25 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 7, 2025

These facts are more jaw-dropping than anything on daytime television.
25 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Sunday, December 7, 2025
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Is daytime television still a thing? It seems like most people these days would rather stream whatever they want on demand than bother with weird talk shows, soap operas, or game shows on cable TV. I strongly associate this sort of programming with being sick and staying hom from school – watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? while battling fevers and eating soup with crackers. 

They always tried to shock audiences by bringing on super unhinged guests or writing up the most melodramatic plotlines. But these facts don't need to try that hard to get a reaction; they're interesting enough on their own. The best part is that they're totally true.

Laura Palmer

LAURA CRACKED COM PALMER wasn't meant to be much more than a corpse. Shery Lee was only hired for a few days' work on Twin Peaks to play a corpse and

Game of Thrones

The hardest part of animating Game of Thrones' dragons was moving Dany's legs. Making the dragon fly and breathe fire convincingly was pretty easy compared to the challenge of making Dany's legs react to the dragon's movement. CRACKED.COM

It's Emilia Clarke's fault for skipping the classes on how to convincingly move your legs as if you are riding on a dragon in drama school.

Source: Vulture

Better Call Saul

Todd Lawson LaTourrette didn't lose his hand in combat. BETTER CALL SAUL After landing tons of parts off his war hero backstory, he finally admitted h

Tyrion from Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones, Tyrion U8E8 WILDFIRE To repel Stannis Baratheon in the Battle of Blackwater Bay, and protect King's Landing. yaekoumooktagtpwvoxou

Twin Peaks

THE UNDEFINABLE TWIN PEAKS David Lynch's '90s cult classic is a blend of a soap opera, mystery, and horror. It was inspired by (and parodies) daytime TV and police procedurals, but it's layered with the paranormal. CRACKED

It's layered with the paranormal and the downright surreal.

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Looper

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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

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Spinal Tap

This Is Biinlidl Tig Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. GpinaL T The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show -- a sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

Commando Nanny

Commando Nanny A Survivor producer tried to make a sitcom, and it was doomed from the start. An actor broke his foot, another needed lung surgery. Aft

Sometimes, you have to read the signs from the universe.

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The Wilton North Report

For only one month in 1987, a late-night show aired on FOX called The Wilton North Report. Though its premise LIVE FROM FOX TELEVISION CENTER 5746 Sun

Star Wars Underworld

In 2005, ABC neartly launched a series called Star Wars Underworld. It was a mobster soap opera. Scriptwriters cranked out 50 hours' worth of what Geo

Honestly, this sort of thing would do great now; I mean, look at the Mandalorian.

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