34 Shiny Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Mischievous Monkey Tried to Steal and Now the Cave of Wonders Is Collapsing Around Us

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34 Shiny Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Our Mischievous Monkey Tried to Steal and Now the Cave of Wonders Is Collapsing Around Us
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If The Pursuit of Happyness seemed a bit wholesome, considering its subject matter, that’s because the movie was a way watered-down version of a pretty violent book.

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Jada Pinkett-Smith

Celebrities who were high school buddies Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett-Smith The actor and the hip-hop star became lifelong friends at the Baltimore School of the Arts. Pinkett-Smith wrote a poem to honor Shakur on what would have been his 50th birthday. CRACKED.COM

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Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis RICK MORANIS Theagerephobic Comboy CRACKEDCON The quintessential 80's dweeb left the biz to care for his kids after his wife's death. Now

Mad Men

Mad Men was partly inspired by a particular old-school French movie. The movie is Les Bonnes Femmes, and it was shot in Paris, in the era in which Mad Men takes place - and it influenced the show's production design. CRACKED.COM

James Remar

Aliens (1986) Before James Remar was fired, he accidentally blew a hole in the set of Little Shop of Horrors. The Frank Oz production was filming on a stage adjacent to the Aliens set, and while practicing with a shotgun, Remar caused a bit of damage. CRACKED.COM

Special Effects

Historical Firsts in Practical Effects 1926 The term. Special Effect gets its first screen credit In the 1920s, studios began dedicating entire departments to special effects, and the term Special Effect first appears in the credits of 1926's What Price Glory? CRACKED

NCIS

NCIS CRACKED.COM The source of several spinoffs is, itself, a spinoff of JAG. Four main castmembers from JAG went on to appear in various NCIS...es.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The visual effects for the 1988 film Willow were later used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. CRACKED.COM Industrial Light & Magic creat- ed visuals for Willow which led to a breakthrough in digi- tal morphing technology. The techniques developed for se- quences where characters morph into different animals were later used in T2.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

the PURSUIT of HAPPYNESS THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS IS A VERY VIOLENT BOOK. In the memoir, Chris Gardner talks about trying to kill his stepdad (who nearly killed Gardner's mom several times). Then he describes how a guy raped him, and how he killed that guy three years later with a cinder block. Somehow, the inspiring Will Smith movie left all this out. CRACKED.COM

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Space Jam: A New Legacy

WORST SEQUELS EVER GS SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY Original director Terence Nance left the movie because of artistic differences, and was replaced by Malcolm D. Lee, who cut a scene in which Pepé Le Pew tries to pick up a bartender. Now, we get it, as Pepé was born cancellable, but why leave A Clockwork Orange's Alex and his gang of droogs, then? CRACKED.COM

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Singin’ in the Rain

Musical movies singin' in the Rain Despite being one of the most adored musicals ever, it wasn't as fun behind the scenes. One day, Fred Astaire found 18-year-old Debbie Reynolds crying under a piano from the stress. (Не comforted her.) CRACKED.COM

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Mr. Satan

MR. SATAN CRACKED.COM Не shouldn't lie about his accomplishments, taking credit for things the Z Warriors have done, but he succeeded in becoming the world champion martial artist without alien blood, magic wishes, or secret training regimens from island perverts.

Saturday Night Live

Steve Forbes/ Rage Against The Machine CRACKED.com You have to think the writers had a hand in, or at least a laugh about, having Rage Against The Machine intro'd by... the machine.

The Dark Knight Trilogy

TELL US NOW. The Dark Knight Trilogy STATUS SYSTEM DAMAGECATASTROPHIC OITICR CRACKED The real victim of these movies is Gotham's innocent infrastructure. According to Ryan M, Batman was just cruising down the freeway in a tank and blowing up entire parking structures and pop a wheeling through the damn mall.

Wreck-It Ralph

WRECK-IT RALPH RACED SONIC. In the Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed racing game, Sonic and Ralph battle it out on the racetrack. Why Sonic drives

Jeffrey Tambor

ITR! I used to absolutely love Jeffrey Tambor for being so funny and intense... AMAZON ORIGINAL SERLES TRANSPARENT but now I blame him for the cancell

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