31 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Sucked Out of Those Tri-Color Audio/Video Cables

That yellow-tipped cord was the tastiest
31 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Sucked Out of Those Tri-Color Audio/Video Cables

Kids these days will never know the rat’s nest of cables we had to comb through to get all we could out of our beastly TVs. Then, once you did, you’d have to pair them with the right candy necklace ring-looking ports in the back of the TV or the cable box, VCR, DVD player and Sega Genesis wouldn’t work. We were basically panel technicians!

Don’t get us started on the amount of remote controls. You know what? We’ll tell you about those whether you like it or not. So you get to these TV tidbits while we start ranting and raving about the jam-packed side table drawer full of remote controls.

WandaVision

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM LEASE SEÑOR SCRATCHY ORIGINALLY HAD A MUCH BIGGER ROLE. CLEASE STA Director Matt Shakman says that they shot a scene for the finale that featured Monica, Ralph, and Wanda's kids going to Agatha's basement and finding Scratchy-who would attack them after transforming into a demon. Unfortunately, the scene was cut due to time constraints.

Elisabeth Moss

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS ELISABETH MOSS DOESN'T WEAR MAKEUP. THE HANDMAD'S TALE Showrunner Bruce Miller decided against Moss wearing makeup because he felt it would allow the acting to be more direct by making every twitch and twinge visible. CRACKED.COM

The Handmaid’s Tale

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS IT'S NOT THE FIRST ADAPTATION OF THE BOOK. THE HANDMAD'S TALE The Handmaid's Tale movie starring Natasha Richardson came out in 1990. It only grossed $5 million worldwide and got panned by the critics. CRACKED.COM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny is the longest-running live-action sitcom. ball DENNY MUFFLER CENTE Despite this, it's only received three Emmy award nominations, all for stunt coordination. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Tina Fey's first name is Elizabeth, like her character's. Tina comes from her middle name Stamatina. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin offered to take pay cut for the final seasons. Не took a 20% pay cut in order for the show to continue for seasons 7 and 8. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Freaks and Geeks

JOHN FRANCIS DALEY HAD A CRUSH ON LINDA CARDELLINI CRACKED.COM Не said it was awkward considering they were on-screen brother and sister, but who can blame him?

Dana Carvey

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Montana: Best known for Dana Carvey's SNL Church Lady and also the Unabomber. In season 3 when the gang is at the Cowboy Skyscraper Buffet Americana restaurant in Australia, they sit at the Montana table, with these two figures sketched on top to represent the state. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Eleneanor's torture MILLO S - Her apartment might look pretty chic in season one, but on second glance you can see every piece of furniture was designed to be uncomfortable, and add to her actually being tortured. The Good Place GRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Broadway-trained singer Jason Alexander spent about three hours recording George Costanzas' answering machine jingle, trying to get it to sound bad. CRACKED.COM

Ted Lasso

31 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Sucked Out of Those Tri-Color Audio/Video Cables

Shia LaBeouf

SHIA LABEOUF AUDITIONED FOR NEIL SCHWEIBER CRACKED.COM Before he was on Even Stevens, LaBeouf auditioned for Freaks and Geeks.

Lethal Weapon TV

Clayne Crawford made an assistant director for the Lethal Weapon TV show quit on the spot. On a location shoot, the noise from people in a nearby public pool drove Crawford (who played Martin Riggs) nuts, so he went into a profanity-filled rant and then started (verbally) tearing into an AD. The AD quit then and there. The studio put a security guard on set to calm things down, but Crawford's dumb outbursts kept coming and they eventually fired him. CRACKED.COM

Community

Chevy Chase and Dan Harmon bickered like kids while making Community. Chase was infamously terrible to work with, which led Harmon to make a speech amounting to Screw you, Chevy to Chase's family at a wrap party (and even ask others to join in on dissing Chase). Chase then left an extremely profane voicemail for Harmon - which Harmon played back to his audience for the Harmontown podcast. CRACKED.COM

Saved by the Bell

Dustin Diamond terrorized the Saved By the Bell cast with dumb pranks. Diamond, AKA Screech, did things like sneak backstage to pee in an extra's bag (because that extra insulted him), and make up rumors about people on the show getting into drunken threesomes. And he described location shoots as all you can bang buffets and subsidized trips to Assylvania. CRACKED.COM

