28 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Had to Smash Our Piggy Bank to Afford, So They’d Better Be Good

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28 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Had to Smash Our Piggy Bank to Afford, So They’d Better Be Good
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When our friends called to us from their bikes, we just knew they were off to the candy store. We grabbed dad’s hammer, smashed that pink piggy bank, and tried not to cut our fingers sifting around for the coins. 

When we popped our heads out the door, we had a sudden change of heart. See, we get candy all the time, but never get our brains anything sweet. We told our friends to go on without us and went down to the TV Fact Shoppe instead. 

Here, try a few. Your TV-loving brain will thank you profusely.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation was only made because Paramount couldn't afford the original stars. The sky-high salaries of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy by the fifth Star Trek movie served as the trigger for Paramount to greenlight a brand new 'Star Trek' TV series featuring a fresh crop of far more affordable actors. CRACKED.COM

Anthology Shows

Anthology Shows LER LER HRI 1960 - 1962 THRILLER Stephen King considers this one of the best horror shows ever. Boris Karloff hosted this gothic horror show, and even starred in some episodes. The series was canceled when Alfred Hitchcock pulled strings to not have it compete with his own anthology. CRACKED.COM

Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so confident in their Hollywood prospects that they WILL packed up and moved into a house KILL FOR in Koreatown where they MONEY continued making comics and working as writers. YOUR S#!T RE ОСТО TOGETHER GET IT ALL TOGETHER AND PUT IT BI BACKPACK ALL YOUP SPIT CRACKED COM SO IT'O

Lena Headey

Lena Headey from Game of Thrones said that once, at San Diego Comic-Con, people flat out ignored her like they were actually afraid of her (or just really freaking hated her). I was sitting between (Peter) Dinklage and Emilia (Clarke), who are the most beloved characters on the show, I literally just got ignored. People were giving Pete the books to sign and they kept moving away from me as if I was going to curse them. CRACKED.COM

Debra Messing

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM DEBRA MESSING Will and Grace's own Debra Messing played the anti-dentite woman Jerry dated in the episode The Yada Yada in season 8. She ended up being anti several other things too.

Michael Cera

CRACKED MICHAEL CERA WAS AFRAID OF BECOMING TOO FAMOUS. Cera turned down the chance to host Saturday Night Live in 2007 because he was scared it would make him too well-known.

The West Wing

The West Wing predicted the 2008 presidential election. A nonwhite Democratic legislator defeated an old-school Republican senator in fiction in 2006. Reality followed suit two years later. CRACKED.COM

The Big Bang Theory

THE BIG BANG THEORY Carrie Fisher CRACKED.COM This appearance was, bizarrely, the first time she ever met Star Wars co-star James Earl Jones.

Orange Is the New Black

Suz Orange is the New Black First line: Last line: I'm Sue. It's short I never prepared them for Suzy. for life on the outside. Of course they're doing drugs. Suz's transformation is best reflected in her first line - spoken to Piper, who she becomes obsessed with - to her last - spoken about the chickens whom she's started taking care of (in a slightly healthier fashion than she tried taking care of Piper). CRACKED.COM

Caillou

Childhood icons who had a rough time Caillou Jaclyn Linetsky, the voice of Caillou for two years until 2002, sadly passed away in a car accident on Montreal's south shore when she was only 17. CRACKED

30 Rock

Alec Baldwin offered to take pay cut for the final seasons. Не took a 20% pay cut in order for the show to continue for seasons 7 and 8. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Osama bin Laden

Osama Bin Laden TELEVISION BUFF CRACKED.COM The man was a huge fan of The Wonder Years, Miami Vice, and MacGyver. Fun guy! (The source for this info was a woman he imprisoned for months in his hotel room.)

Supernatural

The Supernatural writers put themselves into the show, then mocked themselves for it. In Supernatural, an in-universe author (whose pen name is a combination of two of the show's writers' names) writes about his visions, and they all really happen to the main characters - without his knowledge. At one point, he says, Writing yourself into the story is one thing, but as a prophet? That's, like, M. Night-level douchiness. CRACKED.COM

Friends

CRACKED.COM When former star Matt LeBlanc was asked if he was worth the $1 million an episode he once earned, he said If you're in a position in any job, no matter what the job is if you're in a position to get a raise and you don't get it, you're stupid.

Fred Flintstone

Fred Flintstone CRACKED.COM The Flintstones is a pretty direct parody of The Honeymooners, so Fred is naturally based heavily on Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden. Gleason even reportedly came close to suing the 'stones.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

CRACKED JAKE PERALTA This job is eating me alive. I can't breathe anymore. I spent all these years trying to be the good guy. The man in the white hat. I'm not becoming like them. I am them. BROOKLYN NINE-NINE Не reveals that it's a speech from Donnie Brasco. The lines are word for word, but Brasco's full speech has more F-bombs, and a fear of getting Lefty whacked.

Parks and Recreation

DETLEF SCHREMPF PARKS AND REC CRACKED.COM Producer Mike Schur's first choice for a basketball cameo was Larry Bird. But is there any funnier name in NBA history than Detlef Schrempf? The three-time All-Star practically became a recurring character, appearing in three seasons.

iZombie

Liv Moore IZOMBIE CRACKED.COM Olivia Liv Moore from iZombie is your classic protagonist: a zombie who eats victim's brains to solve crimes. Yes, she's a zombie named... Live More. Though a pun name is kind of perfect, since zombies are known for loud groaning.

The Powerpuff Girls

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT THE CW'S POWERPUFF GIRLS Written by Juno's Diablo Cody, this script has Blossom as a PTSD-ridden killer, anti-Powerpuff protestors,a plotline about Bubbles nudes getting leaked, an aggressively gay Buttercup, and the Professor as the villain. CRACKED.COM

Thomas the Tank Engine

George Carlin spoke to a teddy bear when he voice acted for Thomas The Tank Engine. During his time as the narrator for the US version of the children's TV show, George Carlin spoke his lines to a teddy bear in the booth because he was nervous about performing without an audience. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

Hollywood feuds LENA HEADY vs JEROME FLYNN Cersei and Bronn don't have scenes together on Game of Thrones because the (ex) couple dated in 2002, and they're not on talking terms after the nasty breakup. CRACKED

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Bebop and Rocksteady might have been a couple. Cam Clarke, the voice of Rocksteady in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, says that maybe Bebop and Rocksteady were lovers. CRACKED.COM

Hey Arnold!

Helga's mom in Hey Arnold! is an alcoholic. Show creator Craig Bartlett said they wanted to make Helga very sympathetic -- and one of the ways they did that was by giving her a mom who's secretly alcoholic. CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

Tony was probably shot at the end of The Sopranos. According to Matt Servitto (who played Agent Harris), in the script, the guy at the bar looks pretty mysterious and walks towards Tony as if he's going to shoot him --and then the episode ends. Which is still kind of ambiguous, but much less so than the finale that was aired. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Again)

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data holds his palette with the paints facing away, but that's totally wrong. You need to support the palette with your forearm, to keep it stable and to prevent your arm from getting tired. CRACKED.COM

Full House

In Full House, when Steve Hale was first introduced, his last name was Peters. Milk 3k SA B CRACKED.COM

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Xander is one of Buffy's best friends in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series. He's a callback to the Buffy movie. A Zander is a fish that looks like a pike. Pike is the name of the only classmate who helps/believes Buffy in the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Cleveland Show

Cleveland Brown Jr. on Family Guy, is a skinny, hyperactive child. On the spinoff The Cleveland Show, he's an overweight, soft-spoken kid who wears glasses. CRACKED.COM

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