‘Friendship’ Lets Tim Robinson Redefine How Off-Putting A Feature-Film Leading Man Can Be

30 Random Bits of Trivia About Digital Media, A.I., and A Bunch of Gadgety Gizmos That Your Grandma Would Consider Witchcraft

31 Ridiculous Requests Couples Had for Their Wedding Parties

Michael Che Crosses His Fingers Over Colin Jost’s Rumored ‘SNL’ Exit

Cindy Brady’s Hair Started Falling Out, Thanks to This ‘Brady Bunch’ Requirement

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Spontaneously Beached Themselves Upon the Shores of Our Amygdala

Nothing a little dynamite can’t clear up

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Spontaneously Beached Themselves Upon the Shores of Our Amygdala

May 10, 2025

The set of The Ring Two was literally plagued by at least two, well, plagues.

Click right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox.

40

He-Man

He-Man was a toy before it was a TV show. When trying to sell the toy a Mattel sales rep told distributors a TV show was in the works- which was a lie. However, the lie sold the toy- forcing Mattel to create a TV show around the action figure. CRACKED.COM

39

The Crow

Hollywood tragedies that brought change The Crow A real gunshot Actor Brandon Lee was killed in 1993 while filming The Crow due to a prop gun accident. His mother sued the filmmakers and won, and the incident spurred the need for better safety measures when using prop guns on set. CRACKED — Miramax Films
NPR

38

The Batman

Movies That switched Directors The Batman Ben Affleck Matt Reeves Affleck fell off the DCEU bandwagon after Justice League, and Reeves came in to make this stand- alone Batman film, removed from the wider DC plans (and featuring the third Joker in as many years). CRACKED.COM — Source: The Wrap

37

Stooky Bill

The first televised face 1925 CRACKED.COM Scottish inventor John Logie Baird televised his ventriloquist dummy, Stooky Bill, because the system couldn't detect the contrast of a human face. — Source: 19 Television Firsts (That We Never Really Recovered From)

36

Chris Tucker

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHRIS TUCKER AND MARIAH CAREY NEARLY STARRED IN AGENT DOUBLE-O-SOULIN THE'90S. AT ORT Tucker would play a spy armed with gadgets, and Carey would be his love interest, but it fizzled out - maybe because Undercover Brother and Austin Powers came out in the meantime, and were a little too similar. — Source

35

Star Wars Underworld

In 2005, ABC nearly launched a series called Star Wars Underworld. It was a mobster soap opera. Scriptwriters cranked out 50 hours' worth of what George Lucas figured would be The Sopranos in space-only instead of character actors, they'd have rubber-masked monsters. The series, which was set on Coruscant, would have been too expensive to produce, so the scripts were tabled. CRACKED.COM http://www.ew.com/article/2013/01/10/star-wars-live-action-tv-series-3 — Source: 21 Ways The Star Wars Movies Could Have Been Worse

34

Spider-Man

SPIDER-MANDEVELOPERS ADDED SPECIAL STICKERS TO MOCK RIDICULOUS GAMER COMPLAINTS. CRACKED When Marvel's Spider-Man was shown off at E3, it looked great and got players excited for the release. Upon release, there was one glaring issue that proved too much for gamers to ignore: slightly less puddles of water in one area than from the trailer. The developer, Insomniac, added the puddles back - as stickers in the photo mode, just as a middle finger. — Source: Eurogamer

33

The Thing

The 1982 remake of The Thing was such a failure, John Carpenter lost a multi-picture deal. John Carpenter's The Thing was a box office bomb, being called the Most-Hated Film of All Time by horror magazine Cinefantastique. Carpenter had a multi-picture deal dropped by Universal. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

The Ring Two

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE RING TWO A burst water pipe flooded the production office, and weeks later a five-gallon water jug burst wide open and flooded it yet again. Then, on the set, a swarm of bees attacked and then simply vanished. Finally, a set decorator saw an antlered buck running in her direction (no reports on whether it was dodgy CGI, though). CRACKED.COM — Source

31

The Omen

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1976 THE OMEN On two separate occasions, airplanes carrying actor Gregory Peck and the film's executive producers were hit by lighting. The FX artists that designed the iconic decapitation scene were in a car crash and witnessed an actual decapitation not long after production. Oh, and the animal trainer was mauled by a tiger one day after filming the baboon scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Saturday Night Live

