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

43 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Saturday, November 29, 2025
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Pop culture has a funny way of transforming things. You know the song, “Pop Goes the Weasel?” Of course you do; you probably sang it at preschool with your friends. It was a funny, little nursery rhyme back then. But nowadays, the tune comes off as way creepier and more ominous becuase of its association with jack-in-the-boxes, which have in turn been used to ellicit dread and suspense all throughout pop culture. The song is most notably used in horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's as well as the 2014 thriller Deliver Us From Evil. Perhaps you, too, will find yourself transformed after perusing this collection of pop culture nuggets. 

Almost Human

... TELL US NOW. ALMOST HUMAN Stephen M. says the Karl Urban show had so much potential and cancelled before it really got started. FOX canceled the sci-fi crime drama after one season. CRACKED.COM

Kristen Schaal

Kristen Schaal & Rich Blomquist B E Schaal, a former Daily Show correspondent, and Blomquist, a former Daily Show writer, didn't meet at the late night show. They met one day while working on a pilot for Adult Swim- when Schaal had the stomach flu. GRACKED.COM

source: AV Club

And As We Just Learned, ‘Ass-Eating Choreographer’

what's the deal withGIRLS? Lena Dunham wore ALL THE HATS DIANNY ATHIL Florence Diary GRACKEDCON It's hard to think of another show where a woman took on all the roles: Writer, actor, director, and executive producer.

Hank Hill

Hank Hill pitched himself to the network, MEME fle ykt CRACKEDOON Instead of animating a full pilot, Mike Judge opted to produce a short, no-frills, first-person plea from Hank himself.
Tina Belcher was a boy. CRACKEDCO Comedian Dan Mintz played Daniel Belcher in the pilot, but the brass at Fox said the kids were too similar -. -particularly, brothers Gene and Daniel. Nobody wanted to lose Mintz, though, SO they changed his character's name and exactly nothing else.

Chadwick Boseman

A soap opera gave Chadwick Boseman the boot. ALL MY CHILDREN When Boseman mentioned that his character - a fatherless gang member perhaps -- was a lazy and hollow stereotype, they fired him (and replaced him with Michael B. Jordan).

Source: Insider

David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff CRACKEDCON After Baywatch, he struggled to reach the same level of success in the soap opera scene. He struggled even harder when he

David Cross

DAVID CROSS FOUGHT FOX TO KEEP HIS MUSTACHE IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. According to Cross, Fox had three rules for men in comedy: no baseball caps, no p

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal was hugely influenced by a Scientology -esque spiritual text. A SETH BOOK SETH SPEAKS DESK Serhdictates hiks hHe startling of the universe through channeler lane Roberts RKX KSTGAL JANE ROBERTS Creator Jim Henson was really into Seth Speaks, a book by sci-fi writer Jane Jacobs who claimed that Seth,

Honestly, I get it. This is what good fantasy does to people. Kinda reminds me of Snape Wives. 

Source: Gizmodo

TheDas

CRACKEDGOM TheDAS was an acronym for The Dragon Age Setting, used in BioWare's Then forums while they someone came up with proposed a good name for

James Bond Theme

In the 1950s composer Monty Norman wrote a song about an Indian man sneezing for a musical titled A House For Mr Biswas. The musical was abandoned, SO

Run DMC

The trend where RAPPers constantly name drop famous products in their songs began with Run DMC. After Run DMC's 'My Adidas' became a hit, they sent a

Scream

Kevin Williamson wrote the genre- revolutionizing script for SCREAM over a long weekend. Inspired by severe poverty, he drove out to the desert and is

Scream is the kind of movie that would be born from a man's solitary trip to the desert. 

TMNT

T confe hartet of party dudes, 13 eem are too oiolent for the UK CRAGA TEENAGE MUTANTNINJA TVRLES Due to guidellines in the televised depiction of vio

"Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" does not really have the same ring to it. I wonder if that affected its popularity in the UK?

Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks CHRIS GAIN E S A rare example of an actively beloved musician ruining his music career with more music, Brooks inexplicably released an a

Disney Renaissance

The '90s are 1994 1995 15 1992 1993 1994 sometimes 199 called the Disney the 92 Renaissance. 1993 1994 1995 1996 999 1991 1997 It began in late 1989 with the wildly successful The Little Mermaid, 199 reached its peak in popularity with The Lion King in 1994, and ended in 1999 with Tarzan. 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s

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Rubik, the Amazing Cube

Disastrous Comedy 1983 Rubik, the Amazing Cube He-Man was a highly successful show based on a toy, because look at the characters they had to work with. Giving a Rubik's Cube an alien-like face and random powers only lasted 13 strange episodes, and did nothing to help hawk the product. CRACKED

If I were a kid and saw this, I think it would actually lead me to fear Rubik's Cubes.

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Transformers Animated Series

CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? messed up Bob Hoskins long after filming ended. He kept hallucinating things around him because, over eight months, he'd trained himself to see cartoons that weren't really there. CRACKED.COM

I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But Bob Hoskin didn't have to tango with schizophrenia for this movie…

Source: Express.co.uk

The Road Runner

THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK CEXCEPT FOR MEEP MEEP] THERE WAS A NO DIALOGUE RULE IN ROAD RUNNER CARTOONS. OUR HEROES COULD ONLY MAKE TWO SOUNDS: 'MEEP MEEP' OR YOWLS OF PAIN. FOR SOME REASON, WILE E. COULD TALK IN BUGS BUNNY CARTOONS.

Mr. Magoo

Mr. Magoo CRACKED COM Animation director John Hubley created the bumbling grump as a combo of comedian W. C. Fields and his own uncle.

The Force Awakens

You'd think Dejarik would be CG by The Force Awakens. It's not. It's still stop-action animation. The original props had deteriorated, though, SO spec

A combination of practical effects and CGI will always yield better results than just using a computer for everything. 

SpongeBob

Stephen Hillenburg graduated with a degree in Natural Resources Planning, then went on to teach marine biology and study animation. A comic book entit

Animation

Animation dates way back to the stone age, using only charcoal, flickering flames, and neuroscience. 21,000 years ago, prehistoric artists would draw

Hyenas

The hierarchy displayed by the hyenas in The Lion King is based on real hyena traits. The trio of the spotted hyenas is led by Shenzi, the female one.

1940s in America

1946 was the all-time high CRACKEDcO for American moviegoing. In that year, more than 80 million Americans went to the movies every week. UIBERTY FILM

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch's Mulhollan Drive was intended to be a pilot for a TV show for ABC, but it was ultimately rejected due to its violence. He later added an

Yes, it was supposed to follow Audrey Horne's journey to make it big in Hollywood. 

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