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Tiffany Haddish

CRACKED COM Tiffany Haddish claims that the direction - Made TURPENTINE - 1014 government doesn't TURPENTINE RPENTINE 180% ANK 12 TO - 100% KAROCKAP PURE GUM TEA SPIRITS Do - MIN want you to know NIKA to THAN - NATION 473.2 MI about the health benefits of drinking turpentine, especially as a cure for the common cold, and that a teaspoon of turpentine won't kill you. But scientists say that it totally can... — Source

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The Comics Code

A DRUG-THEMED SPIDER-MAN COMIC PERMANENTLY CHANGED THE COMICS CODE. VERBAL ABUSE YOU'RE SO OF CHILDREN! PRETTY... I HATE YOU! CRACKED COM Starting in 1954, the Comics Code banned certain topics from appearing in comic books, like drugs. In 1970, Stan Lee was contacted by the government to make an anti-drug PSA with Spider-Man, and Lee assumed the code wouldn't have an issue with it. The Comics Code Authority refused to approve the comic, so Marvel released it without the Code's stamp of approval on the cover. The comic sold fine, so the Code decided to make a bunch of changes

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2 Chainz

2 Chainz's Psychology Degree CRACKED.COM Thanks to a scholarship for basketball (which he was very good at), the rapper attended college and graduated after transferring schools. — Source: The Daily Beast

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I MARSHALL There was a lot of SARAH IMPROV on set. Director Nick Stoller said he'd guess there was about 30 to 40 percent FORGETING improvisation in the movie and that / the filming was a collaborative experience. SEE ALL IN ALL THEY SHOT 1.2 MILLION FEET OF FILM SO MUCH THAT U KODAK GAVE THEM BOTTLES OF DOM PERIGNON. BEHIND CRACKED.COM — Moviemaker, Esquire

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Toy Story 2

Above and beyond to create the kiss of BULLSEYE TOY STORY 2 CRACKED.COM Sound designer Gary Rydstrom asked for volunteers to capture the sound of Bullseye licking Woody's cheek. Gary smeared peanut butter all over the face of the junior audio guy, then recorded the sound of an actual COW licking it off his actual face. — Cracked

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Smallville

SMALLVILLE leaned into 'no flights, no tights' CRACKED co FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE The idea to make a show about pre-cape Superman was a good one! But ten seasons of star Tom Welling getting ready to be the Man of Steel was probably five sesons too much training. Poor dude was — Cinema Blend

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, AKA Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones, plays a First Order officer in The Force Awakens. He jumped at the role, even though it h

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Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood shot his own audition tape for the LOTR trilogy back in the day. Не did that way before making your own tape was common and, he says,he enlisted some friends, including George Huang, who is a writer and filmmaker. We went out to the woods in Griffith Park and shot two of the audition sequences there and one at my house. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Roddy Piper

ROWDY RODDY PIPER could really play the bagpipes. It wasn't just part of his wrestling persona- Piper was a real piper from a very young age. And, being all out of bubble gum, he kicked ass at it, doing well in international competitions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fred Armisen

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2015, FRED ARMISEN DID AN SNL SKETCH MOCKING A LEGALLY BLIND POLITICIAN. The politician in question was NY governor David Paterson, and Armisen did things like hold a chart upside down-which drew a lot of outrage. — Source

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Shrek

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN SHREK, МАМА BEAR ULTIMATELY MEETS A DARK FATE... BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT. When we see Lord Farquaad's living quarters, there's a bear rug that has a pink bow on the head-just like poor Mama Bear had the last time we'd seen her. — Source

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Movie Karate

The first karate fight. 1962 CRACKED.COM Frank Sinatra has the honor of inciting the first-ever karate fight in American cinema in The Manchurian Candidate. It looks exactly like a man who is horny for a living pretending to get beat up. — Source

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Poltergeist

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1982 POLTERGEIST Tragedy followed this film. Actress Dominique Dunne was strangled and died in the same year the film came out, and Heather O'Rourke died of cardiac arrest at age 12, in 1988. A priest exorcized the set of the 1986 sequel, so maybe it all comes from the original using actual human remains for the pool scene. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Return of the Jedi

RETURN OF THE JEDI The Emperor CRACKED.COM IAN MCDIARMID MARJORIE EATON/CLIVE REVILL Before McDiarmid took over the role, the original Emporer consisted of Revill's voice, Eaton's face, and a pair of chimpanzee eyes. — Source

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Bernie Madoff

CRACKED COM 9 LEY CF T EY C FO John Malkovich and Larry King lost $1.7M and $700,000, respectively, to Bernie Madoff's investing scheme. King was fortunate enough to get all of his money back, while Malkovich only got $508,000 back, which he claimed ruined him financially. — Source

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Lizzy Caplan

LIZZY CAPLAN AUDITIONED FOR LINDSAY WEIR AND KIM KELLY CRACKED.COM Before she was cast as Sara, she auditioned for the two main female leads. — Source

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Transformers

CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone. — Source

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Macy Gray

GRACKED WTF CAMEOS MACY GRAY SPIDER-MAN For the 2002 movie, her appearance was a cross-promotional stunt by Sony to boost her album sales. This move really dates the movie, since she was basically a one-hit wonder and of that time period. To kids today, she would seem like a random singer. — Columbia Pictures
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Grey’s Anatomy

