33 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History With A Special Card That Allows Them To Run Red Lights

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33 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History With A Special Card That Allows Them To Run Red Lights
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The Princess Bride

CRACKED THE SWORD-FIGHTING IN THE PRINCESS BRIDE WAS A BIG DEAL Cary Elwes (Westley) and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) took the whole thing very seriously, and put in a lot of effort to prepare for their fight at the Cliffs of Insanity.

HAL 9000 from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Talking to HAL 9000 was slightly better than talking to a brick wall. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY In 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) had HAL's lines fed to him by various actors, since voice actor Douglas Rain was hired in post production. CRACKED.COM

Chase the Chuck Wagon

Chase the Chuck Wagon CHUCK WAGON RELEASED ON: ATARI 2600 VIDEO GAME CARTRIDGE CHASE THE CHUCK WAGON CRACKED.COM 0053 Based on a single commercial, the maze game was put together in three days and available with proof of purchase of enough Purina dog food. The promotion failed, and unsold cartridges were destroyed.

The Brady Bunch

CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom.

Full Metal Jacket

For Full Metal Jacket, Vincent D'Onofrio had to gain weight and show up at Stanley Kubrick's estate every week for months. Kubrick would look at him and say You need to weigh more. Come back in a week, until he'd finally gained enough weight. CRACKED.COM

Fellowship of the Ring

In Fellowship of the Ring, when Frodo and Gandalf are at the same table, it's not really one table. To make Elijah Wood seem much smaller than he really is, they used forced perspective, meaning they put him really far from the camera and then shot at an angle that would conceal the distance. To make sure camera movement wouldn't ruin the effect, they moved that half of the set in a way that exactly followed the camera's movements. CRACKED.COM

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The Challenger Wreckage

The team searching for the Challenger's wreckage found cocaine worth millions. Experts spent nine weeks scanning 420 square miles of ocean with sonar. They found ordinary trash, a refrigerator, half of a torpedo, eight shipwrecks, and more. Oh, and a duffel bag with 25 kilos of cocaine (that came from who knows where), worth about $13 million. CRACKED.COM

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Bond had his front teeth knocked out.

Daniel Craig lost his two front teeth while filming Casino Royale. CRACKED.COM While filming a fight scene in Prague, an actor accidentally punched Craig harder than expected, and his teeth were instantly knocked out.

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Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson CRACKEDCON Samuel L. Jackson loves golf. Enough that all of his film contracts ensure he can golf at least twice a week. Do yoU thin

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Breaking Bad

CRACKEDcO MIKE wasn't even supposed to be a character on Breaking Bad. Bob Odenkirk couldn't appear in the season two finale due to prior commitments

Foreshadowing in 'Us'

CRaCKEDCOM A throwaway line of dialogue in 2019's Us gives away the final twist. I just want my little girl back. When Adelaide's mother says she

Lady Gaga

CRACKED.COM Lady GAGa denounced Cocaine as 'THE white devil'. She thought of it as a friend until she realized that it was killing her creativity.

The X-Files

The stars of The X-Files despised one another. David Duchovny says they were monsters. Duchovny blames the show's insane hours and often bizarre lo

Shrek

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