NCIS

CIS NCIS' Jethro and Abby stopped filming together because of a dog. Jethro's actor Mark Harmon kept bringing his dog to set, but the dog attacked a crew member -- who then needed 15 stitches. Harmon somehow didn't think he should leave the dog at home, so Abby's actress Pauley Perrette stood up to him and told him to do just that. Which led to a feud, and they came to a sort-of agreement to never film scenes together again. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

THE WALKING aMC V Frank Darabont wrote insane emails to The Walking Dead producers and writers. Darabont -- the series' first showrunner -- would go nuts when things didn't go the way he wanted, and write emails saying things like There is no writers room, which you know as well as I do. I am the writers room. and I just kept Denise on the phone for 20 minutes making her listen to me scream. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

The uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation smelled awful. The crew wore spandex uniforms for the first two seasons, and spandex retains smells very, very well. Which is a problem when people wearing all spandex are trapped in an enclosed space together for the better part of a day. Mercifully, they got wool uniforms in Season 3. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

D'oh! Written in the script as annoyed grunt, voice actor Dan Castellaneta pulled from Laurel and Hardy movies where comic foil Jimmy Finlayson would say D'ooooh. Castellaneta shortened the sound for timing purposes. CRACKED.COM

Joseph Fiennes

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JOSEPH FIENNES REFUSED TO FILM A SCENE. THE HANDMAID'S TALE The script for season two originally featured a scene in which Commander Waterford rapes his wife Serena. Fiennes says he went out on a limb to get the scene removed because it didn't track well with him. CRACKED.COM

The Vision in WandaVision

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM VISION WAS ACTUALLY BLUE IN BLACK AND WHITE SCENES. PLEASE STA Paul Bettany had to be painted blue for the show's first two episodes because Vision's red color didn't translate well in grayscale. The show also used period-appropriate lenses and lighting in order to achieve that vintage look.

The Grinch

The Grinch was made green for the TV special. But the sound wasn't sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! It couldn 't be so! But it WAS merry! VERY! In the original book, he was black and white. CRACKED.COM

The Office

At one point, they wanted Mike Judge to do the American version of The Office. They sent him the British version, along with some of its reviews, one of which said The Office succeeds where movies like Office Space failed --and, apparently, that's part of why he passed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Game Shows

The first African American presidential secretary was announced on a game show. $ MR. DALY Instead of letting the world know about his appointment through a boring press conference, Lyndon Johnson wanted to use What's My Line?, a hit game show where people guessed what job guests had. The secretary, Geraldine Whittington, said OK, and history was made. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

PETER DINKLAGE IN GAME OF THRONES Dinklage wasn't interested in starring in a fantasy again (he played a dwarf in Prince Caspian), saying: In fantasy, everybody speaks in broad strokes. There's no intimacy. There's dragons and big speeches, and there's nothing to hold on to. And for somebody my size, it's f**king death, the opposite of I was involved with. The creators convinced him that they wouldn't be focusing on stereotypes and fantasy tropes. CRACKED.COM

Clone Wars

They basically stuck a fictional version of George Lucas in The Clone Wars. The character in question was Baron Papanoida-who was played by Lucas himself in Revenge of the Sith in a cameo, but got a much bigger role in The Clone Wars. CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

As many as 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things series. CRACKED.COM One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.

Schitt’s Creek

Catherine O'Hara rewrote her dialogue (using specialized dictionaries). CRACKED.COM She decided early on I don't want to sound like a human. In the first season, her makeup artist gave her Foyle's Philavery: A Treasure of Unusual Words, which she would consult for rewrites. She didn't share it with the Levys until season 5.

LeVar Burton

LEVAR BURTON WAS A HUGE ORIGINAL STAR TREK FAN. Не worked with a producer on the series (who later would get him an audition) who he grilled for behind-the-scenes stories. CRACKED.COM

I Love Lucy

I LOVE LUCY, CBS The cast's wardrobe, as well as the set and props, were all shades of gray to make sure that the show looked good in black and white. CRACKED.COM

Iain Glen

lain Glen says that the pit fight sequence was his best day on the Game of Thrones set. His daughter was there to watch him, and the director let her yell action. CRACKED.COM

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