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The Hangover 2

Illegal filmmaking The Hangover 2 stole an artist S design. When Ed Helms' character gets Mike Tyson's exact face tattoo, they didn't ask artist S. Victor Whitmill for permission to use his original design. Не sued the production, and instead of digitally altering his face in post, they settled out of court. CRACKED — Source

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Nickelodeon Cartoons

1991 was a big 11 year for Nickelodeon 993 1994 cartoons. 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 993 1994 1995 1996 1997 It was the debut of their first animated series: Doug, 1995 Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. 1993 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source

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Game of Thrones

CRACKED Conleth Hill got no warning about his death. After reading that his character Varys was burned alive for betraying Daenerys, he said, At the time, nothing could console me. I kept thinking: 'What did I do wrong?' There wasn't any pre-warning... This was just reading cold hard copy. GAME OF THRONES — EW / Esquire

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The Price Is Right

CRACKED A GUY ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT ONCE GUESSED A HAMMOCK COST $7,000. 9 O 2 23 To be fair, it was $880, which is also insane. — 5 Game Show Beefs for the Hall of Shame / Outsider

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire

weird Age Gaps in Movies Atlantis: The Lost Empire Kida & Milo Thinking of her as thousands of years old really turns Milo into a granny chaser. CRACKED.COM

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The Legend of Bagger Vance

will smith Movies The Legend of Bagger vance Will Smith plays Krishna. The film (and book it's based on) is from Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu sacred text, about Arjuna (R. Junuh, the golfer) and Bhagavan (Bagger Vance). CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Sitcom Jokes

Sitcom jokes were already a thing 200 years ago. In John Tobin's play The Honey Moon (1805), a man reverses his anti-marriage stance after meeting a woman who is an angel. A sassy gal rejoinders: Ay, so are all women before marriage; and that's the reason their husbands so soon wish them in heaven afterwards. CRACKED.COM — Source: Ancient Jokes You'll Laugh, Not Eyeroll At

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The Lonesome Dove

The first penis 1989 THE EPIC FILM AS BIG AS THE WEST May be the best western ever made whout Lonesome Dove there night nx hne been a Daves CRACKED.COM Several cowhands' baby arms can be seen in the mini-series The Lonesome Dove. — Source: 22 Television History Once-Taboo Firsts

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The Wicked Witch

TELL US NOW. THE WIZARD OF OZ Marc G. says, The Wicked Witch of the West can be killed by exposure to water. She lives in a room with several buckets of water instead of, let's say, a desert. CRACKED.COM

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The Shining

THE SHiNiNG KUBRICK TURNED DOWN CASTING JESSICA LANGE. Lange was suggested for the role of Wendy Torrance, but she didn't fit Kubrick's idea of Wendy as a fragile, codependent woman. (Stephen King hated that Kubrick turned the character into that.) CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Bone-Chilling Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'The Shining'

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Blade Runner 2049

In K's memories in Blade Runner 2049, he has a full head of hair, unlike the kids around him (their heads are shaved). When he visits the orphanage from his memories as an adult, we see that only girls don't have shaved heads. Which amounts to a pretty big hint that those are a woman's memories (Dr. Ana Stelline's, we later find out). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Foreshadowed Huge Plot Points In Iconic Movies

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HBO

HBO's first original programming was polka. Back when it was a regional TV provider that only broadcast movies nine hours a day, HBO first flexed their production muscles by broadcasting the Pennsylvania Polka Festival in 1973. It was a really long way to robot cowboys and dragon boobs. — More: 5 Huge Companies That Once Were Failing Miserably

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Prometheus

In Prometheus, Guy Pearce showed up under heavy -guy makeup. The only reason they cast Pearce and put him under makeup was so they could film a dream — Source: 7 Movies That Secretly Hid Big Actors Under Special Effects

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The Good Place

Janet, the Siri-like assistant in The Good Place, is a hit with trans & nonbinary viewers. The Good Place I'm not a girl. Janet is a emme-presenting b

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

IDER. MARVEL COMICS GROUP.. AAN D 121 In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the JUNE 02457 clock strikes 1:21 when Gwen dies. 3 WRONG! BUT WHO? COMICS GROUP. W

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Car Chase Stunts

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first car chase stunts 1958 Car stunts had been done (notably 1955's Rebel Without A Cause), but Cary Loftin and his team's work on Thunder Road was ground zero for the modern action movie (although driver safety became a new issue). CRACKED

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The Clash

The Clash Drummer Topper Headon wrote Rock the Casbah but was fired over his heroin addiction before it became their biggest hit. At the height of their fame, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, and Joe Strummer fought relentlessly over the direction of the band and broke up in 1986. CRACKED — Source

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Lost Tropes

CRACKED.COM Lost Tropes Going postal After a series of incidents during the '80s, '90s comedy was full of mailmen just losing it and shooting up people. You know, before shootings got a bit too real for laughs. — Source

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Zach Braff

You used to be cool ZACH BRAFF beat up a kid on Punk'd. Friend and Scrubs costar Donald Braison helped punk the lovable Zach Braff by having kids fake-spray paint his new car. Zach got a hold of a 12-year- old boy and (in his words) just started pummeling him. The segment was cut from the episode. CRACKED — Source

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Mission: Impossible

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Dan Briggs CRACKED.COM FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Went mysteriously IMF missing when Director actor Steven Hill's Orthodox Judaism and lead of prevented him from working on the show. Fridays. — Source

