31 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 21, 2025

A little something for that mean case of the procrastinations
31 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 21, 2025
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Thought your lunch break would be a lot better than this, didn't you? We know that feeling all too well. You roll your eyes at whatever task your mean ol' boss threw at you, you click on over to something mindless, and boom… utter boredom. Some little procrastination getaways are so boring that you might as well just keep working. 

Luckily, we've got something to turn this around. Not only is this list of TV facts highly entertaining, it's also jam-packed with pretty useful information! You'll have fun wasting time, and you'll have legitimately interesting TV tidbits for that water cooler talk. 

Be careful though. They're good enough to turn your short break into an hours-long TV fact-seeking pilgrimage. Don't go getting fired over some TV facts now, okay?

SNL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CATHERINE O'HARA WAS AN SNL CAST MEMBER (BUT ONLY TECHNICALLY). She never appeared in an episode - she joined SNL after she was done shooting SCTV, a show that was supposed to end with that season. But it got renewed, so she quit SNL and went back to SCTV.

Game of Thrones

The Paramonovius nightking is a bee fly that's characteristically similar to a certain villain from Game of Thrones. Like the Night King, the insect only shows up during the winter and has a crown of thorn-like spines on its head. According to the scientist who studied it, it also zombifies other species in the name of reproduction. CRACKED.COM

The Fresh Prince

Will Smith starred in The FROSH PriNCP of Bel-Air because he owed the IRS $2.8 million. Smith became a Hip Hop star at a young age, which led to some reckless spending habits. Luckily, Quincy Jones threw him a life-preserver in the form of a TV show. For the first three seasons, Smith gave the IRS 70% of his paycheck. CRACKED.COM

SNL Mexico

SNL around the world SATORUHI NIGHT MÉXICO Kickstarted in 2013, Saturday Night Live México was consulted on by American SNL alum Horatio Sanz. It was officially canceled in 2017. CRACKED.COM

SNL Shorts

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DIRECTED BEN AFFLECK 2000 CRACKED.COM POST-BOOGIE NIGHTS, SNL FAN PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON WROTE A FEW SKETCHES FOR THE SHOW. НЕ ALSO DIRECTED 'FANATIC,' WITH AFFLECK STARRING AS ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S BIGGEST, BRACES-WEARING FAN. RUMOR HAS IT НЕ MET WIFE MAYA RUDOLPH DURING HIS SNL TENURE.

Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers kept in touch with his limo driver for the rest of his life. CRACKED.COM When Mr. Rogers heard his driver was going to be waiting outside while Rog- ers was in a meeting, he asked the driver to come in. On the way back they passed the driver's home and Rogers met his family.

Peppa Pig

WEIRD WORLD The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom praised Peppa Pig in a speech. In the same speech to industry leaders, he kind of made comparisons between himself and Moses, and mimicked the noise of a car. CRACKED.COM

Homeland

Easter Eggs for Polyglots الو منور كافكا ب Homeland Homeland is watermelon. The show hired people who knew Arabic to decorate a set with graffiti. The artists decided to write what they really thought of Homeland, like, This show does not represent the views of the artists, or Homeland is watermelon (which in Arabic is meaner than in English). CRACKED.COM

NewsRadio

jon andy LOVITZ DICK CRACKED.COM The two feuded on the set of NewsRadio, but patched things up. That was until drunk Dick confronted Lovitz at his own restaurant and told him I put the Phil Hartman curse on you, you're the next to die. The bad blood culminated in a fistfight at a comedy club before a doorman broke it up.

CSI

CSI Kevin Federline CRACKED.COM K Fed played a gang boss (and guy wearing a hat for the first time) named Pig, in an episode called Fannysmackin'.

