25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Clung Strategically to Our Nethers When We Emerged Naked From the Ocean

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25 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Clung Strategically to Our Nethers When We Emerged Naked From the Ocean
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Like our thongs at the beach, we imagine these TV facts riding up that crack between your brain hemispheres. Apologies for that visual, but we were running low on analogies for facts getting into your brain. A Baywatch fact gave us the idea, and we just went for it.

However you’d like to imagine these TV facts getting in there, we’re just happy that they’re getting in at all. Thanks for reading! 

Ooh, reading would be a great way to get them in your brain. You should try that! 

Orange Is the New Black

ORANGE is the BLACK new was one of the most diverse casts to ever be on TV. Women of color and the LGBTQ+ community were widely represented as well as women of all age and size. Unfortunately this was the writer's room with decidedly less diversity. OITNB didn't get any writers of color until 2018, CITY for the last two seasons. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

123 SESAME STREET aired a special in 2007 called Elmo's Christmas Countdown. It featured a wide array of celebrities and Muppets appearing in skits and musical numbers. One of the stranger skits had Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa from The Sopranos dress up as Bert and Ernie to film a comedy routine called There's a Gingerbread Man in My Ear while the real Bert and Ernie directed them. CRACKED.COM

A 2010 Oscars Moment

THE KANYE MOMENT AT THE 2010 OSCARS. While accepting the award for Best Documentary Short, producer and director Roger Ross Williams was interrupted by fellow producer Elinor Burkett, who went on with her own speech, causing some awkwardness. Burkett, who was forced off the production but kept her producer credit, claims that Williams' mother blocked her from getting to the stage. He had clearly decided he wasn't going to let me speak. CRACKED COM

Tim Robinson

Funny Celeb Commercials TIM ROBINSON's Dodge RAM commercial Dodge really leaned into Robinson's absurd sketch comedy style with a slew of horrible products for him to scream at. Something he does so well. CRACKED

Twin Peaks

A white actress pretended to be a Japanese man. TWIN PEAKS CRACKED.COM To conceal the surprise return of Catherine Martell, no one knew that actress Piper Laurie was also playing a Japanese businessman - not even the cast, her agent, or her family.

Alexis Rose

Alexis Rose First line: Last line: Love you. They're taking our stuff. Schitt's Creek Alexis Rose's first and last lines reflect her and her families' transformation, from people who care all about stuff and appearances - her first line spoken into a phone - into a family who loves each other. CRACKED.COM

Oprah

In 2006, Oprah Winfrey was blackmailed by someone named Keifer Bonvillain, who recorded 12 hours of phone conversations of an employee in her company. Bonvillain threatened to release the recordings to the public, which he claimed to contain information that could hurt Winfrey's reputation, unless she paid him $1.5 million. Не was subsequently arrested and when the charges were dropped, he attempted to sue Winfrey for making false statements that led to his arrest. CRACKED.COM

Happy Days

1978 3T 2 Mork & Happy Days Mindy YALE The same season Happy Days jumped the shark, Mork showed up to drag Richie back to Ork, as an ordinary, in fact boring, specimen of the human race. CRACKED.COM

Carrie Fisher

CARRIE FISHER + DAN ACKROYD GRACKED.COM I was set up with Danny by John , says Fisher. John invited me over and then passed out. That was the setup. Ackroyd proposed marriage after Fisher choked on a brussel sprout, but she eventually broke off the engagement to marry Paul Simon.

Friends

Friends gave us a super-popular bit of modern vocabulary: The friend zone. It first appeared in a season one Friends episode, when Joey complained that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel and is in the friend zone. CRACKED.COM

Battlestar Galactica

You can't hide in a nebula, because they're very thin. Battlestar Galactica If you were in one, you'd just see black space around you. CRACKED.COM

TigerSharks

Sharks Movies & TV TigerSharks The show was the forgotten cousin of Thundercats and Silverhawks. Beyond just having essentially the same tropey characters as the other two cartoons, TigerSharks also shared several writers and voice actors with both of them. (If you are under 30, you probably have no idea what we're talking about.) CRACKED.COM

Jenny Slate

CRACKED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JENNY SLATE Jenny Slate got let go from Saturday Night Live after she said fuck on the show. She later said, It took me a few years to get back to myself; I developed stage fright, so I went to a hypnotist.

Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls' survival adventures were revealed to be fake. In one episode in the Sierra Nevada, Grylls bites off the head of a snake for breakfast. A producer revealed that Grylls actually spent the night with the show's crew in a luxury lodge with all amenities, presumably including breakfast. CRACKED.COM

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher COMEDY WRITER CRACKED.COM While prime minister, she was a big fan of the political sitcom Yes, Minister. She even wrote and starred in a sketch with the show's stars in 1984. By most accounts, it wasn't great.

Strangers With Candy

STRANGERS WITH CANDY Guy Blank CRACKED.COM FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Main Killed off in castmember, the second always shown season; still silent and presumably silent and motionless in motionless. mid-action.

Meghan Markle

MEGHAN MARKLE LIED ABOUT HAVING A SAG CARD. CENTURY CITY In order to secure one of her first TV roles, Markle lied to the casting directors about being in an actors' union. She got the job, but the casting directors eventually found out about her lie and refused to work with her in the future. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

ALL THE CHARACTERS on THE SIMPSONS HAVE FOUR FINGERS. Jesus has five fingers, too EXCEPT FOR GOD. не HAS FIVE. Mike Reiss, show-runner, writer, and producer for The Simpsons, says he doesn't know the reason. Even though that appeared in a show I supervised. It may have been Sam Simon's idea or the animator may have slipped it in. I never noticed it. So much for a 'grand design' to how we do things, Reiss concludes. CRACKED.COM http://www.bigissue.com/features/3253/simpsons-why-does-god-have-five-fingers

Game of Thrones

Their original pilot episode of Game of Thrones was so bad that HBO demanded 90% of it be reshot. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of the Game of Thrones TV se- ries, had no prior experi- ence in television and had only limited experience writing movie scripts. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Tucker Carlson

TUCKE Tucker Carlson used to be for truth in reporting (and was booed for it). Carlson was never progressive, but there was a time when he cared about facts. The New York Times is a liberal paper ... but it's a paper that cares about accuracy, he said at CPAC 2009. Conservatives need to ... mirror those institutions. The audience booed him. CRACKED.COM

House of Cards

House of Cards 2017's Grenfell Tower tragedy The similarities between the deadly fire at Grenfell Tower and a 1993 episode of the BBC's series are chilling, with both scenarios featuring a gas explosion in a run-down tower block, and the UK government facing accusations of neglect. CRACKED

King of the Hill

There's an official King of the Hill album. GRACKED CON They put out an album of southern rock covers by some popular country music stars, including Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow, as well as some of the characters themselves.

Beverly Hills, 90210

Scott Scanlon was the discernibly unpopular kid in the first season of Beverly Hills, 90210. Не stood out as the one kid who wasn't going to change who he was to try and impress anyone. His accidental death in season two served no purpose, and robbed us of the only uncool character we had to show how overindulged the rest of them were. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: Lower Decks RITOS DISCO ISCO The show not only references the Disco shirts from Star Trek: Discovery by having their own Ritos shirts, but this seems to suggest that every ship has their own casual crew shirts now. CRACKED.COM

Tina Fey

SARAH PALIN lost an election - CRACKED.COM I think SNL is egotistical if they believe that it was truly an effect on who should lead the country in the next four years, says Palin. But polls show Republican voters thought less of Palin after watching Tina Fey's parody.

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