32 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, November 12, 2025

These facts sure know their pop culture. Not much else though
32 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Add Cracked to Google

Here we are in the middle of the week again. It's time for optimism, even if the news doesn't lend itself to that. We're on the downward slope to the weekend, baby.

So here are some facts that run the vast gambit of pop culture history to get you feeling some Saturday on Wednesday. It's the kind of fun and fascinating information that elevates mood and stimulates the ole noggin. 

And who knows, maybe you'll carry a few of these into the weekend, where you'll hopefully be having a righteous time in some social situation and can trot out a factoid in conversation that makes you sound like the supergenius you are.

Arrival

CRACKED.COM p6) 19 your paspose Fress, M TOKORU In ARRIVAL Dr. Banks explains to Col. Weber all ARMY the nuances of language that make communicating with the aliens a slow, painstaking process. The scene is based on a similar explanation screenwriter Eric Heisser gave to the movie's producers, who just went, all that needs to be in the script.

Celebrity Colognes

Celebrity Colognes and Perfumes BRUCE WILLIS EAU DE PARFUM by Bruce Willis Released in 2010, this scent is as masculine and confident as Bruce himself. Apparently men smell like grapefruit and pepper. BRUCE WILLIS EAU DE PARFUM CRACKED.COM

Source

Gunther

The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM

For Your Eyes Only

CRACKED.COM The opening of For Your Eyes Only mocks Never Say Never Again. Eon Productions was enraged by the mere existence of Never Say Never Again,

What Movies Get Wrong

IN Black swan, Nina suffers from a host of conditions. Real people don't have them all at once. The film gave Nina the ballerina a cocktail of disorde

Step Brothers

CRACKED 1.5 MILLION FEET OF FILM WAS USED FOR STEP BROTHERS. It was so much that Kodak sent over champagne as a thank you.

Clerks

CLERKS ALMOST HAD A BIZARRELY DARK ENDING. 1.50 Unsure of how else to finish his cult classic film, Kevin Smith decided to just kill Dante in a robbery gone wrong and roll credits. Не even shot the scene, but for some reason, the producers didn't think the main character getting shot would make a good ending to a comedy film and forced Smith to come up with a different one. CRACKED.COM

Al Green

Al Green is an ordained pastor CRACKED.COM After his girlfriend assaulted him with a pot of boiling grits in 1974, he was inspired to become a reverend, and continues to preach weekly at the Memphis church he established.

Steven Van Zandt

They were thinking of casting Steven Van Zandt as Tony Soprano at one point. Van Zandt was David Chase's first choice for Tony, because creator David Chase thought his face looked kind of like Al Pacino's in The Godfather. Не only changed his mind after he saw James Gandolfini audition. CRACKED.COM

The On-Set Conditions for Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The actors were losing their minds, and their lunches. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE CRACKED.COM Conditions were hot, gross, and terrifying. Everyone was on edge all the time, and the cast routinely leaned out the window to puke during the dinner scene.

Source

The Handmaid's Tale

Some of the Chicago War Zone in Season 5 of The Handmaid's Tale wasn't CGI. When June and Janine are trying to run from the planes, and there's an explosion, that was a practical effect-which meant the art department needed to make pre- and post-explosion versions of the street. CRACKED. COM

Source

Love & Basketball

LOVE & BASKETBALL The writer-director got some strange initial feedback on her script while she was shopping it around. Quincy looks up at his Mom, surprised. She quickly hugs his face into her stomach. Camille lights up. CAMILLE Oh, me too. I used to cook for my friends parties and

ESPN

Author Cameos

In the TV show A Series of Unfortunate Events, Patrick Warburton plays author Daniel Handler's pseudonym character, Lemony Snicket ... .. while the re

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?