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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Exploded Forth From the Internet Like a Chestburster

May 05, 2025

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Rugrats

Rugrats Chuckie Finster's look and characteristics are inspired by Devo keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh, who also composed the show's opening theme. GRAGKED.COM — Characters Based On Celebs, Really

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Bad Religion

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Robert Zemeckis

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Exploded Forth From the Internet Like a Chestburster — Source: 12 Famous Figures That Loved To Troll

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Kate McKinnon

KATE MCKINNON is a homeless folk singer CRACKED.CO When Bart accidentally trashes Hettie's shopping cart full of belongings, he invites her home to live in his closet. McKinnon voices Hettie's speaking voice, but her twangy singin' is provided by Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. — AV Club

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Dan Brown

Foreshadowed in a cipher. a ATX YOUR TIMES BESTSELLING DAN BROWN THE DA VINCI CODE NOVEL DECEPTION POINT CRACKED.COM The last page of Dan Brown's Deception Point contains a coded message featuring a string of numbers and letters. Savvy readers replaced each number with the first letter of its corresponding chapter, and when you unscramble the message it reads: THE DA VINCI CODE WILL SURFACE. The Da Vinci Code was released two years later. — Source: 7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Publications

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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women In the 1960s, Roger Corman got hold of a Soviet sci-fi film - and after releasing a (mostly) straightforward first version, he went for broke and included a whole tribe of, Well, prehistoric women. — Source: Offscreen

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Daniel Radcliffe

DANIEL RADCLIFFE INFURIATED THE PAPARAZZI WITH HIS SHENANIGANS. MARCH MAY NOVEMBER Annoyed with being constantly followed by the paparazzi, Radcliffe — CBS

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The Andy Griffith Show

THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Andy's maps are upside-down. Weirder still: why does a sheriff in North Carolina need maps of ldaho and Nevada?

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The X-Files

THE X-FILES FEATURES CYNICAL FBI AGENT DR. DANA SCULLY. BECAUSE OF HER, WOMEN ARE GOING INTO SCIENCE. The '9os TV series breaks gender stereotypes in

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Daniel Day-Lewis

CRACKED DANIEL DAY LEWIS WAS A SHOEMAKER. A cobbler, if you will. Between movies, he relocated to Florence, Italy in 1996 to train under Stefano Bremer. Bremer's shoes sold for $500 back then, and if you bought a pair from 1996 to 2001, they may have been made by Daniel Day Lewis!

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22 Jump Street

Meet Cute 22 Jump Street Channing Tatum's Greg Jenko and Wyatt Russell's Zook have the sweetest of meet cutes. Greg is cleaning his ear with a Q-tip while Zook is eating a meat sandwich, and when they bumps into each other, the sandwich falls to the groundand becomes a meat q-tip sandwich. Their meat q-tip is so adorable they just have to announce it to everyone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Chris Pratt

In 2014, Chris Pratt stole his Star Lord costume... ...so he could visit sick kids in the hospital. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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2 Fast 2 Furious

CRACKED.COM 2 Fast 2 Furious John Singleton wanted to direct the sequel because he loved the original. Growing up in South Central L.A. ,Singleton was into the street race scene. In fact, he was reportedly jealous he didn't come up with the movie's concept. eparco Епусе 42 — Source

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Movie Myths

CRACKED Vacuum would make you pop It's a myth that if someone is exposed to a vacuum, their body will swell up and explode. It would be deadly, but it wouldn't cause your body to swell up. You'd remain conscious for a few seconds until the lack of oxygen reaches your brain. — TriStar Pictures
ThoughtCo

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Penn Badgley

Actorvs Character YOU 3 Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg Не called Joe a pretty reprehensible guy and amongst the worst, and told show creator Sera Gamble to make sure Joe doesn't get a happy ending. CRACKED — Warner Bros. Television
Us Magazine

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Team America: World Police

CRACKED PROTECT E SERV BARE Team America: World Police Muppets, animatronics, and CGI characters have come and gone, but there is only one sexually explicit marionette movie that crudely satirizes America's military-industrial complex. — Consequence / Decider

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Ryan Reynolds

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Kelly Clarkson

Breaking! Kelly Clarkson admits she has sex! I was single for many years. So, I have children , and how one makes children is generally what I do before bed. That's not a lie, that's real! And it's not weird, it's natural. CRACKED — RCA Records
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Margaret Cho

SATIRIZATIONS of modern monsters 30 Rock Margaret Cho was hilarious (but harmless) as KIM JONG-IL. Cho said she couldn't study his voice or mannerisms, since there's barely any video of the Supreme Leader. Her very funny take mostly says how great things are in North Korea. TOOTHLESS CRACKED — NBCUniversal
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Joneses book a flight from Berlin to Athens on a commercial zeppelin in 1938. In actuality, no ticket would have been a problem for all of the passengers, since airship travel was no longer a thing due to the Hindenburg crash the year before. CRACKED.COM — Source: 27 Movies And Shows That Need Help With History

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RoboCop (Again)

Original vs. Reboot ВЬ 1987 ROBOCOP From dark satire of corporate greed to hey, buy our new RoboCop. 2014 CRACKED.COM

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Sandman

Things that Guillermo del Toro almost did sandman The Netflix series has removed Guillermo Del Toro's chances of directing any adaptation... for now. CRACKED.COM

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The Princess Bride

CRACKED.COM Princess Buttercup There's a sequel to The Princess Bride. A short story added to some editions deals with Waverley, Buttercup's baby born on a deserted island.

