36 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Enjoy During the Day, Because You Know What? It’s Your Day Off!

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36 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Enjoy During the Day, Because You Know What? It’s Your Day Off!

We don’t know about you, but our parents were the “turn off that idiot box and go play outside” types. Boomers, are we right? Now, as adults, even though we live on our own, we can still feel them standing behind us, judging us for binging a show during the afternoon.

Well, jokes on you, dad! We had to watch all of these shows to mine them for facts. 

Hmm, was this career choice an act of rebellion against our parents? We’ll ponder that while you guys check out these awesome TV facts.

Game of Thrones

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

Glee

Lea Michele started puking when she sang Let It Go in Glee's final season. While singing, she looked up, and a lot of fake snow started falling into her mouth... so she ended up choking on it and throwing up. CRACKED.COM

Ted Lasso

36 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Enjoy During the Day, Because You Know What? It’s Your Day Off!

30 Rock

Jenna and Pete were almost a couple. The storyline didn't make it past a table read. People didn't like how Pete would be cheating on his wife. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Dan Harmon

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS DAN HARMON'S community VOICE OVER In season 3 episode 19 where the study group is made to believe that they've actually been in the Greendale Asylum all along, Garrett is a doctor who, while usually talking in a screeching voice, sounds totally normal as he discusses the patients with the Dean (also a doctor). Garrett's voice is actually that of Dan Harmon. GRACKED COM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Rob McElhenney had a nightmare that inspired the show. Glenn Howerton describes, The show started as a night terror, basically. A late-night sweating station. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS TROY LEAVES community THE SHOW, SCRUBS-STYLE It was known that Donald Glover would be leaving the show during its fifth season. In the pilot episode of season 5, Abed says: Season 9 of Scrubs Zach Braff is only in the first six episodes. To which Troy responds: Son of a bitch! After everything Scrubs did for him! Glover left the season after five episodes. GRACKED COM

Rugrats

Rugrats spoofed a highly sexualized psychological thriller. CRACKED COM In Season 3, Episode 25, Cradle Attraction, a new girl stalks Chuckie in the same manner as Alex (Glenn Close) with Dan (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. They even replicate a shot from the film.

Hey Arnold!

HEY ARNOLD sounded funny for a reason 33 CRACKED.COM The problem with kid actors is puberty. Once the voice changes, Arnold starts sounding like a grown-ass man. In all, five different actors voiced Arnold - six if you count Arnold as a baby.

Doug

DOUG started as a fruit salesman CRACKED.COM Before he starred in one of Nickelodeon's first cartoons, Doug shilled in a commercial for Florida Grapefruit. Не bounced on a pogostick to show that grapefruit juice puts a bounce in your step.

Gabor Csupo

AAAHH! REAL MONSTERS took place in a noirish dystopia INC CRACKED.COM Animator Gábor Csupó based the look of the monster academy's city dump on Brazil and Blade Runner. A movie version was shut down because it was considered too dark for children.

Emily Kapnek

AS TOLD BY GINGER was influenced by Welcome to the Dollhouse CRACKED.COM The Sundance winner was a coming-of-age dark comedy about an upopular outcast. It inspired Emily Kapnek to create a Nick version, with storylines about absent parents, depression, and unrequited love.

Captain Kangaroo

The first kids' show 1955 CRACKED.COM Captain Kangaroo was a show based on the warm relationship between grandparents and children and inspired all your favorite shows when you were a wee lad or lass.

Captain Video

The first sci-fi series 1949 GARTAIN VIDEO CRACKED.COM Captain Video and His Video Rangers was a kids' show with a $25 prop budget per episode.

Shining Time Station

CRACKED GEORGE CARLIN PLAYED MR. CONDUCTOR ON SHINING TIME STATION. The foul-mouthed comedian told stories of Thomas the Tank Engine on 45 episodes between 1991 and 1993. Не also narrated 104 episodes of Thomas and Friends, and was featured in 19 one-off Thomas-related videos and films.

Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS ALL OF RICK'S BURPS ARE REAL. Rick feel Many Endult استنسع Justin Roiland can't burp on command so he has to sit in a recording booth with a drink and blow air into his stomach to produce the burps. Не calls the process disgusting and painful-which is why Rick doesn't burp as much after the first couple of episodes. CRACKED.COM

Bob’s Burgers

H. John Benjamin doesn't read. CRACKED.COM Не can read, he's just too lazy (by his own admission): I am so poor at planning that I don't even read the scripts. Не says he thrives in animation because he's supremely lazy and makes many mistakes.

