30 Pieces of TV Trivia That Don’t Think Too Highly of the Golden Globes

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30 Pieces of TV Trivia That Don’t Think Too Highly of the Golden Globes
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Be honest, if you were invited out to a big fancy awards show and then made fun of the entire time, wouldn’t you feel a little ticked off? 

That’s how these TV facts feel about having to sit through that billion-hour event involving mini-statues with little golden globes on top.

Movies get all the praise, and TV gets dumped on for laughs. Well, there’s a lot of cool stuff and a lot of lovely people on TV, too, okay, Golden Globes? Maybe start showing a little respect. TV has come a long way!

The Good Doctor

CRACKED.COM The Good Doctor was originally a Korean drama. Producer Daniel Dae Kim optioned it thinking it could resonate with American audiences (and the series almost had an Asian lead).

The Children’s Television Act

The Children's Television Act required kids'TV to serve the educational and informational needs of children. CRACKED.COM This is why many 90s cartoons had a shoehorned educational message for kids added to the story.

Nip/Tuck

CRACKEDco niptuck tuck won Best Television Series Drama at the 2005 Golden Globes. The series, about two horny male plastic surgeons, only existed to

The Good Place

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THEY NEVER WEAR RED OR PINK IN THE GOOD PLACE IN, UH, THE GOOD PLACE. That's done on purpose, to make the good place look different from the real world - the one exception is a little red in Jameela Jamil's dress in the second season.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA was almost It's Always Sunny on TV. The show was originally supposed to be about struggling actors in Los Angeles. This eventually evolved into a show about friends running a bar in Philadelphia and the TV was replaced with Philadelphia. CRACKED.COM

Blue’s Clues

John Cena auditioned for Blue's Clues. When the show was revived in 2019, one of the persons who auditioned to host was John Cena. Yes, that John Cena. They actually entertained the idea of hiring someone mostly known for elbow-dropping people to talk to a cartoon dog. CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

BoJack Horseman

COMEDY NERD Princess Carolyn from BoJack Horseman was originally going to be two characters. There was a male agent and an ex-girlfriend, and eventually they got collapsed into one person - Princess Carolyn. CRACKED.COM

Fear Factor

Needing cash to fund their next music project, brothers Matthew and Nathan Leone went on Fear factor and it nearly KILLED THEM. The twins contracted a FLESH-EATING DISEASE while performing a stunt involving swimming in a trench filled with maggot infested cow parts and drinking a cocktail of its contents. We were hours from dying, said Matthew. Yes, the brothers did end up winning. GRAGKED.COM AA A A ALA

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEFORE SHE JOINED THE CAST OF SEINFELD, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS WAS ON SNL. She was on the show for three seasons in the early '80s, and she described it this way: Everybody was doing a lot of coke and smoking dope. Everybody would stay up late.

Fargo

Fargo Season 2 has quite a few nods to No Country for Old Men. There's the motel shootout that looks like the carnage Sheriff Ed Tom Bell finds in that movie e - plus, people keep saying friendo, just like Anton Chigurh did. CRACKED.COM

Rocko’s Modern Life

Adult Jokes in Children's Entertainment E ON ONE OT PREMEMBER iNE BE Hot BE NAUGHT BE Courteo Rocko's Modern Life Rocko's XXX Life Where to start? The Chokey Chicken restraurant? Rocko's stint as a sex phone operator? Heffer's milking machine-induced orgasm? It's a wonder the show lasted as long as it did. CRACKED.COM

How I Met Your Mother

CRACKED DALLA KIDE HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER MARSHGAMMON It combines Candyland, I Never, and Pictionary, and only Backgammon in name (because as Marshall says, Backgammon sucks). If a player rolls an even number when adjacent to the peppermint forest, they Marshall Out, and yes alcohol is involved.

The Soup Nazi

No Soup For You The Soup Nazi was inspired by real-life owner of Soup Kitchen International, Ali Al Yeganeh, who was known for having strict rules around ordering. CRACKED.COM

Power Rangers

Actors with cursed lives Jason David Frank TOMMY OLIVER in MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS Frank's wife Tammie confirmed that the Power Rangers star died by suicide at 49. She also shared that the couple had been trying to work through their problems, and had reconciled shortly before his death. CRACKED

Norm Macdonald

Norm MacDonald was fired from the SNL Weekend Update gig after one too many jabs at O.J. Simpson, a good pal of NBC exec Don Ohlmeyer. Ohlmeyer says he ousted MacDonald for being unfunny, but NBC's refusal to run ads for Norm's Dirty Work movie made it clear that the dismissal was personal. CRACKED.COM

Natalie Portman

ANDY SAMBERG + NATALIE PORTMAN CRACKED.COM Samberg and Portman never went public but several tabloids reported romance after they teamed up for Natalie's hip-hop videos. It was all her idea, says Samberg. She loves filthy rap. A Portman source told Us Weekly: A nice Jewish boy would be good for her.

The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE Tattoos EXPANSE The production team incorporated Oksana and Josep's tattoos on each other to show how close they are. CRACKED.COM

Parks and Rec

For Parks and Rec, NBC contracted the game designers behind Settlers of Catan to create Cones of Dunshire Although originally a throwaway joke, Mayfair Games eventually created a fully playable version. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Aubrey Plaza

AUBREY PLAZA CRACKED.COM I wanted to be on that show for as long as I could remember, says Plaza. She landed an SNL internship in 2005 but didn't make the cast after her 2008 audition.

Oprah vs. Letterman

Oprah LETTERMAN CRACKED.COM Oprah has ascended to the pantheon of single-name fame, but she didn't do it on Letterman. Their feud began with Letterman pranking her into paying for his dinner, but they've since made up. You know the rules: if you want a free dinner, check under your seats!!!!

Star Trek

NAMES: Liu Dejian FANS OF: Star Trek RESULT: A building modeled after The Enterprise. The building, a corporate headquarters for Netdragon Websoft, took four years and $100 million to complete. CRACKED.COM

24

CRACKED.COM Jack Bauer kills a total of 309 PEOPLE of 24. over the whole run Put in a different way, that is one kill every 40 minutes.

The Big Bang Theory

Bazinga! The line doesn't appear in the Big Bang Theory until Season 2's finale. It was originally the catchphrase of show writer Stephen Engel, who would say the word after pulling a prank on another writer. CRACKED.COM

The New Class

CRACKED.COM Isaac Lidsky, who played Weasel in Saved by the Bell: The New Class, retired from acting when he was diagnosed with a slowly blinding disease. Nowadays he's fully blind, but that didn't stop him from graduating from Harvard twice (once for computer science, a second time for law) and founding a $250 million dollar construction company.

Saved by the Bell

140 141 IC AL The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie

On-Screen Couples That Became Real Kit Harington and Rose Leslie The two met on Game of Thrones as Jon Snow and Ygritte. While their characters' relationship didn't last on Westeros, they got married on Earth in 2018. CRACKED.COM

The Golden Globes

In early 2019, Keegan-Michael Key and Sarah Hyland were duped into giving their tickets for an exclusive Golden Globes GRHUI party to a tall white ma

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