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35 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Pour Into Your ‘Wicker Man’ Bee Helmet

July 05, 2025

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The Muppets

GRACKED THE MUPPETS' COMMERCIAL WITH JARED FROM SUBWAY. 1.80 1.00 ..... - - .. - - SUBWAY BAKING en PAAL Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the Swedish Chef were featured alongside Subway Guy Jared Fogle, in a February 2014 commercial. Less than a year later, the FBI uncovered child pornography on his computer. — Fandom / Delish

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Bullitt

A Mustang driven by Steve McQueen was found in a Mexican scrapyard. BULLITT CRACKED.COM A guy who makes Gone in 60 Seconds replicas, which is apparently a business you can have, identified the '68 Mustang, which was used in the movie Bullitt, as something way more valuable. — CBS News / LA Times

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Back to the Future

Early drafts of movies Back to the Future The original title was Spaceman from Pluto. The story was about a suicidal teen trying to off himself by getting into a device rigged up inside a car wash - which was actually a time machine. The ending had the time machine inside a fridge and propelled by a nuclear blast. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Newsweek

Media blunders W http:/ 1995 Newsweek THE INTERNET IS A FLASH IN THE PAN In 1995, Newsweek ran an article saying that computers and networks can make us feel isolated from each other, and that the internet can be full of useless information, which is why it won't take off. Well... that was spectacularly right and wrong. CRACKED — atm2003/Shutterstock
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Mideon

Post-Wrestling Careers Mideon is a successful caterer and chef. After running around as a pig farmer and the Undertaker's minion, Dennis Knight went from the squared circle to the kitchen. Не became a high class caterer with his own business after learning under professional chefs. Café Pore CRACKED.COM — Source: WWE

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Da Bears

DA BEARS ROB SMIGEL Smigel cooked up the Super Fans from two tasty ingredients: The Sportswriters on TV, a Chicago-based roundtable discussion, and the overweight, mustachioed, Old Style-swigging fans he'd see at Cubs games. Bonus: Sunglasses meant Smigel could easily read cue cards without learning his lines. — Source: Behind-The-Scenes Beginnings Of 14 Iconic SNL Characters

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Bart the Bear

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Jaws Unleashed

Jaws Unleashed 1997 CRACKED.COM It's finally time for the great white to get its revenge; in this bloody, underwater adventure, YOU control the fish. We all love wanton destruction, especially as a 3 ton killing machine with a one track mind, but how many times can you bite a scuba diver in half before it gets boring?

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Cam Newton

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton's tweets read like an eldritch scroll. For example: B1ESSEDandH1GHLYfavored THANKU MyK1LLA UNOwhoUare! ifuaintGoTnoHATERSuAiNTpoppinK1LLA! -1OVE CRACKED.COM — Source: 5 Famous People Who Are Pure Madness On Social Media

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Jack Ma

Jack Ma CRACKEDCON lack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, flunked his college examinations thrice. He applied for 30 jobs, including working for KFC, — Source: CNBC

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Daniel Day-Lewis

CRACKED DANIEL DAY LEWIS WAS A SHOEMAKER. A cobbler, if you will. Between movies, he relocated to Florence, Italy in 1996 to train under Stefano Bremer. Bremer's shoes sold for $500 back then, and if you bought a pair from 1996 to 2001, they may have been made by Daniel Day Lewis!

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Mortal Kombat

CRACKED.COM MORTAL KOMBAT (2021) Sub-Zero's costume weighed 33 lbs. As the movie relied on realistic and practical effects/costuming, the entire outfit that Joe Taslim wore weighed in at 33 pounds, making his quick stunt moves even more impressive. — Source

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Cruisin’ USA

Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously prude, so making this game Family-Friendly was always going to be a tall order. The funniest update they had to make? Renaming the XL Power Shaft to the less phallic XL Power. — Source

22

The Office

the office Erin Hannon's ridiculous level of naivete was the last straw for The Office as a mockumentary. In the first five seasons, the show was still grounded enough that you could see the characters existing as real people, but then she showed up. Her arrival and her constant antics - throwing scissors like ninja stars, throwing away disposable cameras, and boiling Gatorade as tea - were just too much and pushed the show into a full-on farce. CRACKED.COM WENDY — Source

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The Great Muta

Awesome Wrestling Masks The Great Muta Known as a face-painted grappler in the 1980s and 1990s, Muta crossed over into intricate masks later in his career that just made him even more badass (as if that was possible). CRACKED.COM — WhatCulture, TheSportster

