24 Satisfactory Bits of TV Trivia That Are Fine Until the Commercial Break of the Fact List We Actually Like Is Over

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24 Satisfactory Bits of TV Trivia That Are Fine Until the Commercial Break of the Fact List We Actually Like Is Over

The TV fact game is pretty competitive, and we fully intend to dominate the market! It’s like our dad always said: “Second place is the first loser.” He would’ve really gotten along with Ricky Bobby’s dad.

So thank you for being here. We appreciate your readership, and we totally understand if you happen to get some TV facts elsewhere too. You fact lovers can’t help yourselves. All we ask is that, if you find a better list than this, please don’t show our dad.

General Electric Theater

GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER TURNED RONALD REAGAN CONSERVATIVE. Reagan hosted the show and toured as a GE public spokesman. Despite being a long-time Democrat, by the time he left the show in 1962, he was comfortable being a leading conservative speaker. CRACKED.COM

Cathy Come Home

CATHY COME HOME CHANGED BRITISH ATTITUDES ABOUT HOMELESSNESS. The 1966 BBC TV play was watched by a quarter of the British population, and the homeless charity Shelter found immediate success as a direct result. CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

Millie Bobby Brown learned her American accent from Hannah Montana. Did we hear someone say crossover? CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

DRUG DEALERS STARTED MAKING BLUE METH. 78.800 Br ... 35 eaking JAM Ba d E Homeland Security reported blue-tinted meth had been introduced to the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area, inspired by the popularity of Breaking Bad. CRACKED.COM

Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx's famous painted mustache came about because he couldn't be bothered gluing on a fake mustache prior to a performance. GRACKED.COM

Doctor Who

The Fourth Doctor's huge scarf was the result of a misunder- standing. Doctor Who head costume designer Jim Acheson wanted the Fourth Doctor to have a scarf, so he gave a knitter lots of wool in many colors and asked her to make one. Apparently, she thought she was supposed to use it all, and knitted a multicolored, freakishly huge scarf. People thought the scarf fit Tom Baker's off-the-wall interpretation of the Doctor perfectly, so it stayed. CRACKED.COM

The Muppet Show

Elmo's unfilmed scene in the 2011 Muppets reboot turned out to be pretty meta. The scene had Elmo being asked to be The Muppet Show's celebrity host, and a team of lawyers stepping in to nix that. In real life, Disney wanted to put Elmo in the movie, but a team of lawyers from Children's Television Workshop (which owns the characters) stepped in to nix that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Modern Family

MODERN FAMILY Jaz is Gloria Married 6 months Jay and Gloria apparently got a major renovation after the first episode. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

The owners of the Breaking Bad house built a six-foot iron fence around it. For years, have been throwing pizzas on the house's roof (to recreate the scene where Bryan Cranston did that), and this was the only family's only remaining option to deal with it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

Eleven from Stranger Things is basically Jodie from Beyond: Two Souls. Result of horrific experiments that left their mothers comatose? Put in the care evil government people? Awful testing complete with weird crown? Nose bleeding? Hospital gowns and buzz cuts? It all checks out. CRACKED.COM

Friends

FRIENDS Ross wears a banana lapel pin to say goodbye to Marcel. CRACKED.COM

Luanne Platter

Luanne was named after a Texas diner meal. CRACKED.COM The Lu Ann Platter is a meal at the Texas chain restaurant Luby's ---which, incidentally, is a much funnier name than Luly's, the stand-in Luby's where Luanne gets something resembling her namesake platter in the show.

The Grinch

At first, Dr. Seuss was dead set against the idea of a Grinch TV special. When his old friend Chuck Jones drove up to pitch him on the idea, Dr. Seuss had planned on stonewalling him by reminiscing about old times until Jones went home. But Jones wore him down. CRACKED.COM

Avatar: The Last Airbender

24 Satisfactory Bits of TV Trivia That Are Fine Until the Commercial Break of the Fact List We Actually Like Is Over

Futurama

THE VERY TITLE OF FUTURAMA IS A NERDY EASTER EGG. Futurama was General Motors' futuristic exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. In that same fair, the public got an early taste of television-a technology largely developed by Philo T. Farnsworth. CRACKED.COM

Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS YOU CAN PLAY JERRY'S BALLOON GAME. 21 Rick ml Mont The creators took the balloon popping game Jerry plays on his tablet in season one episode Something Ricked This Way Comes and developed it into a real mobile game, Rick And Morty: Jerry's Game. CRACKED.COM

Bob's Burgers

It almost definitely takes place in New Jersey. Онаство . JENNIFER COYLE Global CRACKED.COM They kept the location intentionally ambiguous for a while, Simpsons-style. But in the Season 3 episode It Snakes a Village, a map of their trek to Florida starts out in the Garden State.

Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess CRACKED.COM Xena was supposed to be killed off after a three-episode arc on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but was so popular she got a six-season starring role instead.

Candid Camera

Candid Camera 1948 Candia Camela CRACKED COM The show (originally a radio show called Candid Microphone) was the first televised reality show, featuring regular members of the public as its stars.

Leave it to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver 1957 CRACKED.COM Although not quite the first show to feature a toilet (it was edited out for being too scandalous), it was the first show to show a toilet tank and certainly one of the first to even include a bathroom.

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy 1953 CRACKED.COM The first televised birth (well, not graphic birth) goes to Lucille Ball, who wasn't even allowed to say the word 'pregnant' because it was too taboo.

King of the Hill

They were given 3 more seasons -- after they'd packed up the office. DALES DEAD-BOG ALAMO CRACKED.COM The season 7 finale was designed to be the series finale, and very effectively wrapped up a lot of loose ends. It wasn't until after they'd shut down operations and literally moved out of their offices that they found out they'd been renewed.

The Golden Girls

CRACKED.COM THE GOLDEN GIRLS was inspired by MIAMI VICE. In 1984, NBC shot a humorous skit titled Miami Nice, starring two older actresses, for a special advertising their new shows (like Miami Vice). Execs liked it, and the idea was developed into a full series about old ladies living in Miami.

Lost

Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment, got the idea for the show Lost after he watched the movie Cast Away. 0 ST CAST AWAY CRACKED.COM

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