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40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Download Into Your Brain, ‘Matrix’-Style, Between Kung Fu Lessons

We could’ve seen a LOT more Hamm in ‘30 Rock’

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia to Download Into Your Brain, ‘Matrix’-Style, Between Kung Fu Lessons

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The budget for the Always Sunny pilot barely broke triple digits.

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CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD WAS RUN BY HARVEY WEINSTEIN TYPES. Classic Hollymood SUCKED Studio execs, agents, and filmmakers were very powerful men, and would often abuse that power. Sexual harassment was rampant - and unlike today, there wasn't the slightest chance the perpetrators would ever face consequences. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dolores Umbridge's Inspiration

Behind-the-scenes Drama Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dolores Umbrige's implied rape was behind- the-book drama. J. К. Rowling based Umbridge on a teacher she had as a student. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Cases of Behind-the-Scenes Drama that Showed Up On-Screen

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30 Rock / Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm auditioned for the role of Jack Donaghy 3B Не had to settle for playing Liz Lemon's pretty boyfriend. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Pan's Labyrinth The Pale Man behind the scenes is a different story — Source

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The pilot of It's Always Sunny only cost $100 That money went towards the cost of pizza for crew as well as camcorder tapes. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED GOM — Source: LA Times

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30 Rock

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED COM — Source: FastCompany

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You like that, don't you, you freaky li'l filmaholic.

WTF Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Major Movie Sets - Rian Johnson fanboyed all over Christopher Plummer during Knives Out. — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The Muppets

WTF Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Major Movie Sets - Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. — Source: 6 NSFW Moments From The Making of Family-Friendly Shows

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Ridiculous Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Your Favorite Movies And Shows - Chevy Chase and Dan Harmon bickered like kids while making Community. — Source: 7 Famous Shows That Were Total Chaos Behind The Scenes

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Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss made Jaws together. Behind the scenes, they feuded the whole time. It started when Shaw complained that he wished he — Source

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SPIDER-MAN EASTER EGGSTRA! INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE The Toby Maguire dance. The producers were worried that audiences would not get the throwback to Maguire's Peter Parker dancing down the street in Spider-Man 3. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Bad Janet The costume was inspired by Olivia Newton-John's clothing at the end of Grease. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES MEANINGS JOHN WICK GUNS. LOTS OF GUNS. In John Wick: Chapter - Parabellum when Winston asks Wick what he needs from the Continental, Keanu Reeves utters the famous line he delivered in The Matrix. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Donnie Darko

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS Through DOnnie Darko the Looking-Glass Donnie talking to Frank through a liquid mirror is reminiscent of how Alice connects to her wonderland. CRACKED.COM — Source: Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object

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Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE TRAILER EASTER EGG Director Peyton Reed revealed that the guitar riff in the trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp comes from a 1982 song by Adam and the Ants called Ants Invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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easter eggstra meanings and references THE SHiNiNG The Silence Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film sees a bored boy roaming the halls of an empty hotel, sans ghosts. CRACKED.COM — Widescreenings.com

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EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS BABY DRIVER THE VINYLS A scene showing a trashed apartment gives a glimpse of all the vinyl albums that have songs featured in the film. CRACKED.COM — IMDb interview with Edgar Wright

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Snatch K.O. The final punch in There Will Be.... A Fight Between Wendy and Cartman resembles the knockout punch at the end of Guy Ritchie's Snatch. — Source video, video clip

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Orgazmo, Orgazmo everywhere. PHILKD The creators' 1997 film's title character is featured in a ton of episodes, from a poster of him in Cartman's room to a cameo in a couple of episodes opening credits. CRACKEDCOR — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite The use of cowboys and Indians added a Western layer to the film. Bong says that while Native Americans have a deep history, the Parks simply treat it as a boy's hobby. The boy's mother] mentions the tent as a U.S. imported good, and I think it's — EW

