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Starting to think this Chevy Chase guy isn’t super fun to work with

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October 11, 2024

Okay, we’re willing to give Chevy Chase one more starring role in a major television show. But if he starts talking smack about his coworkers, we will seriously consider canceling him.

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Timecop

comic Book Movies Timecop The movie had a short-lived (seven episodes!) television series. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Stargate Atlantis

Genre-Switching Episodes uno Stargate Atlantis Vegas With a working title of CSI: Atlantis, this episode is styled after popular crime television shows that use similar flashback sequences. CRACKED — MGM Television
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That's the reason lots of people get canceled

The television show The Admiral Broadway Revue was canceled because it was too popular. CRACKED.COM It had been sponsored by a TV manufacturer who couldn't keep up with the demand for new television sets. — Source

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The Children's Television Act required kids'TV to serve the educational and informational needs of children. CRACKED.COM This is why many 90s cartoons had a shoehorned educational message for kids added to the story. — Variety

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Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe was furious about THE GRINDER CRACKED.COM The notion of a show as acclaimed, as original wouldn't have a home anywhere on television, it seems a little outrageous, complained Lowe. That it doesn't have a home on network television tells you all you need to know about network television. — CinemaBlend

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What couldn't this guy do?

JOAN LEE SAYS STAN WROTE FOR EARLY TELEVISION CRACKED.COM IN FACT. IN THE LATE 1950s STAN CLAIMED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES THOUGH ITS DOCUMENTS AREN'T 100% COMPLETE THE ACADEMY HAS NO RECORD OF STAN EVER BEING A MEMBER — True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, p. 84

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One of the few not-weird things about Quentin

Quentin Tarantino collects board games 2 CRACKED CON Specifically, television-themed board games. He's got I Dream of Jeannie, The DukES of Hazard, and The A-Team games.

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What a guy!

CHEVY CHASE COMMUNITY It was a big mistake! Chase said about signing on to Community. The hours are hideous, and it's still a sitcom on television, — Deadline

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Correlation equals not causation

Sitting close to the TV doesn't hurt your eyes. CRACKED.COM People with bad eyesight sit closer to the television because they have bad eyesight. — Read more: 21 Myths Everyone Believes About The Human Body

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Dirty father?

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia a Clown Pulled Out of Our Ear — YouTube

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Sorry, Shatner

40 Random Bits of TV and Movie Trivia a Clown Pulled Out of Our Ear — The Guardian

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Thank you for your service, Captain Video

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19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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The Leftovers

AND THE EMMY DOESN'T GO TO: THE LEFTOVERS ARTS & SCIENCES OF TELEVISION ACADEMY The Leftovers is often considered a masterpiece of TV storytelling. Th

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Taboo TV

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My thanks to all of you

The early television had multiple inventors. Each came up with their own version in the 1920s, but not all of them took the limelight. John Logie Bair

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Soon enough, they'll be paying us!

SACON Television prices have dropped dramatically. This 1957 RCA color TV with 21 a screen was originally S495. Adjusted for inflation that is $4,251

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This guy sounds like a real jerk.

Chuck Woolery was the host of Studs, possibly the most raunchy and sexually explicit game show ever syndicated on American network television. He coul

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Progressive!

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There's only one solution: we have to ask AI

Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake 1983 THE DEAD ZONE David Cronenberg's dark and moody movie became a more sci-fi oriented, but still decent, series-which ended in a cliffhanger when it was canceled. 2002-2007 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Maybe try a puppet version next time

Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake 1976 CARRIE Angela Bettis' Carrie shows her real power level. She rains meteors on her house (which does happens in the novel), and ends up going full Super-Saiyan on an entire CGI town, 2002 CRACKED.COM — Source

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Maybe the third time's the charm

Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake 1980 THE SHINING The novel was re-adapted as an ABC miniseries. It got mixed-to-bad reviews, but do you know who prefers it over Kubrick's movie? Yup, Stephen King. 1997 CRACKED.COM — Source

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This dude is fast.

Movie Goofs The Fast and the Furious Baddie Johnny Tran is wearing a black shirt - but a fraction of a second later, he changes to a black tank top. Ugh, no wonder this movie never got a sequel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Yeah. Duh.

