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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Chisel Into Hollywood Boulevard

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30 Rock

The set for Werewolf Bar Mitzvah took 3 days to build. Tracy Jordan Werewolf Bar Mitzvah An Evening with Tracy Jordan Geffen Records It was only on screen for 6 seconds. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESP SFACTS Ms. Darbus and Coach Bolton almost SANG A DUET A planned musical number for the drama director and basketball coach was axed, presumably to focus on the kids. There are still a lot of Darbolton shippers out there longing to see it happen. — The Things

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The Handmaid’s Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENESP FACTS THE SHOW WASN'T A RESPONSE TO THE 2016 ELECTION. THE HANOMAID'S TALE Despite seeming like it's providing commentary on Trump and the 2016 election, the show was actually filmed months before it. CRACKED.COM — Time

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The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS RAY WINSTONE AND JACK NICHOLSON DIDN'T GET ALONG. DEPARTED THE Winstone, who played Nicholson's right -hand -hand man, says that despite them having great chemistry on screen, the two just didn't click in real life. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Departed

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School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENESE FACTS Once filming, they still had to WRITE THE SONGS CRACKED.com That was scary, because you're working on a time limit, says Black. And you know, I'm a songwriter. We put out an album with Tenacious D, but we had 10 years to f***in' put that thing together and only a few months to write all the songs in the movie! — Billboard

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Golden Eagle

Behind-The-Scenes Accidents 1970 Golden Eagle Mitr Chaibancha was a huge Thai movie star, and his last film ends with his actual death. The last day of shooting had Chaibancha's masked vigilante character Red Eagle flying into the sunset hanging from a helicopter rope. But he didn't held on to it properly, and fell to his death. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PRODUCTION GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET The film's production company, Red Granite Pictures, was forced to pay around $60 million to the U.S. government after being sued for using money misappropriated from a Malaysian state fund to finance the film. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Wolf of Wall Street

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED COR DEBRA JO RUPP'S NEPHEW FORCED HER TO TAKE THE ROLE. LEASE Rupp says that when director Matt Shakman asked her to be on the show, she was hesitant because she didn't understand any of it. She was persuaded to take the role by her great-nephew, who told — Collider

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Mark Wahlberg

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MARK WAHLBERG PULLED FROM REAL LIFE FOR HIS ROLE. DEPARTED THE Wahlberg says he drew a lot from his Boston upbringing to prepare for the role of Sergeant Dignam. Specifically, he based the character on all the cops that arrested him during his troublesome youth. — YouTube

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MATT DAMON'S APARTMENT IS ACTUALLY A LIBRARY. DEPARTED THE The top floor of the Suffolk University Law School Library in Boston served as the filming location for Damon's beautiful apartment. — Curbed Boston

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EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES RoboCop MURPHY REALLY CARES ABOUT COPYRIGHT LAW. If you stick around to the very end of the movie's credits, you'll see an oddly threatening Easter egg. Instead of the typical copyright warning, viewers will be prosecuted by enforcement droids. o MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.C.L.O. C 1987 ORION PICTURES CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE STORY, ALL NAMES, CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS PORTRAYED IN THIS PRODUCTION ARE FICTITIOUS NO IDENTIFICATION WITH OR SIMILARITY TO ACTUAL PERSONS. LIVING OR DEAD, OR TO ACTUAL EVENTS IS INTENDED OR SHOULD BE INFERRED THIS MOTION PICTURE IS PROTECTED — Source

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WandaVision

WANDAVISION EASTER EGGS MARIA RAMBEAU'S PHOTON NICKNAME HINTS AT MONICA'S FUTURE. +MARIA *PHOTON'RAMBEAU CRACKED.COM In the comics, Maria Rambeau never had that nickname, rather Photon is the superhero alias of her daughter Monica. — FANDOM

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The Real Philosophers of The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES The real philosophers In the series finale, modern philosopher Todd May and UCLA professor Pamela Hieronymi make appearances as Chidi's students.They were both consultants on the show. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Universe numbers In the comics, different universes are labeled with Earth and a specific number. The standard Marvel universe, for instance, is Earth-616. The dimensional portals in the movie show the numbers as they are in the comic books. Home to Spider-Gwen; Prime e-616 Marvel E-65 E-14512 Parker -Ham to Peni Home Spider- to Home E-1610 Ultimate Marvel E-99214 E-8311 Marvel Noir CRACKED.COM — The Hollywood Reporter

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Tropic Thunder

Easter Eggs Tropic Thunder I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary. Не doesn't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS Donnie Darko American football Those intention energy beams were inspired by the NFL. Director Richard Kelly said that, while watching game clips where broadcasters would pause the footage and draw lines to show where the players were going to move he got the idea of people's movement through space being predestined. A football game is also on the TV when Donnie's beam first appears. CRACKED.COM — Source: Dazed

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EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS, AND REFERENCES THE SHICIDE The MAFALDA SQUAD KeYCHAIN Milton (RIP) has a keychain hanging in his van of the main character in the Latin American comic strip, Mafalda. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS DOnnie Darko Frank makes an appearance right at the beginning of the film. He's inside the red Trans Am that drives by Donnie after dropping off Elizabeth at home. CRACKED.COM — Source: Video clip

