31 Bits of TV Trivia That Are Always Barging Into Our Apartment Without Knocking

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31 Bits of TV Trivia That Are Always Barging Into Our Apartment Without Knocking

As you can imagine, we’re bombarded with TV facts at work all day, every day. We love our job, but when we get home, the last thing we want to see is another TV fact. You can now imagine how aggravated we get when our TV fact neighbors crash through our door with some harebrained scheme. It was cute at first, but now they’re just plain annoying. 

We told them that your brain really wants to hang out, so they’ll be over any minute. Please keep them occupied while we get a deadbolt.

Midnight Mass

The Netflix show Midnight Mass is an extremely personal project, it turns out. It was heavily inspired by creator Mike Flanagan's Catholic upbringing, and he wanted to explore his own views of faith and religion with it. CRACKED.COM

Charles Dance

For Game of Thrones, Charles Dance learned how to skin a deer. Before filming a scene where Tywin skins a deer, the showrunners asked Dance, Are you a vegetarian, Charles? Не said he wasn't, so they brought in a butcher to show him how to skin a deer and drop its guts into a bucket. For two days after shooting, the smell didn't leave Dance's hands. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

COMEDY NERD Al Gore appeared on 30 Rock twice, in 2007 and 2009 - both times as himself. His first appearance was in Greenzo, and the second one in Sun Tea. CRACKED.COM

Maisie Williams

MAISIE WILLIAMS HAS NO ONE. TATTOOED ON HER NECK No One CRACKED.COM To commemorate the final season of Game of Thrones, Maisie Williams tattooed Arya Stark's moniker on the back of her neck.

MacGyver

GRAGKED.COM Most of the Mac Hack in R MacGyver was made possible by the creative thinking of a gemologist named John I. Koivula.

The Starship Enterprise

CRACKED.COM Walter M. Jefferies was instrumental in the success of Star Trek: Не designed the iconic spaceship, the Starship Enterprise! NCC-17

Stranger Things

The uncredited geniuses behind Demogorgon from Stranger Things are CRACKED.COM Aaron Sims Steffen Reichstadt and Michael Pecchia. The only thing specified in the script was that Demogorgon ought to be a biped with a lot of teeth and no face. The ASC team created the concept art for the monster, and brought it to life on-screen.

Seinfeld

Jonathan Wolff has written theme music for over seventy television shows, including WILL & GRACE and WHO'S THE BOSS? Music Consultants Group, Inc. His most famous work, though, is undoubtedly the SEINFELD bass jam. And yes, he does still get paid for each episode aired. CRACKED.COM

Friends

The guy who played Gunther on Friends got his job for one reason only. And that reason is simple: none of the other extras knew how to work an espresso machine, but he did, so he got promoted from extra to actor. CRACKED.COM

South Park

Lorde didn't actually sing the fake song they wrote for her in South Park. LO DE Sia actually sang Push (Feel Good on a Wednesday), the song they made up for the storyline where Randy Marsh turns out to be Lorde. CRACKED.COM

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s.

Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman demanded that his alter ego, Tony Clifton, have guest appearances on 'Taxi.' After showing up to set with 2 prostitutes, Clifton was fired. A week later, Andy showed up as if noth- ing had happened. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

The Golden Girls

'9' BEA ARTHUR SERVED IN THE US MARINES DURING WWII. When she was 20, the Golden Girl enlisted. Women's enlistment was so new that the Marines didn't have proper paperwork so she had to sign up using US Navy paperwork. CRACKED.COM

Martin Luther King

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS A BIG STAR TREK FAN. Не encouraged Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura, to stay on the show when she was considering quitting. CRACKED.COM

James Doohan

JAMES DOOHAN SERVED IN WORLD WAR II. Не was shot six times on D-Day: four in the leg, one in the chest (stopped by a metal cigarette case), and one blew off his middle finger. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION Many stray cats lived on the Paramount Studios lot-so whenever the crew of the Enterprise visited an alien planet, the actors had to walk and crawl on dirt mixed with cat poop. CRACKED.COM

Monk’s Cafe

RESTAURA TOM'S RESTAURANT CIBIOSA Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan provides all the exterior shots for Monk's Café. It's also the same eatery that Suzanne Vega sings about in Tom's Diner. 4 Seinfeld CRACKED.COM

The Teletubbies

The Teletubbies' hill was located in a field Teletubbies TM in Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England. Was. The landowner turned the place into a pond after she got sick of trespassing fans. CRACKED.COM

Remotes

CRACKED THE FIRST TV REMOTE CONTROL WAS CALLED THE LAZY BONES. It was invented in 1950 and was connected to the TV by a wire. It used a flashlight-like device to turn the TV on and off, change channels, and adjust the volume.

Boy Meets World

People voted on whether cory and Topanga should marry. The poll turned out better for them than for Robin. CRACKED.COM

Cake Boss

CRACKED.COM Carlo's Buddy YOU can't arrest me, I'm the cake boss! That's what Cake Boss Buddy Valastro shouted when pulled over for drunk driving. It didn't work.

Say Yes to the Dress

HOLF BBM ED A bride sued say Yes to the Dress. Seeing the bride's dress before the wedding is bad luck, but it's probably worse if the whole world sees it - which is why one woman sued after her episode was aired before her wedding. CRACKED.COM

Roc

TV'S first gay wedding was on a 1991 ROC episode. Starring Charles S. Dutton, the show had his uncle getting married, with Roc realizing he was uncomfortable... but that didn't mean it was bad. (The Golden Girls aired a gay commitment ceremony earlier that year.) CRACKED.COM

The Office

I am instituting prima nocta. Prima nocta jokes just seem to follow JOSS Whedon. Years before Tony Stark's quip about prima nocta in Age of Ultron, a joke about it appeared in The Office the same season Whedon directed an episode. I will be reinstituting prima nocta. CRACKED.COM

The Smothers Brothers

CBS claimed it was canceling the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour due to its failure to meet deadlines. Behind the scenes, everyone knew the axing was due to the show's political content, including anti-Vietnam comedy sketches. CBS out-and-out refused to run one episode that featured folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez. CRACKED.COM

Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah almost lost his Daily Show gig before it even began. After he was announced as Jon Stewart's replacement, Buzzfeed reporters dug up old Noah tweets poking fun at women and Jews. After Noah's half- hearted apology, Comedy Central stuck up for his right to make bad jokes. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

The dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns. CRACKED.COM The difference between a wyvern and a dragon is that a wyvern has 2 legs and a dragon has 4 legs. They also happen to be make-believe, so it doesn't really matter.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas producer Lee Mendelson banged out the lyrics to Christmas Time is Here in one sitting. It was the last minute, and all his lyricist friends were busy. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

DEEP SPACE NINE / THE MAGNIFICENT FERENGI IGGY POP KIDNAPPED QUARK'S MOM. The rock star played a Vorta named Yelgrun who is holding Ishka captive, while Quark, Rom, and Nog team up to rescue their Moogie. CRACKED.COM

Taxi

Marilu Henner has an extraordinary memory. The actress from the sitcom Taxi is one of the few people in the world who have hyperthymesia. The condition allows her to recall almost every day of her life, in vivid detail. But most importantly, it really comes in handy when reading scripts. CRACKED.COM

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