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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Had to Deliver in an Elevator During a Power Outage

April 26, 2025

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Walk Hard

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GUILTY AS CHARGED WAS INSPIRED BY MERLE HAGGARD. it is - 1 WALK HARD Songwriter Charlie Wadhams says when he was asked to write the song he was told to imagine Merle Haggard in a trashed hotel room with a bottle of whiskey after he'd just been dumped by his wife. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem's trademark blonde hair as a result of Ecstasy Eminem was on MDMA when he went to a drugstore and bought peroxide. He woke up the next day, forgetting he bleached his hair, but Dr. Dre approved of the new look: CRACKED.COM — Source: The Way I Am

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Office Space

The studio wanted Ron Livingston to be skinny as hell. Fox execs assigned him a 90's version of the Chris Pratt workout regimen leading up to his screen test. He spent a weekend jumping rope, and got about halfway through the fast they recommended.

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William Zabka

WILLIAM ZABKA is a weapon himself. Karate Kid's Johnny Lawrence became a karate expert, sticking with it after the film was over, with him even getting a bit typecast due to his skills. Не ended up with a green belt, halfway to a black belt, before Cobra Kai. — Source: Yahoo Entertainment

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Fifty Shades of Grey

CRACKED.COM Fifty Shades Of Grey met with a lukewarm reception in Japanese cinemas (it was outsold nearly two-to-one by The Peanuts Movie, to put things in perspective). Apparently the Japanese can live their fetishes in real life instead of watching them on a screen. — Source: 25 Unfathomable Facts About Porn And Sex (You Can't Unknow)

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Ocean’s Eleven

OCEAN'S ELEVEN Angie Dickinson I Henry Silva CRACKED .COM ORIGINAL REMAKE 1960: Beatrice 2001: Basically Ocean, Danny the only original Ocean's wife, cast members and Roger left alive, they Corneal, one- appear briefly eleventh of the during the Eleven. robbery. — Source: 15 Stars Who Passed The Torch By Appearing In Their Franchise’s Remake

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The LEGO Movie

Batman and Chewbacca interact in The LEGO Movie because of a kid's play. Co-creator Chris Miller saw his son put LEGO Batman and Chewbacca in the same spaceship, so he thought he could do that in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Spider-Man

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Had to Deliver in an Elevator During a Power Outage — Read more: 21 Times Hollywood Actually Got Science Right

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The Hunger Games

The Huinger Games Effie Trinket is always in high heels and tight dresses with tiny waistlines and chokers around her neck. It's not just about showin — Source: Reuters

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Patrick Dempsey

PATRICK DEMPSEY is a racecar driver. Driving isn't exactly brain surgery, like his character de BOLEY MILK used to perform in Grey's Anatomy. Still, not every driver competes at AT 58 Parachu и 0 Stringer Le Mans and Daytona, as Dempsey has. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Free Willy

Free Willy After the movie came out, pressure mounted to free Keiko (the movie's cetacean star) for real and not just in fiction. Keiko could not adapt to living in the wild. Не died the following year, always seeking the company of humans. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Evil Dead II

CRACKED.COM Evil Dead II Stephen King is the franchise's godfather. The horror writer loved the first Evil Dead so much that he told Dino De Laurentiis to fund the second one without Sam Raimi's knowledge. — Source

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David Bowie

ASHES TO ASHES by David Bowie is the music video's first art piece. Bowie co-directed his 1980 video, which cost £250,000 to make (a massive price tag at the time). It was a prime example of how music videos can be interpreted as art, and allowed artists to do more than just film themselves playing their instruments. CRACKED — Source

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Jack White

CRACKED.COM Not only does Jack White insist on one bowl of fresh, chunky home-made guacamole in his dressing room... Не even provides a handy recipe to follow. GUACAMOLE RECIPE A 8 x large, ripe Hoos avocados (cur in holf the long way, remove the pit-SA VE THE PITS THOUGH-, and dice into large cubes with o butter knife. 3 or 4 stirs down, 3 or 4 across. You'll scoop out the chunks with a spoon, careful to maintain the avocado in fairly large chunks.) AAAAAA 4x vine-ripened tomardes (diced) 1/x x yellow onion (finely chopped) 1x full bunch cilontro (chopped) 4 x — Source

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Hostage

CRACKED Described by its director as an arthouse version of Die Hard, Hostage is... no Die Hard. You can't just surround Bruce Willis with shit going wrong and get a masterpiece. — The Movie Buff

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Randy Quaid

CRACKED RANDY QUAID Не and wife Evi sought refugee status in Canada after they were arrested for squatting, burglary, and vandalism. They claimed that a celebrity-killing cult called the Hollywood Star Whackers killed Heath Ledger and are now after them. — Independent / Uproxx

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one lucky guy. Not only did he have a successful acting and bodybuilding career, but he also ignored all the naysayers that said it would never happen because of his accent or name. CRACKED.COM — Business Insider

