33 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Gorge on Like a Big Bucket of Ice Cream After a Breakup

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33 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Gorge on Like a Big Bucket of Ice Cream After a Breakup
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You might want to grab a towel, because these TV facts got a little soggy en route to this list. See, some of the more dramatic ones broke our hearts, and we’re having a hard time controlling the waterworks. The funnier ones help distract us from the pain, but we’ll need some serious time before even thinking about dating another fact batch.

Don’t fall for their tricks. They’ll tell you they love you, but it’s all just an act to get inside your brain. It’s like our moms used to say — TV facts only want one thing.

Grey’s Anatomy

The finale of season 3 ends with a huge shock-Dr. Preston Burke leaves Dr. Christina Yang at the altar. GREY'S ANATOMY The plot twist was concocted after Isaiah Washington, who played Burke, got fired from the show because he uttered a homophobic slur. Twice. CRACKED.COM

Summerland

Zac Efron was in a TV show with Jesse McCartney and Aunt Becky Two years before he got his big break in High School Musical, Efron played Cameron on WB's Summerland. CRACKED.COM

Xena: Warrior Princess

A dwarf planet and its moon were nicknamed Xena and Gabrielle (after the warrior princess and her sidekick). The TV show names were never made official because the scientist who chose them decided that they were just too informal. About a year after their discovery, their official names became Eris and Dysomnia. CRACKED.COM

The Drogon Ant

There's an ant with a spine so dragon-like that scientists called it the Pheidole drogon, after Drogon from Game of Thrones. The ant uses its defined spine, which is made up of spikes and filled with muscles, as a weapon of defense against predators. It's also a lot stronger than other ants that don't have spines. CRACKED.COM

Pokemon

A bee called the Chilicola charizard possesses similar facial features to Charizard from Pokémon. While other bees have yellow snouts, the species has a long orange snout like Charizard. The scientist who discovered it also revealed that his first Pokémon (in the game) was Charmander-which evolves to Chameleon then Charizard. CRACKED.COM

The Night King

The Paramonovius nightking is a bee fly that's characteristically similar to a certain villain from Game of Thrones. Like the Night King, the insect only shows up during the winter and has a crown of thorn-like spines on its head. According to the scientist who studied it, it also zombifies other species in the name of reproduction. CRACKED.COM

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis' role on Friends was the result of a lost bet. Matthew Perry bet him that their film The Whole Nine Yards would open at No. 1, and if it did, Willis would guest-star on Friends for free. It did, and Willis did three episodes of Friends.

John Mulaney

JOHN MULANEY ALL STAR CRACKED.COM After his audition, Mulaney got a call from Seth Meyers with a writing job offer. I want to be clear, said Meyers, this is not the cast. Mulaney responded, I want to be clear. I would never think I would be in the cast.

Game of Thrones

CRACKED.COM Game of Thrones SHAE never cared for Tyrion in the books. Tyrion is just another client for Shae in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice -a particularly rich client, but that's all. She isn't at all heartbroken when she's forced to betray him.

The Good Place

CRACKED COM The Good Place is actually Michael's personal Bad Place. From the mid-point of Season Two and on, Michael has been in a constant state of anxiety, always worrying that he's about to be erased from the universe. That's the exact variety of torture that he had arranged for the humans when he was creating a Bad Place to torture them in forever.

Workaholics

COMEDY NERD The Comedy Central show Workaholics had cameos from The Black Keys. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney played two guys involved in a small claims court case that had to do with, uh, the sale of a hovercraft. CRACKED.COM

Battlestar Gallactica

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Hannibal

HANNIBAL Showrunner Bryan Fuller failed to get the rights to Silence of the Lambs-meaning that Clarice Starling was off limits for the show. That's why the Clarice-like Miriam Lass was introduced. CRACKED.COM

WandaVision

WANDAVISION EASTER EGGS SEÑOR SCRATCHY IS A NOD TO AGATHA'S SON FROM THE COMICS. CRACKED.COM In the comics, Agatha Harkness has a son named Nicholas Scratch. Mr. Scratch is also a common pseudonym for the Devil. The show's director even revealed that the rabbit turned into a demon in a deleted scene.

