27 Bits of TV Trivia We Put in Our Coffee When No One Else Is Around

Just a little something to calm the nerves
27 Bits of TV Trivia We Put in Our Coffee When No One Else Is Around

We can trust you, right? Like, you wouldn’t rat us out for something trivial like sipping a little fact juice at work, would you? 

Ha! We didn’t even intend for that fun little “trivial” play on words just there. It’s probably because of how loosey-goosey we feel right now. You know how a little fact juice can squash those pesky inhibitions and just let the ideas flow, right?

You don’t? Well, why don’t you take a little sip and find out? You and your brain will have some fun — and your guilt by association will assure us that you won’t rat. 

Drink up, rookie!

Ted Lasso

27 Bits of TV Trivia We Put in Our Coffee When No One Else Is Around

Lethal Weapon

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

Freaks and Geeks

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

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

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

Knight Rider

Former Dancing with the Stars and NSYNC member Joey Fatone bought one of the original KITT cars from KNIGHT RIDER CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

27 Bits of TV Trivia We Put in Our Coffee When No One Else Is Around

The Office

THE KISS BETWEEN MICHAEL AND OSCAR WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A HUG. According to Oscar Nunez, the original script for the Season 3 premiere of The Office had Michael and Oscar hugging. But after several takes of that, Steve Carrell suddenly came really close and started kissing Nunez. Не says he decided to go with it, and just prayed that nobody laughed and ruined the take. CRACKED.COM

Buffy

CORDELIA FROM BUFFY HELPED CATCH A RAPIST COP IN REAL LIFE. Before she was an actress, Charisma Carpenter and a couple guy friends were attacked while taking a night swim. A fight ensued, but they managed to escape-taking the guy's police flashlight with them. This led to identifying the serial rapist who had been terrorizing San Diego for some time. CRACKED.COM

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

George A. Romero got his start making short films for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Romero, who was just out of college at the time, joked that film- ing Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsillectomy was the scariest thing he ever shot. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Clone High

MTV's 'Clone High' was canceled after it sparked controversy in India. GRACKED.COM Due to its portrayal of Gandhi as a loose party an- imal, 100 people in India began a hunger strike and even a national protest where members of parlia- ment got involved.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The 7-minute shot in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's episode Charlie Work was done by a guy walking and holding a camera. DE They didn't put the camera on a dolly or a pre-programmed rig -- it was just camera operator Adam Sklena walking backwards, and he did it in on the first take. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

TV Robots

CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS EVERYTHING ROBBY THE ROBOT EVER APPEARED IN. Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, The Addams Family... Robby pretty much makes all old-timey movies and TV shows a shared universe. CRACKED.COM

SNL

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM JOHN BELUSHI VS FEMALE CAST SML John Belushi was known for shooting down female written sketches, and playing them down if he appeared in them on air. Former cast member Jane Curtin said IBelushil said women are just fundamentally not funny... Не felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women.

Spock

Spock was originally supposed to have red skin. But TV sets at the time were still black-and-white, so Spock would have looked black on screen. So, thankfully, Gene Roddenberry dropped the idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

South Park

The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. New Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Bill O’Reilly

Bill O'Reilly wrote a book in 1998 that eerily mirrors his Fox News firing amid sexual harassment lawsuits. CRACKED.COM O'Reilly wrote a novel named 'Those Who Tres- pass' about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped ruin his career.

Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon was a retired Marine Corps Colonel. CRACKED.COM Soon after the Japanese at- tacks on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and entered flight training. Не flew 85 combat missions in the Korean War and earned 6 air medals.

The Simpsons

27 Bits of TV Trivia We Put in Our Coffee When No One Else Is Around

Parks and Rec

CRACKED.COM Ben Schwartz was almost Dave the Cop in Parks and Recreation. Before becoming Jean-Ralphio, Schwartz auditioned for Dave Sanderson, Leslie Knope's cop boyfriend. The casting directors reportedly loved his energy, but ended up deciding he was too young to play Amy Poehler's paramour.

Snoop Dogg

The dial code of the Czech Republic is 420, and the country is among the highest users of cannabis in the world. During an appearance on The $100,000 Pyramid, Snoop knew that fact without delay. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Friends

Friends continues to generate massive revenue. The show earns $1 billion/year for Warner Bros., which translates into $20 million annually for cast members. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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

Futurama

The first mathematical theorem to be created and proven on TV was on Futurama. The theorem, in The Prison- er of Benda, theorized and proved that if two people could switch unique pairs of bodies only once, it requires only two extra individuals to return everyone to their orig- inal bodies. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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