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Minecraft

CRACKED.COM MINECRAFT PLAYERS ARE HELPING PRESERVE A DYING LANGUAGE. Elfdalian is a rare language with about 3,000 speakers in Sweden. To help keep it alive, a group of Swedish and American enthusiasts are recreating the town where it is spoken in Minecraft, complete with quests to immerse players in the language. — Source

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Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn was created to wheel in a cake. For an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, writer Paul Dini needed someone to bring a big cake for Joker to burst out of-so he gave him a female henchman, in the style of 1960s villains. She wasn't given a BATMAN backstory until some time later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apple

IN 1987, APPLE MADE A COMMERCIAL PREDICTING BORDERLINE MAGIC PRODUCTS THEY'D INVENT BY 2011. The video featured meall a tablet-style computer with a personal digital assistant that takes - CHTT phone calls and video chats, searches the Fite network - Schedule - Internet, analyzes Desartifucation - - - data, and creates sophisticated graphics. And the Scopy Year: 1230 Rate: 22 whole thing has a touch screen and is voice-activated. THE VIDEO IS SET IN SEPTEMBER OF 2011-JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE APPLE LAUNCHED THE IPHONE WITH SIRI. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/QRH8eimU_20 — Source

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Lord of War

The director of Lord of War, Andrew Niccol, borrowed 50 real tanks from a real arms dealer to use during the arms bazaar scene. Prior to filming, Niccol had to contact NATO before their satellites saw what looked like a small army and assumed an actual war was about to start. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ishtar

CRACKED Sun poisoning and a dead cobra on ISHTAR The 1987 movie was shot in the Sahara Desert, where director Elaine May found out she was allergic to the sun. She had to wear bandages completely covering her face. Oh, and a cobra that was supposed to appear in the film died of a heart attack. — Source

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12:01 P.M.

CRACKED.COM 12:01 PM was Groundhog Day before Groundhog Day. The 1990 short film starring Kurtwood Smith doesn't just have the same premise as the Bill Murray movie, but a lot of the elements and plot beats are the same. The writer and the director reportedly tried to sue the makers of Groundhog Day, but ultimately gave up. — Source

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

GRACKED WE CAN SEE E.T.'S PALS IN STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE. George Lucas confirmed that 3 members of the Galactic Senate are members of the same species as Е.Т. This returned the favor, since Spielberg included a Yoda costume in Е.Т. — Source

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Charlie’s Angels

CRACKED Around every six minutes in the Charlie's Angels films, the Angels are propelled beautifully across the room by explosions. In reality, those forces would tear their bodies apart, leaving them a destroyed, salsa-esque mess of blood and bone. — IMDB

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David Duchovny

CRACKED David Duchovny was an aspiring poet at Yale. With a В.А in English from Princeton and a master's from Yale, he planned to be a poet and novelist before abandoning his Ph.D studies after booking a beer commercial. — NPR

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J.R.R. Tolkien

CRACKED.COM J.R.R. Tolkien didn't care for all his fans Fans flattered him and made him rather wealthy, but Tolkien would call his fans 'my deplorable cultus and was especially critical of American fans who were involved in the stories in a way that I'm not. — Source: TIME

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Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse B Now CAPTAIN WILLARD CRACKED.COM Francis Ford Coppola somewhat reluctantly cast Harvey Keitel, but after a week of filming, said he found it difficult to play him as a passive onlooker. Coppola was then finally able to reel in his first choice, Martin Sheen. — Source: 15 Actors Who Had To Be Replaced Mid-Production: First Episode / Last Episode

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Elementary

Irene Adler CRACKED.COM Elementary Irene The Woman Who Beat Holmes Sherlock was attempting to take away her one defense against ultra-rich, very powerful people who wanted to hurt her. So she beat the crap out of him with a riding crop.

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Amanda Bynes

Amanda Bynes made the big screen in She's The MAN TWELFTH NIGHT CRACKED.COM Before Bynes ran into personal challenges, she seemed poised to rule the cineplex. Watch as she fools dumb jock Channing Tatum, in the part he was born to play. Aah, those were simpler days. — Washington Post

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Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has chronic pain from fibromyalgia CRACKED.COM She caught a ton of flack after postponing several 2017 European tour dates, and was forced to open up about her diagnosis to save her reputation: People need to be more compassionate. Chronic pain is no joke.

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Taika Waititi

TAIKA WAITITI PLAYED KORG IN THOR: RAGNOROK. lCRACKEDCOM The director provided the voice and mocap for everyone's favorite rock creature. He based his performance on New Zealand's super nice Polynesian bouncers. — YouTube

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American Idol

MINAJ CAREY AMERICAN IDOL MINAJ LET CAREY HAVE IT DURING A TAPED IDOL AUDITION ROUND: I'M NOT F-ING PUTTING UP WITH HER F-ING HIGHNESS OVER THERE. M — MTV

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The Legend of Zelda

TELTH The Triforce can be traced back to Mongolian invasions. The Triforce is based on the emblem of the Hojo Clan, a powerful 12th century Japanese f

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Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth screenwriter J.D. Shapiro apologized to anyone who went to see the film. He also added that no one sets out to make a train wreck.

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Lawrence Kasdan

Lawrence Kasdan HIGH LOW Star Wars: Episode Dreamcatcher (2003) V- The Empire Wrote and directed Strikes Back (1980) the Stephen King Wrote the screen

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Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka is beloved by children. Which makes you wonder why SO many get hurt in his factory. Wonka stages an elaborate golden ticket contest, and h

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