28 Dorky Bits of TV Trivia That Stepped Out of the Transformation Chamber As Much Cooler Versions of Themselves

These facts lost the glasses and got some serious swagger
28 Dorky Bits of TV Trivia That Stepped Out of the Transformation Chamber As Much Cooler Versions of Themselves
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Before you roll your eyes and click on to some other list, we just want to tell you that these TV facts aren’t horribly annoying anymore! We loved their high-pitched, nerdy selves for a few years there, but we got just as off-put by them as you did. 

We knew they needed a little glow up, so we rewrote them into much cooler tidbits and slapped on some sweet pics! See for yourself. You’ll be as smitten as Laura Winslow was when we showed her.

Muppet Babies

Things that mysteriously disappeared Skeeter, the Muppet Scooter's twin sister Skeeter first appeared in the Muppet Babies '80s Saturday morning cartoon- and hasn't reappeared in any movie or show since. She did return in a comic book, but that might not be canon. Was she murdered by Scooter? CRACKED.COM

Friends

The other actors held an intervention for Jennifer Aniston. T. R.V.T. H Thankfully, it wasn't about substance abuse, but her chronic lateness. GRAGKED.COM

Gilmore Girls

Rory & Jess GILMORE GIRLS Move aside, Logan and Dean. The chemistry between Rory and Jess wasn't faked ... Alexis Bledel and Milo Ventimiglia dated for nearly four years during the show's run. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

MARTY major the and the - عند - MARTY ROBBINS BIGGEST RUTS Ribbox Dritter Posite - you 4 4 adidas Kara 4F This song from you the Breaking Bad finale tells us how the episode ends. A cowboy steals a ride, flees to New Mexico, then returns, as My love is stronger than my fear of death. A stray bullet hits him. Не dies in the arms of Felina, his true love. Just like Walt dies accompanied by his true love. No, not anyone in his family. Chemistry. CRACKED.COM

Two and a Half Men

ANGUS т. JONES TWO AND A HALF MEN CRACKED.COM If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men, and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth. OK, OK, you don't have to tell us two and half times.

George Costanza

George Costanza is basically Larry David. Jason Alexander said he didn't know it was David's alter ego until he told the writer after a table read, This wouldn't happen to anybody, but if it did, no human being would react like this. David replied, What do you mean? This happened to me, and this is exactly what I did. CRACKED.COM

Powerpuff Girls

Professor Utonium used to be a short, bald guy with glasses. CE Then Now The first Powerpuff Girls short, Whoopass Stew-A Sticky Situation, featured Utonium creating the Girls. Не looked like a middle-aged Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Kramer's first appearance on the pilot of Seinfeld was pretty odd: His name was Kessler, he was a shut-in who hadn't left the building in 10 years, he knocked when he entered Jerry's Seinfeld apartment, he dressed like a slob, and he had a dog. By episode two, he screeched through Jerry's door as the vintage-wearing, dogless Kramer we all know. CRACKED.COM

The Muppet Show

The Muppet Show is actually British. It was bought and produced in England and sold into syndication in the US. CRACKED.COM

Smithers

GRAGKED.COM E Smithers was black in his first appearance on The Simpsons, in the Season 1 episode Homer's Odyssey. It was an animation mistake, and they didn't have the budget to fix it, so they left it as is.

The Mountain

Gregor The Mountain Clegane from Game of Thrones has three different faces throughout the series. The first two actors portraying the character didn't seem very intimidating until Hafpór Júlíus Björnsson took the role in Season 4. CRACKED.COM

Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster originally looked like a nightmare creature from the abyss. wheels CRUNCHY CHEESE SNACK ROULETTES HEAR BOOK CRAQUELINS AU FROMAGE Jim Henson created the character for a snack food commercial, and eventually removed his terrifying teeth and put him on Sesame Street.

The Office

In the pilot of The Office, Kevin Malone spoke like a normal person, with normal vocal tone and rhythm. After the pilot, his vocal rhythm became ridiculously slow, his tone got decidedly deeper, and his intelligence took a nosedive to the point that he didn't know how to recite the ABCs. CRACKED.COM

Jon Hamm

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES JON HAMM in a '90s dating show Back in 1995, Hamm appeared on The Big Date and offered a foot massage to a girl that had just said she had a foot fetish. Yes, that sentence is insane, but it's nothing compared to Hamm's boy-band '90s hairstyle. CRACKED.COM

Lena Headey

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES LENA HEADEY was the last person to talk to MacGyver The MacGyver TV show ended in 1991, but there were two more TV movies in 1994. By the end of the very last one, Trail to Doomsday, Headey is the very last person MacGyver ever talks to. Well, not counting SNL's MacGruber. CRACKED.COM

Emma Stone

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES EMMA STONE voiced a dog on The Suite Life of Zack & & Cody A year before her big screen debut in Superbad, Stone voiced a Pomerainian named Ivana Tipton on the Nickelodeon show. It was the only time the dog talked. At least she also appeared on Malcolm in the Middle in 2006, which is actually cool. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

MOOSE WAS A DIVA. John Mahoney, who played Martin Crane, hated Moose because he would bite him. Moose also couldn't be in the same room as his son Enzo. CRACKED.COM

The Crown

As in The Crown, Princess Diana roller-skated through Kensington Palace. In real life, she probably kept to the palace's less glamorous parts, where it might have been easier to skate-but that wouldn't have made for good TV. CRACKED.COM

The Simple Life

That's Hot Paris Hilton reveals that her Simple Life catchphgrase was originally something her sister Nicky used to say a lot. Paris took it and trademarked it. CRACKED.COM

Tom and Jerry

COMEDY NERD Tom and Jerry's initial names were pretty different: they were Jasper and Jinx. In their first-ever cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, Tom was named Jasper and Jerry was apparently called Jinx. CRACKED.COM

Community

CRACKED Community came back, much to the joy of its dedicated fanbase. Yahoo picked up Community for a 13-episode sixth season. The show was previously canceled, but fans fought hard to bring it back. All the old cast members and creators came on board.

Game of Thrones

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO... Lady GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM Sophie Turner says her parents never let her have a dog growing up, but they changed their tune after falling in love with Zunni on set: We knew they wanted to re-home her. My mum persuaded them to let us adopt her.

Bo Burnham

AT A GLANCE ВО BURNHAM Не starred in the show Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous Burnham co-wrote the show with Dan Lagana (the showrunner for American Vandal). It was canceled after one season. CRACKED.COM

Game Shows

73 people died trying to get on a game show in the Philippines. wowowee CRACKED.c COM The popular Filipino game show Wowowee an- nounced that only the first 300 people out of the 30,000 that showed up would get tickets, resulting in a stampede that killed 73 and injured 400.

Gillian Anderson

CRACKED.COM GAME OF THRONES GILLIAN ANDERSON TURNED DOWN A ROLE. While it's not specified which role it was, Anderson did say she declined the offer because of her young children. I can't justify spending that kind of time away from home, unless I'm working with Scorsese.

Freaks and Geeks

There's a reason the show is set in THE EIGHTIES CRACKED COM By setting the show back then, we're freed of current societal problems that quickly date the show and are thus allowed to address the broader themes that have stood the test of time for the past 20 years.

The Arrested Development-Mr. Show Connection

ARRESTED had a heavy Mr.ShoMEnt Mr. Show influence Bob Odenkirk showed up as Tobias and Lindsey's marriage counselor for a mini-Mr. Show reunion. And frequent Mr. Show director Troy Miller produced the show's controversial Season 4.

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