33 Bits of Classic TV Trivia Whose Mom Married the Dad of Another Classic TV Tidbit List and Now They All Have to Move in Together

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33 Bits of Classic TV Trivia Whose Mom Married the Dad of Another Classic TV Tidbit List and Now They All Have to Move in Together
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The single mom of this classic TV fact family has a choice to make. She can either shack up with a tall, handsome, single dad of three boys or teach her little factoids some musical instruments and parade them around the country singing hit tunes. 

The rest of us will be highly entertained either way, but she’s probably thinking more about the well-being of her kids than our enjoyment of their lives. Whatever she decides, hilarity and a few life lessons are about to ensue. Godspeed, Ms. Classic TV Fact.

The Love Boat

THE LOVE BOAT Those aren't paid actors or extras in the background. They're regular people who paid up to $8,000 to take a highly restricted cruise in the viscinity of celebrities. CRACKED.COM

Mister Ed

MISTER ED They smeared peanut butter around Mr. Ed's mouth to make him speak. Не also had a rider of 20 pounds of hay and a gallon of sweet tea per day. CRACKED.COM

Fred Rogers

Speaking Freddish Two writers on the show called the show's required precise language Freddish and went on to create a parody pamphlet detailing the lengthy process to write for Rogers. The pamphlet's 9 steps are below. CRACKED.COM

SCTV

A Canadian comedy show that ran from 1976-1981 called Second City Television (better known as SCTV) turned second rate actors into first rate actors in a short time. I OR COLOR Eugene Catherine Harold Levy Ramis O'Hara CRACKED.COM Rick John Andrea Moranis Candy Martin

The Adventures of Champion

The Adventures of Champion 1955 CRACKED.COM The first TV show spin-off was based on The Gene Autry Show, with the titular Champion being Gene Autry's horse.

Westworld

The first CGI. 1973 CRACKED.COM We get to see through the eyes of an evil robot in a scene in Westworld, and it's... boring. The motif was inspired by the first images of the surface of Mars.

Mary Tyler Moore

CHUCKLES MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW CRACKED.COM Chuckles the Clown was leading a parade dressed as Peter Peanut when he was tragically shelled to death by a rogue elephant. With a can't-stop-laughing funeral, it's the classic episode of a classic sitcom, at one point ranked #1 on TV Guide's list of the Top 100 Episodes of All Time.

A Christmas Classic For TV

It became a Christmas classic thanks to a lapsed copyright and TV. REA - 04 The film accidentally became public domain after Republic Pictures forgot to renew the copyright for it in 1974. This allowed every TV station to play the movie whenever they wanted, until 1993, when Paramount managed to secure the rights for the film. CRACKED.COM

The Kennedy Assassination

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND You can see a flag at half-mast in the intro sequence. MINNOW CHARTER P-FREE LUNCHES President Kennedy was assassinated just before they filmed it. CRACKED.COM

Gilligan’s Island

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS GILLIGAN'S ISLAND C CRACKED.COM In this made-for-TV movie, the Clown Princes of Basketball team up with the castaways to battle super-robots to save the island from an unscrupulous ... let's just leave it at trick basketball and robots.

Good Times

JAMES EVANS GOOD TIMES CRACKED.COM John Amos's constant complaints about too much J.J. and his dy-no-mite brought a call from producer Norman Lear. Big John, I got some good news and some bad news. The good news? The show was picked up for another season. The bad news? You won't be with us.

The Jeffersons

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE JEFFERSONS Spin-offs are often written off as money grabs, pushing comfort over substance. All In The Family spin-off The Jeffersons defies that characterization on every front. The Jeffersons was not only a success, but an incisive and fearless show, treading into topics that most current sitcoms would steer clear of.

Fonzie

CRACKED.COM HAPPY DAYS Fonzie's famous ayyyy came about due to Henry Winkler's dyslexia. Не struggled to learn lines so he'd say ayyyy in lieu of dialogue.

