30 Brightly Colored Bits of TV Trivia to Show Off Your New TV’s Resolution

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30 Brightly Colored Bits of TV Trivia to Show Off Your New TV’s Resolution
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Lucky Louie

LOUIS С.К. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE CRACKED.COM Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always been Louis C.K.'s speciality.

Downtown Abbey

DOWNTON ABBEY HAD A NO-WASH POLICY, WHICH MEANS THE COSTUMES WERE PRETTY SMELLY. Many of the outfits weren't washed because they had to look authentic, apparently. The designers at least added some patches under the armpits that could be taken out and washed separately. So that's something. CRACKED.COM

Money Heist

THE MONEY HEIST SCRIPTS ARE WRITTEN PARALLEL TO THE FILMING OF THE SHOW. While the writers have an outline for each part (what we'd call a season), the scripts are written based on what happens during shoots. Creator Alex Pina doesn't like to plan too much, and prefers giving actors space to improvise. Scripts are then written according to those improvisations. CRACKED.COM

The Golden Girls

ESTELLE GETTY WAS SO AFRAID OF DYING THAT THE WRITERS COULDN'T USE DEATH JOKES IN THE GOLDEN GIRLS. The actress (who played the sharp and witty Sophia) also suffered from severe stage fright, and would sometimes go blank on tape night. Her co-stars tried to help get her mind off it, but it didn't always work. CRACKED.COM

The Wire

THE ORANGE COUCH FROM THE PILOT EPISODE OF THE WIRE WAS A DUMPSTER FIND...AND THEN SOMEONE THREW IT OUT AGAIN. The couch was a central part of the pilot, but by the time the show got picked up the couch had been thrown out. The production designers had to make a replica which ended up costing them $5000. CRACKED.COM

Boy Meets World

| - - Boy Meets world The kids pretty much went to school on set. RECYCLE All of the child actors did their school work together on set. It always ended up being more like a regular school classroom, Danielle Fishel has said. CRACKED.COM

Arrested Development

AUSTERO BLUTH COMPANY Arrested Development fans wrote letters and sent fake bananas to Fox. The series has a passionate and loyal fanbase who were willing to fight for more seasons-which they did by flooding Fox with letters and fake bananas in an effort to get the show renewed. CRACKED

Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers CRACKED.COM The Arrested Development star played linebacker at San Diego State, and went on to play 8 games for the Oakland Raiders.

The Berenstain Bears

Michael Cera played Brother Bear on PBS' The Berenstain Bears. Не started playing Brother Bear a year before he signed on to do Arrested Development, and kept the job after Arrested Development got started. CRACKED.COM

24

John Keeler was the president in season 4 of 24. 9:0 Then, poof, he wasn't. In one scene Keeler is injured in an aerial assault on Air Force One. Then Charles Logan is sworn in. So, Keeler died? Without a national day of mourning, a funeral, or any mention at all? CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon decides to adopt a child. And then she just kinda forgets about it. At the end of season two, Liz has a pregnancy scare. As a result she spends several episodes of season three trying to adopt. But by season four, it's slipped her mind-despite it being a major story arc. CRACKED.COM

Friend Me

Friend Me 5.75 3,00 A light-hearted 2013 CBS sitcom starring Christopher Mintz-Plasse, it was shelved due to the co-creator's tragic suicide. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars Underworld

In 2005, ABC nearly launched a series called Star Wars Underworld. It was a mobster soap opera. Scriptwriters cranked out 50 hours' worth of what George Lucas figured would be The Sopranos in space-only instead of character actors, they'd have rubber-masked monsters. The series, which was set on Coruscant, would have been too expensive to produce, so the scripts were tabled. CRACKED.COM http://www.ew.com/article/2013/01/10/star-wars-live-action-tv-series-3

All My Children

A soap opera gave Chadwick Boseman the boot. ALL MY CHILDREN ME CRACKED.COM When Boseman mentioned that his character-- a fatherless gang member -- was perhaps a lazy and hollow stereotype, they unceremoniously fired him (and replaced him with Michael В. Jordan).

