29 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, December 10, 2025

More factual than an early 2000s infomercial at 3 am.
29 TV Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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I kind of miss infomercials. I rarely ever watched the hour-long ones that came on in the wee hours of the night; that was the type of surreal programming a kid woke up to at 3 am after dozing off on the living room couch. However, I did like the longer ads that featured some sort of repetitive jingle and drawn-out explanations by a breathless voice actor trying to condense a 5 minute script into just 60 seconds by speed-reading it. You don’t have to call a 1-800 number or commit to a series of payments to read these fascinating and informative TV facts, though! 

Michael Cera

Michael Cera played Brother Bear on PBS' The Berenstain Bears. Не started playing Brother Bear a year before he signed on to do Arrested Development, and kept the job after Arrested Development got started. CRACKED.COM

The overlap is incredibly jarring.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

CRACKED.COM NORTH ULF Tyra Banks' first speaking role was on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Before she screamed her belief in us, Banks had a recurring role as Jackie, Will's friend/ex-girlfriend from West Philadelphia who got to University of California on a basketball scholarship.

Surprised she never did a Fresh Prince of Bel Air-inspired photoshoot on American's Next Top Model.

The X-Files at the National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History has props from The X-Files. The museum curator said the show cleverly used the sci-fi genre to address such contemporary issues. Other important parts of American culture include Star Trek and Teenage Mu- tant Ninja Turtles. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Saturday Night Live Spain

SNL around the world Saturday Night Live Spain lifted material from the American SNL and aired on Thursdays. It's no surprise it was canceled after a few episodes. CRACKED.COM

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SNL

CRACKED COM Pee-wee's Playhouse was a way to make SNL sorry. WWEE oy When Paul Reubens got rejected by Saturday Night Live, he spent the whole ride ba

When live refuses to give you lemons, make limeade.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Charitable Donation

The showrunner and the cast of B99 donated $100,000 to help people make bail. The money went to the National Bail Fund Network, and the cast also suggested people donated to local bail funds in their area. CRACKED.COM

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Virginia Venit

MOST PEOPLE KNOW JULIE BOWEN AS CLAIRE DUNPHY ON MODERN FAMILY... AND IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE SHE WAS ALSO THE LOVE INTEREST IN HAPPY GILMORE NEARLY 25

Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine turned down Game of Thrones because it had dragons. CRACKED.COM Considine will play King Viserys Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon, which is guar- anteed to have 500% more dragons than Game of Thrones.

Maybe someone completely misunderstood what he said, and he actually meant that GoT didn't have ENOUGH dragons?

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Cabbages in ATLA

THE CABBAGE MERCHANT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO RETURN.The poor produce peddler was just another one-off character, but then he got unexpectedly popular with fans. James Sie, his voice actor, even got fan mail for playing him.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender was inspired by Antarctic exploration documentaries. Animation director Michael Dante DiMartino went through a period of be
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Sokka in the Spirit World

In Season 1, Episode 7 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka gets trapped in the Spirit World for 24 hours. SEASON 1, EPISODE 7 SEASON 3, EPISODE 6 The

Chuck Lorre

CRACy The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre took that name to boost his self-esteem. Lifor He was born Charles Levine and, whenever his mom was mad

Game of Thrones

4Your father smelled of elderberries is an insult spoken in Game of Thrones. In Season 4, the champion that Meereen sends out to challenge Dany's cha

Another World

Anne Heche Movies Another World This was Anne Heche's first role (first two roles, actually). Heche played twin sisters Vicky Carson and Marley Love in this soap opera. Not only was it her first TV job, but also her first Emmy. CRACKED.COM

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine Pilot

COMEDY NERD Brooklyn Nine-Nine pilot had a Detective Daniels... ... who was never seen again. She was around Hitchcock and Scully and was supposed to be the third member of their group, but got dropped after the pilot. CRACKED.COM

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher COMEDY WRITER CRACKED.COM While prime minister, she was a big fan of the political sitcom Yes, Minister. She even wrote and starred in a sketch with the show's stars in 1984. By most accounts, it wasn't great.

The Bees on SNL

THE BEES BELUSHI ET AL INTERNATION CRACKED.COM One of the show's first notes from meddling network execs: Cut the bees. Lorne Michaels responded by inserting the Bees into nearly every episode of Season One, making them the show's first recurring characters.

Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives The show was meant to be a 30-minute comedy. Marc Cherry noticed the pilot script he was writing kept getting longer and a bit more dramatic. Instead of fighting this, he decided it would be a different kind of show. CRACKED.COM

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