Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

After Hours Halloween Episode: Live Chat!

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By After Hours

Published

October 25, 2011

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6 Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes

Being a cartoon isn't an easy gig.

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By Preston Xander

Published

October 17, 2011

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1299

6 Classic Kids Shows Slapped Together From Recycled Material

A lot of these shows weren't so much 'made' as 'shoddily slapped together from some older bullshit (usually from Japan).'

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By Maxwell Yezpitelok

Published

October 14, 2011

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746

5 Classic Movies That Were Made Possible By Insane Schemes

For the aspiring filmmakers who don't happen to have wealthy friends or connections at a studio, securing funding is by far the biggest obstacle between them and the fulfillment of their vision. Sometimes that means getting creative. Horribly, horribly creative.

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By Jim Ciscell

Published

October 08, 2011

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506

7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs

How would you like it if we said we invented anorexia and scientifically impossible explosions, huh Hollywood?

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By Jacopo della Quercia , Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell

Published

October 03, 2011

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1776

Presenting The Most WTF Trailer Ever: 'John Dies at the End'

WARNING: The following contains numerous monsters and implied male nudity. Also may contain implied gore and implied flamethrower and implied interdimensional travel and the evil prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption and award-winning actor Paul Giamatti.

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By Jason Pargin

Published

September 25, 2011

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555

The 6 Most Ridiculous Superhero Weaknesses

For whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that Green Lantern became weak against yellow.

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By J.F. Sargent, Jesse Clark

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September 22, 2011

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1235

6 Movie Plot Holes You Never Noticed Thanks to Editing

The casual jump from A to B is often used as a writer's crutch to gloss over the stuff they didn't have the time to think through -- little things like 'continuity,' 'logic' and 'whether or not our protagonist just did some accidental murder.'

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By David Christopher Bell

Published

September 13, 2011

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2061

5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies

These are the episodes that scarred an entire generation.

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By Nick Nafpliotis

Published

September 09, 2011

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1197

6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America

Horror movies play off of the social anxieties of the times. And who makes us anxious the most? The highest political leader in the land, of course.

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By S Peter Davis

Published

September 06, 2011

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1341

6 Terrifying Sci-Fi Predictions (About the Year 1997)

According to a lot of science fiction movies, comics and TV shows, 1997 was the single most eventful year in the history mankind. Why did they all pick 1997? Who knows? They certainly didn't anticipate the Spice Girls.

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By Jim Ciscell

Published

September 04, 2011

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570

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By CRACKED Staff

Published

September 03, 2011

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The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter'

If you clicked on this article expecting five Harry/Draco fanfics, prepare to be disappointed.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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September 01, 2011

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2115

5 Classic Movies That Almost Had Terrible Endings

WARNING: THIS WHOLE ARTICLE IS A SPOILER

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By Lex Black

Published

August 25, 2011

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768

The 6 Most Inexplicable Cartoon Adaptations Ever

Sometimes it makes sense to spin-off a live-action property into a cartoon. But sometimes a TV show or character is dumped into the laps of some cartoon writers who are told, 'Just make up whatever pops into your head. Kids are stupid.'

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By Anthony Scibelli

Published

August 24, 2011

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449