Bridgerton

Anthony Bridgerton needed to wear make-up on his butt. During his opening sex scene, actor Jonathan Bailey used cosmetic assistance to de-shine the body. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

George Carlin

GEORGE CARLIN was a taxi driver who liked to drink GEORGE CARLIN SHOW CRACKED.COM An opinionated smart-ass who sat at a bar and bitched between shifts, Carlin's nihilistic character was fresh for 1994. But the show never caught on and Carlin wanted more creative control. When Fox canceled it, he wrote on his website, Couldn't wait to get the f*ck out of there.

Party of Five

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THERE WERE PLANS FOR SEASON SEVEN. party of five With the departures of Neve Campbell and Scott Wolf, the producers were planning on restructuring the show around Matthew Fox's character and his new family. The network, however, decided to pull the plug and end the show.

The Simpsons

A Simpsons character got killed off because the voice actress was too expensive. The character is Maude Flanders, and the show offed her rather than give the actress the raise she had asked for. CRACKED.COM

Hannibal Buress

COMEDY NERD Hannibal Buress did a pilot for a TV show about himself, called Unemployable. It would show just how totally unsuited he is to any job whatsoever besides being a comedian, but the network passed on it. CRACKED.COM

Black-Ish

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S AN UNAIRED EPISODE OF BLACK-ISH, BUT THE REASONS AREN'T 100% CLEAR. you you The reason given was creative differences, but it seems that the decision was partly made because of a scene where characters argue over whether athletes have the right to kneel during the national anthem.

ER

CRACKED.COM was based off the experiences Michael ER Crichton had at Harvard Medical School. In 1974, Crichton wrote a screenplay based on the experiences he had as a medical school resident in the emergency room. Twenty years later, NBC agreed to pick up Crichton's screenplay, which became the basis of the 15-season, critically acclaimed medical drama, ER.

Friday Night Lights

Fans wouldn't let Friday Night Lights get canceled, SO they sent thousands of mini footballs to NBC. 39 31 NBC got sick of the show being last in ratings, so they decided to cancel it. But the fans wouldn't let that happen, and sent thousands of mini footballs to NBC to show their support for the show. In order to keep FNL alive, NBC partnered up with DirecTV. CRACKED

Selena Gomez

Celebrity Side Hustles Selena Gomez Producer Gomez signed a deal with Univision to produce a true crime docuseries called Mi Vecino, El Cartel for their streaming service. She also produced 13 Reasons Why for Netflix. CRACKED

The Hasselhoffs

David Hasselhoff CRACKED.COM After Baywatch, he struggled to reach the same level of success in the soap opera scene. Не struggled even harder when he made his family and, like, some parts of his face? appear in the reality series The Hasselhoffs.

Greg Berlanti

BEHIND THE SCENES Greg Berlanti is responsible for many of the LGBTQ+ characters we've seen on television. As a major television producer, he created and oversaw many of these characters, including Jack on Dawson's Creek, Carmelita on Dirty Sexy Money, and Alex Danvers in Supergirl. Now he's brought the first teen gay protagonist by a major film studio to the big screen. CRACKED.COM

SNL Hosts

JANUARY JONES NOVEMBER 14, 2009 CRACKED.COM In the awkward first sketch, on live television, Jones looked around and asked Which camera? The night didn't get much better from there.

Scrubs

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SCRUBS' BLACKFACE EPISODES ACTUALLY GOT PULLED FROM STREAMING SERVICE HULU. There were three episodes in total, and show creator Bill Lawrence and ABC Studios requested that they all be pulled.

The Office

CRACKED.COM THE OFFICE was heavily influenced by THE SOPRANOS. The Sopranos was actually the biggest influence on The Office, actor and producer В. J. Novak has said. The way Michael Scott will say something very serious but mispronounce a word | feel is a direct descendant of the Tony Soprano sense of humor.

Jaleel White

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JALEEL WHITE NEARLY GOT A PART ON THE COSBY SHOW, IT TURNS OUT. ST S Не lost the role of Rudy --My agent had been told that they've pretty much settled on , so I went to the audition thinking I was just going on a last audition. And then, all of a sudden, this little girl walks in.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM TURNS OUT, THERE WAS A BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES LIVE-ACTION TV SHOW. It ran for eight episodes, and although it apparently wasn't terrible, it wasn't great either - the franchise was getting kind of milked dry by then (there was already a sequel and a Saturday morning cartoon).

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