32 Trivia Nuggets We're Considering Spinning Off Into A Miniseries About Pop Culture History

We're milking these pop culture facts for all they're worth
32 Trivia Nuggets We're Considering Spinning Off Into A Miniseries About Pop Culture History
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Every once in a while, we find a list of pop culture tidbits so good that we immediately start thinking about sequels and TV shows. Why wouldn't they put this on Netflix? There's a show about disguised cakes for heaven's sake. And this season of The Diplomat is a dragging mess thus far. No one can tell us a streaming show about the wide horizon of pop culture history wouldn't be a hit.

So after reading this very fine list of pop culture facts consider contacting Netflix on our behalf. Huge ask, we know, but if you're feeling it we'd appreciate it. Maybe make you a producer.

Malcolm in the Middle

The house in Malcolm in the Middle was being rented to the production for $3-4,000 per day. The house (used for exterior shots -- interiors were shot by a soundstage) was owned by a doctor, who earned around $100,000 for letting his house be used for exterior shots. CRACKED.COM

Jerry Lewis

JERRY LEWIS was a filmmaking innovator. While making his first movie as a director, Lewis had the idea of mounting a video camera next to the film cam

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura Pet Detective JACK BERNSTEIN CRACKED COM The concept originated with Vancouver born Jack Bernstein, who is credited with the story itself. Не then wrote the screenplay alongside the film's director Tom Shadyac and Jim Carrey.

Julia Roberts vs Steven Spielberg

Behind-the-scenes feuds Hook Julia Roberts vs Steven Spielberg Roberts' personal drama apparently seeped onto the set, which led Spielberg to say that while she was a good actress, he wouldn't work with her again. Roberts felt hurt, and they indeed haven't worked again since. CRACKED.COM

Dunkin’ Donuts

Dunkin Donut discards coffee not used within 18 minutes DUNKIN' DRIVE THRU DONUTS 889 Or at least that's what their press kit claims. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Jon Favreau made an Truth appearance on the show. Before he was a pretty successful actor and an extremely successful director, Favreau was the clown who didn't know who Bozo the Clown was. CRACKED.COM

Han Solo

CRACKED.COM The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas hated Han Solo's I know. According to director Irvin Kershner, Lucas thought that Harrison Ford's improvised line would cause people to laugh. Preview screenings proved him wrong.

Kellogg's "Urban" Wear

CRACKED.COM KELLOGG'S URBAN WEAR - Kellogg FROSTIES - - of Kellogg's Under the Hood urban wear lets everybody know that this FROSTED FLAKES hood is Tony the Tiger's turf-and you're sure to look real gangsta in your Honey Smacks low-riders.

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Regular Show

Halloween costumes of fictional characters BEST Regular Show Rigby as M. Bison A nice homage to the bad boss of the classic Street Fighter II game. Dressing as a dictator also fits Rigby's personality a little too well. CRACKED.COM

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Teletubbieland had to be destroyed.

Teletubbieland, from the Teletubbie TV show, had to be flooded. CRACKED COM After the TV show ended, the owner of the land used had to dig out the hill and flood the field it was filmed in, due to the amount of people trespassing to see Teletubbieland.

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Lorraine Bracco in 'The Sopranos'

The Sopranos Lorraine Bracco was offered to play carmela soprano. Bracco felt that Carmela was too much like Karen Hill from GoodFellas, and she didn't want to play the same part again. But she loved the script, and told show creator David Chase that she'd be happy to play Dr. Jennifer Melfi.

Source: ABC News

A Wrinkle in Time

A made-for- television film based on Madeleine L'Engle's classic A book A Wrinkle in WRIKLE Time was aired in IN TIME 2004. L'Engle's reaction? NEWS

Disney World Has A Derelict Water Park

There's a derelict water park, River Country, inside Disney's resort in Florida. Seph Lawless had to scale a twenty feet high, blacked-out fence to ta

Triumph's Best Insults

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

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