CHRIS ELLIOTT CRACKED COM It was just such a miserable experience that I have sort of blacked out a lot of these things. That whole year I was just embarrassed. — Source

29

Hackers

Hackers ACEDHORNO OLOVE LOVE to GODOSEXЬ ROSECRETOLE 28PHREAK12U SKILL LORDNIKO LOCRA LAVERRIDE SECRETOS NEW On-demand TV, RV gaming, and more. The 1995 thriller is often mocked for its campy portrayal of teenage tech-whizzes, but it was surprisingly prophetic about modern technology, accurately predicting on-demand TV, tech world sexism, virtual reality gaming, and the dangers of simple passwords. CRACKED — Source

28

Autotune

CRACKED AUTOTUNE WAS USED FOR SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING. Energy companies used it to look for oil, but when its inventor applied it to music, he struck a different kind of gold (specifically, Cher). — Thought Co

27

Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling could have been a Backstreet Boy if AJ McLean called him back. backstreet boys Talk about the call that changed destiny... Gosling turned down McLean's initial offer to join, but left an unreturned message that he had changed his mind. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 (Forgotten) 90's Things

26

Anchorman

Movie Trilogies Do you know what The Legend of Ron Burgundy is? in case you're not aware, it's kind of a big deal. Also, you know Anchorman is a trilogy, right? 2013's The Legend Continues was the same joke, but stale, while 2004's parallel film Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie just smells like Bigfoot's d*ck. The Anchorman trilogy CRACKED.COM — More: Wikipedia
Image Credit: DreamWorks Pictures

25

Titanic

TITANIC THE SET DESIGN WAS LED BY THE COMPANY THAT DESIGNED THE REAL TITANIC. Researchers from White Star Line helped make the sets as close to reality as possible. Cameron used wallpaper, crystal chandeliers, and carpets made by the same companies that decorated the original ship. CRACKED.COM — Insider, Featurette via YouTube

24

Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was backup vocals on a Star Wars Christmas album. CRACKED.COM The 17-year-old Jon was on 1980's tie-in album Christ- mas In The Stars because his cousin Tony managed the studio where the al- bum was recorded and had hired him as a janitor. — The Force

23

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. — Lexico

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Magneto Dissolved Out of Our Hemoglobin to Escape That Weird Prison

46 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of May 5, 2025

33 Random Bits of Trivia About Some of the Biggest Directors in Hollywood

28 Random Bits of Music Trivia That Are Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight

31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are All Scouting Locations in Your Brain

33 Heartbroken Bits of Trivia That’ll Only Use Your Brain As A Rebound

22

Machine Gun Kelly

Wrestling Celebrities MACHINE GUN KELLY Не may not always be a fan favorite, but the music artist heard cheers when he got powerbombed off the stage by Kevin Owens on WWE Monday Night RAW in 2015. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Celebrities Who Got Involved In Pro Wrestling

21

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

MacGuffins Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon THE GREEN DESTINY Li Mu Bai's sword isn't really special, but is a symbol of his desire to give up the life of a warrior. Sometimes MacGuffins are objects and metaphors. CRACKED.COM — Paste Magazine

20

Devil Dinosaur

COMIC PETS MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR DEVIL DINOSAUR Picture Clifford the Big Red Dog, but it's a big red T. rex. From an alternate reality. That's fiercely loyal to their companions. The jackpot of all pet options. CRACKED.COM — Source: Marvel

19

Tarzan

Disney parks had to pull a few characters out due to horny guests. CRACKED.COM The Tarzan actors, who wore nothing but loin cloths and sometimes airbrushed abs, were constant butt-pinching victims of cheeky female guests. The Esmeralda was also a little too flirtatious for some male guests, so she was pulled. — LA Mag

18

Toy Story

Source: ScreenCrush/YouTube

17

Cate Blanchett

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES CATE BLANCHETT in an Egyptian boxing movie When Blanchett began her film career in 1996, she had already appeared in 1990's Kaboria. Apparently, she was offered the role while backpacking, and never saw the movie out of embarrassment. CRACKED.COM — Source: Eighties Kids

16

Gwen Stefani

HOLLABACK GIRL WAS GWEN STEFANI'S RESPONSE TO COURTNEY LOVE. Stefani heard Love criticize her as a cheerleader and got fired up. She wrote this song in response, stating that she doesn't typically get involved with sh*t-talking - even though this sh*t- talking took her to a platinum record. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Cut

