28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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You might think a stint at a community college would be a great time, but that's only because Chang and the gang made it seem so fun. We suspect there'd be a lot more actual learning involved, and it doesn't seem like any of the learning would be about awesome little TV tidbits. Unless there happens to be a course on random TV facts. Man, that'd be right up our alley.

Plus, thinking back on Community, we don't think we'd be too thrilled about all the paintball. Have you ever been shot by one of those things? 

Loki

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE FINALE ALMOST DIDN'T END ON A CLIFFHANGER. LOK The show was originally supposed to have only one season. The cliffhanger with Loki coming back to an unfamiliar TVA was developed while the production was on a hiatus during the Pandemic. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

GRACKED COM King's Landing palace gardens from Game of Thrones are actually the Trsteno Arboretum in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Grey's Anatomy

GREY'S ANATOMY was almost Complications. ABC hated the show's title so much that they tried changing it several times. At first they wanted to either call it Doctors or Surgeons. Just two weeks before its premiere, they tried to rename it Complications. CRACKED.COM

Orange is The New Black

Actors Who Weren't Always In On The Joke Natasha Lyonne rose from tabloid fodder to acclaim. After a string of '90s hits, Lyonne became known more for her speedball addiction. Her comeback role of a drug addict in Orange Is the New Black leaned right into her bad girl image and got her an Emmy nomination. CRACKED

The Muppets

The host was allowed to request to appear in a sketch with their favorite Muppet. Miss Piggy was the most requested, followed by Animal. CRACKED.COM

Mr. Magoo

Mr. Magoo CRACKED COME Animation director John Hubley created the bumbling grump as a combo of comedian W. C. Fields and his own uncle.

Bond on TV

DARRY NETSON 1950 DA CHRISTI The first actor who played James Bond was BARRY NELSON. Many people think Sean Connery was the first to portray the 007 character. Not so. Nelson did it first in a 1954 TV adaptation for the show, Climax! The Bond story was taken from the first book, Casino Royale, but saw an American version of Bond in Nelson working for the Combined Intelligence Agency. CRACKED.COM

Lorne Michaels

CRACKED THE WOMEN WHO WORK FOR LORNE MICHAELS ARE REFERRED TO AS LORNETTES. Michaels is married to a former Lornette, as is The Office creator, Greg Daniels.

In Living Color

DAMON WAYANS IN LIVING COLOR STAR CRACKED.COM WITH LIMITED SNL STAGE TIME, WAYANS GOT HIMSELF FIRED BY TURNING A BACKGROUND CHARACTER INTO A FLAMBOYANT FOP. НЕ BLEW UP ON 'IN LIVING COLOR,' WITH FOUR EMMY NOMS LEADING TO A STRING OF SUCCESSFUL MOVIE COMEDIES.

The Simpsons

Iconic by random chance Homer Simpson saying s-m-r-t In the Simpsons episode Homer Goes to College, Dan Castellaneta mistakenly said s-m-r-t instead of smart, but the show's creators thought it was so funny that they kept it in the episode. CRACKED

Peanuts

DOC AL IN I Executives hated a classic Peanuts feature. They didn't like that little kids spoke grown-up lines like We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know. CRACKED.COM

South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE ART STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY TERRY GILLIAM. SOUTH PARK The art style of the earlier seasons was inspired by Gilliam's Monty Python animation. Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone were huge Python fans since childhood. CRACKED.COM

The Handmaid's Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MARGARET ATWOOD DIDN'T THINK CANADA WOULD BE A BELIEVABLE SETTING. THE HANDMAID'S TALE BILEAD MAN NORTHWEST NORTHERN EASTERN MIDWEST SOUTHWEST EASTERN COLONIES COLONIES ATLANTIC EAST WESTERN CENTRAL COLONIES SOUTH EAST GULF SOUTHERN NATELINO COLEMIS DISTRICT MERK una 19 76 REPUBLIC в REGAR WE CONFUKTE Despite being from Canada, Atwood decided to set the story in the U.S. because she felt Canada was too diverse to ever get enough people on board with such an extreme ideology. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

According to producer/writer Sam Simon, Michael Jackson agreed to do a guest role on The Simpsons on the condition that the script be rewritten to give his character more scenes with Bart. The writers came up with a sleepover. The episode has since been pulled from syndication. CRACKED.COM

Mad Men

PEGGY OLSON came a long way, baby MAD MEN CRACKED.COM At least Peggy's evolution from mousy secretary to Boss Lady was spread out over several seasons. From the outside, she ends up becoming an almost completely different character by the end of Mad Men. In this case, the growth feels earned.

Schitt's Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK Precious Love As the Rose family walked down the aisle during the series finale, the Jazzagals sing Precious Love, the same song that played during the Happy Anniversary episode in season 2 when the Roses said I love you to each other.

American Idol

Anthony Hopkins is a huge fan of American Idol. Не even wanted to turn the show into a movie. In particular, he was a big fan of judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson, but for different reasons. Не liked how Randy was fair but upbeat with every contestant. At the same time, he loved how Cowell was so brutally honest. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN keeps saying no CRACKED.COM Remember when Sting dug Bart out of the well? Written for the Boss. Staff tried to bribe him with a Simpsons jacket. Still no. Matt Groening tried for The Simpsons Movie. We keep asking him and he keeps turning us down!

Stranger Things

The original title was Montauk. MONTAUK An epic rate of sci fi horror CRACKED.COM

Doug

DOUG started as a fruit salesman CRACKED.COM Before he starred in one of Nickelodeon's first cartoons, Doug shilled in a commercial for Florida Grapefruit. Не bounced on a pogostick to show that grapefruit juice puts a bounce in your step.

Game of Thrones

For the sound of dragon wings in Game of Thrones, they used leather. Leather jackets, specifically-that, canvas, and a shammy (a new shammy that has never been wet, it has a really nice heavy sound to it, apparently). CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

When Dany burns the temple in Game of Thrones, that wasn't CGI. Even the exterior was practical-they really built the set and burned it, and the flames went up to some 80 feet in the air. CRACKED.COM

The Critic

The Critic THE SIMPSONS CRACKED.COM The suits at FOX pressured them into this sponsored content cameo, in the hopes of juicing The Critic's viewership. Matt Groening was so cheesed, he took his name out of the credits.

Friends

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

Get Smart

CRACKED SORRY ABOUT THAT This expression of regret was popularized by the 1960's show Get Smart. It's one of many of the show's popular catch phrases, like Missed it by that much, and The old (so-and-so) trick. 86

Vanna White

Vanna White WHEEL OF FORTUNE U CRACKED COM PER YEAR OF SHOW $4 million She has worn over 6,500 dresses, never repeating an outfit.

SNL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THEY TALKED ABOUT MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S STEFON AT ONE POINT. As John Mulaney said the film would be kind of like 24 Hour Party People, so like a narrative documentary where he is the correspondent on SNL Weekend Update.

The Crown

CRACKED COM THE CROWN Believe it or not, it took Claire Foy months of training to just be able to say the word one like Queen Elizabeth II does.

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