Best Movies Ever The Shawshank Redemption The ending was changed. Frank Darabont originally had the movie ending with Red taking the bus to Zihuatanejo, but after test screenings, he realized he had to include the reunion between him and Andy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Seven Samurai

Best Movies Ever Seven Samurai The samurai were originally just six. Kurosawa's plan was to tell the story of six honorable and serious samurai, which he and his writing team soon realized just sounded boring. So they added Toshiro Mifune's non-samurai, and allowed him to bring some improvisation to his character. ç٥ CRACKED.COM — Source

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Spoorloos

Disturbing THE FEMME A DISPARU LYA 3 ANS 1988, Netherlands Dir. George Sluizer Spoorloos Rex becomes obsessed with the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend. Не eventually gets contacted by the kidnapper, but trust us, he shouldn't have chased the truth. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sounds like a romp

Disturbing Movies 2016, United States Dir. Tom Ford NOCTURNAL ANIMALS KUWARD SHEPPIELD Nocturnal Animals Amy Adams receives the manuscript of a novel written by her ex-husband, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Besides their own story of estrangement, we also see the novel's sad, violent story. This is the sort of movie that just leaves you empty inside. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hm. No thanks.

Disturbing Movies Repulsion Catherine Deneuve plays a mentally unstable woman who descends into nightmares and hallucinations while all alone in her apartment, her repulsion for sexuality haunting her as her mind decays. Roman Polanski really nails the sexual creepiness (we wonder why). 1965, United Kingdom Dir. Roman Polanski CRACKED.COM — Source

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RIP Jim Henson you would have loved modern CGI

A CLOSER LOOK OXYGEN OXYGEN Henson was sealed in the small diving bell for up three hours at a time for five days of filming. CRACKEDCONT — Source: Jim Henson: The Biography

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The world's most intricate puppet show?

THAT WAS HARDLY THE ONLY SCENE THAT WAS DIFFICULT TO FILM. For example, the Rainbow Conection finale involved 250 Muppets with over 150 puppeteers i

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American society catering to car culture?!

Drive-ins are doing better than usual right now, but don't expect them to becomE THE new norm. Drive-ins are making significantly more money at the mo

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Stanley Kubrick

SHELLEY DUVALL & STANLEY KUBRICK CRACKED.COM Production delays on 'The Shining' kept Duvall from her family for a whole year, and Kubrick made her life a living nightmare by berating her in front of the crew. In an interview, she said, My character had to cry 12 hours a day the last nine months straight, five or six days a week. — Source: 15 Actors And Directors Who Hated Working With Each Other

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Blarp in 'Lost in Space'

Obnoxious Sidekicks Lost in Space Blarp This bug-eyed lizard-monkey monstrosity is just one of the movie's several problems. If you're going to put in an out-of-place animal sidekick in your live-action film, at least make him cute? CRACKED.COM

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We'd watch it

The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Faraway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS GRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV. — Source: 19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

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Chris Farley

CHRIS FARLEY: STUNTMAN CRACKED COM If anyone was gonna fall flat on his face through a coffee table, it was gonna be Farley. Producer Michael Ewing told him, Chris, we'll get some stunt guy to come in and do this, and he said absolutely not. Не was completely dedicated to doing all his own comedic stunts. — Source: cinemablend

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Chris Farley may have had substancea buse issues

KEEP'EM COMIN' CRACKED COM Chris Farley drank dozens of cups of joe every day. In a making of documentary, there's a section on Farley's love of cappuccino where David Spade says, On the first day, I knew we were in trouble because he was so amped up to do a good job, he had 27 cups of cappuccino. — Source: cinemablend

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Skating for Two

The skating date in ROCKY was supposed to take place in a crowded ice rink. But the production ran out of money, and couldn't afford all the extras. So the scene was shot in an empty rink, leading to one of the franchise's most memorable moments. — Source: Total Rocky

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Sounds like a good dude

IT PROVED HENSON'S DEDICATION To HIS CRAFT One of the fellow crew members said Henson would never ask us to do anything that he hadn't done himself o — Source: Jim Henson: The Biography

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Cinderella

Helene Stanley pulled double-duty modeling both Cinderella and her flute- -bastardizing step sister, Anastasia.

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