31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About TV For Friday, December 19th
Sometimes, after a long week of interacting every single day with coworkers, your social battery simply goes kaput and runs out. So, you have to cancel your plans and gift yourself with an evening in. Maybe you order takeout, or perhaps you treat yourself to an elaborate homemade dinner. Maybe you just make some instant ramen or slap some butter and cheese on a piece of toast. And then it begins: the Netflix binge where you lose yourself to a totally different world. Sometimes after a long TV sesh, I end up accidentally adopting the main character's personality for a few days after. So, keep yourself grounded by enriching your brain with BTS facts on all your favorite shows.
Mr. Burns
Wish this had stuck around! Ahoy!
William H. Macy
Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock,
20th Television
Legacy
I never thought of The Queen's Gambit as another version of Rocky, but it's a pretty fair comparison.
Paramount Pictures, Netflix
Adam Scott
Blue Harvest
Family Guy
How I Met Your Mother
Mad Men
Christina Hendricks
Lionsgate Television
The Big Bang Theory / Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Stranger Things
The fact that they didn't lock in a specific target audience probably helped make the show the big success it is today.
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
Game of Thrones
I wonder if he managed to snag a dragon egg.
Source: US Magazine
Bob Edenkirk
Walter White
Game of Thrones
Jessica Walters
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The Simpsons
That should honestly be the standard for all shows.
30 Rock / Donald Glover
Homer Simpson
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Star Trek
Sometimes being a superfan has its perks… also being a talented actor helps.
Source: Archive of American Television
ABC
Johnny Carson
Diahann Carroll
Fawlty Towers
Chris Evans
The Ethel Waters Show
Heat Vision and Jack
SNL in Russia
Parks and Rec
Maybe that's why I stopped watching it so soon…