15

300

comic Book Movies 300 Gerard Butler had multiple on-set injuries (including a hernia) while filming this testosterone-drenched, vaguely racist movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Celebretainment.com

14

Golf Comedies

HAPPY OR BE TIN CUP? CRACKED.COM 1996 was huge for golf comedies. Kevin Costner was the producers' first choice to play Shooter McGavin, but he passed to make his own well-regarded, but very different, 1996 golf comedy, 'Tin Cup'. — Source: vh1

13

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim because Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic, assumed that hedgehogs can't swim. TIME 2:15 RINGS 1 He's wrong. CRACKED.COM — 29 Video Game Features With Just Bonkers Backstories

12

Michael J Fox

Michael J Fox has raised $1 billion to cure Parkinson's, and he's still going That's how much his foundation has raised, and he said, I just want to get this done. I'm committed to this. I won't stop until it happens. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

James Cameron

A fever dream of James Cameron's lead to iconic Terminator imagery. The image of the chrome skeleton of a Terminator rising from a fiery Hellscape came to Cameron in a dream when sick with a fever. When he woke up, he sketched a metal skeleton, torn in half, crawling towards a terrified woman, which would become the finale of The Terminator. CRACKED.COM — Source: BFI

10

Aladdin

TELL US NOW. CARPET ALADDIN Katherine C. imagines a movie starring Carpet and Dr. Strange's Cloak, You just know they were having amazing adventures for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. CRACKED.COM

9

William Shatner

William Shatner is sorry... that the studio f*ed him over!!! CRACKED .COM 1989's Star Trek V bombed, and it's hard to place blame anywhere but on director and star William Shatner. And yet, hetried! In an impressive hybrid passing, he said it's Paramount's fault that he deliver earth-breaking granite monsters spewing rocks and fire. Instead, I had a few pebbles in my hand that I threw at the camera. — Source: EW

8

Movie Tropes

You won’t walk unharmed after ejecting from your plane. The high acceleration is very likely to cause serious damage, like neck injuries and broken bones. That is, supposing that everything works as it should and you don’t get killed in the process. — Source: Business Today

7

Friday Night Lights

CRACKED.c FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS LANDRY KILLED A GUY. FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE In season two, Landry Due to negative fan kills a man who was reaction, the whole trying to rape Tyra, subplot is of never and much the mentioned season revolves again around them trying in subsequent to cover

6

The Muppets

Muppets started the trend of post-credits scenes. fi 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 credits scenes in the MCU. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Vulture

5

The Hulk

How Did Hulk End Up On Sakaar? THOR: RAGNORAK CRACKEDCON Hulk flew away from Sokovia in a Quinjet and showed up on the planet Sakaar in Thor: Ragnarok

4

Jaws

CRACKEDcO THE SHARK FROM JAWS BECAME A JUNKYARD SIGN. After the animatronic shark used in the movie started to deteriorate in the 90s, Universal sold

3

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked as a waitress in RED LOBSTER and later got fired when she tried to follow a couple who stole her pen.

2

Iggy Pop

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Spontaneously Beached Themselves Upon the Shores of Our Amygdala

1

Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freemang known for his bespectacledo nerdy look..o cocoriginally looked a bit more like a pissed off lumberjack. CRACKED.CON

Tags:

Visual

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Movies & TV

Owen Wilson’s Dad Gave Monty Python Their American Break

Movies & TV

This ‘Family Guy’ Fan’s Essay on the Show and Male Sexuality Is Sensually Insane

Science & History

24 Long-Held Scientific Assertions That Were Recently Proven False

Movies & TV

14 Disturbing Overshares from Shameless Celebrities

Movies & TV

4 Movie Messages That Make No Sense in the Real World

Trivia & Jokes

31 Things People Are Nostalgic for That No One Else Seems to Remember

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

Scott Tenorman From ‘South Park’ Is the Troll Webmaster of A Bonkers Anti-Woke Dating Site

2

31 Ridiculous Requests Couples Had for Their Wedding Parties

3

35 Random Bits of Trivia That Have Been Cloggin’ Up Our Noggins

4

14 Disturbing Overshares from Shameless Celebrities

5

‘I Am Beyond Vomit’: Tom Segura’s Mom Told Him That His New Show Is ‘An Insult to Humanity’ On Camera