28 Bits of TV Trivia That Climb Into Our Bedroom Window Instead of Coming in the Front Door, Even Though Our Parents Are Cool With Them

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28 Bits of TV Trivia That Climb Into Our Bedroom Window Instead of Coming in the Front Door, Even Though Our Parents Are Cool With Them
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Our dad hates the boot marks on our siding, but it’s just way quicker and easier to film these TV facts entering our bedroom window than it is to have them knock on our door, say “Hi, Mr. C” and then run up the stairs. 

Like TV shows, our facts don’t get too much time to tell their story, so they have to just get in and get out. Plus, the quicker they are, the more time you’ll have to binge!

Mr. Burns

tHe SIMPSONS Every time Mr. Burns answers the phone, he says Ahoy-hoy. C.M.BURNS АНОУ-НОУ? This is a reference to his age. Ahoy-hoy was the greeting Alexander Graham Bell used when the telephone was first invented, predatinghello. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

BREAKING BAD HAS 62 EPISODES FOR A REASON. 4f66s2 62 Sm Samarium 150.36 The number 62 on the periodic table represents Samarium, an element that is used to treat cancers, especially lung cancer. CRACKED.COM

MST3K

COMEDY NERD MST3K has a pilot that you probably never saw (until it got put online). Plenty of the elements are there, but in different (and more low-budget) form-and Beeper looks sort of disturbing. CRACKED.COM

Fred Armisen

FRED ARMISEN got Groening back to his Portland roots DEVIL CRACKED.COM After Fred and Carrie Brownstein guested on the Simpsons, Matt Groening returned the favor by appearing on Portlandia. The Simpsons creator sued Armisen's character for his line of bootleg Bart Ska-mson t-shirts.

Drew Carey

BEFORE НЕ WAS EVERYONE'S SECOND FAVORITE THE PRICE IS RIGHT HOST... ERCY FOR ANIMALS M DREW CAREY WAS A TOUGH-AS-NAILS MARINE RESERVIST. CRACKED.COM

L.A. Law

L.A. Law 1991 CRACKED.COM The show featured a bisexual woman who kissed a colleague. It was the first same-sex kiss shown on U.S. television.

Ted Lasso

TED LASSO WAS ORIGINALLY A CHARACTER FROM 2013 NBC SPORTS COMMERCIALS. CRACKED And even though it took almost 10 years to get the show on the air, Jason Sudeikis' soccer knowledge still only comes from Playstation.

Stranger Things

Joe Keery originally wasn't supposed to play Steve in Stranger Things. Не auditioned for Jonathan, along with everybody across the country, but they ended up giving him Steve. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

The cover of the Nickelodeon Time Capsule was sold at auction for $19,200. MICKELODEON THE FIRST WOILS ORLANDO FLERIDA STUDIOS FOR 123 NICKELODEON ZGGL ULE THAT 50 SOCH EL BYY SHILL 2147 FL tar CRACKED.COM A time capsule filled with books, rollerblades, movies and more was buried at Nickel- odeon Studios in Florida in 1992, to be opened in 50 years. The studio closed and the cap- sule moved, with the 45 lb cov- er being auctioned off.

New Girl

MOST OF THE INNUENDOS ON NEW GIRL WERE WRITTEN TO PLACATE THE NETWORK'S CENSORS. ODEEN GRACKED Because the show was aired on network television, the writers had to get creative around weird rules. For example, they could only say penis 5 times in one episode.

Late-Night Hosting

ANDY SAMBERG ABSOLUTELY HATES LATE NIGHT HOSTING GIGS. JIMMY KIMMEL HAS COVID AGAIN CRACKED On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Samberg talked about his stint guest hosting the show. Не claimed it was super stressful and he'd never do it again.

Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec!

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.

Band of Brothers

They had to push Jimmy Fallon's jeep in his Band of Brothers cameo. It was a real WWII jeep, and he was a pretty bad driver, so he couldn't make it move. Two guys ended up having to push the jeep forward at the right moment while Fallon pretended to drive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

High School Sets

140 141 IC AL The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM

The Price Is Right

CRACKED.COM - Aaron Paul was in The Price is Right. Back in 1999, a young, pre-Breaking Bad (and hugely excited) Aaron Paul made it to the stage after best estimating the price of a desk, and managed to get to the final Showcase Showdown. Too bad that he lost, and had to settle with a future as a popular celebrity.

Full House

John Stamos kept the couch from Full House. The blue plaid couch at the center of the Tanner family's living room is property of Uncle Jesse himself. In 2020, Stamos shared a snap on Instagram of his toddler standing next to the iconic sitcom prop. CRACKED.COM

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

The Woman Yelling at a Cat meme has a dark backstory. I H The woman is Taylor Armstrong in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills - and she's yelling at fellow cast member Camille Grammer, for spreading rumors about the suicide of Armstrong's former abusive husband. The cat's indifference doesn't look as hilarious in context, does it? CRACKED.COM

Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck's first cartoon was capitalist propaganda. In the original comics, Scrooge was pretty much, well, a scrooge - but in his 1967 animated debut in Scrooge McDuck and Money, his villainish side disappears as he becomes a wise advisor, giving Huey, Dewey, and Louie valuable lessons about how capitalism works. CRACKED.COM

South Park

CRACKED.COM George Clooney helped South Park become a thing. '90s Clooney was a big fan of the proto- South Park short film The Spirit of Christmas, reportedly making and circulating 300 VHS copies of the movie. Because of Clooney's pirating ways, Matt Parker and Trey Stone became well known in Hollywood, eventually landing their own show.

Riverdale

CRACKED.COM Riverdale's showrunner was almost sued once for making Archie gay. An early work by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was a play titled Archie's Weird Fantasy, a loving pastiche where Archie comes out of the closet and pals around with 1920s murderers Leopold and Loeb. Archie Comics sent him a cease-and- desist letter, arguing that a gay Archie would somehow dilute and tarnish the character.

30 Rock

Jon Hamm auditioned for the role of Jack Donaghy 3B Не had to settle for playing Liz Lemon's pretty boyfriend. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Olivia Wilde

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS OLIVIA WILDE HELPED MAKE THE SHOW A REALITY. ® #SE НЕ R TED LASSO After Ted Lasso's short-lived commercial debut, Sudeikis didn't really have future plans for the character. Не says it was Wilde who told him that he should turn the concept into a TV show. CRACKED.COM

Everybody Hates Chris

Julius EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS Terry Crews keeps a photo of himself from the show in his wallet, to remind himself to be frugal with his spending. Maybe that's also why Crews has top billing over the star? CRACKED.COM

The Slap

THE SLAP The show The Slap, where a man hits his neighbor's child, was written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. CRACKED.COM

The Three Stooges

Мое from the Three Stooges was a Shakespearian actor. GRACKED.COM Мое Howard dropped out of school and joined a Shakespearian acting troupe that performed on the riverboat, Sunflower, before the Three Stooges was formed.

MTV

MTV was only available in New Jersey when it first launched. CRACKED.COM Only certain cable sub- scribers in NJ were able to watch the new station and the first music video they decided to play, Video Killed The Radio Star, on August 1, 1981.

The Simpsons

Matt Groening named many of the Simpsons characters after his own family. CRACKED.COM Matt had a father named Но- mer, a mother named Marga- ret, sisters named Maggie and Lisa, and a grandfather named Abe. Не chose the name Bart, despite his brother be- ing named Mark, because it was an anagram of brat.

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