When TV saves lives (or destroys them) Grey's Anatomy A woman from Israel says Grey's Anatomy is the reason she's still alive. The show made her get a second opinion on her cancer diagnosis, which turned out to be correct. She then went through chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy to treat it. CRACKED — Disney-ABC Domestic Television
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Hank Hill

Advice from TV dads King of the Hill UGARS Hank Hill on Bobby's love of soccer. Bobby, | didn't think I'd ever need to tell you this, but | would be a bad parent if | didn't. Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking. CRACKED — 20th Television
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The Michael Richards Show

The Michael Richards Show CRACKED.COM After Seinfeld went off the air, studios pursued the entire cast in hopes to throw them own into their own shows that would ride off the popularity of Seinfeld. For Michael Richards, this came in the form of The Michael Richards Show. The show centered around a comedic take of Columbo, with Michael Richards playing a private investigator. The character named Vic Nardozza never found a true footing, as it was essentially just a Kram- er ripoff. The show only lasted a single season. — YouTube

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The Good Lord Bird

CRACKED.COM Ethan Hawke Не helped develop The Good Lord Bird. The 2020 miniseries about John Brown's war on slavery didn't just fall on Hawke's lap. Alongside writer Mark Richard and Jason Blum's production efforts, Hawke developed the show adapting James McBride's acclaimed 2013 novel. — Source: Wikipedia

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Viserion

Game of Thrones FIRST APPEARANCE Winter is Coming LAST APPEARANCE The Long Night VISERION Fright to wight. CRACKED.COM

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Friends

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PHOEBE'S OUTFITS ON FRIENDS AREN'T REALLY READY-MADE. ptp de Whenever the costume designer got a ready-made piece of clothing for Phoebe, she first adjusted it - she'd add something, cut the arms off, or make another change. This was because she wanted things just to be so unique, she says. — Source

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Challenge to the Heart

Seven contestants were killed while filming a reality show called Desafío al Corazón (Challenge to the Heart) in Uruguay. In a test of strength challenge, participants worked together to push-and-pull a locomotive train along a section of railway track.. They succeeded, but lost control of the train. The runaway locomotive ran over TWENTY of the contestants. Seven died and many others were seriously hurt, some losing limbs. The tragedy was witnessed by 3000 children attending the filming. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Reality TV Shows That Ruined People's Real Lives

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Mariah Carey

CRACKED COM MARIAH CAREY LOVES WHITE THINGS. According to co-star Rob Huebel, while on set for her cameo in The House, Carey demanded her trailer be filled with white roses and plushy white lambs. She also once demanded 12 white Labrador puppies to be put in her dressing room for an appearance on a British morning show. — Source: 16 Extremely Specific Celebrity Demands

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Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS LOTS OF Gravity FALLS CRYPTOGRAMS HACK KB HTMT IHOV 1,000 AMLCT NDY XZOM MLCG'H TSCGKFWFA IV IVEWYDUQIBXV. CVO HIMC orJ DINV IMH NSZPO EZ CM KLVP EZLYLG There is a cryptogram in every credit scene. Hirsch used the Caesar cipher, Atbash cipher, the A1Z26 cipher, and the keyed Vigenere cipher respectively at the end of each episode. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gravity Falls Wiki

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Melissa McCarthy

CUT FOR TIME MELISSA LOSES HER SH*% ON SUPERMARKET SPREE the adge FAMILY SIZE MAYONAISSE JAR MELISSA MCCARTHY 111 $11,508.00 CRACKED MCCARTHY'S CUTTHROAT COMPETITOR THROWS BULK FOOD, AN INDUSTRIAL MEAT SLICER, AND HER CHALLENGER'S SOCKS INTO HER GROCERY CART. TRY NOT TO WINCE WHEN SHE TAKES OUT A BRUISED AND BLOODIED VANESSA BAYER WITH A FIFTY-POUND BAG OF RICE. — YouTube, Delish

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Avatar

Matt Damon threw a lot of money away to do The Bourne Ultimatum. Damon says James Cameron offered him a 10% cut of the box office if he came on board — GQ

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Carrie

Everyone in the ’70s smoked — drenched in blood or not. - We should cut young Carrie some slack here. The night when you get horribly humiliated in fr — Source: Dangerous Minds

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The X-Files

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John Hughes

John Hughes frantically wrote the screenplay for Ferris Bueller's Day Off in one week. In 1985, a writers' strike was about to hit Hollywood. Upon hea

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Joe Millionaire

Joe Millionaire Fox, 2003 Contestants on this dating show battled for the love and affection of a i-millionaire. In reality, the handsome bachelor was

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The Rise of Skywalker

The Emperor's throne in The Rise of Skywalker is not a new design. The stone chair with claw-like outcroppings is based on a Ralph McQuarrie concept s

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Wild Wild West

CRACKED CO COM Producer Jon Peters' rejected idea for a giant spider in a Superman movie was later used in Wild Wild West. Peters originally made Kevi

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may have been financed by the Mob. The porno Deep Throat was funded by a family with alleged Mob ties who strongarmed thea

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The Shawshank Redemption

TH E SHAWSHANK R E E P Scenes that take place in the prison are shot in shades of gray and in tight spaces to make viewers feel isolation and despair.

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School of Rock

SchoolorRoc Dewey Finn is the coolest, and most laid- back teacher but when one of his students goes off to play cards with some people, he furiously

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Ghostbusters

The white stuff that pours out of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters is shaving cream. The production team initially wanted to pour 150 pou

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