Ron Howard

Happy Days Ron Howard joined to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Since the government wasn't accepting college deferment for service, Howard auditioned and got the acting job to get a work deferment. CRACKED.COM

All My Children

CRACKED.COM In the 1970s, soap opera All My Children was incredibly popular among college students. Reasons varied - some loved it because it was real, some because it was so unreal, but thousands of students were fans. Some students even went as far as planning their class schedules around it.

The Flintstones

The first infertility arc 1963 CRACKED.COM After Pebbles is added to the Flintstones crew, Barney and Betty work through their depression over being unable to have kids themselves.

24-Hour Newsdays

The first 24-hour newsday 1963 CRACKED.COM The networks threw their regular programming out the window to cover the assassination of JFK around the clock.

The Addams Family

The first home computer 1965 CRACKED.COM In The Addams Family, the gigantic family computer, Whizzo, is used to cheat at gambling and help rig an election. Pretty spot-on.

The First Toilet Flush on TV

The first toilet flush 1971 CRACKED.COM Leave It To Beaver was the first to show a toilet (tank only!) in 1957, but All In The Family really went there with a daring toilet flush sound effect.

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy 1953 CRACKED.COM The first televised birth (well, not graphic birth) goes to Lucille Ball, who wasn't even allowed to say the word 'pregnant' because it was too taboo.

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver 1957 CRACKED.COM Although not quite the first show to feature a toilet (it was edited out for being too scandalous), it was the first show to show a toilet tank and certainly one of the first to even include a bathroom.

Candid Camera

Candid Camera 1948 Candia Camera CRACKED COM The show (originally a radio show called Candid Microphone) was the first televised reality show, featuring regular members of the public as its stars.

Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy CRACKED.COM Mork from Ork originally appeared on Happy Days, attempting to kidnap Richie Cunningham. The episode was technically one long dream sequence, but people loved Robin Williams' performance so much, they edited the ending and spun off a four-season show.

Cher

The First Belly Button After half a decade being denied Barbara Eden's navel in I Dream of Jeannie, America got to see Cher's, like, all the time, on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. CRACKED.COM

I Love Lucy (Again)

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS THE ACTORS PLAYING FRED AND ETHEL MERTZ ON I LOVE LUCY HATED EACH OTHER. CRACKED.COM The odd couple, Vivian Vance and William Frawley, were always tossing insults at each other on screen, but it apparently didn't stop there. Vivian allegedly called Willian an old poop, and William responded creatively by calling her a bitch.

Charlie’s Angels

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Charlie's Angels The show chose to end with a clip show, of all things. Jaclyn Smith's character gets shot, and the rest of the cast just waits and remembers better scenes from better episodes. No thrills, just waiting. And then Charlie finally shows up-wearing a surgeon's mask.

Gilligan’s Island Reboot

CRACKED.COM Gilligan's Island was almost rebooted in the '90s (with more cannibalism). According to James Gunn, Charlie Kaufman managed to get a Gilligan's Island reboot greenlit, with the starving castaways killing and eating each other. The project was nixed by Gilligan's creator Sherwood Schwartz.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina The Teenage Witch CRACKED.COM Sabrina hails from the Archie universe. She had her own animated series in the 70's, but her first appearance was as the new kid at Riverdale in 1968's The Archie Show.

Snip

Snip A . 1976 highly-hyped sitcom from the creator of Welcome Back Kotter, apparently cancelled because one of the actors was openly gay. CRACKED.COM

The Six Million Dollar Man

The '70s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man accidentally discovered a corpse. THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN When a camera crew came to an amusement park and tried to move a hanging man prop, the arm came off - the prop was a real body. CRACKED.COM

All in the Family

The first goddammit 1973 CRACKED.COM On All in the Family, Archie defends his cussing thusly: The first word is God. How can that be a swear word? Edith, beautiful words right out of the Holy Book. Don't show your ignorance!

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