29 Bits of TV Trivia We Vacuumed Out From Under the Coffee Table

We learned a lot today. Mainly that we’re complete slobs
29 Bits of TV Trivia We Vacuumed Out From Under the Coffee Table
Add Cracked to Google

Whenever we get crumbs all over our shirts or in our beards, we always make the joke that it’s our way of saving them for later. 

Hilarious, right? We know. But today, we found out just how fruitful our crumb leftovers can be. By munching up every bit of TV-related knowledge out there, our slovenly selves spewed a ton of little TV tidbits all over the place. We luckily noticed before the nighttime cleaning crew got to them. 

So here they are! Our tasty, tasty little factoid crumbs.

Jason Sudeikis

Uncle & Nephew I E CRACKED.COM Jason Sudeikis, of SNL and Ted Lasso fame, shares a funny bone with his uncle George Wendt, who played Norm on Cheers.

Kathy Griffin

Kathy CRACKED.COM Kathy Griffin followed up her popular reality show with a talk show co-hosted by her mom, Maggie Griffin. Bravo actually gave it two full seasons to find its legs.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

will smith did The Fresh Prince because he was broke. LISTATES كتمة CENTS OF Late '80s Will was in trouble-he had blown most of his rap money, and he owed what was left to the IRS. That was how show creator Benny Medina was able to rope him into auditioning for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, even though he wasn't an actor. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES SEAN BEAN NEVER KNEW JON SNOW'S TRUE PARENTAGE. You would think they'd clue him in, as his character did know, but no. Bean preferred it that way, so he could revel in the magic and the reveal himself. CRACKED.COM

Pat Robertson

Televangelist Pat Robertson has predicted the world was going to end for decades. CRACKED.COM Не predicted in 1976 that the world would end in 1982. After that didn't hap- pen he tried again a de- cade later. In his book 'The New Millennium,' he said the world would be de- stroyed on April 29, 2007.

Miami Vice

GENE SIMMONS is even creepier without demon make-up MIAMI VICE CRACKED.COM Simmons played Newton Windsor Blade, affectionately known as the Sears and Roebuck of controlled substances. Resplendent in an all-white silk kimono, bad-guy Blade actually helps Crockett and Tubb nail Columbian drug smugglers.

The Office

COMEDY NERD GRAGKED.COM Dunder Mifflin Cleaning Crew LOWEEN The Office In Night Out the cleaning crew for the building speaks Spanish to Oscar, then later on in St.Patricks Day the cleaning crew is Russian and blasting music? And in Halloween it's another different cleaning guy with no music.

Futurama

CYGNUS X-1 ISN'T SPACE LAS VEGAS. FUTURAMA The prisoner of Benda WHAT HAPPENS IN CYGNUS X-1 STAYS IN CYGNUS X-1 The caption at the start of the episode isn't just a shout-out to the city of vice-Cygnus X-1 is a black hole, so it's physically impossible for anything not to stay there. CRACKED.COM

The Twilight Zone

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 1959-1964 The Twilight Zone No revival has ever gotten to the iconic, groundbreaking, just legendary heights of Rod Serling's original. Jordan Peele developed and hosted the latest one, and it was... fine? We associate Peele with awesome horror, but this wasn't it. 2019-2020 CRACKED.COM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Real-life couple Mary Elizabeth Ellis (The Waitress) and Charlie Day met because he won an arm-wrestling match. They were at a bar. Day and his friend both thought she was cute and arm-wrestled to see who see who got to talk to Ellis. Day won. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Big Bang Theory

COMEDY NERD Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory was actually originally named Kenny. But they changed that to Sheldon in homage to great TV producer Sheldon Leonard. CRACKED.COM

Oz

There's surprising musical wizardry in OZ OZ CRACKED.COM Is there a less likely show for a musical episode? Or a less likely song than disco nugget The Last Duet (originally recorded by Barry Manilow and Lily Tomlin) as rendered by white supremacist J.K. Simmons?

