30 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 28, 2025

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30 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 28, 2025
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What ever happened to TV dinners? I guess fast food and Uber Eats has made eating out pretty convenient, and we no longer have to hoard frozen meals in our freezers. Sure, some of us still keep an emergency pizza or a Trader Joe's mac-and-cheese bowl tucked away in case of emergency, but the classic, three-compartment tray just isn't as popular as it used to be. 

But hey, they haven't been scrubbed from the face of the Earth, either! If you're feeling nostalgic, you could stop by your local grocery store, pick out the most appetizing Hungry-Man frozen meal, pop it in the microwave, and scroll through these historical TV facts like it's the 1960s. 

Medication

You never see television characters taking daily medication. Apparently, in TV Land, nobody has high blood pressure or anxiety. CRAUN

This is mostly true, unless their mental health is some kind of plot point. Think Mr. Robot. 

Star Trek

Chekov was added to Star Trek to attract young viewers. CRACKED.COM Pavel Chekov did not ар- pear on 'Star Trek' until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees.

Crusader Rabbit

The First Cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT 1950's Crusader Rabbit was the first animation designed for television. One producer would later create The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. CRACKED.COM

The Admiral Broadway Revue

The television show The Admiral Broadway Revue was canceled because it was too popular. CRACKED.COM It had been sponsored by a TV manufacturer who couldn't keep up with the demand for new television sets.

Game of Thrones

HBO ALMOST SUED NIKOLAJ OSTER-WALDAU OVER A PRANK. In between one of the earlier Game of Thrones seasons, Waldau sent the production team an old pictu

Oh, that really could have backfired and cost him an arm… 

Digital Spy

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph An ancient Egyptian Game of Thrones that was ultimately scrapped by FOx... for being too similar to Game of Thrones.
Source: EW

3LW

Wonder what happened to 3LW? Ever seen Cheetah Girls? Two of the 3LW girls went on to become a part of the Disney Channel Original Movie's girl group The Cheetah Girls. CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon Cartoons

30 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 28, 2025

Wow, so many iconic shows made that year! It was a year of the goat, if anyone's curious and superstitious.

Source: TimeToast

Gravity Falls

90's tv series Twin Peaks was a major influence on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls, which is why creator Alex Hirsch contacted Agent Cooper himself, Kyle MacLachlan,, to play the Bus Driver in the series finale The role was only 3 lines long

The Good Wife

Behind-the-scenes Drama The Good Wife Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi couldn't be in the same room. Green screen was needed for the emotional final scene between main characters Kalinda and Alicia, because the actresses reportedly hated each other, according to crew members. CRACKED.COM

How do you even get hired again after refusing to, well, act? 

Source

Emily’s Reasons Why Not

CANCELED RIGHT AWAY EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT ABC committed to a sitcom starring Heather Graham without even seeing its pilot. After the pilot aired, programming chief Steve McPherson said It's not going to get better, and immediately canceled it. CRACKED

Sony Pictures Television

Vulture

Genre Switch on 'Desperate Housewives'

Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM

Source: Forbes

Wayne Brady

The Wayne Brady Show CRACKED.COM Wayne Brady was absolutely crushing it on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and ABC thought they had a superstar on their hands. They gave him his own show, first as a prime time variety show, later moving it to daytime. Despite winning a bunch of Daytime Emmy Awards, it only lasted 3 seasons.

I never heard about this show, but Wayne Brady was definitely my favorite on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Rob Mac

Rob McElhenney had a nightmare that inspired the show. Glenn Howerton describes, The show started as a night terror, basically. A late-night sweating station. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED COM

Source: EW

Network TV

30 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, November 28, 2025

The Robert Taylor Show

The Robert Taylor Show A 1963 drama based on real stories from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's official files. The network rea

True Crime

A BIG FAN OF TRUE CRIME? DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE NOT A WEIRDO CPROBABLY. YOU'RE JUST A CURIOUS PROBLEM SOLVER WITH A MORAL COMPASS. OR SO THE EXPERTS THEO

We just love problem solving and planning ways to escape unimaginable horrors. 

Source: Bustle.

Friends

CRACKED The FR.I.EN.P E gang was almost not there for you if test audiences got their way. NBC Research did a pilot run of the show and found that aud

Was I an original testing audience memeber? 'Cause same…

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