29 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 22, 2025

Cozy up with these on a long winter's night
29 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 22, 2025
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If you happen to be in a place that doesn't have a cold winter, just know that we envy you so much that there's even a hint of hate in there. We just felt some bone-chilling winds on the stroll into the office, and it feels like nothing can get our body temperature back up.

The only remedy we could think of was knitting these TV fact patches into this quilt of a list. Normally, the higher-ups like it when we type some text onto a digital image, but they don't know what it's like out in this frigid bullpen. Must be nice in those cozy corner offices, huh?! 

This toasty list is for the winter-suffering TV-fact seekers who need to warm their brains and bodies. Enjoy. 

Doctor Strange on TV

CRACKED COM The 2016 Doctor Strange isn't the superhero's first live-action film. The 1978 Doctor Strange TV movie was initially created for CBS as a TV pilot, but was ultimately rejected.

Lost

Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. 0 ST CAST AWAY CRACKED.COM

Chernobyl

CRACKED.COM Chernobyl is connected to Scary Movie. Craig Mazin, author of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie, created Chernobyl. RESIDENT SALVA MEN ARE START FROM MARS ALIENS ARE LIVIN' FROM URANUS DOWN ENEMA HERE

It's A Wonderful Life on TV

It became a Christmas classic thanks to a lapsed copyright and TV. RIA - 04 Condition The film accidentally became public domain after Republic Pictures forgot to renew the copyright for it in 1974. This allowed every TV station to play the movie whenever they wanted, until 1993, when Paramount managed to secure the rights for the film. CRACKED.COM

How To Train Your Dragon

Pop culture inspirations House of the Dragon Director Greg Yaitanes watched HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON to prepare for the dragon fight inthe Season 1 finale. Не took inspiration from the film's cinematography for the scene. CRACKED

Home Improvement

Home Improvement BUDDIES CRACKED.COM Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer made a cameo on Tool Time that became an instant classic. They were rewarded with a spinoff starring Chappelle and... some other guy. Breuer was replaced after a few rehearsals, and the show was cancelled after 5 episodes.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad took many, many style cues straight from The Godfather. In particular, Breaking Bad's use of color filters and different lighting schemes for different scenes, to give each one its own look and feel, is based on The Godfather. CRACKED.COM

Grey's Anatomy

Ellen Pompeo didn't earn as much as Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy. Beattle - I At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than him just on principle, because the show is Grey's Anatomy and I'm Meredith Grey. They wouldn't give it to me. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation smelled awful. The crew wore spandex uniforms for the first two seasons, and spandex retains smells very, very well. Which is a problem when people wearing all spandex are trapped in an enclosed space together for the better part of a day. Mercifully, they got wool uniforms in Season 3. CRACKED.COM

GoT BTS

CHOOSING THE NEXT RULER OF WESTEROS PRODUCTION GAME OF IS A TOUGH JOB... THRONES 200 00 ROL so the Stark kids needed to take a break during filming. We can't believe they decided the guy wearing no pants should be king. CRACKED.COM

Mythbusters

JAMIE HYNEMAN ASKED ADAM SAVAGE TO CO-HOST THE SHOW WITH HIM - - 2% SALE fund Uniter FRANC Fit MASS Dist. a Passals N - and Endo MYTHBUSTERS اليوم CHEF CHANGE CRACKED COM Hyneman asked Savage because he believed he wasn't interesting enough to host the show by himself.

Ted Lasso

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BRETT GOLDSTEIN WASN'T SUPPOSED TO ACT IN THE SHOW. TED LASSO DUBAIAIR Goldstein was originally hired as a writer for the show. While writing the show, he realized how much he loved the character of Roy and decided to audition for the role. CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

There were guns on the set of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That On Television. YOUCANT DOTHAT ON TELEVISION Show creator Roger Price kept multiple guns in the studio. At one point, he held a gun in his hand and told crew members that, if they gave the kids on the show drugs, he'd shoot them. CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE RUSSIAN'S FATE WAS ALMOST REVEALED. Sopranos According to Tony Sirico, a scene was shot where his character would leave a bar and find the Russian standing outside on the corner. David Chase didn't like the scene and eventually decided to remove it.

Sesame Street

Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. One day on the Sesame Street set, Henson asked Oz if he could take a picture of him naked - and Oz said yes. That Christmas, Henson gave Oz an elaborately detailed sculpture of Bert - - but with hollow pupils that contained naked photos of Oz. CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

The ThunderCats

The ThunderCats voice actors would swear in the booth all the time. They did it to goof off in between recording lines about things like the Sword of Omens or the Eye of Thundera --and, since it was the '80s, they didn't expect anyone except them and the audio engineers would hear those outtakes. CRACKED.COM

Suing CBS and NBC

Actor ED LAUTER died of mesothelioma In 2014, his widow Mia Lauter sued CBS and NBC, claiming that her late husband was exposed to asbestos in their studios. Because he worked in so many movies and shows, his exposure to asbestos was off-the-charts high. CRACKED

30 Rock

Jon Hamm auditioned for the role of Jack Donaghy 3B Не had to settle for playing Liz Lemon's pretty boyfriend. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

The First TV Drama

Hobbies older than we knew 1928 TV shows In 1928, Izetta Jewell starred in the first TV drama, The Queen's Messenger, based on a one-act play. It was a big step for TV when radio was the main source of dramatic entertainment. CRACKED

The Brady Bunch

Robert Reed, AKA Mike Brady, thought The Brady Bunch was a waste of his talents. Не was a Shakespearean actor, and thought TV as such was beneath him, and sitcoms were beneath TV. CRACKED.COM

Betty White

AT A GLANCE BETTY WHITE Her first TV role was a live show, five and half hours long, six days a week. Her costar Al Jarvis, previously a radio announcer, hadn't been on TV before either. CRACKED.COM

It's Always Sunny

Danny DeVito's casting saved the show from being canceled after the first season The network demanded star power. Luckily, DeVito's kids were fans of the show so he joined on. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Ted Lasso

TeD LASSO'S HOMAGE TO Scorsese's CLASSIC Season 2's Beard After Hours episode pays homage to the 1985 dark comedy After Hours and drew inspiration from the film to create the entire plot of the episode. CRACKED.COM

The Office

COMEDY NERD GRAGKED.COM Phyllis Smith Cast The Office NETFLIA I RT II E O The Office A Phyllis Smith was originally a casting director for the show and was pulled in to play Phyllis because the directors liked her so much. Thank you producers, I live off of the way Phyllis says Popkern.

It's Always Sunny

It's Always Sunny is the longest-running live-action sitcom. ball DENNY MUFFLER CENTE Despite this, it's only received three Emmy award nominations, all for stunt coordination. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke, AKA Daenerys, had two brain aneurysms. And she founded an aneurysm charity - it's called SameYou, and it focuses on research to help uncover the cause of aneurysms and on support for people recovering from aneurysms. CRACKED.COM

TV Meteorologists

TV Meteorologists wear wet suits. PER LIDE If they need to report from a snow storm, meteorologists will wear wet suits and heat wraps like ThermaCare to stay warm for long amounts of time. CRACKED.COM

Commercial Firsts

The first network condom commercial 1991 CRACKED.COM The big networks wouldn't air an ad for jimmy hats until Fox aired a Trojan spot that reminded us that these days, some pretty terrible things are happening to some really nice people.

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