35 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Monday, November 24, 2025

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35 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Monday, November 24, 2025
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Paul McCartney

A guy got into Paul McCartney's house by saying he was the son of God. Не rang the doorbell and McCartney answered it, and the guy told him he was Jesus Christ. McCartney thought Well, it probably isn't. But if he is, I'm not going to be the one to turn him away, so he let him and gave him a cup of tea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Moon

WAKE WHEN ME IT'S QUITING TIME Sam Rockwell's shirt in Moon telegraphs the twist. Toward the end, we find out that he's one in a long line of clones that get replaced every three years. His shirt says Wake me up when it's quitting time, and that's what every clone does: it wakes up whenever the previous one is forced to quit. CRACKED.COM

Black Panther

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln influenced Black Panther. The challenge scene with M'Baku and T'Challa was directly inspired by it -- Ryan Coogler says he liked how Spielberg made political conversations animated and engaging. CRACKED.COM

Midsommar

Midsommar included a skull-smashing scene that took a few takes. POW! So the team created a self- imploding mechanical skull. The crew needed a solution that would last longer than just one hammering, so they built a head that would implode, then un-smash itself with pneumatic cylinders. And to get the sound right, the foley dude smashed a severed pig's head. CRACKED.COM

Interstellar

Remember the wormhole scene in Interstellar? That was a physical set. The Tesseract, an artificial construct that depicts time as a physical dimension, was an actual three-story set made out of hi-res laser prints, wall projections, and some good old fashioned perspective tricks. Filmmakers swung Matthew McConaughey through the set on a wire. CRACKED.COM

Hip Hop Origins

The 1977 NYC blackout was great for hip hop. CRACKED.COM During 25 hours of chaos, lots of DJ equipment was stolen, and either kept for personal use or sold on the black market. As a result, aspiring hip hop artists suddenly had the hardware to pursue their dreams, and the genre exploded from its native Bronx.

Monkey Island

35 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Monday, November 24, 2025

David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce spent 11 years out-Frasiering Kelsey Grammer. And he also played Hellboy's fussy counterpart. Pierce supplied the voice of Abe Sapie

SCTV

A Canadian comedy show that ran from 1976-1981 called Second City Television better known as SCTV) turned second rate actors into first rate actors in

Laugh-In

A comedy show predicted when the Berlin Wall would fall. In 1969, Laugh-In reported a piece of news from the future about the Berlin Wall being torn d

Homeland

Graffiti artists were asked to decorate the Homeland set. الوطن كافكا تطبيع so they wrote Homeland is racist. Producers of the series, which is notorious for its unflattering depiction of non-white characters, wanted to film scenes that took place in Syria. So they asked set decorators to add Arabic graffiti for authenticity. The artists obliged by writing a number of messages critical of the series on the walls. Nobody noticed until the episode aired. http://www.notey.com/@theintercept unofficial/extemal/7234826/interview-with-heba-yehia- CRACKED.COM

Robert De Niro

CRACKED ROBERT DE NIRO IN MEET THE FOCKERS His prostate cancer was discovered within months of shooting the sequel, and he completed filming while undergoing treatments. After completing treatment, he went right into filming Hide and Seek.

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

Kevin Spacey

CRACKED KEVIN SPACEY'S INTERNATIONAL EMMY FOUNDER AWARD. It was announced that Kevin Spacey would receive this global award in November of 2017, but it was revoked in October after Anthony Rapp's accusations were made public.

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Futurama

Fictional Presidents PRESIDENT Futurama Richard M. Nixon('s head) The Nixon Library was unhappy about the former president's villainous portrayal, and wrote to the show about it. Years later, they asked if they could use Futurama's version for a Nixon in pop culture exhibit. CRACKED.COM

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Sumo Wrestling and Pokemon

WEIRD WORLD In Japan, sumo wrestling is now teaming up with The Pokemon Company. The Company is sponsoring kensho banners, shown at sumo tournaments. The official sumo organization called the collaboration a historic first. CRACKED.COM

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