30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Flipped by Two Well-Dressed Canadian Brothers

You won’t even be able to recognize your brain after this
30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Flipped by Two Well-Dressed Canadian Brothers

Tell your brain to take that blindfold off and step into its new home! Shocked, isn’t it? 

See, we put a big metal compass-looking thing on the wall and opened up the space. Isn’t it glorious? No more rooms! Just a ton of sweet TV facts in one big wide open space.

We bet it can’t wait to invite all of its family and friends over!

Spider-Man the Animated Series

CRACKED.COM spider Man Animated Green Goblin It was the third cartoon where Neil Ross voiced Norman Osborn - and yet, it was his first time playing the Green Goblin, who had a different voice actor in the previous shows.

Santa Clarita Diet

CRACKED SANTA CLARITA DIET Santa Clarita Diet followed Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant's characters, Sheila and Joel Hammond, as Sheila became a zombie. But it was canceled after 3 seasons, leaving fans with a wild cliffhanger as Sheila tried to turn Joel into a zombie.

Zorro

DELL Western ZORRO DISNEY'S WALT Adventure Zorro gives himself up to save his friends. Zorro, a Disney television series from the '50s starring Guy Williams, is so popular in Latin America that it gets the best ratings in its time slot GRAGKED.COM ... even though it's over half a century old and every episode has been aired hundreds of times.

Day One

Day One A 2010 sci-fi drama about about apartment dwellers who survived a mysterious 350 apocalypse. It was slowly demoted from series to mini-series, to TV movie, to dead in the water. CRACKED.COM

Roseanne

CRACKED ROSEANNE The finale of Roseanne got bad reviews from fans because it said the whole show was a dream and Dan had died. John Goodman, who played Dan, didn't like it either, calling it irrelevant and silly.

The Fake Dutch Reality Show

There was a fake Dutch reality show where patients competed for a dying woman's kidney. It was created with the intention of raising awareness about the lack of organ donors. Six weeks after the show aired 12,000 new donors had signed up. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Siskel & Ebert

SISKEL & EBERT The theatre chairs CRACKED.COM Ebert says that, at the height of some tense negotiations with Disney, his iconic chairs were mysteriously smashed with sledgehammers by some contractors.

Eden Contestants

Contestants on a reality show spent months on an isolated island without knowing the show was canceled. CRACKED COM After surviving a year-long experiment on an isolated island in 2016 for a British reality TV show Eden, 10 contestants learned that the show had been canceled after just 4 episodes.

BoJack Horseman

BOJACK HORSEMAN Fans are well aware that visual gags are a staple of this show, and will often pause the show to spot all the gags. STOP PAUSING AND JUST WATCH THE SHOW BROKEN SNOW GLOBES D & ROLLED In Season 5 Episode 5, a possum can be (very briefly) seen holding up a shirt that reads, Stop pausing and just watch the show. GRACKED.COM

The Dick Van Dyke Show

ALAN BRADY showed off the staff DICK VAN DKYE SHOW X X GRAGKED.COM One of the first shows-within-a- show, the 'Alan Brady Presents' Christmas episode allowed the cast to show off their many singing and dancing talents. Fast-forward through Richie Petrie mangling Little Drummer Boy.

The Queen Latifah Show

The Queen Latifah Show *Livin ALL CRACKED.COM The show was cancelled in 2001 after a 2-season stint. Then, 10 years later, she dredged up its petrified corpse and made another show by the same name. That one actually won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Talk Show Host (somehow), but was axed after 2 seasons once more.

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.

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is so successful even among non-fantasy fans because it puts characters first. Devoting so much time to exploring characters' motivations, relationships, and emotions (rather than, say, doing CGI spectacles all the time) makes the fantasy epic relatable and accessible to pretty much everyone. CRACKED.COM

Ramsay Bolton

Iwan Rheon based Ramsay Bolton on Heath Ledger's Joker...and Dennis The Menace. Rheon said that doing all those horrible things with childlike glee simply worked for the character. Не also channelled Liam Gallagher's attitude and walking style. CRACKED.COM

Harvey Birdman

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM HARVEY BIRDMAN DEFENDED SCOOBY ON A POSSESSION RAP Harvey Birdman was what happens when Super Friends meets Better Call Saul. We're in America, says Cartoon Network's Mike Lazzo. Of course cartoon characters would start suing other cartoon characters.

