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35 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Left in the Car With the Air Conditioning On and Their Favorite Music Playing

July 03, 2025

There are four times more Leprechaun films thank you probably think, and Warwick Davis is only in 75 percent of them.

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Mike Tyson

35 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Left in the Car With the Air Conditioning On and Their Favorite Music Playing — Source

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Barry Jenkins

UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS BARRY JENKINS Moonlight is absolutely essential, but Jenkins' few other movies are staggering as well. 2008's Medicine for Melancholy and 2018's If Beale Street Could Talk deserve a look, and Jenkins is now directing the Lion King prequel about Mufasa's early life. Considering the low bar set by the 2019 remake and Jenkins' own talent, it should be a fascinating story. MOONLIGHT CRACKED.COM — More: Wikipedia
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Lala Kent

CRACKED.COM CELEBS & Pls LALA KENT After getting cheated on, the Vanderpump Rules star has taken to hiring a PI to run background checks on every. Single. Person. Who enters her life. — Source: Page Six

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Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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Stacey Dash

Stacey Dash is, well, clueless CRACKED.COM The Clueless actress made headlines by calling for the abolition of Black History Month in 2016. At the oscars later that year, she ...joked? (citation needed) to the audience: Happy Black History Month!

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The Long D

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SETH ROGEN WAS SUPPOSED TO STAR IN THE ROM-COM THE LONG D IN THE 2000S. It was about a high-school couple starting a long-distance relationship while in different colleges, and Rogen, Apatow, and Seth Goldberg wrote it for Rogen to star in-but then they made Pineapple Express, and this got shelved.

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Lady Gaga

LADY GAGA ONCE INCLUDED A MANNEQUiN WiTH PUFFY PiNK PUBiC HAiR IN HER RIDER. GRACKED.COM

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SpongeBob SquarePants

Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

Sally wore socks for very practical reasons. The original doll's ankles were so thin, she couldn't stop - so they made the ankles thicker, and put socks on her to disguise that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Audrey II

CRACKED.COM LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SIX PUPPETS OF AUDREY II WERE MADE. Six different animatronic puppets were used to show the growth of the mean green mother from outer space. The smallest Audrey II was four inches tall, and the largest was 12 feet tall. — Source

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KHJ Radio

Real KHJ radio broadcasts were used for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. HAMPIO They went through 17 hours of broadcasts and took three hours of the best material, and picked material from the movie for that. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Alec Baldwin

In 2013, Alec Baldwin chased down a TMZ paparazzo and called him homophobic slurs. HARRI HARR de INSTON AMERICA So MSNBC first suspended his talk show Up Late with Alec Baldwin for two weeks, then cancelled it. Funding for his radio show dried up, AT&T cancelled a paid speech of his, and his bank didn't renew their contract with his charity foundation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Leprechaun

Warwick Davis stars in WARWICK SHIEK TANGI STICKY DAVIS MAHMUD-BEY MILLER FINGAZ 75% of the eight films of the Leprechaun LEPRECHAUN franchise, including BACK 2 THA HOOD Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun in the Hood and Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood. Не was later replaced by WWE's Hornswoggle and, just, another dude. CRACKED

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The Godfather

CRACKED THE GODFATHER'S REVOKED OSCAR NOMINATION. In 1972, The Godfather earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Dramatic Score, but it was revoked once the Academy discovered composer Nino Rota used a piece that was actually written for an Italian film from 1958. — Variety / Fox

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Rocky

Sports Reinvented THE SUPER FIGHT In 1970, Murray Woroner entered Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano's career stats into a computer, pitting them against each other virtually. The boxers filmed a reenactment, where a 13-year retired, toupee-donning Marciano beat Ali. CRACKED — YouTube
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James Bond

James Bond Then vs. Now The tonal shifts We're used to the gritty Craig films, But only the Dalton movies got close to such a somber and violent style before. Brosnan brought in '90s action movie glamor, while Moore played on the winking goofiness way too much. Lazenby added the trauma of Bond's wife being murdered to the gold standard of suspenseful escapism set by Connery. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, Screen Rant