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Loki

LOKI T282 STILL 35 MARVEL COMICS GROUP THOR THE HAS AN TEMPUS GOD-KILL STEPPED THOUGH - HOTE - AWATIC EASTER EGG BAT PEATUS THE BUDLA LOYEM TO A THOR COMIC BOOK When Loki looks out the window at the TVA, there's a tower bearing the number Т-282. It's a reference to Thor #282 that features the first appearance of the Time Keepers. CRACKED COM — Source

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Valkyrie

THOR BTS FACTS AND EASTER EGGS THOR: RAGNAROK VALKYRIE'S BISEXUALITY WAS CUT. There was one scene of a woman leaving Valkyrie's bedroom, but it was removed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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MADtv

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Mad founder Bill Gaines would have hated MADTV CRACKED.COM It wouldn't have been personal. The guy who started Mad Magazine simply despised television. He refused to sell the rights while he was alive, but after his death, Quincy Jones swooped in to purchase Mad. With name in hand, MadTV was created to take down SNL. — Vulture

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'Mad TV'

KEY& PEELE THEY AUDITIONED AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR MAD TV. In the early aughts, the two were paired with each other for a single spot on the sketch show. They impressed the producers so much as a tandem that they made a spot for both. CRACKED.COM — Source: Onward State

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Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED — Source

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Star Wars: Detours

TV shows we never got to see 2012 star wars: Detours The show, made by the crew behind Robot Chicken, has 39 complete episodes - none of which has ever been seen outside of leaks. CRACKED.COM

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Rotten Tomatoes

Organized trolling made Rotten Tomatoes less useful. RO' Movies ITVSH X https://www.rottentomatoes.com Rotten Tomatoes Search movies. TV actors. iie S

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The Grinch

If Chuck Jones had pitched a TV special later, Grinch might never have been made. Dr. Seuss' How The GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! They picked Grinch as the book to adapt only because they had enough time have a special out by Christmas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The California Raisins

Disastrous Comedy 1989 The California Raisin Show The claymation Motown group had a string of successful '80s ads. CBS aired the TV special Meet the Raisins! in 1988, they released a Saturday morning series in 1989, and a sequel to the special in 1990. Wow, they really kept trying to make it work! CRACKED — CBS
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12:01

TIME LOOP MOVIES 8 12:01 9 THIS WAS GROUNDHOG DAY BEFORE GROUNDHOG DAY. Absolutely overshadowed by the film starring Bill Murray, this TV movie was based on a short story by Richard А. Lupoff. It's a lighter, more sci-fi take on the concept-unlike the previous 1990 adaptation, a short film starring Kurtwood friggin' Smith. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia
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ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979 — Source

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LADY GAGA AND THE OLSEN TWINS ARE THE SAME AGE. PTIVAL. Maybe this is less weird if you didn't grow up watching re-runs of the Olsens as babies on TV.

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Ocean’s Eleven

Mark Wahlberg turned down a role for Planet of the Apes. Wahlberg was offered the role of Linus (which eventually went to Matt Damon), but chose to work on Tim Burton's monkey movie instead. Swing and a miss, Mark. Ocean's Eleven CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Wick

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES MEANINGS JOHN WICK INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS At the end of John Wick 2, Wick walks through a park and everyone around him turns and stares. Many have wondered if this meant that everyone was an assassin, but the directors explained that it was coming from Wick's paranoid state of mind, and that they were trying to emulate the classic sci-fi horror movie where it feels like everyone's a potential danger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Struggles

CRACKED.COM Jamie Lee Curtis She's very open about her battles against substance abuse. While she's been sober for years, Curtis had been quietly fighting an alcohol and painkiller addiction. She kept it well hidden, and never turned to substances while working on a movie. — Tinseltown/Shutterstock
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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Chisel Into Hollywood Boulevard — Source: Vice

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Michael Cera

Dorky, lovable Michael Cera makes David Lynch-style short movies. They range from absurd comedy to pure weirdness. In Gregory Go Boom, say, he's a paraplegic who fails to perform sexually, then gets thrown out of a window, then rolls his wheelchair into a field and sets himself on fire. If that's your thing, his shorts are on the YouTube channel JASH. CRACKED.COM — Source: Projects That Celebrities Definitely Didn't Think Through

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Paddington

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PRESIDENT ZELENSKY VOICES PADDINGTON BEAR IN UKRAINE. Those movies got dubbed into Ukrainian and, when Zelensky was still a working comedian, he got the job of dubbing Paddington himself. — Source

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM GREMLINS Is Gremlins a Christmas movie? Perhaps that's a discussion for another time. What it is, is a seminal piece of classic '80s horror, that marries the concept of mysterious creatures small enough to hide in dark corners but savage enough to rend the flesh from your bones, and a winking, self-aware attitude that gives each of them a personality.

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Sam Raimi almost got to make the fourth movie in his Spider-Man series. The only reason he didn't? He couldn't get the script right by the deadline. It really was the most amicable and undramatic of breakups, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King

Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake 1976 1999 2002 2013 CARRIE There's a post-Scream sequel, a made-for- TV remake, and a glossier adaptation. Nothing comes close to Brian De Palma's original, which has aged like fine wine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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'Miller's Crossing'

The Coen Brothers and their movies Miller's Crossing The Coens chose to do this movie instead of Batman. Being a new hot commodity, the brothers were offered the directing gig that would eventually go to Tim Burton. They did Miller's Crossing instead - but just imagine Gabriel Byrne playing a tortured Bruce Wayne. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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