27 Random Bits of TV Trivia We’re Peppering Into Our Big Halftime Pep Talk

Now let’s get out there and read those facts!
27 Random Bits of TV Trivia We’re Peppering Into Our Big Halftime Pep Talk

First of all, we don’t need to solely include facts about sports shows to make an amazing locker room speech right now. We’ll most likely include a few, but we want to get you pumped up for facts about sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, talk shows and even soap operas.

So who are we? Random TV fact lovers! What are we gonna do out there? Read random TV facts until we pass out on the field! 

Let’s go!!!

Day One

Day One A 2010 sci-fi drama about about apartment dwellers who survived a mysterious 350 apocalypse. It was slowly demoted from series to mini-series, to TV movie, to dead in the water. CRACKED.COM

The Green Goblin

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Green Goblin It was the third cartoon where Neil Ross voiced Norman Osborn - and yet, it was his first time playing the Green Goblin, who had a different voice actor in the previous shows.

Santa Clarita Diet

CRACKED SANTA CLARITA DIET Santa Clarita Diet followed Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant's characters, Sheila and Joel Hammond, as Sheila became a zombie. But it was canceled after 3 seasons, leaving fans with a wild cliffhanger as Sheila tried to turn Joel into a zombie.

Roseanne

CRACKED ROSEANNE The finale of Roseanne got bad reviews from fans because it said the whole show was a dream and Dan had died. John Goodman, who played Dan, didn't like it either, calling it irrelevant and silly.

Illegal Downloads

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Reality Shows

There was a fake Dutch reality show where patients competed for a dying woman's kidney. It was created with the intention of raising awareness about the lack of organ donors. Six weeks after the show aired 12,000 new donors had signed up. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Monty Python

GRAGKED.COM MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS WAS KIND OF AN ACQUIRED TASTE. The show had dismal ratings when it first aired in 1969 - it trailed behind literally every other light entertainment show on the BBC. Management wanted it gone, not just because of the low audience numbers, but because they found it in bad taste. Eventually, however, Monty Python's brand of humor grew on the British public.

The Simpsons

CRACKED COM The Simpsons nearly got cancelled before it aired. PULK After the first viewing of the pilot episode, One Enchanted Evening, both the writers and the network executives were displeased. The writing wasn't great, but it was the animation that really turned them off. Luckily, the next episode, Bart the Genius, was better and saved the series from an early death.

Game of Thrones

Some early reviews called HBO's Game of Thrones kids' fare, with things for grown-ups put in. GAME OF THRONES It was boy fiction with a heart of geek that never lets the rest of us in, full of favorites of the infantile. CRACKED.COM

The Office

THE OFFICE WAS ALMOST CANCELED. The first season got a lukewarm reception, with viewers thinking WORLD'S it was just an inferior rehash of the British original. A second BEST season was greenlit only because the head of NBC really BOSS believed in the show - and because Steve Carell became a big name in comedy around that time. CRACKED.COM

Arrested Development

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT WAS CONSTANTLY ONE STEP AWAY FROM CANCELLATION. TERO Every episode ... was like a gift, because nobody was watching it, Michael Cera has been quoted as saying. Seasons kept getting shorter and shorter, until the show was cancelled after Season 3. Only then did it become really popular on DVD. CRACKED.COM

Friends

CRACKED.COM Most reviews shredded Friends when it premiered. They complained the characters just aimlessly drank coffee and chatted, and that the show used pop culture references too much.

Breaking Bad

BREAKING BAD BECAME BIG ON NETFLIX. For most of its run, Breaking Bad was just another AMC show. It got most of its fanbase when the first four seasons were released on Netflix - and over Season 5, audience numbers climbed from just 2 million to 10 million. CRACKED.COM

The Americans

The Americans wasn't inspired by Cold War-era spies or anything like that. It was based on the 2010 arrest of ten Russian spies that had operated in the U.S., pretending to be actual Americans. But people didn't seem to care about the incident at the time, so the series was set during the Cold War to make it more interesting. CRACKED.COM

Grey’s Anatomy

27 Random Bits of TV Trivia We’re Peppering Into Our Big Halftime Pep Talk

The Fall

Jamie Dornan BE THE FALL CRACKED.COM To get in character to play the Belfast Strangler, he admitted that he surreptitiously followed at least one young woman home from the train.

Young Astronauts

A cartoon was never aired because of the Challenger disaster. In January 1986, all was set to start broadcasting Young Astronauts, a CBS cartoon/Marvel comic combo made with government involvement. Then the space shuttle Challenger blew up, and all 13 episodes of space-going children were quickly canned. CRACKED.COM

American Idol

Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini had a fling while filming From Justin to Kelly Clarkson admitted she briefly dated her American Idol runner-up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Ice Road Truckers

The accident seen in Ice Road Truckers' opening titles is just a model. ICE ROAD TRUCKERS X - 5 GRACKED.COM The opening title sequence of the first season of Ice Road Truckers depicts what looks like a massive semi truck sinking into the icy depths of a frozen lake. While there's no doubting that it's a harrowing image, the truck is actually just a small model.

John Krasinski

John Krasinski owns the secret santa teapot from The office. According to Krasinski, the show's prop master shipped him several of Jim's props after the show wrapped up - including the teapot that was a landmark in Jim and Pam's relationship. CRACKED COM

SNL

BERNIE SANDERS is David's distant cousin CRACKED.COM Larry David prayed Sanders wouldn't get the nomination as he didn't want to spend four years doing SNL. That would have beek OK by Bernie. I think we'll use Larry at our next rally. Не does better than I do.

The Rachel Haircut

Pop Culture Looks You Couldn't Pull Off Friends The Rachel haircut This mid-'90s look is making a semi-comeback, but trying to make it work now just tells the world I'm almost 40 and/or I hate current TV and it was either this or The Office again. Jennifer Aniston has moved on, and so should you. CRACKED.COM

He-Man

Low-Effort Pop Culture He-Man's Orko He-Man's companion originally went by Gorpo. To get the most out of the animators' work, the character was renamed as Orko, so that when the footage was flipped, it would look exactly the same and they'd get double the amount of animation. CRACKED

Power Rangers

Low-Effort Pop Culture Power Rangers For about 30 years, Power Rangers has been using scenes and footage from the Japanese show Super Sentai, cutting out any stuff that was too Japanese or violent or just strange, and using it to fill around a third of each episode. CRACKED

All My Children

CRACKEDCO COM In the 1970s, soap opera All My Children was incredibly popular among college students. Reasons varied some loved it because it was rea

Friday Night Lights

In season 2, Landry kills Tyra's stalker /would-be rapist. However, the infamous murder twist never got a resolution. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS The season w

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