29 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, November 9, 2025

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29 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, November 9, 2025
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Hopefully you're not experiencing the Sunday Scaries, but if you are, maybe a brisk trip across the expanse of pop culture history will help. We can't magically make you have the day off tomorrow so you can avoid fretting about it as Sunday winds on, but we're sure going to try. These facts are designed to give you new pop culture info or maybe even add to whatever knowledge on the subject you have at present.

Who knows, maybe trotting a few of these babies out at work tomorrow will make the day go better and in that case your Sunday Scaries might disappear for good. That's the hope.

And Never, Ever Forget ‘Space Ghost Coast to Coast’

CRACKED.COM adult swim They owe their success to reruns Reruns of shows from other networks like Futurama, Family Guy, and King of the Hill were hugely responsible for the Adult Swim's early success. The viewers attracted by the shows also gave the untested original programming a fighting chance to build their audiences.

Coco

Coco The movie tugged the hearts of Chinese censors. While ghosts and other supernatural stuff aren't allowed in China, the country's film board was reportedly so moved by the story that they allowed the film to be shown without any cuts. CRACKED.COM

The X-Files

PAMELA ANDERSON COULD HAVE BEEN AGENT SCULLY. CRACKED.COM FBI Gillian Anderson revealed in an interview that Pamela Anderson (no relation) was the producers' initial choice for the skeptical Dana Scully. Apparently the producers were banking on Pamela's experience and Baywatch popularity. Can aliens run in slow motion? We'll never know.

Killing Lemmings On-Screen

HEARD HOW LEMMINGS FOLLOW EACH OTHER OFF CLIFFS? WHITE WILDERNESS THAT'S A MYTH, STARTED BY DISNEY. The Disney nature documentary White Wilderness depicted lemmings dying en masse. Filmmakers staged the scene by throwing some lemmings to their deaths. The film won an Oscar. CRACKED.COM

Rick and Morty

INTER DIMENSIONAL CABLE I E:0-г lanlz The interdimensional cable in Rick and Morty was inspired by Justin Roiland wanting to see a version of Who's The Boss in a world where every name begins with either Schmoo or Schmla. CRACKED.COM

Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2

Mickey Rourke spent some time in a Russian prison for Iron Man 2. Without telling anyone, Rourke took a plane to бло Moscow and paid a hol prison an extended visit, the better to play ex-con Ivan Vanko. Не also put a OCBO РОДИТ me lot of effort into learning the language. In the end, Marvel Studios cut most of his performance, which Rourke was furious about. CRACKED.COM

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The Princess Bride

Cary Elwes was knocked out for real in The Princess Bride. CRACKED.COM Elwes convinced Christopher Guest to really go for it and hit him with his sword, which was real and not a prop. Elwes was knocked out and woke up in the hospital, still in costume, getting stitches.

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Fight Club Video Game

Fight Club 2004 Angel Face CRACKED.COM If you remember the movie Fight Club for the message it's really cool to take off your shirt and punch people, then this game was made for you. Although stripped of the complexity that made the movie compelling, you can unlock Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and break Jared Leto's spine.

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Gucci's Terrible Design

GUCCI It's difficult to understand how anyone involved in production failed to see that this $890 turtleneck balaclava screamed... BLACKFACE! After social media exploded with outrage, Gucci apologized and pulled the sweater off the market. GRAGKED.COM

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Gambling and Entertainment

Gambling is a $40 billion dollar a year industry in the United States. 4 5 10 23 8 30 LL 9E 13 27 9 34 c LV o CRACKED.COM The revenue that is gener- ated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.

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The RZA

CRACKED.COM CARA CELEBRITY ANIME FANS THE RZA The Wu Tang Clan was inspired by Asian media, so it's not surprising that The RZA has respect for anime. Не composed the soundtrack to Afro Samurai, and has used Dragon Ball Z as an allegory for growing up black in the U.S.A.

Source: Wired

Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man: No Way Home

Andrew Garfield improvised the I love you line in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. The actor revealed that the line was all him being most sincere in telling Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland how he felt about them. CRACKED.COM

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Judd Apatow

WHENEVER POSSIBLE, JUDD APATOW TRIES TO CAST PEOPLE FROM FREAKS AND GEEKS CRACKED.CO Apatow says, It's a way of refusing to accept that the show was canceled.

Source: Vanity Fair and look at any of his movies

Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci's most famous Goodfellas scene was based on a story he told about being a waiter when he was a kid. While Pesci was on the set of Goodfellas

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