35 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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35 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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These old facts, their yappy mutt, and their duct-taped green chair might be cramping your brain's style, but we have a feeling that letting them live with it will pay off in the long run. They're a little rough around the edges now, but over time, they'll start softening to your brain's pretentiousness, and your brain will come to forgive their gruff exterior.

And your brain might not think it has anything in common with these TV facts, but TV always finds a way of bringing people (and things) together. If they're into low-brow shows like Family Guy and you're into higher-brow stuff like Frasier, maybe you could meet in the middle with something like Seinfeld. They have a little something about each of those! 

Just put the snootiness aside for one second and give them a read, would ya?

Mr. Rogers

I'm feeding the fish. Mr. Rogers made it a habit to say out loud when he was giving his finned friends food because he received a letter from a young blind fan who would cry if she thought he forgot. CRACKED GON

TV's Inventor

The inventor of the TV was unimpressed by his invention until he watched the moon landing. His wife said, We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, 'Pem, this has made it all worthwhile.' Before then, he wasn't too sure. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Office

Bob Odenkirk was originally cast as Michael Scott. 167 have and WHAT - - NEW JORDAN - 2012 - 7112 from the ABAND OF HERIT 123RF a a - BILLY ALT MARUT - - MARCH 2810 Steve Carell's NBC show was canceled after only 4 episodes, leaving Carell free to take over the role. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Parks and Rec

For Parks and Rec, NBC contracted the game designers behind Settlers of Catan to create Cones of Dunshire Although originally a throwaway joke, Mayfair Games eventually created a fully playable version. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

SNL

Zach Galifianakis had a two-week trial run as a writer on Saturday Night Live Tina Fey comforted him after one of his sketches bombed during a table read. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Schitt's Creek

Schitt's Creek's Annie Murphy had $3 in her bank account when she landed the role After two years of not getting any roles and her apartment burning down, Murphy had decided to quit acting only two days before receiving the call that she had gotten the role. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Buffy

CRACKED.COM Tara wasn't always going to stay gone in Buffy. Joss Whedon had a planned ending with her revival that made her cry.

Firefly

CRACKED.COM zac Efron played simon Tam. Efron's first TV role was as a young Doctor Tam in Firefly.

The Sopranos

CRACKED.COM The Sopranos logo has a gun so people wouldn't think it was about opera. The producers were worried the title would mislead audiences, so they made sure the logo clearly conveyed the show's genre. The Sopranos

Homeland

CRACKED COM Halle Berry could have been the star of Homeland. The network really wanted Berry in the starring role, but the show's creators were dead set on Claire Danes (to the point that the character was named Claire in early drafts of the pilot's script).

GoT

CRACKED.COM The Game of Thrones actors were discouraged from reading the books. According to lain Glen (who played Jorah Mormont), David Benioff and D. В. Weiss didn't want the actors to protest any changes to the material. In hindsight, this kind of explains a lot.

The Golden Girls

CRACKED.COM Queen Elizabeth II loved The Golden Girls. The queen was such a fan that she requested the cast to fly out to the London Palladium to perform some scenes from the show in person.

The Office

Jim Halpert is named after Greg Daniels' friend. They have known each other since kindergarten. The real Jim Halpert is a corporate attorney in D.C. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Friends

Friends' working title was Insomnia Cafe. When David Crane and Marta Kauffman were pitching the show, they named their proposal after what would become known as Central Perk. CRACKED.COM

Firefly

CRACKED.COM Firefly is a part of the International Space Station's media library. Astronaut Steven Swanson brought DVDS of the space western to the ISS, and made it a permanent part of the station's entertainment options.

Futurama

José Serve TEQUILA Futurama's Bender has Breakfast Club roots. The partying, heavy-drinking robot is named Bender after Judd Nelson's character in the '80s teen film, John Bender. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

CRACKED.COM Bryan Cranston has a Breaking Bad tattoo. When shooting wrapped for the series, Cranston memorialized his iconic role on his body by having the show's logo tattooed on his finger.

Judge Judy

Judy Sheindlin just set her own salary for Judge Judy. Every three years, she'd discuss her contract over dinner with the president of CBS Television Distribution - which meant she'd write down the number she wanted, put it in an envelope, and give it to him after dinner. The one time he tried to hand her an envelope, she didn't even open it, and told him This isn't a negotiation. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Brady Bunch

CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom.

Buffy

CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002.

Cheers

CRACKED.COM Cheers Ted Danson went to bartending school. Danson took bartending classes in order to become a mixologist, thinking it would help the show. By his own admission, he's the world's worst bartender.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

GRAGKED.COM Curb Your Enthusiasm The show proved a man was innocent of murder. Juan Catalan was a suspect, but he claimed that he was at the Dodgers Stadium watching the game. Не was doubted until he showed up in the background of a Curb episode that was shot there on that day.

A Different World

GRAGKED.COM A Different World The writing staff went on field trips to black colleges. Producer/director Debbie Allen would take the writers to Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, for them to capture that experience. under

Family Guy

CRACKED.COM Family Guy Chris' voice is based on Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. Seth Green used to do that really silly voice when screwing around with his friends, and decided to use it while shooting the script.

Frasier

Kelsey Grammer got Emmy nominations as Frasier Crane for three shows. Grammer was nominated for Cheers and Frasier multiple times-but in 1992, he was nominated for the same role in Wings. CRACKED.COM

GoT

Game of Thrones The furs were dolled-up IKEA rugs. In spite of having a multi-million dollar budget, the production wanted to save a few bucks in the costume department. So the costumers fashioned Jon Snow's furry robe and other Winterfell costumes out of $79 rugs from IKEA. CRACKED.COM

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM IN THE TV SERIES, GAME THRONES GAME OF THRONES CATELYN STARK DIÉS, AND STAYS DEAD. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN IN THE NOVEL, A STORM A STORM OF SWORDS, SHE IS OF SWORDS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AS A REVENGE ZOMBIE!

Orange is the New Black

Netflix's Orange is the New Black is much deeper than the memoir it's based on. ORANGE MY YEAR IS THE IN A WOMEN'S NEW PRISON BLACK The show used Piper, as an entry point into the prison system, and created its own world from there. Which was a good move, because pretty much nothing happened in prison to the real-life Piper (whom the book is all about). The most interesting things that happened to her were an argument about iceberg lettuce, and having to get rid of a screwdriver she took by mistake. CRACKED.COM

Letterman

David 2009 Letterman CRACKED.COM revealed to his studio audience that he was being blackmailed. The Late Show host was being extorted by a CBS executive for $2 million for having affairs with female staffers, specifically Stephanie Birkitt, who made appearances on the show for over 10 years. Letterman did not pay the money; instead he chose to come clean on his show.

Mulholland Drive on TV

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was intended to be a pilot for a TV show for ABC, but it was ultimately rejected due to its violence. Не later added an ending and turned it into a critically- acclaimed feature film. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

The pilot led to the smallest Truth sitcom order in TV history. SEASONS 1 & 2 Seinfeld DVD VILLE - After initially turning them down, NBC picked up four episodes. Larry David wasn't sure they'd even be able to fill that order: my initial reaction was not joy CRACKED.COM

Crossroads

Crossroads CRACKED COM A wildly successful British soap opera in the 70's and 80's, its short-lived revival in the early 2000's used its finale to claim that it had all been a bored cashier's daydream.

The First Soap Operas

The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Faraway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS CRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV.

TV and Politics

Watching late-night comedy TV increases how much you talk about politics. Political satire was found to be just as effective as regular political news in encouraging discussion among its viewers. CRACKED.COM

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