Westworld

Westworld featured an homage to the creators of another HBO show. In the third season, we get to see the repair shop for a new park - and it includes the head of Drogon, from Game of Thrones, being worked on by GoT creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff. CRACKED.COM

The Groundlings

Comedy hotbeds THE GROUNDLiNGS LAZ GROUNDLINGS 7807 The L.A based sketch & improv theater began in 1974. Will Ferrell, Will Forte, Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Dax Shepard, and many others got their start here. CRACKED

SNL

ALEX TREBEK told Lorne he loved the sketch CRACKED.COM On Will Ferrell's final SNL show, the real Trebek made a surprise appearance during the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch, giving Darrell Hammond's Sean Connery a bust in the chops for good measure.

MTV

CRACKED At 16, JENNIFER LAWRENCE starred in an MTV commercial for My Super Sweet 16. Lawrence played a spoiled teen whose party doesn't go as planned. Way more Cady Heron than Katniss Everdeen, really.

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

CRACKED DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ended with questions unanswered, so The Jim Henson Company kind of hoped for a season 2 to see the gelflings' battle with the Skeksis, and whether they could use the shard to heal the Dark Crystal.

The BBC

Peter Cushing was Winston Smith 30 years before 1984. g O If you think of 1984, you think of John Hurt. But in 1954, none other than Peter Moff Tarkin Cushing played Winston Smith in a live BBC broadcast. CRACKED.COM

The Office

The Office saved someone's life. CRACKED.COM A 21-year-old man from Arizona saved a woman's life using CPR he learned watching an episode of The Office.

The Sopranos

Lin-Manuel Miranda had his start in The Sopranos. Miranda's first TV job was as a (non-rapping) hotel bellman who couldn't answer Tony Soprano's questions. CRACKED.COM

Soupy Sales

A TV comedian caused a massive scandal in 1965 by asking kids for money. As a joke, Soupy Sales told kids to send him little green pieces of paper from his parents' wallets - so they pulled him off the air for two weeks. CRACKED.COM

Rocko’s Modern Life

Rocko is a cop. CRACKED.COM Carlos Alazraqui voiced America's favorite (only known?) wallaby -- the titular, jacking-enthusiast Rocko, on Rocko's Modern Life. It's a jarring juxtaposition when compared with his portrayal of racist a*hole Deputy James Garcia on Reno 911!

Pokemon

CRACKED.COM Goku When Goku was a little boy, he accidentally killed his adoptive grandfather Gohan, leaving him to take care of himself.

The Simpsons

THE SIMPSONS Julian Assange GRACKED.COM iFO Possibly the most top-secret cameo of all time, since even the producers didn't know where Assange was recording his lines.

The Angry Beavers

THE ANGRY BEAVERS The beavers break the 4th wall. In the series finale that was written and recorded, Norbert and Daggett find out that they're cartoon characters AND that they've been cancelled. Nickelodeon ultimately decided it made them look bad, so it never aired. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

Cookie Monster In a song in 2007 (and again in 2017), Cookie Monster revealed his real name was Sidney Monster. CRACKED.COM

Family Guy

According to Family Guy, a 19th-century nutjob was right about Jesus' lineage. Stewie went to the other side and met Jesus, who is Chinese. His last name is Hong, and he doesn't know why people call him Christ. This is a reference to Hong Xiuquan, who led a 15-year uprising against China's ruling Qing dynasty. Не claimed to be the brother of Jesus, and that it was his mission to exterminate devils on Earth. CRACKED.COM

Ugly Betty

America Ferrera made the world safe for ADELE UGLY BETTY CRACKED.COM We made Adele famous, joked Ferrera after the singer's appearance on Ugly Betty. Adele had already won the Grammy for Best New Artist by the time she made her cameo, so check yourself, America.

Monty Python

A GIANT DEAD PARROT WAS BUILT TO CELEBRATE THE PYTHONS. To promote Monty Python's farewell, a 50-foot fiberglass sculpture was commissioned by the TV channel that aired their final performance. Bereft of life, the colossal ex-parrot was publicly left to rest in peace in South London. GRACKED.COM

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?