27 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, December 5, 2025

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27 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, December 5, 2025
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Futurama

THE VERY TITLE OF FUTURAMA IS A NERDY EASTER EGG. Futurama was General Motors' futuristic exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. In that same fair, the public got an early taste of television-a technology largely developed by Philo T. Farnsworth. CRACKED.COM

King of the Hill

Luanne was named after a Texas diner meal. CRACKED.COM The Lu Ann Platter is a meal at the Texas chain restaurant Luby's ---which, incidentally, is a much funnier name than Luly's, the stand-in Luby's where Luanne gets something resembling her namesake platter in the show.

Elmo

Elmo's unfilmed scene in the 2011 Muppets reboot turned out to be pretty meta. The scene had Elmo being asked to be The Muppet Show's celebrity host, and a team of lawyers stepping in to nix that. In real life, Disney wanted to put Elmo in the movie, but a team of lawyers from Children's Television Workshop (which owns the characters) stepped in to nix that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx's famous painted mustache came about because he couldn't be bothered gluing on a fake mustache prior to a performance. GRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

DRUG DEALERS STARTED MAKING BLUE METH. Br 35 eaking 24th Ba d Homeland Security reported blue-tinted meth had been introduced to the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area, inspired by the popularity of Breaking Bad. CRACKED.COM

General Electric Theater

GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER TURNED RONALD REAGAN CONSERVATIVE. Reagan hosted the show and toured as a GE public spokesman. Despite being a long-time Democrat, by the time he left the show in 1962, he was comfortable being a leading conservative speaker. CRACKED.COM

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27 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Friday, December 5, 2025

Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner has an extraordinary memory. The actress from the sitcom Taxi is one of the few people in the world who have hyperthymesia. The condition allows her to recall almost every day of her life, in vivid detail. But most importantly, it really comes in handy when reading scripts. CRACKED.COM

Iggy Pop

DEEP SPACE NINE / THE MAGNIFICENT FERENGI IGGY POP KIDNAPPED QUARK'S MOM. The rock star played a Vorta named Yelgrun who is holding Ishka captive, while Quark, Rom, and Nog team up to rescue their Moogie. CRACKED.COM

The Smothers Brothers

CBS claimed it was canceling the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour due to its failure to meet deadlines. Behind the scenes, everyone knew the axing was due to the show's political content, including anti-Vietnam comedy sketches. CBS out-and-out refused to run one episode that featured folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez. CRACKED.COM

TV's First Gay Wedding

TV'S first gay wedding was on a 1991 ROC episode. Starring Charles S. Dutton, the show had his uncle getting married, with Roc realizing he was uncomfortable... but that didn't mean it was bad. (The Golden Girls aired a gay commitment ceremony earlier that year.) CRACKED.COM

Say Yes to the Dress

MOLF BRM REPUBLIC CO A bride sued say Yes to the Dress. Seeing the bride's dress before the wedding is bad luck, but it's probably worse if the whole world sees it - which is why one woman sued after her episode was aired before her wedding. CRACKED.COM

Cake Boss

CRACKED.COM Carlo's Buddy You can't arrest me, I'm the cake boss! That's what Cake Boss Buddy Valastro shouted when pulled over for drunk driving. It didn't work.

Boy Meets World

People voted on whether cory and Topanga should marry. The poll turned out better for them than for Robin. CRACKED.COM

The Lazy Bones

CRACKED THE FIRST TV REMOTE CONTROL WAS CALLED THE LAZY BONES. It was invented in 1950 and was connected to the TV by a wire. It used a flashlight-like device to turn the TV on and off, change channels, and adjust the volume.

The Teletubbies

The Teletubbies' hill was located in a field Teletubbies TH in Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England. Was. The landowner turned the place into a pond after she got sick of trespassing fans. CRACKED.COM

MLK Loved Star Trek

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS A BIG STAR TREK FAN. Не encouraged Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura, to stay on the show when she was considering quitting. CRACKED.COM

Bea Arthur

'9' BEA ARTHUR SERVED IN THE US MARINES DURING WWII. When she was 20, the Golden Girl enlisted. Women's enlistment was so new that the Marines didn't have proper paperwork so she had to sign up using US Navy paperwork. CRACKED.COM

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s.

South Park

Lorde didn't actually sing the fake song they wrote for her in South Park. LO DE Sia actually sang Push (Feel Good on a Wednesday), the song they made up for the storyline where Randy Marsh turns out to be Lorde. CRACKED.COM

Friends

The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM

Jonathan Wolff

Jonathan Wolff has written theme music for over seventy television shows, including WILL & GRACE and WHO'S THE BOSS? Music Consultants Group, Inc. His most famous work, though, is undoubtedly the SEINFELD bass jam. And yes, he does still get paid for each episode aired. CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

The uncredited geniuses behind Demogorgon from Stranger Things are CRACKED.COM Aaron Sims Steffen Reichstadt and Michael Pecchia. The only thing specified in the script was that Demogorgon ought to be a biped with a lot of teeth and no face. The ASC team created the concept art for the monster, and brought it to life on-screen.

Star Trek

CRACKED.COM Walter M. Jefferies was instrumental in the success of Star Trek: Не designed the iconic spaceship, the Starship Enterprise! NCC-17

MacGyver

GRAGKED.COM Most of the Mac Hack in R MacGyver was made possible by the creative thinking of a gemologist named John I. Koivula.

GoT

MAISIE WILLIAMS HAS NO ONE. TATTOOED ON HER NECK No One CRACKED.COM To commemorate the final season of Game of Thrones, Maisie Williams tattooed Arya Stark's moniker on the back of her neck.

30 Rock

COMEDY NERD Al Gore appeared on 30 Rock twice, in 2007 and 2009 - both times as himself. His first appearance was in Greenzo, and the second one in Sun Tea. CRACKED.COM

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