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Shrek

Adult Jokes in Children's Entertainment Shrek Compensating for Something When Shrek first sees Lord Farquad's castle, he suggests that Lord Farquad is compensating for having a very tiny... well, you know. The fact that Farquad was based on ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner just makes this a lot worse? Better? CRACKED.COM — Watch it on YouTube, Chicago Tribune

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘99

The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — IGN

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J.R.R. Tolkien

CRACKED.COM Tolkien and his future wife used to drop sugar cubes in strangers' hats According to a biographer, Edith and Ronald took to frequenting Birmingham teashops, especially one which had a balcony overlooking the pavement. There they would sit and throw sugarlumps into the hats of passers-by, moving to the next table when the sugar bowl was empty. — Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

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Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx I once shot an ele- phant in my pajamas, and how it got in my pajamas l'll never know. A certified classic (I certified it just now). CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — YouTube

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Pizza Hut

GRACKED Cowabunga! COM Get our radical debut audio cassette, official Concert Tour Guide and autographed poster for $399 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Hut sponsored a TMNT concert tour. The Coming Out of Our Shells tour featured the Turtles, Splinter, and Shredder singing rock songs and rapping throughout the United States. You could also buy VHS copies at Pizza Hut restaurants, too. Hut. — Sources: Commercial on YouTube, Reddit

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Doctor Who

Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie Doctor who I hate pears. This two-minute sequence was entirely created to be fast-forwarded through by Martha. However, some bits have remained canon, including the Doctor hating pears. CRACKED.COM — Source: YouTube

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Publisher’s Clearing House

... TELL US NOW. ED MCMAHON'S PUBLISHER'S CLEARING HOUSE PUBLIS RS PUBLISHERS CLAMMING HOUSE R PCN du LEROY FAULKS, SR. de $1 MILLION Plus $5,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE MEGA PRIZE adidas pch.com Cassandra S. says, Ed McMahon wasn't in the Publisher's Clearing House commercials. Не never showed up at anyone's doorstep or gave giant sweepstakes checks to anyone. I found this out 3 weeks ago and am still reeling over it. Не actually worked for their competitor American Family Publishers. CRACKED.COM

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Kane

KANE is a mayor in Tennessee. Glenn Jacobs, known in the ring as Kane, now wrestles in a tougher arena-politics. In 2018, he was elected mayor of Knox County, Tenneessee's third-largest county. CRACKED.COM — 24 'Wait-A-Minute-What?' Celeb Facts

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James Mason

COMEDY DE NERD CRACKED.COM James Mason Hader's a big fan of old-school film and has the impressions to back it up, including a spot-on James Mason trying to buy donuts with an expired gift certificate that was included in his SNL audition.

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Tiffany Haddish

TIFFANY HADDISH CRACKED.COM If they don't give it to me, f*** them, Haddish said after her audition. They didn't. Haddish got the last laugh as the first black female comic to host the show. — Decider

13

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Eleneanor's torture Her apartment might look pretty chic in season one, but on second glance you can see every piece of furniture was designed to be uncomfortable, and add to her actually being tortured. The Good Place CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks' book Modelland is truly weird sci-fi YA fiction. TYRA BANKS Modethand It's about Tookie, a regular girl who somehow gets a SMIZE, an artifact that could get her to Modelland, a boarding school in the skies that trains young models. — Source: Mashable

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Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald can't say that burgers come from coWS. The dream gig as the corporate mascot of a multinational fast food company comes with some rules the most bizarre of those being, you are never allowed to tell children where burgers come from if they ask — More: 7 Real (Ridiculous) Rules For Being Ronald McDonald

10

Jaws

The paint for the Jaws shark had to be shipped across the country. It was special paint that would self-destruct three weeks after it was made, so they had to get regular shipments of it from California, in the same Universal Studios pouch that studio execs set their notes in. — Source: Today.com

9

Princess Bride

There's a Spinal Tap easter egg in Princess Bride OORAL SEA usS Ov ae The hat Rob Reiner wore in Spinal Tap is hanging on the wall of The Grandson's room. — Source: EW

8

Cheers Characters

In the '9Os, there were airport bars with animatronic Cheers! characters. Somehow, people thought that travellers would want to sit down next to a creepy version of Norm before boarding their flight. Even more weirdly, the bars survived for a full ten yearsc. from 1991 to 2001. — Source: VinePair

7

George Lucas

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Had to Deliver in an Elevator During a Power Outage — Source: The 6 Most Inexcusable Director Cameos In Their Own Movies

6

Dune

Terrible Movie Merchandise The Studios Didn't Think Through - The 1984 Dune film came with a kids’ activity book. — Read More: The 16 Most Baffling Pieces of Official Merchandise Ever

5

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds spent more than $100,000 on toupees. His reckless spending eventually forced him to file bankruptcy in 1996.

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Marion Jones

Marion Jones lost sponsorship deals over her steroid use. That was just the beginning of her troubles. During the inquiry, the Olympic athlete lied to

3

Shakespeare in Love

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Looking back at Academy Awards 1999s Best Picture... It's just a tongue-in-cheek rom-com that's not different from any of the othe

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Batman: Arkham Asylum

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Star Trek

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