29 Bits of TV Trivia Concocted in an Underground Lab by a Secret Wunderkind With a Bumbling Sibling

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29 Bits of TV Trivia Concocted in an Underground Lab by a Secret Wunderkind With a Bumbling Sibling
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Look, it’s really hard to drum up a soupy batch of TV facts with carefree morons skipping about the office. It takes focus and precise measurements to make these, and while we do think we’ve perfected them, our experience tells us that they might explode in your brain. 

It won’t be too bad, though. Your brain’s glasses will fly off and its face will be left blackened, but it’ll live to test some new facts tomorrow!

Loki

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE SHOW IS ABOUT IDENTITY AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE. LOK Director Kate Herron says that at its core, the show is about Loki's self-acceptance as a gray-area person. What makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? CRACKED.COM

Agatha All Along

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM LEAS KATHRYN HAHN ACTUALLY SINGS AGATHA ALL ALONG. CLEASE STA AGATHA Hahn, who provides the main vocals for the song, says she was both confused and amazed by the song's success - it hit number one on iTunes' Top Soundtracks charts and reached the top five on their main chart.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS WYATT RUSSELL LIED ABOUT BEING A MARVEL FAN. THE FALCON sur 123 WINTER SOLDIER Russell admits that he was never a comics guy growing up and that he pretended to be a knowledgable fan of the MCU during the auditioned process. Не eventually came clean and asked the producers to explain the universe to him. CRACKED.COM

Saved By the Bell

Dustin Diamond terrorized the Saved By the Bell cast with dumb pranks. Diamond, AKA Screech, did things like sneak backstage to pee in an extra's bag (because that extra insulted him), and make up rumors about people on the show getting into drunken threesomes. And he described location shoots as all you can bang buffets and subsidized trips to Assylvania. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. One day on the Sesame Street set, Henson asked Oz if he could take a picture of him naked - and Oz said yes. That Christmas, Henson gave Oz an elaborately detailed sculpture of Bert - - but with hollow pupils that contained naked photos of Oz. CRACKED.COM

Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS PICKLE RICK WAS INSPIRED BY AN EPISODE OF BREAKING BAD. Rick N According to Dan Harmon, season three's Pickle Rick episode was influenced by Breaking Bad's season two episode 4 Days Out. In the episode, Walt and Jesse get stuck in the desert and have to use their smarts to escape. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Alec Baldwin agreed to do the show because he got a four-day weekend. Не said he wanted to spend more time with his daughter in LA. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Gravity Falls

EASTER EGGSTRA JOKES AND MEANINGS GRAVITY FALLS THE REAL BOY BAND MEMBER Hirsch got former NSYNC member Lance Bass to voice one of the guys in the show's boy band, Sev'ral Timez. CRACKED.COM

Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS TROY LEAVES community THE SHOW, SCRUBS-STYLE It was known that Donald Glover would be leaving the show during its fifth season. In the pilot episode of season 5, Abed says: Season 9 of Scrubs Zach Braff is only in the first six episodes. To which Troy responds: Son of a bitch! After everything Scrubs did for him! Glover left the season after five episodes. GRACKED COM

The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE EXPANSE The Simpsons There are a couple of references to the popular American sitcom, with a notable one in season 5 when Amos passes a vendor that is clearly selling some Khlav Kalash cuisine in the background. CRACKED.COM

Gossip Girl

BLAKE LIVELY Unlike her Gossip Girl character, the actor was born well-connected. Her mother Elaine was a talent scout and her father Ernie Lively was an actor, acting alongside her in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. CRACKED.COM

Hal Sparks and Rainn Wilson

Celebrities who were high school buddies FO OX Hal Sparks and Rainn Wilson The actor and the stand-up comic turned actor both attended New Trier High School in Illinois. Wilson has even spoken at past high school graduations as an alumnus. F CRACKED.COM

Batman

DID YOU THINK ADAM WEST WAS THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION BATMAN? BLA 1943 SERIAL WILSON, VERSION OF N BATMAN. LEWIS THE (PLEASE IGNORE THE EARS) CRACKED.COM

Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. GRACKED COM

SNL

GILDA RADNER was the very first hire for Saturday Night Live. The actress was the first to be cast in SNL in 1975. She stayed for five years. GRACKED GOM

House of Cards

House of Cards is a remake of a British TV series from 1990... в В с THE HOUSE S OF which was in turn based on a 1989 book by the same name. CRACKED.COM

Psych

The TV show Psych is kind of based on creator Steve Franks' childhood. His dad was in the LAPD, and he called himself a trained observer - which inspired the premise of a fake psychic working for the police. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

In a sense, Game of Thrones is GRRM's fanfiction about his pet turtles. They kept dying, to his great sadness - as they lived in a castle, he made up stories about how they were kings and knights killing each other over a throne. CRACKED.COM

Pound Puppies

Dabney Coleman is the LA Mayor HBO E BOARDWALK MPIRE RS Pound Puppies Dabney Coleman, the man America most loved to hate in the 1980s (aside from J.R. Ewing), has found a cushy gig for his golden years. Не, along with fellow elder thespian Betty White, got gigs on the newest incarnation of Pound Puppies, which is based heavily on the WWII POW sitcom Hogan's Heroes (seriously). CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

CRACKED.COM Casting Bryan Cranston as Breaking Bad's Walter White wasn't AMC's Plan A. In fact, he wasn't even their Plan В. The role was first offered to Matthew Broderick and John Cusack. Even after the role was turned down by both of them, AMC was still a little reluctant giving the role to Cranston, who, at the time, was considered a comedic actor.

Murder, She Wrote

29 Bits of TV Trivia Concocted in an Underground Lab by a Secret Wunderkind With a Bumbling Sibling

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Don Cheadle was almost very important to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The War Machine-to-be showed up as Will Smith's friend Ice Tray. Producers wanted to make a spin- off about him, but the new show wasn't picked up. CRACKED.COM

The Golden Girls

George Clooney took a bullet in The Golden Girls. Clooney played tons of bit parts before becoming an A-lister in his 40s-like a police detective in the Golden Girls episode To Catch a Neighbor. CRACKED.COM

Daenerys Targaryen

In the original Game of Thrones pilot, Daenerys Targaryen wasn't played by Emilia Clarke. Tamzin Merchant was first cast as Daenerys, but after the pilot failed and had to be re-shot almost completely, she was replaced with Clarke. CRACKED.COM

Baywatch

Trinity flirted with the Hoff in Baywatch. KEEP OFF Years before The Matrix or Jessica Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss played a dual role in the 1994 episode Mirror, Mirror. CRACKED.COM

The Cosby Show

Adam Sandler was a high school student in The Cosby Show. Sandler played a boy named Smitty in four episodes of the show's fourth season. CRACKED.COM

Avatar: The Last Airbender

CRACKED.COM Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula becomes a major force in Season 2 of the show - but before that, she appears watching the duel between Zuko and Ozai (and looking quite pleased by her brother getting literally burned).

King’s Landing

The real-life King's Landing was the site of a long siege. The city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, doubled for King's Landing on Game of Thrones, and Dubrovnik was heavily fought over in the Croatian War of Independence -- in 1991, it was shelled by artillery for three months. CRACKED.COM

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

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