Full House

The Full House TO THE FANS OF FULL HOUSE FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE WE LOVE YOU BUT PLEASE RESPECT OUR NICE NEIGHBORS AND OUR QUIET STREET NO DOUBLE-PARKING NO LOITERING NO LOUD TALKING NO LITTERING NO BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS E QUICK AND COURTEOUS DON'T MAKE ANYONE CRACKED.COM SAY HOW RUDE! After a few years of peace and quiet, neighbors again clocked over 1,000 tourists a day right after Fuller House was announced. It's hard to imagine 1,000 people have even watched the reboot.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family living room set was decorated in pastel colors. A location photo recently surfaced showing that the famously dark and gothic show was actually filmed on a rose, seafoam, and buttercup set. CRACKED.COM

Pelswick

PELSWICK preferred to be known as 'permanently seated' CRACKED.COM Creator John Callahan was paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident. His dark, self-deprecating humor inspired Pelswick, the first kid show with a paraplegic lead character. (And a grouchy, funny one at that.)

Key & Peele’s Original Title

KEY& PEELE THE SHOW WAS ALMOST TITLED BEIGE. The two came up with a bunch of names, but when they got to Beige they realized they were trying too hard. So they settled on just using their last names. CRACKED.COM

Key & Peele on MADtv

KEY& PEELE THEY AUDITIONED AGAINST EACH OTHER FOR MAD TV. In the early aughts, the two were paired with each other for a single spot on the sketch show. They impressed the producers so much as a tandem that they made a spot for both. CRACKED.COM

Barack Obama

CRACKED.COM KEY & PEELE THEY CREDIT PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR THE SHOW'S SUCCESS. We actually felt like Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place, Keegan-Michael Key has said, because there's this biracial person who might have to ride the divide between two different races.

Key & Peele’s Meet Cute

KEY& PEELE THE TWO HAD A COMEDY MEET CUTE AT SECOND CITY IN CHICAGO. Back in 2003, Jordan Peele first saw Keegan-Michael Key's Coach Hines character on stage. Later that night, Key then saw Peele play a female Eurovision presenter. It was love at first laugh. CRACKED.COM

Oprah

OPRAH GREW UP so POOR THAT SHE WORE POTATO SACKS AND WAS CALLED SACK GIRL AT SCHOOL. She went on to become the first Black woman billionaire. CRACKED.COM

New Girl

THERE WAS A PRINCE/ KARDASHIANS FEUD BEHIND THE SCENES OF NEW GIRL. Prince was a fan and got a cameo role on the show, but when he heard the Kardashians were also booked for his episode, he told the producers to burn the scripts. Apparently he was mad at Kim Kardashian because, on one of his tours, he invited her onstage where she just stood, looking bored. CRACKED.COM

Miley Cyrus

Celebrity Stoners Miley Cyrus smoked a lot of pot while shooting Hannah Montana. How much weed can I actually smoke and still play a teenage superstar on the Disney channel? she wondered once. She has since quit, as smoking was hurting her singing voice. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

Behind-the-scenes feuds The Donota Frasier Kelsey Grammer vs a dog We're not saying that Grammer was jealous of Eddie's popularity, but he did repeatedly go out of his way (even in his own biography) to make clear that dogs can't actually act. Kelsey, if you're such a thespian at least act like this is a non-issue. CRACKED.COM

Jay Leno

COMEDY NERD In 1992, when Jay Leno got The Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall was out for blood. Не told Entertainment Weekly that he was going to kick Jay's ass - because Leno only got the show because he was anointed, apparently. CRACKED.COM

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper couldn't see for a day and a half because he sunburned his eyeballs. SONLIVE RSON LIVE For a 2012 report, Cooper spent 2 hours filming on a boat in Portugal. It was an overcast day, so he didn't wear sunglasses. However, the UV rays reflecting off the water burned Cooper's corneas, a condition known as photokeratitis, i.e. snow blindness. CRACKED.COM

Gilligan’s Island

Bob Denver was almost mauled by a lion. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED.COM When he sat down next to the big cat, as planned, the lion went off script and lunged at him. Denver yes-and-ed this improv by karate chopping, which further enraged it. That's when the lion's trainer stepped in--to ask the cast not to tell his boss what happened.

Frasier

An actress was originally supposed to be cast to play the part of Maris Crane, however, after only 3 episodes they had described her physical appearance as so bizarre that she had practically become uncastable. ? FRASIER GRAGKED.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

Lost

16-JARRAH N 42- 2% The magic cave in Lost was a last-minute substitute for a volcano. The show kept mentioning the inactive volcano on the island, and the finale was supposed to be set there, with magma spewing everywhere! But that was too expensive, so they came up with a glowing magic cave. CRACKED.COM

Paul Bettany

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM PAUL BETTANY TROLLED THE WHOLE FANDOM. CLEASE STA After Evan Peters' appearance on the show, Bettany came out and teased a secret character played by an actor he's longed to work with all of his life. After weeks of fan speculation, it turned out Bettany was talking about White Vision - and the actor in question was himself.

WandaVision

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE CAST HAD TO GO THROUGH A SITCOM BOOT CAMP. CLEASE STA In order to learn the style and structure of each specific sitcom decade portrayed on the show, the actors had to attend a two-week sitcom boot camp where they watched and analyzed several different classic sitcoms.

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