28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025

These captivating facts deserve their own live studio audience.
28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Everyone knows about the Wilhelm scream: the iconic stock sound of a guy yelling that has been gracing audience ears since the 1950s. There's plenty of other iconic stock noises out there: the castle thunder sound effect, for example. 

When shows film in front of live studio audiences, the laughs and cries you hear are supposed to be authentic. Usually, they really are, but sometimes editors feel the need to… enhance their reactions a little bit. Now, I might be tripping, but I swear I've heard the same, specific little laugh across sitcoms. Maybe it's just a guy that likes to frequent famous TV sets, or perhaps it really is a stock laugh sound. Either way, these facts don't need any help from a laugh track to prove their charm.

Sadie Sink: 'Stranger Things' star's secret revealed!

Careers built on a lie Sadie Sink, rollerblading fibber. Sink revealed that she lied about having rollerblading experience in order to help her secure the role of Max Mayfield in Netflix's hit series Stranger Things. CRACKED

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Doctor Who

As a security measure during the 2005 series of Doctor Who, the production team renamed the preview tapes of the program Torchwood to trick any vide

Doctor Who

The Fourth Doctor's huge scarf was the result of a misunder- standing. Doctor Who head costume designer Jim Acheson wanted the Fourth Doctor to have a

The Wall in Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones, THE Wall is an enormous fortification that spans the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms. There have been many similar walls bui

Bill Hader

CRACKEDCON Bill Hader's most memorable moment on Saturday Night Live was playing in a punk band with Dave Grohl. In a sketch about aging rock stars, H

How I Met Your Mother

28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025

Parks and Recreation

Characters that weren't supposed to last Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation Chris Pratt's character was supposed to just disappear once Ann Perkins dumps him in the first season. However, show creator Mike Schur thought Pratt was too funny not to use, so he and writers slowly altered his character to be more loveable and sweet to keep him around. CRACKED.COM

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Emilia Clarke and Prince William

EMILIA CLARKE AND PRINCE WILLIAM Clarke went into full stutter when she met the Royal Prince at Kensington Palace for the 2018 Centrepoint Awards. For whatever reason, maybe because I was so scared, I couldn't manage to get out 'Your Royal Highness.' So it was kind of like 'ra... ra..., it was pretty much all I managed. CRACKED.COM

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Jerry Seinfeld wanted to be on the show

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JERRY SEINFELD WANTED TO BE ON THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK All the way back during season one, Seinfeld and several other celebrities offered to provide voice work for the show. Seinfeld ended up retracting his offer after getting offered the role of Turkey No. 2' in the episode

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Aliens in the Family

Aliens in the Family 1996 The creators of The Fresh Prince Bel-Air created the short-lived sci-fi series featuring a blended human/alien family.

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28 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Thursday, December 11, 2025
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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

Succession

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM McKay helped shape Succession. SUCCESSION McKay is Succession's executive producer. Не also directed the pilot, which meant he was involved in the casting of it, creating the style, the look, the music. I really, really enjoy doing that.

Strangers with Candy

COMEDY NERD BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Strangers with Candy made Comedy Central history. 26 CRACKED.COM The show was Comedy Central's first original, live-action, non- sketch series. Yeah, that's a lot of qualifiers, but pretty cool nonetheless.

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Fingerprints

TH: CRACKED Found fingerprints at the crime scene? Bingo! REALITY: There are no true consensus as to how and if fingerprint forensics really work. The

Game of Thrones

HBO hated Game of Thrones' pilot, SO they almost nixed the show. GAME OF HRONES They only said yes when nearly the whole pilot was reshot.

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