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The Matrix Reloaded

Humongous Movie sets The Matrix Reloaded The entire freeway was built for the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Los Angeles Times

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Princess Bride made Mandy Patinkin an expert

MANDY PATINKIN is a textbook example of swordfighting. Despite The Princess Bride being where it was most prominent, Patinkin had already learned fencing at Juilliard. Не then spent two months straight retraining, eight hours a day. Fencing academies now show his duel with the Man in Black in classes. — Source: Vanity Fair

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Most Star Trek props were created by one man, Wah Ming Chang

Star Trek The phaser was created by Wah Ming Chang. Set phasers to underappreciated. Most everything in the original series was created by the same man, Wah Ming Chang - phasers, communicator, the Gorn, even struggles! OK, wait, actually we take our appreciation back for that past one. — Source: Star Trek

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Shooting a car won't blow it up. You need fire for an explosion to even be slightly possible- and regular bullets aren't made to set stuff on fire. All you'll get is a hole in the gas tank. CRACKED.COM — Source: Science ABC

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Movie Explosions

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Chernobyl

Chernobyl is connected to Scary Movie. Craig Mazin, author of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie, created Chernobyl. — Source: IMDb

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Swords don't go schwing when you draw them. To get that dramatic sound, you'd need a metal sheath- -and not minding that all the scraping will blunt your edge. Drawing from a leather or wood sheath barely makes any sound. — Source: scholagladiatoria on YouTube

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Home Alone

Odd, Fascinating Trivia About Home Alone - The title of the movie-within-a-movie, Angels Filthy Souls, is a classic movie reference. — Source: Vanity Fair

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Unsurprisingly, Keanu Reeves is one of the better gunmen in the entertainment business

KEANU REEVES can really shoot. At a certain point after John Wick, Speed, Point Blank, The Matrix, The Bad Matrix Sequels, probably not My Own Private Idaho, Keanu learned to become a professional-level shooter. — Source: AccurateShooter.com

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The First Color Broadcast Guhisson Epiphage Naturall A 1951 variety show called Premiere finally validated anyone who, for whatever reason, bought a color TV before TV was in color. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TV

YOUNG INVENTORS A KID INVENTED TV (SO WE CAN ALL WATCH TOO MUCH TV). 15-year-old Philo Farnsworth came up with diagrams on how to make an actual electronic TV system. In 1921. By 1927, he had created an image dissector that could indeed transmit images. Later, he developed a complete TV system, camera and all. VHE 13 86OL 12 17 - PICTURE UHF -88 PL ASTOJATI SOLID STATE HUE COLOR - CRACKED.COM — KsanderDN/Shutterstock
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He-Man

He-Man was a toy before it was a TV show. When trying to sell the toy a Mattel sales rep told distributors a TV show was in the works- which was a lie. However, the lie sold the toy- forcing Mattel to create a TV show around the action figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first TV show with a warning label In 1975, because of controversial characters like prostitutes, illegal immigrants, and one of the first gay couples on TV, the Norman Lear show Hot I Baltimore was the first TV show to be slapped with a warning label before each episode. — Source

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MADtv

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved MAD TV Let's go bland! For 14 seasons (1995-2009), Mad TV gave SNL some zanier, spicier competition, and sprouted some now household names. The 2016 revival on The CW failed to produce new interesting characters, and the primetime slot watered down the Mad TV style CRACKED — The CW
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Fainting on TV

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Carrie

TV shows we never got to see 2002 carrie This TV movie was meant to launch a Carrie series. It never did. CRACKED.COM

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SPIDER CRACKEDCO INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE While Miles Morales is visiting his uncle Aaron in his apartment, the TV is on. And the TV is showing an episod

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I Dream of TV

The type of TV you watch as a child majorly impacts your dreams. Back in the 1940s, watching black and white TV influenced the dreams of three in ever

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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough declared that The Thorn Birds TV adaptation is instant vomit. Despite being the second most watched miniseries in TV history, the

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