39 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Can Appear to Read All at Once If You Build a Panopticon

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39 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Can Appear to Read All at Once If You Build a Panopticon
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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt tore his achilles, as Achilles. TROY CRACKED.COM Pitt was performing a stunt, landed wrong, and tore his achilles tendon. Those bad boys don't heal quickly, and production was delayed for months.

The Last Jedi

Snoke's look from The Last Jedi was based on Hugh Hefner. The decision to dress a space dictator as a playboy came from Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson, who after contemplating other dictators to base his look on, eventually settled on Hefner. CRACKED.COM

True Blood

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales True Blood Bill coerces Sookie into killing him, so she can live a normal life - negating the show's themes of questioning such imposed notions of normality. True Blood began all edgy, and concluded like the happy ending to a Lifetime drama.

Game of Thrones

The dragons in Game of Thrones are actually wyverns. CRACKED.COM The difference between a wyvern and a dragon is that a wyvern has 2 legs and a dragon has 4 legs. They also happen to be make-believe, so it doesn't really matter.

A Clockwork Orange

In 1968, the Beatles signed a petition to get Mick Jagger in A Clockwork Orange. They sent it to Terry Southern, who was writing the movie adaptation's script, demanding to have Jagger in the lead role. Alas, it was clearly unsuccessful. CRACKED.COM

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, 2018 The young Donnas' costumes are made of the same fabric as the bedroom's curtains. There's even cut-outs in the curtains, implying the characters made their wardrobe from them. CRACKED.COM

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Bob’s Burgers

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers , STI 'O SEASON 8 ARE YOU THERE BOB? IT'S ME, BIRTHDAY BOBBY MOYNIHAN as Sam Moynihan plays the owner of Wrap-topia, a sandwich wrap themed restaurant. CRACKED.COM

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Top Gear

CRACKED TOP GEAR JEREMY CLARKSON Jeremy Clarkson got the boot from Top Gear after getting into a fight with a producer. It started because the producer told Clarkson the hotel kitchen was closed and he couldn't get a hot meal.

Twister

TWISTER CRACKED.COM In the '90s, countless volcanoes, meteors, and twisters threatened protagonists everywhere. By the early 2000s, Hollywood's priorities shifted to fantasies like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, so disaster movies like The Core did nowhere near as well.

Brendan Fraser

BRENDAN BE FRASER NO SUDDEN MOVE CRACKED.COM Fingers crossed! It's been a long time since The Mummy, and it might be too early to tell, but 2021's No Sudden Move landed Fraser on Martin Scorcese's radar for 2022s Killers of the Flower Moon with De Niro and DiCaprio. Only time will tell.

Full Metal Jacket

Anthony Michael Hall was supposed to be in Full Metal Jacket. Не negotiated with Stanley Kubrick for eight months, but they couldn't work things out. Hall was fascinated by Kubrick and read everything about him he could, and had really wanted to be in the movie, so he was pretty bummed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Cabbage Fairy

The first narrative film wasn't The Great Train Robbery (1903) as many people might think. It was The Cabbage Fairy released in 1896, written and directed by a woman. Alice Guy-Blaché used some of the first special effects, and experimented with running film backwards. She produced, directed, or commissioned nearly 1000 movies. GRACKED.COM

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase got SO mad at Dan Harmon, he left him a long, ranty voicemail. Не went into detail about why Community doesn't work, according to him, and said It's just a mediocre f-king sitcom. I want people to laugh, and this isn't funny. CRACKED.COM

Happy Days

HAPPY DAYS The Fonz FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE STARRING CRACKED.COM Jukebox Silent side- punching, character. shark jumping, Just there nun kissing for flavor. runaway fan favorite.

Rod and Todd

6 2 66 THe SIMPSONS In the episode Bart Star - CRACKED.COM the numbers on the religious Rod and Todd's football jerseys are '66' and '6.'

Super Mario Bros. 2

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 GRACKED.COM Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally more similar to the first game, although much harder. So hard, in fact, that developers didn't think Americans could play it, so they reskinned the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic with familiar Mario characters.

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FIFA

CRACKED SOCCER FANS SCAMMED WITH BOGUS FIFA 23 STREAMS. Thousands of people were tricked into watching pixelated replays from the soccer video game FIFA 23 instead of pirated streams of the World Cup in Qatar. The illegal streaming sites linked to YouTube channels with Vietnamese commentary, which added to viewers' belief that it was an actual stream.

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Kristen Stewart

EMBARRASSING EARLY APPEARANCES KRISTEN STEWART in Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas Stewart's very first role was as a girl tossing a ring in a Flintstones movie nobody saw and nobody remembers. Now, in the scene itself you can only see her back, yet the role is pretty well-documented and there are even photos of her on set. CRACKED.COM

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The Birds

Hitchcock said they'd be using mechanical birds. THE BIRDS Come shoot day, the robots and the crew hucked live birds at her like a live-action Angry Birds. The actress had to go to the hospital when filming was done.

Star Trek

39 Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia You Can Appear to Read All at Once If You Build a Panopticon

David Beckham

Harry Potter 6 Harry wears the number seven shirt in Quidditch because David Beckham wore number seven for Manchester United. CRACKED COR COM

Movie Myths

CRACKED ALL VIKINGS WORE HORNED HELMETS Actuallys the misconception came from a painter who had drawn the Vikings with horned helmets. He was inspir

TV Tropes

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