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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Live-Action Adaptations of Cartoons Then vs. Now The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Airing from 1959 to 1964, the absurdist quirkiness of this choppy-looking made it a classic. The 2018-2019 show was also well received, just as the 2014 CGI Mr. Peabody & Sherman film. Things get uglier with the 1992 and 1999 live-action movies, and especially with 2000's disappointing film. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Best Movies Ever One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The movie exists because of Kirk Douglas. Douglas bought the novel's rights before it was even published, and played McMurphy in a stage version. The movie, however, took so long that he aged out of the role, so he gave the rights to his son Michael. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Abba

Abba's studio sessions were so long, their sound engineer says he'd almost pass out from hunger. They never left a song unfinished, and worked on every one as if it were a potential hit single. Two members, Björn and Benny, even took vacations just to write songs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Celebs That Work Harder Than People Know

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Sleepaway Camp

'80S HORROR CLASSICS SLEEPAWAY CAMP THE GRASS WAS PAINTED. While the movie is set in the middle of summer, it was actually shot in early fall, so green spray paint was applied to the grass in order to make it look season-appropriate. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Elvis

THE CONSPIRACY: Elvis died of chronic constipation. GRACKED COM THE THEORY: Elvis never actually got fat. What we think of as fat Elvis was really normal Elvis with weeks of poop in him, gumming up the works. — Source: 24 Super-Ding-Dong Theories About Celebs

15

Banksy

When Banksy tried to trademark one of his paintings, the copyright office threw his own words back at him. They refused the trademark, saying he clearly didn't want to use it and only wanted to have rights over his work without using copyright. To drive the point home, they quoted a line from one of his books: copyright is for losers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Fun, Now-You-Know Facts To Stimulate Your Brain

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The Joker

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE JOKER (THE BAD ONE) A GAS STATION ENERGY DRINK THAT TURNED INTO A VILLAIN. Damagen You have to have a good sense of humor to walk into a tattoo parlor and ask for the toilet stall graffiti found in a middle school Boy's bathroom. Joker is a mob boss that is funnier than he is scary, which may not be saying much when he wears his glittery, ruby red sport coat.

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Thor

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CHRIS HEMSWORTH ACTUALLY VOICED THROG. Despite only making unintelligible noises, the show actually got Chris Hemsworth to record lines for the frog variant of Thor. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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30 Rock

The set for Werewolf Bar Mitzvah took 3 days to build. Tracy Jordan Werewolf Bar Mitzvah An Evening with Tracy Jordan Geffen Records It was only on screen for 6 seconds. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — New York Times

11

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Freaks parody. In Butters' Very Own Episode, Butters' parents cover up his murder by joining a support group made up of people involved in famous murder cases. To join the cult, the group chants, One of us! One of us! Gooble Gobble! Gooble Gobble!. It's a direct line taken from the 1932 film. CRACKED.COM — Source video, video clip

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Dunston Checks In

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Dunston DUNSTON CHECKS IN He'i about CRACKED.co Sam the orangutan also appeared in Planet of the Apes, The Flintstones, even Baywatch. When he got too physically large to work (orangutans are fuzzy killing machines, after all), he retired to Florida and had a baby with his lifelong companion, Geri. — Center for Great Apes

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Black Panther

Black Panther M'BAKU is a supervillain in the comics. Called the Man-Ape (a moniker the movie wisely dropped), M'Baku was exiled from Wakanda and became just another generic villain for the Avengers to fight. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem used to work at Little Caesars Little Caesars When he was 18, Em, Proof, and Kon Artis lived together and worked at the pizza place to afford studio time. Even when he was broke, he still made dough. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Way I Am

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Kris Jenner

KRIS JENNER So Tik Tok star Ava Louise lied about being sued by professional momager Kris Jenner. Kris was SO angry that she threatened ... to sue Tik Tok star Ava Louise. CRACKED.COM — Tik Tok, Screenrant

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Superhero Tropes

WE KNOW SUPERMAN BEGINS WITH S THANKS TO LETTER LOGOS A LETTER ON YOUR COSTUME WON'T GET YOU KILLED. BUT WHAT'S THE POINT? IS THERE ANY DUMBER COSTUME ACCESSORY THAN MISTER TERIFFIC WEARING A BIG LETTERT ON HIS FACE?

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Us

TELL US NOW. US George C. says, Everything was going fine, until they decided they should explain things, which actually caused even more questions.

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Roald Dahl

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Africa

TELL US NOW. Jennifer A. can't decide which version of Africa she loves more - Toto, or the Weezer cover. (Must be those sweet Weird Al moves that h — Jennifer A.

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Rocky Balboa

ROCKY IS A STORY ABOUT PERSEVERANCE. ROCKY BALBOA NEVER QUITS, NO MATTER WHAT. THAT'S JUST THE FINISHED MOVIE, THOUGH. ORIGINALLY, HE DID QUIT. The fi

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

CRACKED.COM SPIDERA INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Miles isn't falling through the frame. He's rising. -Into the Spider-verse screenplay The iconic leap of

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