SummerSlam

SummerSlam 2004 Randy Orton became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion ever. Orton pinned Chris Benoit for the first of multiple world title reigns in his career. Не was only 24 years old. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

2009's Star Trek put in a very subtle nod to the original show. When Pike sits in the captain's chair for the first time, there's a band of light over his eyes - - a reference to the '60s show's mood lighting. CRACKED.COM

It's Always Sunny

Rob McElhenney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was raised by a lesbian couple. McElhenney plays the for- merly homophobic and now out-of-the-closet (and ripped) homosexual charac- ter, Mac. The show has used gay marriage to illustrate America's hipocracy re- garding marriage equality. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Kardashians

Kim Kardashian's father Robert wasn't just OJ's lawyer, but also kind of a celeb. Не was basically OJ's confidant and even sheltered OJ at his house, so he became a household name in the '90s just like OJ was. CRACKED.COM

Kung Fu for Yellow Pages

Celebrity Endorsements David Carradine was a Sage of Phone Books. Yellow I Book i - - - - - The star of Kung Fu and Kill Bill promoted enlightenment through the Yellow Book in 2006, even though Google had long replaced phone books. CRACKED.COM

Lifetime

Good Grief Lifetime 575 A 2014 reality show about 3,001 a family-owned funeral home that was scrapped when 8 rotting bodies were discovered by the landlord, and the owners were sent to jail. CRACKED.COM

Law & Order: SVU

Characters that weren't supposed to last Odafin Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU Ice T was only brought in as a replacement for four episodes, but tested so well that he became a series regular for over 20 years. CRACKED.COM

Power Rangers

CRACKED.COM Spider-Man basically invented the Power Rangers. As you probably know, Spider-Man has a giant robot in the Japanese series from the 1970s. As it turns out, giant transforming robots were a new thing back then, and Spider-Man's success convinced Japan to try it in other shows - eventually leading to Power Rangers.

Conan The Barbarian

CONAN THE BE BARBARIAN CRACKED COM With hit 90s fantasies like 'Hercules' and 'Xena,' producers decided to reach back to the 1982 movie for a 1997 TV show 'Conan the Adventurer.' A 1992 animated series with the same name lasted 2 seasons, but 97's live action show was a flop and cancelled after 22 episodes.

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.

Boy Meets World

Cory & Topanga BOY MEETS WORLD Danielle Fishel confirmed that she and Ben Savage went on one sorta date when they were 16 to see if they had off-screen chemistry. They decided they were more like family, but hey, as TGIF fanatics, we're counting it. CRACKED.COM

Full House

FULL HOUSE CRACKED.COM Through its 8 seasons, the TGIF hit averaged 9.6 to 15.9 million viewers per episode, but the series finale had 24.3 viewers. Even though John Stamos said, When we got canceled, we knew like a week before, so we thought we were just doing a regular last show of the season.That finale still had a solid ending that fans were happy with.

Sealab 2021

The Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021 was started thanks to a theft. Creator Adam Reed worked at Cartoon Network for a while, and stole the master tapes for Sealab 2020 - and used those to pitch Sealab 2021 to Adult Swim. CRACKED.COM

Batman: The Animated Series

Kevin Conroy's favorite moment recording Batman: The Animated Series was in the episode Perchance to Dream. Batman's voice actor found that playing Bruce Wayne's father was a fun challenge, and the episode as a whole was a way to delve into the superhero's damaged psychology. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated George Takei Takei portrayed Wong, the MCU's current Sorcerer Supreme,in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

Captain Planet

LeVar Burton, AKA Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, voiced Captain Planet's Kwame. CRACKED.COM

DuckTales

CRACKED.COM Don Cheadle voiced Donald Duck in the season one finale of DuckTales when Donald swallowed a voice modulator that made him able to speak with a normal voice.

The Simpsons

Our favorite yellow family has broken a lot of records THE ОчFF BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS It holds the records for longest-running animated sitcom, the most Emmy Awards won for an animated TV series, the most guest stars featured in an animated series, the most People's Choice Awards by an animated series, and the most liked TV show on Facebook. CRACKED.COM

Superman

Clancy Brown AUDITIONED FOR Clark Kent SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES CRACKED.COM Brown first auditioned for the Man of Steel, but the role was man-of-stolen by Tim Daly. Brown had to settle for being the go-to voice of Lex Luthor in all things animated.

Adventure Time

Both the old and adult version of Finn on Adventure Time was voiced by none other than... Jonathan Frakes aka William т. Riker of the Star Trek franchise. GRAGKED.COM

Animaniacs

The Animaniacs were ducks at first. The Warner siblings were ANIMANIACS conceived as cartoon ducks. This was dropped in pre- production because TV had too many ducks already. CRACKED.COM

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