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Back to School

Back to School Movies and Episodes GL 1986 Back to School One-liner comedian Rodney Dangerfield is an old man! Going to college! With his son! Oh, man, the shenanigans that will happen as Dangerfield gets higher education, with cameos by Kurt Vonnegut (yes, the author) and Oingo Boingo. CRACKED.COM

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The Suicide Squad

HARLEY QUINN JAMES GUNN DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT BIRDS OF PREY WHILE WRITING THE SUICIDE SQUAD. Still, both movies work well together to give Harley a natural progression from breaking up with Joker to trying to make healthier choices about her relationships (in the very peculiar sense that the word healthy can take around Harley Quinn). CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Horror Tropes

TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK CREATIVE MONSTERS We love when horror movies go the extra mile and come up with new types of monsters with which to scare us. We saw original monsters in recent movies such as Lamb, Sputnik, Impetigore, The Borderlands, and of course, It Follows. CRACKED.COM

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Ratatouille

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES RATATOUILLE ALMOST HAD ITS OWN WINE. The movie was poised to put out the perfect product placement - Ratatouille wine, a white Burgundy. Worries about underage drinking nixed the rat wine. — Source: Los Angeles Times

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Heather Donahue

HEATHER DONAHUE BLAIR WITCH growgirl CRACKED CON Heather from The Blair Witch Project gave up acting to grow high-quality medical marijuana. In 2012, she published a book, Growgirl, about her unlikely journey. — Source: 15 Celebs Who Gave Up Fame And Found Happiness

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Night of the Living Dead

Cannibalism is a hard thing to picture. Unless you're George Romero. For the zombie flesh feast, the Night Of The Living Dead director had the actors eat body parts made from ham and pig intestines drenched in Bosco chocolate syrup. BIN MILK ON ICE CTCP BOSCO MILK - AMPLIFIER 18 To FORTIFIED VITAMIN with - - - - - Chocolate - ALM Synop Even Buddy the Elf wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole. CRACKED.COM — 13 Movie Effects That Were Made Of (Spoiled) Food

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Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger was a porter at a psychiatric hospital. Не took the job when he was 17, and says he lost virginity at the hospital -- it was full of nymphomaniac nurses and nymphomaniac patients. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Eyebrow-Arching Early Jobs Of Celebs

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Google

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The Oscars

Bart the Bear THE OSCARS CRACKED.COM Bart was Hollywood's go-to bear for much of the 80's, and there was even a campaign to get him nom'd for an oscar. The campaign failed, but he did make it to The Oscars stage as a presenter in 1988, to the abject horror of the crew: they had all sorts of people off to the side waiting in case something went wrong. — That Time A Bear Almost Got An Oscar Nomination (No, Really.)

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MGM

what's the deal with the Oscars THE ACADEMY DOESN'T TEACH ANYONE CRACKED The AMPAS founded was by MGM founder Louis B. Mayer in 1927, to avoid having labor unions in Hollywood (it didn't work). — Source: AMPAS

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Love Actually

15 Weird Details About Love Actually That You Never Knew - When Shannon Elizabeth met Hugh Grant on set, shE apologized for being — Source: The Daily Beast

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Cooper Hefner

Cooper Hefner, son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, lived every teenage boy's dream, spending days CRAGA and nights at the Playboy Mansion. However, in

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Portia de Rossi

Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi was born in Australia as Amanda ROgers. The actress said she was struggling with her identity as a gay teen,

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Trading Places

The Dukes' failed attempt to corner a market in Trading Places actually happened. The Hunt brothers created a silver shortage by hoarding the precious

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon co-owns SPIN, a ping pong club. SPiN is a bar and a ping pong club in one. The first club was opened in New York in 2009, and today the

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Cypher

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Slipknot

35 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Left in the Car With the Air Conditioning On and Their Favorite Music Playing

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War of the Worlds

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Breaking Bad

in SEASON5 OF BREAKING BAD, WALT ROLLS BABARRELOF MoneY THROUGH THE DESERT. The Complete First Season reaking Bad WVINNER Fem Aanl fer Oaeseel Ator De

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