32 TV Facts That Are Excruciating to Read, Compared to Just Watching TV

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32 TV Facts That Are Excruciating to Read, Compared to Just Watching TV
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Look, we get it. Watching TV facts on a TV would be a lot easier and more fun than reading them here. Like a spoonful of sugar, we added pictures to help the word-filled medicine go down, but the pictures don’t move, so we’re sorry.

You know what? We’re not sorry after all! We worked our butts off tracking these bad boys down, so if you like TV as much as we do, you’ll force them down without a fuss. If not, you clearly don’t deserve to be here.

Home Improvement

Home Improvement CRACKED.COM After 8 seasons, we did get to see Wilson's face. You could argue it went out on a high note and went way too long. The ratings had slipped dramatically in the last few seasons, losing nearly 60% of its au- dience. On average, 15 million view- ers were tuning in, but the series fi- nale on May 25, 1999 brought in 35.5 million viewers.

Third Watch

CHADWICK BOSEMAN CRACKED.COM Before he... was... T'Challa, Chadwick Boseman first appeared on screen in an episode of Third Watch in 2003. Не was a minor character, but it spawned roles on C.S.I, E.R, and a recurring role on the ABC drama Lincoln Heights.

Malcolm in the Middle

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM NEW TRUCK Lois goes to a lot of trouble in Bomb Shelter to win a brand new truck for her family. However, even though she wins the truck at the end of the episode, it is never seen again!

Star Trek

King Abdullah II of Jordan appeared in Star Trek. CRACKED.COM King Abdullah is a fan of Star Trek and had a small non-speaking role on Investiga- tions, a 1995 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager.

The X Games

- - - Tony Hawk spent ten years working on mastering the landing on a 900. While he could pull off the two and a half spins since 1989, he couldn't properly land after doing them. After ten years, and several lost teeth, broken ribs, and concussions, he pulled it off at the 1999 x Games. CRACKED COM

Goku

eooo The reason Goku from Dragon Ball Z has blonde hair when he transforms into a Super Saiyan is because while making the comic book, it was incredibly time consuming to paint Goku's hair black. As such it was left white, the same color as the paper. CRACKED.COM

Looney Tunes

WHen YOU THINK ABOUT пт BUGS IS An ODD nAme FOR A BunnY. не ACTUALLY GOT HIS nAme BECAUSE OF A MISTAKE. BUGS BUNNY MODEL SWEET M.M.22. Animator Ben Bugs Hardaway asked one of the artists at Looney Toons to draw a rabbit. The artist complied, labeling the model sheet Bugs' Bunny. After the still-nameless rabbit had appeared in a few cartoons, producer Leon Schlesinger looked at the old sketch for its name. Не saw the caption, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM Peter Bogdanovich, 2012: Who the Devil Made It?

Ghostbusters

Ernie Hudson auditioned for the same part in The REAL Ghostbusters animated series that he played in the movie. Producers felt he didn't sound enough like Winston Zeddemore. Arsenio Hall got the job. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Scrubs

The janitor on Scrubs is named Glen Matthews. The character reveals his name in the episode My Finale. His sincerity is questioned when an orderly calls him Tommy moments later, SACRED HOSPITAL HEART but creator Bill Lawrence confirmed he was telling MART MINNITAL the truth. CRACKED COM

Seinfeld

COMEDY NERD The Seinfeld episode The Pick often gets kind of unfairly overlooked. Sure, everyone goes for the Festivus episode (The Strike), but this episode is pretty fun too and has lines we all wish we could say, like You want a Christmas card? All right, here. Here's your Christmas card. CRACKED.COM

Party of Five

Scream Queens Neve Campbell had her breakout role in Party of Five. Wes Craven first saw her on the TV show, and asked her to audition forScream precisely because of her ability to play innocent characters who still had emotional depth and physical strength. CRACKED.COM

Celebrity Big Brother

Celebrity Big Brother dropped Tila Tequila for being a Nazi. Carp In 2013, she wrote a blog post titled Why I Sympathize With Hitler Part 1: True History Unveiled, calling Hitler a man of compassion. Almost two years later, when she was on the show, the production company found out about it and booted her. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

CRACKED GAME OF THRONES ACTOR KIT HARINGTON GOT KICKED OUT OF A BAR, BUT НЕ MADE SURE TO MAKE AMENDS AFTERWARDS BY RETURNING TO PAY HIS BILL AND LEAVING AN EXCEPTIONAL TIP. Не was being 'drunk and disorderly' before eventually being dragged from the establishment.

Rick and Morty

CRACKED.COM Rick & Morty's Council of Ricks is based on The Fantastic Four. A body composed of versions from different realities of a genius scientist? Reed Richards did it first. The Interdimensional Council of Reeds was founded by three Fantastic Men who finagled themselves an Infinity Gauntlet.

Frasier

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Eddie FRASIER CRACKED.COM Moose the Jack Russell Terrier kind of petered out the last few seasons, and his son, Enzo, fully took over the role in the final season. At his peak, though, Moose was reportedly getting more fan mail than any other cast member.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Real-life couple Mary Elizabeth Ellis (The Waitress) and Charlie Day met because he won an arm-wrestling match. They were at a bar. Day and his friend both thought she was cute and arm-wrestled to see who see who got to talk to Ellis. Day won. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Sean Saves the World

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2014, NBC CANCELLED THE SITCOM SEAN SAVES THE WORLD. It featured Sean Hayes as a gay single dad, and the network ordered a total of 18 episodes - but it pulled the plug while five were still being filmed.

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Lucky Louie

LOUIS C.K. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always

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David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff CRACKEDCON After Baywatch, he struggled to reach the same level of success in the soap opera scene. He struggled even harder when he

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