Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

5 Huge Movies That Shamelessly Ripped Off One TV Show
Apparently, whenever a Hollywood writer is stuck on a script, they watch a random episode of this obscure TV show, filter it through an eight ball of cocaine, and call it a day.
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- By Mike Bedard
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6 Classic Movies That Were Saved By (Wisely) Deleted Scenes
Thanks to these films' editors for saving us a lot of head scratching.
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- By JM McNab
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7 Times Being Totally Cheap Resulted In Movie Magic
Once in a blue moon budget limitations will elevate a movie from a permanent spot in a drug store clearance bin to a cultural landmark that we're still talking about decades later.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Beloved Kids Shows That Were Perverted Behind The Scenes
When the cast and crew of children's TV start to unwind they tend to do it in ways that forever color our memories of our favorite cartoons and Nickelodeon game shows with the knowledge that nefarious boner jokes were lurking just off-screen.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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5 Iconic Roles That Made Actors' Lives A Living Hell
Some roles haunt famous actors for the rest of their lives.
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- By Jim Avery
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4 Ghastly Horrors That Somehow Made It Into Kids' Movies
Sometimes, you need to double-check those so-called kids' films, lest you plop the spawn down for happy-time viewing and wind up inadvertently corrupting them.
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- By Alex Fukui
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6 Dumb Aspects Of The Original Star Wars Trilogy You Forgot
The beloved OT was never meant to be seen as a great artistic achievement. Not until our collective nostalgic hive mind decided it had to be, anyway.
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- By Jason Iannone
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5 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Are Based On Real People
Very few fictional characters are pulled from thin air, because what's the point of having friends and family if you can't steal their essence and sell it to strangers for entertainment?
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- By Tara Marie
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5 Dumb Accidents That Made 'Star Wars' A Classic
Only the Force could have guided such ineptitude into becoming a masterpiece.
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- By Jim Doughty
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8 Horrifying Moments From Classic Kids Cartoons
Because those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it, here are some examples of some truly insane, child-ruining pieces of classic animation.
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- By Vincent Pall, Adam Koski
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6 Artists You Won't Believe Made Stuff Just For Kids
It turns out a bunch of famously serious or edgy artists secretly make children's entertainment so wholesome that any cynic's heart would vomit puppies and rainbows.
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- By JM McNab
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6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies
Here are some of the most ill-conceived of many, many ill-conceived ideas from not smart studio execs.
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- By Cracked Writers
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6 TV Spin-Off Story Lines That Ruined The Originals
Sometimes TV crossovers and spinoffs not only suck, they do it so hard they retroactively ruin the original.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird, JM McNab, Tara Marie
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6 Secret F-Yous Lurking In Famous Pop Culture
Creative types can be petty, and they tend to not be shy about taking their grievances public.
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- By Tara Marie
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5 Reasons We Don't Want Superheroes To Wear Masks Anymore
As superhero movies get more and more faithful to the source material, masks are starting to get neglected.
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- By Marina Reimann
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