25 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About TV For Thursday, December 25th

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25 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About TV For Thursday, December 25th
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Just so we’re clear, we don’t share TV facts because we think we’re more knowledgeable than the average fan. We share them because we’re incapable of keeping them to ourselves. Somewhere along the line, watching TV turned into wondering what fun little decisions and details helped make these glorious shows come to life. 

It’s like when a friend brings you a spicy piece of gossip and tells you not to tell anyone else. That little nugget of info is just bursting out of you like a game of hot potato between brains! So we watch, we research, and we share. Not to ruin the magic, but to marvel at how it all works (and to save our now-burnt brains).

Buffy

CRACKED.COM Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy was the first show to use Google as a verb. We all use google as a catch-all term for researching on the internet now, but it wasn't used like that until the fourth episode of Buffy's final season in 2002.

The Brady Bunch

CRACKED.COM The Brady Bunch The kids didn't have a toilet. Family TV was very restrictive-viewers should never imagine that the Brady kids ever needed to relieve themselves, based on the set design of the kids' bathroom.

The Grinder

Rob Lowe was furious about THE GRINDER CRACKED COM The notion of a show as acclaimed, as original wouldn't have a home anywhere on television, it seems a little outrageous, complained Lowe. That it doesn't have a home on network television tells you all you need to know about network television.

SpongeBob

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) SpongeBob SquarePants A 13-year-old autistic student from Staten Island, New York, was able to save his classmate from choking by using the Heimlich maneuver, which he had learned from an episode of the show. CRACKED

The Office

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) The Office An Indiana man was able to save his daughter's life by using CPR, which he had learned from watching an episode of The Office. The family then started trying to spread the word about how important CPR is. CRACKED

The Walking Dead

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) The Walking Dead An advocate for the homeless was camping outside of a Best Buy in Florida to bring attention to the issue, and he used what he had learned from the zombie show to help save a man who had been shot in the parking lot. CRACKED

House

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) House In 2012, a German doctor was able to diagnose a man with severe heart failure after watching House. The symptoms were almost identical to those of a patient on the show, and the doctor could figure out that the cause was cobalt poisoning. CRACKED

Britain's Got Talent

BRITAIN'S GOT IXLENT Alyn James was a contestant who had been judged to be under a serious risk of suicide on seven occasions, and despite the producers' knowledge of his vulnerability, he was invited to the televised audition anyway. As a result, he was mocked by the judges and the audience and was once again placed under suicide watch. GRACKED.COM

Survivor

OUTPLAY OUTWIT SURVIVOR GAME CHANGERS MAMANUCA ISLANDS OUTLAST In 2017, Zeke Smith was outed as transgender by an angry tribemate during a tense Tribal Council. Having such private information revealed to the world was deeply CRACKED.COM traumatic for him.

It's Always Sunny

The Dayman song was a riff on Queen's Flash Gordon Theme Song. Glenn Howerton was playing in a band that opened with the Queen song so it was fresh in his head. It was a one-off joke that went very far. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Freaks & Geeks

LINDA CARDENELLI WAS 24 WHEN SHE PLAYED 16-YEAR-OLD LINDSAY CRACKED.COM She was the oldest teen actor in the show. John Francis Daley was the youngest, at 14.

Seinfeld

The theme song was different every episode. Jonathan Wolff re-recorded the song to match Seinfeld's monologue. And that slap bass was actually a synth. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

There was absolutely no narrative reason for The Walking Dead to spend a season on a farm. THE IMPROVISATION: The network axed the Season 2 budget before even airing the pilot. So, to save money, the show was stuck with using Hershel's farm as much as possible. THE RESULT: A critically acclaimed season with a finale that was the network's most-watched episode ever at the time. CRACKED.GOM

Batman

In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and Robin buckled their seatbelts before taking off in the Batmobile. This occurred after a complaint by the National Safety Council & the Dynamic Duo set a good example thereafter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. GRACKED COM

Benson

GRACKED.COM Benson A 1982 episode depicts a woman being encouraged by her friends to name and shame her sexual harasser. And she does. This was decades before #MeToo, during a time when female victims would either stay silent or not be believed.

Seinfeld

Elaine's dad was supposed to be a reoccurring character, but the actor scared the cast. Julia Louis-Dreyfus called Lawrence Tierney a total nutjob. Не stole a butcher knife from the set. CRACKED.COM

Family Matters

Family Matters CRACKED.COM Long before Urkel stole the show, the spotlight was supposed to be on Harriette Winslow. She was a breakout success on Perfect Strangers, where she played a sassy elevator operator whose cop husband used to drop by from time to time. In this scene, she delivers the line: excuse me baby, this is a family matter, and you're in the line of fire.

Mary Kay and Johnny

Mary Kay and Johnny 1947-1950 CRACKED.COM The very first U.S. sitcom featured the first time a couple slept in the same bed and the first time a woman's pregnancy was shown on TV.

Happy Days

on HAPPY DAYS, RICHIE HAD An OLDER BROTHER nameD CHUCK. OR не DID, unTIL THE seconD SEASON. Chuck was away at college for much of the first season, and his defining characteristic was that he always carried a basketball. Не didn't just disappear without explanation- he completely ceased to exist. In later seasons Howard Cunningham would claim that he had just two children. CRACKED.COM http:/onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/gavanoherlihy.html

Mork & Mindy

MORK & &MINDY WOUND DOWN WITH A THRee-PART STORY. YeT THE PAIR STILL WOUND UP STRANDED FOR eTeRNITY. What's regarded as the series finale of Mork & Mindy found the title characters running from an evil, gun-wielding alien. Pretty dark stuff for a fish-out-of water romp. Anyway, Mork decided to use time-travel shoes to escape, sending himself and Mindy back in time. The shoes malfunctioned, first dropping them in a prehistoric cave, then throwing them into a time vortex. Roll credits. CRACKED.COM http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vvrzl_mork-and-mindy-gotta-run-part-3_fun

The Sopranos

CRACKED.COM The Sopranos logo has a gun so people wouldn't think it was about opera. The producers were worried the title would mislead audiences, so they made sure the logo clearly conveyed the show's genre. The Sapranos

Home Improvement

TOY STORY The Home Improvement shout out BinFord BOOO en AS DO SOUS N . AUNMON Цены WARNING GASO Woody is trapped under a Binford Tools toolbox. CRACKED.COM

Fuller House

It's the Kimmy Gibler phase of career for NEW KIDS FULLER HOUSE CRACKED.COM After Kimmy buys counterfeit concert tix for her best pal's birthday, NKOTB show up at the house to serenade DJ instead. Added comedy: The birthday girl is whacked out on dentist pain meds. Hard to blame Donnie Wahlberg for sitting this one out.

30 Rock

CRACKED Jon Hamm on 30 Rock. In 2006, he lost the role of Jack Donaghy to Alec Baldwin, but don't worry, he booked Mad Men shortly after. We got to see his legitimate comedy chops with 7 appearances as Dr. Drew Baird.

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