Merry Melodies

CRACKED EACH WILE E. COYOTE AND ROAD RUNNER CARTOON HAD TO FOLLOW RULES. These included no dialogue ever, except beep-beep, and all materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the ACME corporation.

The O.C.

THE О.С. Kaitlin Cooper CRACKED.COM SHAILENE WOODLEY WILLA HOLLAND Woodley played the role as a recurring character for the first 2 seasons. When they wanted to give the character a bigger role, they also decided to make her a bit older-something they thought Woodley couldn't pull off.

Saved by the Bell

Saved By The Bell CRACKED.COM After a middling 13-episode season, The Disney Channel's Good Morning, Miss Bliss decided to ditch Miss Bliss and focus on the snarky kids.

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33 Random Bits of TV Trivia to Gorge on Like a Big Bucket of Ice Cream After a Breakup

DirectTV

DirectTV managed to get Ellen Ripley to shill their subscription service... ...while battling the Alien Queen. CRACKED.COM

Community

COMMUNITY The Meddling Professor CRACKED.COM SEÑOR CHANG PROFESSOR DUNCAN FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Jon Oliver's lan Ken Jeong's Ben Chang, a manic Duncan, the oft drunk Psych Spanish teacher teacher whose life who makes life is made hell by hell for Winger Winger and CO. and CO.

Golden Girls

GOLDEN GIRLS Quentin Tarantino CRACKED.COM Tarantino says the residuals from his role as an Elvis impersonator helped him make Reservoir Dogs.

Power Rangers

Power Rangers The Power Rangers exist by random chance. When the soon-to-be creator of the show was in Japan, he realized how profitable Super Sentai could be... but only because he happened to turn on his TV right when the program was on. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

Gwen Stefani's brother Eric left No Doubt to become an animator for The Simpsons. The pair actually wrote Don't Speak together. CRACKED.COM

The Sense of Belonging TV Provides

Your favorite TV show can give you the feeling of belonging. The illusion of relationships with TV characters can give you a sense of warmth and belonging, even when you've been rejected by friends and family. CRACKED.COM

The ‘70s Show

In That '70s Show, Donna had a younger sister. For exactly one episode. Tina Pinciotti popped up once, playing no major role in the episode Eric's Burger Job, and was never seen again. CRACKED.COM

Kristen Schaal

CRACKED KRISTEN SCHAAL TRIED TO TALK HER WAY INTO ACTING CLASSES. Schaal once put on a surprise show in the dean's office at Northwestern University in an attempt to get permission to take acting classes, which she had been denied because she was studying performance studies.

Ally McBeal

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Conan O’Brien

Conan O'Brien met his wife on a shoot for a commercial for his show. Не asked the head writer to make sure you get everyone's address and phone number, and the head writer asked It's the blonde, isn't it? It was, and he got a date. CRACKED.COM

SNL in Russia

SNL around the world СУББО ВЕЧЕР ШОУ Russia had Суббота Вечер Шоу (Saturday Evening Show) a taped sketch comedy show that was canceled after two episodes in 2013. Eventually, though, all six taped shows aired late night in 2014. CRACKED.COM

Dirty Dancing (The Show)

DIRTY DANCING ES SODA CRACKED.COM The first episode of the CBS series 'Dirty Dancing' had strong ratings, because it had only been one year since Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey lit up movie screens. Once fans realized the actors, dance moves just weren't the same, ratings plummeted and the show was cancelled, airing 10 of the 11 episodes.

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale The show is filmed in Canada. Margaret Atwood chose to set the story in the U.S. because she thought a fascist theocracy would not take hold so easily in her native Canada- which makes it kind of ironic that the show is shot around Toronto and Ontario. CRACKED.COM

The Tonight Show and SNL

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Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

LAURENCE FISHBURNE: PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE 1986 Ent ment CRACKED.COM As some kind of bizarro Morpheus, with a spangly cowboy get-up and long curls, Fishburne's Cowboy Curtis is a role unlike anything else in his résumé.

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