26 Bits of TV Trivia We Didn’t Find Out Had Identical Twins Until a Few Seasons in When the Writers Ran Out of Ideas

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26 Bits of TV Trivia We Didn’t Find Out Had Identical Twins Until a Few Seasons in When the Writers Ran Out of Ideas
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Purely from a lazy slob’s standpoint, it’d be so sweet if we could just copy-and-paste the same fact 26 times. Banging out these lists as quickly as possible to get back to the couch is always the goal. The crusty old Cracked higher-ups ask us to find different TV facts for you, and since we need this job to pay for things like couches, snacks and TV subscriptions, we reluctantly oblige. 

So here they are — a bunch of random TV facts that don’t double up due to laziness… Ugh.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

In one episode, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend references The Devil Wears Prada. Bert Buttenweiser's entrance into the office mirrors Miranda Priestly, down to him taking off his sunglasses and asking for an unpublished manuscript. CRACKED.COM

Superstar USA

The Anti-American Idol was a terrible prank on contestants. CRACKED.COM In the WB's Superstar USA, the worst singers were ad- vanced to the next round, but they weren't told they were bad. At the end, the winner was let in on the joke that the whole thing was a prank.

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica Lucy Lawless turned down the part of Ellen Tigh. Lawless was the first choice for the character, but she went, I don't play anyone's wife. That's boring. She was much more excited later, when she was offered to play a Cylon. CRACKED.COM

Roseanne

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS ROSANNE BARR DISPLAYED A LIST OF HER ENEMIES ON THE DOOR TO HER DRESSING ROOM ON ROSANNE. CRACKED.COM Not trying to hide her aggravation to- wards the crew, Barr prominently dis- played a memo addressing THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE FIRED IF THEY'RE NOT NICE TO ME. This included, EVERYBODY... ALL PRODUCERS, ALL WRITERS, ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Grey’s Anatomy

This isn't the Disney Channel, DEMI LOVATO GREY'S ANATOMY GRACKED.COM If you ever wanted to see the former tween star stab herself in the heart with a hypodermic needle, have we got the episode for you! Spoiler alert: She's not crazy, she just has a hole in her ear.

Family Guy

SETH MACFARLANE QUAGMIRE GRACKED.COM My father used to buy me old radio dramas, and commercials from the '40s and '50s had this high-pitched voice. So Quagmire's a 50's radio jockey on coke combined with a sex-crazed pervert. Giggity.

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

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad took many, many style cues straight from The Godfather. In particular, Breaking Bad's use of color filters and different lighting schemes for different scenes, to give each one its own look and feel, is based on The Godfather. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones includes a hidden reference to Monty Python. In Season 4, when Daenerys and her army approach Meereen, the city's champion comes out and starts insulting them. According to the show's linguist, the insults are a Low Valyrian translation of the Frenchman's taunts in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Yes, including Your mother is a hamster. CRACKED.COM

Samurai Jack

A 1960s Japanese animated movie inspired the show Samurai Jack. SAMURAI JACK It's called The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky said it had what he wanted for that show: A lot of lighting and mood...very little dialogue, about the action, simple stories, and the character. CRACKED.COM

SNL

MORE COWBELL! CHRISTOPHER WALKEN CRACKED.COM On The Tonight Show, Will Ferrell told Fallon that Christopher Walken told him, You know... You've ruined my life. People, during the curtain call, bring cowbells and ring them. The other day I went for an Italian food lunch, and the waiter asked if I wanted more cowbell. From Deer Hunter to Pulp Fiction, most people know him for that one perfect SNL sketch.

Malcolm in the Middle

The house in Malcolm in the Middle was being rented to the production for $3-4,000 per day. The house (used for exterior shots -- interiors were shot by a soundstage) was owned by a doctor, who earned around $100,000 for letting his house be used for exterior shots. CRACKED.COM

Futurama

In Futurama, '70s retro is still in. STUDIO 123' 123 SIUDIO Futurama's Studio 12 21 3ª, where Bender goes to dance so he can burn off the doomsday device powering him, is Studio 54. 12 x 21 x 33 = 54. CRACKED.COM

Baby Bob

Disastrous Comedy 2002 Baby Bob Food Turning an ad into a sitcom, this talking baby got his own CBS primetime show after a string of Freelnternet.com commercials. It's 14 episodes of Wait, that baby can talk? moments that got old right away. CRACKED

Teen Angel

Teen Angel 1997-98 CRACKED This morbid sitcom involved a teenager dying and returning to Earth as a guardian angel for his best friend.

John Blyth

CRACKEDO COM Kung Fu actor John Blyth Barrymore grew up in a well': known Hollywood family and had access to a huge variety of drugs throughout his te

Matt Groening

Matt Groening disowned and refused to be credited for a particular episode of The Simpsons. An episode in season 6 called A Star Is Burns features Jay Sherman, the main character of the animation The Critic that was launched in 1994 by producers of The Simpsons. Groening hated the fact that his show was used to promote this new animation, and he was annoyed that the cameo implied some kind of shared universe. GRAGKED.COM

I Love Lucy

CRACKED.COM A fan colorizes I Love Lucy better than CBS. When CBS started colorizing / Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's hair ended up looking like some radioactive carrot. Zach Smothers of Pop-colorture.com doesn't have CBS' budget, but he managed to get much better results.

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