32 Gleaming Trivia Nuggets Panned From Pop-Culture History

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32 Gleaming Trivia Nuggets Panned From Pop-Culture History
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We don’t want to brag (or giveaway our lucrative mining site), but boy howdy were our sifting pans full of pop-culture gold today. It’s just a little taste of what you could find out there if you look hard enough. 

Away from our site, of course. Any claim jumper who even looks at our mine is liable to catch some lead in the belly, ya hear?

Grand Theft Auto

Samuel L. Jackson is a commanding presence on film. And in GTA, he's commandingly evil. Jackson voices Officer Tenpenny, the central villain in Grand

The Simpsons

32 Gleaming Trivia Nuggets Panned From Pop-Culture History

Farrah Fawcett

CRACKED FARRAH FAWCETT CAUSED A FIGHT BETWEEN THREE BACHELORS. Farrah Fawcett was a contestant on The Dating Game in the 1970s, where three bachelors got into a physical altercation while competing for her attention. It was later revealed to be an April Fool's Day episode, and she chose Bachelor #2, winning an Austrian ski vacation with him.

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog

Which of these buttons calls your parents to pick you up? - Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog talking to a man in a Darth Vader suit at the premiere of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. CRACKED.COM

Logan

When Wolverine says So this is what it feels like, at the end of Logan, he might have been talking about love. James Mangold thinks he might have that in mind - r not only death. CRACKED.COM

Harold and Maude

In order to get the classic 1971 film Harold and Maude made, producer Robert Evans lied to the executives and didn't tell them that the movie's romance was between a 20-year-old boy and an 80-year-old woman. HAROLD AND MAUDE CRACKED.COM

Lost Tropes

Lost Tropes Funny suicide Suicide (by gun, train, etc.) was used as comedy in old cartoons. But suicide is serious business (unless you're Hitler in the bunker, in which case cue the Benny Hill music and fart sounds) CRACKED.COM

But I’m A Cheerleader

But I'm a Cheerleader CRACKED.COM This hilarious movie deserves its cult classic status. Natasha Lyonne stars as a teenager who is sent to a conversion camp and ends up finding lesbian love. It's campy and holds up.

Gwyneth Paltrow

32 Gleaming Trivia Nuggets Panned From Pop-Culture History

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Scrubs

EScrubs had tied up all its loose ends by the season 8 finale, but NBC got greedy and bought a 9th. teachers, school med as to pass Returning attempte

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid's Ursula is a mashup of Bea Arthur, drag queen Divine, and Joan collins' Dynasty character. Bea Arthur Bea Arthur's cutting wit is

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