31 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 4, 2025

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31 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 4, 2025
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GoT

For Game of Thrones, Charles Dance learned how to skin a deer. Before filming a scene where Tywin skins a deer, the showrunners asked Dance, Are you a vegetarian, Charles? Не said he wasn't, so they brought in a butcher to show him how to skin a deer and drop its guts into a bucket. For two days after shooting, the smell didn't leave Dance's hands. CRACKED.COM

Midnight Mass

The Netflix show Midnight Mass is an extremely personal project, it turns out. It was heavily inspired by creator Mike Flanagan's Catholic upbringing, and he wanted to explore his own views of faith and religion with it. CRACKED.COM

Family Matters

CRACKED.COM Family Matters STEVE URKEL WAS NAMED AFTER A FRIEND OF THE SHOW'S CREATOR. As a joke, Michael Warren gave a one-off character a slightly altered form of his pal Steve Erkel's name. Urkel's unexpected popularity haunted the poor Erkel for many years.

Will and Grace

There are only three sitcoms where each of the main cast has won an Emmy. The Golden Girls, All in the Family, and Will and Grace are the only sitcoms where every performer in the main cast won at least one Emmy. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Full House

An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM

Home Improvement

HOME IMPROVEMENT CRACKED.COM After 8 seasons, we got to see Wilson's full face. The ratings had slipped dramatically in the last few seasons, losing nearly 60% of its audience. On average, 15 million viewers were tuning in, but the series finale on May 25, 1999 brought in 35.5 million viewers.

Ellen

Ellen FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE CRACKED.COM Ellen, a show that These Friends of was cancelled for Mine, a show being too gay about a definitely just one season straight woman after the and these friends protagonist came of hers. out.

That '70s Show

THAT 70S SHOW CHEAP TRICK di - DIDITAL CRACKED.COM INDITALLY RECO MAS That 70s Song began as In the Street by the legendary Big Star. A cover for Season 1 was performed by Griffin, but Cheap Trick's version became the iconic one. The repeated We're all right lyric called back to Cheap Trick's hit Surrender.

GoT

lain Glen says that the pit fight sequence was his best day on the Game of Thrones set. His daughter was there to watch him, and the director let her yell action. CRACKED.COM

The Fonz

Ауууууу! TIMELESSLY COOL HENRY WINKLER CRACKED COM This was the catchphrase of his defining role, The Fonz, and Winkler got it from a sport he loved: horse riding.

Welcome Back Kotter

CRACKED UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE When John Travolta's character Vinnie Barbarino uses this sassy, sing-songy line, he kind of means Shove it, Up yours, and Whatever all rolled into one. WELCOME BACK KOTTER

I Love Lucy

I LOVE LUCY, CBS The cast's wardrobe, as well as the set and props, were all shades of gray to make sure that the show looked good in black and white. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

LEVAR BURTON WAS A HUGE ORIGINAL STAR TREK FAN. Не worked with a producer on the series (who later would get him an audition) who he grilled for behind-the-scenes stories. CRACKED.COM

Schitt's Creek

Catherine O'Hara rewrote her dialogue (using specialized dictionaries). CRACKED.COM She decided early on I don't want to sound like a human. In the first season, her makeup artist gave her Foyle's Philavery: A Treasure of Unusual Words, which she would consult for rewrites. She didn't share it with the Levys until season 5.

Stranger Things

As many as 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things series. CRACKED.COM One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.

The Clone Wars

They basically stuck a fictional version of George Lucas in The Clone Wars. The character in question was Baron Papanoida-who was played by Lucas himself in Revenge of the Sith in a cameo, but got a much bigger role in The Clone Wars. CRACKED.COM

Game Shows

The first African American presidential secretary was announced on a game show. $ MR. DALY Instead of letting the world know about his appointment through a boring press conference, Lyndon Johnson wanted to use What's My Line?, a hit game show where people guessed what job guests had. The secretary, Geraldine Whittington, said OK, and history was made. CRACKED.COM

The Office

At one point, they wanted Mike Judge to do the American version of The Office. They sent him the British version, along with some of its reviews, one of which said The Office succeeds where movies like Office Space failed --and, apparently, that's part of why he passed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Grinch

The Grinch was made green for the TV special. But the sound wasn't sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! It couldn 't be so! But it WAS merry! VERY! In the original book, he was black and white. CRACKED.COM

The Handmaid's Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOSEPH FIENNES REFUSED TO FILM A SCENE. THE HANDMAID'S TALE The script for season two originally featured a scene in which Commander Waterford rapes his wife Serena. Fiennes says he went out on a limb to get the scene removed because it didn't track well with him. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: TNG

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

NCIS

CIS NCIS' Jethro and Abby stopped filming together because of a dog. Jethro's actor Mark Harmon kept bringing his dog to set, but the dog attacked a crew member - - who then needed 15 stitches. Harmon somehow didn't think he should leave the dog at home, so Abby's actress Pauley Perrette stood up to him and told him to do just that. Which led to a feud, and they came to a sort-of agreement to never film scenes together again. CRACKED.COM

Lethal Weapon TV

Clayne Crawford made an assistant director for the Lethal Weapon TV show quit on the spot. On a location shoot, the noise from people in a nearby public pool drove Crawford (who played Martin Riggs) nuts, so he went into a profanity-filled rant and then started (verbally) tearing into an AD. The AD quit then and there. The studio put a security guard on set to calm things down, but Crawford's dumb outbursts kept coming and they eventually fired him. CRACKED.COM

Freaks and Geeks

SHIA LABEOUF AUDITIONED FOR NEIL SCHWEIBER CRACKED.COM Before he was on Even Stevens, LaBeouf auditioned for Freaks and Geeks.

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31 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 4, 2025

Seinfeld

Broadway-trained singer Jason Alexander spent about three hours recording George Costanzas' answering machine jingle, trying to get it to sound bad. CRACKED COM

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Montana: Best known for Dana Carvey's SNL Church Lady and also the Unabomber. In season 3 when the gang is at the Cowboy Skyscraper Buffet Americana restaurant in Australia, they sit at the Montana table, with these two figures sketched on top to represent the state. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Freaks and Geeks

JOHN FRANCIS DALEY HAD A CRUSH ON LINDA CARDELLINI CRACKED.COM Не said it was awkward considering they were on-screen brother and sister, but who can blame him?

30 Rock

Tina Fey's first name is Elizabeth, like her character's. Tina comes from her middle name Stamatina. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

It's Always Sunny

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

The Handmaid's Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS ELISABETH MOSS DOESN'T WEAR MAKEUP. THE HANDMAID'S TALE Showrunner Bruce Miller decided against Moss wearing makeup because he felt it would allow the acting to be more direct by making every twitch and twinge visible. CRACKED.COM

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