29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Monday, November 10, 2025

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29 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History for Monday, November 10, 2025
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Well, we did it. We were about to stroll into this morning's pop culture pitch meeting with a couple measly facts, but we ran into a grifter and his little card game in the alley. “Follow the lady,” he said. No problem, pal, we've seen this game before and beat this game before.

So naturally we put up everything we had, and came out with this huge list of awesome little pop culture tidbits. We can't wait to get a little pat on the back from the Cracked higher-ups. Hopefully they don't ask where we got these from. Incidentally, we're pretty sure the guy's name is “Terry.”

The Walking Dead

THE WALKING aMC V Frank Darabont wrote insane emails to The Walking Dead producers and writers. Darabont -- the series' first showrunner -- would go nuts when things didn't go the way he wanted, and write emails saying things like There is no writers room, which you know as well as I do. I am the writers room. and I just kept Denise on the phone for 20 minutes making her listen to me scream. CRACKED.COM

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The plot of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was improvised during a meeting. The story of the film was improvised in a meeting between the Italian director and American movie executives. They asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the entire story. CRACKED.COM

Tetris

Tetris, when played after a trauma, positively affects people. СНПУЧ GRACKED.COM Research has shown that playing everyone's favorite Russian puzzle can stop the formation of bad memories associated with trauma.

The Last Jedi

THe LAST JeDI HAS AN EASTER EGG OF AN OBSCURE TEXT-BASED '70S GAME Zork was a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure computer game that came out in 1977, and in 1986 the trilogy games were packaged and released along with a Zorkmid coin used in the game's fictional empire. Rian Johnson kept his coin and it makes an appearance when Benicio del Toro's DJ discovers a bunch of casino coins and chips. CRACKED.COM

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey went to the 1999 MTV Movie Awards disguised as a wild-haired, Jim Morrison-like hippie. Не didn't tell anyone about the disguise, including his friends, so Samuel Jackson talked to him for 15 minutes without knowing who he was. Later, he asked Carrey Man, why'd you do that to me? CRACKED.COM

Old School

BRAD PITT EDWIRD NORTON I DAVID FUNCHER FILM CLOP MIS CTU AVHI ME SOAP ALT KING ... ... IN .. JUL LIES EN THE EMBIRIA PLA - - 40 O KA Old School is just a comedy take on Fight Club. Writer and director Todd Phillips says he was thinking of Fight Club throughout writing the whole screenplay, and it shows: a ton of scenes are ripped straight from Fight Club with a minor twist or two. CRACKED.COM

George Lucas Cameos

GEORGE LUCAS MAKES A BRIEF CAMEO IN REVENGE OF THE SITH. CRACKED.COM The director made his first Star Wars cameo in the last Star Wars movie he directed. Lucas blue himself to portray Baron Papanoida-a blue-skinned politician attending the opera.

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Casting in 'Monster'

CHARLIZE THERON IN MONSTER CRACKED.COM In 2003, it was hard for critics and audiences to imagine Charlize Theron as gritty, crazed killer, Aileen Wuornos. She received an Oscar and Robert Ebert praised it as, One of the greatest performances in the history of cinema.

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Reno 911

RENO 911! BEHIND THE SCENES Facts FOR COMMERCIAL SEQUENCES THE ACTORS WOULD READ THEIR LINES FOR THE FIRST TIME Police TEX Police TEK HASHIN RENO 911! To make the acting worse, 2 of the cast would write the lines in private SO the actor would read the lines cold on the teleprompter. CRACKED.COM

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Underworld: Evolution

IN UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION, WE SEE A YOUNG SELENE DURING A FLASHBACK TO HER CHILDHOOD. Young Selene was played by Lily Mo Sheen, the daughter of Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen, both stars of the Underworld series. CRACKED.COM

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Lauryn Hill

CRaCKED COM Lauryn Hill has a great excuse for showing up late to her concerts. In 2016, Hill took to Facebook to let her fans know that when she is l

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