivia That All Turned Into Babies for Exactly One Episode

Laugh-In

A comedy show predicted when the Berlin Wall would fall. In 1969, Laugh-In reported a piece of news from the future about the Berlin Wall being torn down in 1989. The show also joked that Ronald Reagan would be elected president in the '80s. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

CRACKED.COM Captain Kirk used 12 a cellphone long as 10 3.0 36 DE 36 before you did. N en 8 Your phone no longer has a flip top (probably), but William Shatner as Kirk still beat you to it by several decades.

Chappelle’s Show

CRACKED.COM Chappelle's Show predicted History Channel's Gangland. In 2003, audiences laughed at Dave Chappelle's skit that had the History Channel covering street gang wars. In 2007, it was no longer a joke. Gangland

The West Wing

The West Wing predicted the 2008 presidential election. A nonwhite Democratic legislator defeated an old-school Republican senator in fiction in 2006. Reality followed suit two years later. CRACKED.COM

The Jetsons

CRACKED.COM iRobot Roombe CLEAN The Jetsons had roombas. The future in the 1960s wasn't so different from our present, complete with video chat, flat-screen TVs, and robot vacuum cleaners.

Grey’s Anatomy

This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY CRACKED.COM If you ever wanted to see the former tween star stab herself in the heart with a hypodermic needle, have we got the episode for you! Spoiler alert: She's not crazy, she just has a hole in her ear.

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