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Louie C.K.

In the Louie episode Come On, God, Louis С.К debates a woman about masturbation. The scene ends with him telling her, Later I'm going to masturbate, and I'm gonna think about you. BNN V OXNNAWS le report. You decide. NEW LIVE LOUIE С.К. COMEDIAN/MASTURBATOR In real life, Louis С.К. admitted to pleasuring himself in front of many unwilling women. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Movies And Shows That Make You Go 'Not Cool' Now

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Jonah Hill

Farts on and off-screen JONAH HILL'S FART MACHINE Julia Louis-Dreyfus bought Hill a fart machine he used on press tours. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mashable

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Legend of Zelda’s Ghost

A Zelda game is haunted. It was a legend for a long time that there was a ghost in a swamp-like level in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was eventually discovered that this ghost was an enemy accidentally placed where it shouldn't be - not knowing what to do with it, the game made it invisible. — More: 4 Spooky Glitches That Turn Games Into Horror Shows

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Young Justice

In Young Justice, when Artemis doesn't have her weapons with her, she has this to say: I feel naked, and not in a fun way. CRACKED.COM — Source: These 34 Filthy Jokes Are (Somehow) In Family Movies & Shows

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Silver Surfer

CRACKED COM Before getting superpowers and living on Earth, SILVER SURFER lost both his parents to suicide on his utopian home planet, Zenn-La. His mother killed herself when he was just seven years old because she couldn't stand how perfect life on Zenn-La was. Years later, his father followed suit after being accused of plagiarism. — Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Chrissie Hynde

The female rock icon Chrissie Hynde believes that women who dress provocatively are responsible if they are sexually assaulted. If I'm walking around in my underwear and I'm drunk? Who else's fault can it be? GRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Surprising Things That Celebrities Believe

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Con Air

Con Air used a real plane for all its stunts. Before the film? The plane dropped Agent Orange on the Vietnamese. After the film? It crashed in Alaska, starting a wildfire and killing all aboard. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Famous Movie Locations With Killer Back Stories

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Bob’s Burgers

There's an official Bob's Burgers comic book. FROM THE CREATORS SNOW BOB'S BURGERS FROM THE CALATORS OF THE HIT SHOWL BOB'S BURGERS BOB'S BURGERS CRACKED.co It's written and illustrated by the show's staff. Some stories are off-the-walls homages to other mediums, but some are official canon - including regular installments of Tina's Erotic Friend Fiction. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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Hot Fuzz

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Jason Statham

One of Jason Statham's early movies is about ghosts possessing people on Mars. In, uh, Ghosts of Mars, Martian cops in 2176 (including Statham) and criminals have to fight a swarm of miners who got possessed by angry ghosts. CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenRant

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RoboCop

The police station from RoboCop is actually a concert hall in Dallas in real life. The exact address is Sons of Herman Hall, 3414 Elm St., but it looks 100% unrecognizable without the quasi-futuristic '80s police gadgets. CRACKED.COM — Source: Dallas Film Commission

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Romeo + Juliet

ROMEO + JULIET Collage boards done by the artistic director showed references to everything from the Vietnam War to parts of Havana. 70 fortunes fool m The filmmakers originally wanted TBALT to film in Havana, upon thy death. Benvolio. but it wouldn't have worked because a lot of the characters — Luhrmann Instagram

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Iron Chef Showdown

John Besh IRON CHEF SHOWDOWN Weeeso CRACKEDCON The restaurateur was accused by 25 employees of sexual harassment. It was such an epic comeuppance that — Source: Mashed

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Star Wars Cantina Band

CRACKED COM The Star Wars cantina music is a distorted 1930s swing band tune.

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Disney Parks

IT WASN'T UNTIL 2015 THAT DISNEY STARTED INSTALLING METAL DETECTORS AT ALL OF ITS THEME PARKS... ..A WEEK AFTER A MAN TRIED TO ENTER DISNEY WORLD WITH

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Batman Begins

1. Regard Gotham as corrupt. Ducard, from Batman Begins 2. Infiltrate every level of its infrastructure. SWat 3. Use this to root out-corruption des

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Movie Phrases

YOU SHOT ME No one's first reaction to being shot is to inform their assailant that they have indeed been shot.

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