25 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Overheard Our Gaolers Whispering When They Thought We Were Asleep

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25 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Overheard Our Gaolers Whispering When They Thought We Were Asleep

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney The Always Sunny In Philadelphia stars met on set and kept their relationship a secret for a year- which was hard to do considering McElhenney was also living with co-star Glenn Howerton at the time. GRACKED.COM

SNL

BELUSHI! NO! THAT SAMURAI'S FOR REAL! Spider-Man fought a samurai along with John Belushi. The entire SNL cast showed up in a Marvel Team-Up comic in the 1970s - not as a cameo, but to actually team up with Spider-Man. The story leads to Belushi and Spidey battling a samurai together. CRACKED.COM

Danny DeVito

In 2018, Danny DeVito gave a fan a unique shout-out. OY'S High school senior and big fan of It's Sunny in Philadelphia Alison Closs brought a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to her prom and posted about it on social media. A month later, DeVito posed with a cardboard cutout of her in Paddy's Pub in the show. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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25 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Overheard Our Gaolers Whispering When They Thought We Were Asleep

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

The Dating Game

Celebrities on dating shows Don Rickles was on one episode of 1969's The Dating Game. (Not as a competitor, but as an inquisitor that got to pick out a date for the woman contestant.) CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

Good sports about parodies George R. R. Martin allowed a burlesque show based on Game of Thrones to be performed at his Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe. The show was put on by the Virginia-based Blacklist Burlesque. CRACKED

21 Jump Street

JOHNNY DEPP 21 JUMP STREET CRACKED.COM It just started to become false. It started to become this action-packed can of soup, you know? Depp got so sick of Jump Street that he trashed his trailer in an attempt to get action-canned.

Kristen Wiig

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KRISTEN WIIG WROTE AN SNL SKETCH ABOUTTONY AND JOAN HAWAII, PI. And Lorne Michaels rejected them - Tony was kind of an Italian womanizer, and Joan Hawaii PI was, well, a Hawaiian Private Eye who, as Wiig said, kayaks everywhere.

Star Trek

There are dolphins aboard the Enterprise. According to The Next Generation Technical Manual, the crew of Captain Picard's ship includes twelve bottlenose dolphins and two orcas in a section called Cetacean Ops. These wet crewmembers were too expensive for TV, but they were mentioned in passing on a couple episodes. CRACKED.COM

Murphy Brown

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode Brittany Murphy Murphy started as Frank's Sister on an episode of Murphy Brown, and was last seen on our screens on the dramatic horror movie Something Wicked. CRACKED.COM

Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world Three episodes are banned from Disney channel. One about getting drunk (If You Can't Be With the One You Love), one about sex (Prom-ises, Promises), and one about a lack of it (The Truth About Honesty). CRACKED.COM

Futurama

Movie and TV Aliens Futurama Zoidberg's S voice is based on George Jessel and Lou Jacobi. Billy West figured that his name and his face tentacles made someone marble-mouthed with a Jewish background-just like those two actors. CRACKED.COM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sunnydale BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER CRACKED.COM Creator Joss Whedon has said the location was loosely based on Monterey, California, even if from the name alone, it would seem associated with Sunnyvale, California.

Breaking Bad

Hunger Games: Catching Fire was heavily influenced by Breaking Bad. Director Francis Lawrence binge-watched the show while making the movie, and its cliffhangers inspired him to end his own movie on a cliffhanger. CRACKED.COM

Arrested Development

CRACKED.COM Arrested Development David Cross had to fight for Tobias' mustache. The head of FOX had a no mustache rule as part of her 3 Rules of Comedy, but Cross just couldn't see the character without it. Не saw no logic with that rule, along with the other two: no baseball caps and no puffy sleeves.

Twin Peaks

CRACKED.COM DE - Twin Peaks David Lynch cast the Log Lady 13 years before the first episode aired. Catherine Coulson got her start as an actor in Lynch's Eraserhead. During the shoot, Lynch told to her, Someday, I'll do a series and you'll play a girl with a log.

Happy Days

Happy Days Ron Howard joined to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Since the government wasn't accepting college deferment for service, Howard auditioned and got the acting job to get a work deferment. CRACKED.COM

The Office

aff ewsle COMPLETED eon TH - MIP The Office Phyllis had her role made up for her. Phyllis Smith was working as a casting assistant as the show was being put together. Everyone was impressed by her performance as she read opposite other actors at the auditions, so they wrote a part for her. CRACKED.COM

Beyond Westworld

BEYOND WESTWORLD 3 EPISODES had no future CRACKED Before HBO, there was a CBS show about Westworld's head of security hunting evil robots. It wasn't exactly Blade Runner.

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Lucky Louie

LOUIS C.K. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always

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The Robert Taylor Show

The Robert Taylor Show A 1963 drama based on real stories from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's official files. The network rea

Game of Thrones

HBO hated Game of Thrones' pilot, SO they almost nixed the show. GAME OF HRONES They only said yes when nearly the whole pilot was reshot.

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