Transgender TV Characters

Transgender TV characters can change people's attitudes Irmata Telephone Osa - - - ORIGIN As opposed to news coverage, transgender characters on fictional shows changes attitudes toward transgender people and policy issues. Representation does matter. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones (Again)

In Game of Thrones, ballista operators shout: fire! when shooting... even when gunpowder has not been invented in that world yet... CRACKED.COM

Dexter

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 2006-2013 Dexter Dexter was a highly respected character study, until it became a meandering showcase of villains of the week, and had one of the worst endings ever. The revival was celebrated as a return to form, until Dexter was killed by his own son. Seriously, how do you have two awful endings? Dexter: New Blood 2021-2022 CRACKED.COM

Sherlock

30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Flipped by Two Well-Dressed Canadian Brothers

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher

On-Screen Couples That Became Real Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher The two were co-stars on That '70s Show, but didn't begin dating until over 15 years later. They got married in 2015. CRACKED.COM

The X-Files

Scully gets brain cancer in The X-Files. This uncharacteristically grounded plot was foreshadowed earlier. A nutjob who lobotomized women to free howlers from their brains kidnapped Scully. Не points out where her howler is, and it's where the tumor later appears. CRACKED.COM

The Third Doctor

CRACKED.COM Doctor Who Jon Pertwee (1970 - 1974) The Third Doctor YOURS TO POLICE 2015 BOX Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow was a term the Third Doctor popularized, and - actor Jon Pertwee adored.

Dexter: New Blood

DEXTER: NEW BLOOD The director paid homage to The Shining during episode 8 by mirroring the hedge maze scene where Danny outwits his dad by making a trail in the snow and then backtracking on his own footprints. Dexter does the same when he's running from Kane in the snow. CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

Bryce Dallas Howard paid homage to her dad in The Mandalorian by including a sequence mirroring Apollo 13. In Chapter 11: The Heiress from season two, the way that the Razor Crest falls into the atmosphere looks very much like the re-entry scene in Ron Howard's movie. She confirmed this was an homage to him. CRACKED.COM

Ron Reagan on SNL

RON REAGAN FIRST SON CRACKED.COM VIEWERS WITH DADDY ISSUES LIKELY HAD A FIELD DAY WITH THIS EPISODE, WHICH WAS ONE BIG UNDERWEAR-FLAUNTING, BALLET-DANCING EFF YOU DIRECTED AT THE CONSERVATIVE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. (RON SR. REPORTEDLY LOVED IT.)

Simpsons Cameos

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR teaches Homer what it's like to be Bart CRACKED.COM Homer joins a fathering enrichment class, where he casually mentions choking Bart. To show Homer what it feels like, Dr. Zander enlists the 7' 2 Abdul-Jabbar to do some choking of his own. Dr. Zander, you made me see my life through Bart's neck!

Greg Daniels

GREG DANIELS WAS CONAN'S COLLEGE ROOMMATE 1988 GRACKED.COM DANIELS AND O'BRIEN BOTH WROTE FOR THE HARVARD LAMPOON, 'NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS,' 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' AND 'THE SIMPSONS. THEN GREG BROKE OFF ON HIS OWN AND CREATED A COUPLE LITTLE SHOWS CALLED 'PARKS AND RECREATION' AND 'THE OFFICE.'

Ted Lasso

30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Got Flipped by Two Well-Dressed Canadian Brothers

William Shatner

William Shatner has never watched an episode of Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation. CRACKED.COM

Seth MacFarlane

CRACKED.COM ENTERPRISE THE FORGOTTEN - AFFLICTION SETH MacFARLANE WAS A STARFLEET ENGINEER. Years before being Captain Ed Mercer in his own Star Trek spoof The Orville, MacFarlane cameoed as Ensign Rivers in a couple episodes of the real thing.

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