30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Pretty Hairy for a While There But Wrap Up Nicely in 22 Minutes

This fact batch has a highly satisfying finale
30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Pretty Hairy for a While There But Wrap Up Nicely in 22 Minutes

We tried to keep these TV facts in line, but they’re so random that they ended up going off in all kinds of strange directions. The first act was pretty easy to follow, and they did somehow get to a pretty satisfying conclusion, but man, that second act was a real rat’s nest.

Sesame Street

Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. One day on the Sesame Street set, Henson asked Oz if he could take a picture of him naked - and Oz said yes. That Christmas, Henson gave Oz an elaborately detailed sculpture of Bert - - but with hollow pupils that contained naked photos of Oz. CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

Bridgerton

CRACKED.COM Sex scenes Bridgerton There's a sex coordinator. Sex scenes (in this show and others) often have stunt or intimacy coordinators, to help with the choreography.

The ThunderCats

The ThunderCats voice actors would swear in the booth all the time. They did it to goof off in between recording lines about things like the Sword of Omens or the Eye of Thundera --and, since it was the '80s, they didn't expect anyone except them and the audio engineers would hear those outtakes. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones (Again)

Hollywood feuds LENA HEADY vs JEROME FLYNN Cersei and Bronn don't have scenes together on Game of Thrones because the (ex) couple dated in 2002, and they're not on talking terms after the nasty breakup. CRACKED

WandaVision

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany had a disgusting, snotty kiss on WandaVision. They call it Snotgate, and it involved one of them (they can't agree who) having their nose suddenly start running during a passionate kiss. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Tracy Morgan had to have an emergency kidney transplant New a Sherri Shepherd was brought in as Tracy's wife to continue his storyline (and create the iconic Queen of Jordan episodes) BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS THE COSBY community SHOW JOKE In season 2's Asian Population Studies, Jeff compliments Shirley's on-off husband Andre on his sweater, to which Andre replies: Thanks. My dad gave it to me. The actor, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, played young Theodore Huxtable, son of Cliff Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Cliff Huxtable was known for his colorful sweaters. CRACKED COM

Ted Lasso

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS TED LASSO WAS INFLUENCED BY DONALD TRUMP. TED LASSO Sudeikis says Trump's poisonous masculinity made him want to present a different, more wholesome, side of masculinity with Lasso. CRACKED.COM

The Nanny

This Is Spinal Tap Fran Drescher brought Bobbi Fleckman to The Nanny. CRACKED.COM 13 years after the movie came out, The Nanny aired an episode called The Bobbi Fleckman Story. In a catastrophic failure of the Bechdel test, Drescher played two different women fawning over a rich man.

Freaks and Geeks

MOST OF THE STORYLINES ARE BASED ON THE WRITERS' HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCES JEURNEY CRACKED.COM They took two weeks sharing personal stories and answering questions like, What was your worst drug experience? and Who was your first girlfriend?

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHINO-THE-SCENESPHOTS Instead of a sequel, we got a CARTOON GRACKED.COM Every cast member was back to voice their Dynamite character (It was an immediate yes, says Tina Majorino), but the series lacked the charm of the original. It was canned after only six episodes.

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES The Parks and Recreation crossover Both shows were created by Michael Schur, and The Good Place not only featured many of the same actors but also tons of Parks and Rec Easter eggs. There's a magazine ad for Jean-Ralphio's champagne brand, Lil' Sebastian has a cameo in the fake Good Place, and at one point Jason gets trapped in a safe made by the Swanson Safe Company. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Glee

Behind-the-scenes Drama Glee Lea Michele is apparently as much of a diva as her character. That was said about her by many co-stars, including Samantha Ware, Heather Morris, Yvette Nicole Brown, Abigail Breslin, Melissa Benoist... and those are just the names you'd recognize. CRACKED.COM

Friends

MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM

Grey’s Anatomy

Shonda Rhimes sent everybody from Grey's Anatomy on a luxury vacation. To celebrate the show's 350th episode, Rhimes bought a vacation to a luxury resort for every single cast and crew member from Grey's Anatomy. CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

Manny Jacinto made the whole cast of The Good Place cry with a beautiful gesture. G P Jacinto stole the necklace his character Jason gives Janet as a goodbye present in the series finale of the Good Place. Не then gave it to D'Arcy Carden as a goodbye present while the cast watched that same finale together. CRACKED COM

The Sopranos

James Gandolfini gave every actor on The Sopranos a cut of his DVD profits. When Gandolfini found out he was the only actor on the show that was getting money from DVD sales, he called all the other actors into his trailer one by one, and paid them a cut of his own proceeds. CRACKED COM

Game of Thrones

Sophie Turner adopted her direwolf. Turner says she and her family fell in love with Lady, real name Zunni, during filming. When Lady met her end on Game of Thrones, Zunni was supposed to be rehomed, however, the Turner family decided they would adopt the dog instead. CRACKED COM

Oz

AND THE EMMY DOESN'T GO TO: NCES ACADAMES OF TELEVISION OZ 25110 OZ HBO's first drama show broke ground on how cable TV worked. It featured a ton of now-legendary actors and dealt with important issues like the prison industrial complex, racism, homosexuality, mental illness, etc. It never received any meaningful nominations from the Emmys. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

The plane crash twist in Breaking Bad was heavily foreshadowed. Four episodes in that season had black-and-white scenes, and the names of those episodes spell out Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ. CRACKED.COM

That ‘80s Show

After the success of That '70s Show, Hollywood tried out That '80s Show. THAT '80s SHOW The shows didn't share characters, a setting, or anything else - - one was set in the '70s, the other in the '80s, and that was the only connection. CRACKED.COM

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Binx is the same cat as Salem in Sabrina The Teenage Witch The cat animatronic was recycled from the 1993 film to the 1996 TV show.

Chris Pratt

CHRIS PRATT CRACKED COM Most of us first met a looser version of Star-Lord on Parks and Rec, but teens in the mid 2000s knew him as Bright Abbott on the teen drama Everwood, and as Che on The О.С.

Cagney & Lacey

The first in-show mention of condoms 1987 CRACKED.COM Cagney & & Lacey was the first prime-time drama to break the latex barrier and mention contraceptives.

The Queen’s Messenger

Hobbies older than we knew 1928 TV shows In 1928, Izetta Jewell starred in the first TV drama, The Queen's Messenger, based on a one-act play. It was a big step for TV when radio was the main source of dramatic entertainment. CRACKED

Goof Troop

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS The movie was based on a ТУ SHOW GOOF TROOP CRACKED.COM A Goofy Movie was based on the Disney Channel series Goof Troop. The show introduced Goofy's son as Max Goof, though the character appeared in 1950s cartoon shorts as Goofy Jr.

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.

Charlie’s Angels

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Charlie's Angels The show chose to end with a clip show, of all things. Jaclyn Smith's character gets shot, and the rest of the cast just waits and remembers better scenes from better episodes. No thrills, just waiting. And then Charlie finally shows up-wearing a surgeon's mask.

The Muppets

Muppets started the trend of post-credits scenes. 1979's The Muppets Movie kickstarted the trend in the '80s, which Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a part of ---and Ferris inspired the post-credits scenes in the MCU. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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