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Amy Adams

SMALLVILLE Amy Adams CRACKED.COM If you look closely, you can see Adams hiding behind a fat suit, CGI, and a bonkers storyline about binge-eating kryptonite and humans.

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Mario Balotelli

MARIO BALOTELLI OCTOBER 2011 CRACKED.COM The Italian footballer decided to light off a bunch of fireworks in his own bathroom. This resulted in no lights going off in the sky but did cause £400,000 of damage. — Source

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The Goonies

Jess! THE GOONIES' TREASURE حيم a WON'T SAVE THEM. Reel stight 1632 The The government will very likely lay claim to the loot, citing the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979. That law forbids removing materials of archaeological interest from federal property without a permit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Hobbit

HOBBIT THE MOVIES weren't bombs. Each of them made more money worldwide than The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers each made. Only Return of the King did better at the box office. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Belushi

CRACKED JOHN BELUSHI Не said Just don't leave me alone to friend and fellow addict Cathy Smith, who injected him with the lethal speedball. Then, she did leave him alone - and would spend 15 months in jail for manslaughter. — Youtube / Grunge

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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

CRACKED.COM MISS Jukebox Musicals Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The film starring was produced by the Bee Gees manager, who had already made a stage version. The movie didn't do as well. — Source: 15 Facts About Jukebox Musicals We're Singing Along To

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Stevie Wonder

THE CONSPIRACY: Stevie Wonder can see. CRACKED.COM THE THEORY: Не likes basketball, and once caught a falling mic stand: two things typical of the sighted! — Source: 29 Wild Theories That Really Are Out There

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mind Spotless of the Sunshine The director chose practical effects over CGI. Eter There were trick doors on set for Clementine to magically pop out SCENES from, and scaled set pieces to incorporate forced perspective. BEH CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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The Big Lebowski

The French part of Beyonce's song Partition is from The Big Lebowski It's almost a direct sample from the French dub of the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKE — Source: Slate

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James Gandolfini

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Darth Vader

Movie Scenes With Hidden Homages To Other Movies - Darth Vader is closely based on a cheesy 1938 villain. — Source: 6 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Movie Costumes

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Serenity

Serenity mocks itself. The chant used to turn off River is a Russian idiom meaning this is ridiculous. CRACKED cOR

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Evan Almighty

EVAN ALMIGHTY God's name is AI. AL MONTY AL MOHT . In His brief stint as a waiter, God's name is Al Mighty. CRACKED.COM

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Independence Day

Movie Goofs Independence Day ART DEPT Jeff Goldblum trips and falls over during his drunken rant (we've all been there), and in the process knocks over a bin labeled art dept on the bottom. It this proof the Deep State is made up of theater kids? We're just asking questions! CRACKED.COM

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Stayin’ Alive

The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive is about what a dump NYC was. The Gibb brothers have explained that the group's most emblematic song is not about disco dancing at all, but about how hard it was to survive in 1977 New York City. They didn't even know the plot of Saturday Night Fever when they wrote the song. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Walt Disney

CRACKED WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IS AROUND THE SAME SIZE AS SAN FRANCISCO. At 43 square miles, that makes it twice the size of manhattan. — Source

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This Is the End

Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a way that would make it easy to cut around it, if they didn't like it. Which of course wasn't the case, as almost every scene in the movie makes it pretty clear they're playing themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley had a small role in The Phantom Menace (that she mostly can't remember). She was 12, and played Padmé's body double / decoy. All she remembers from that is the headache she got from one of the headdresses they gave her, and falling asleep while sitting on a chair in the background. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Natalie Wood

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Simone Biles

CRACKED TOKYO 202 UNITED OLYMPI 3 SIMONE BILES Simone Biles clapped back at a troll who said she had no Olympic medals, saying I have 7 Olympic medals, do your research. Fans quickly showed their support for the gymnast, who won 4 golds and 3 bronzes at the Olympics. — Parade

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The Lost World: Jurassic World

Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running from the rampaging T-Rex, shouting in Japanese, We left Tokyo to get away from this! CRACKED.COM — Source: We Found These Killer Movie & TV Jokes So You Don’t Have To

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30 Rock

30 Rock has 7.44 jokes per minute on average Talib Visram calculated that the show had the most jokes per minute compared to other popular sitcoms. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '30 Rock'

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart's lifelong dream was to play Othello, Shakespeare's famously dark-skinned lead. And in 1997, he did. Не played a white Othello in an all-black cast. The director called it a photo-negative version of the story. Stewart continues to insist that actors should be free to play roles that differ from their own ethnicity or gender. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Celebrity Vanity Projects That Imploded Gloriously

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Minute-Man

Patriotic Superheroes BLICATION Minute-Man has the power of owning a star-spangled shirt. Jack Weston is an Army private sent on unsanctioned missions by the U.S. government while wearing a long-sleeved polo shirt with Old Glory on it. At least Captain America has powers (and is a captain). CRACKED.COM — Sources: CBR, Comic Book Plus

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Les Grossman

CRACKED.COM Tom cruise It took 12 people to make Les Grossman. Cruise's Tropic Thunder cameo as the slimy, foul- mouthed movie executive took a lot of people on the makeup team. At least six people had to hand-punch hairs into Cruise's scalp headpiece alone. — Source: Grantland

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The First Cooking Show

The First Cooking Show SHARP Cook's Night Out in 1937 walked so that Gordon Ramsay could scream. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 TV Groundbreaking Firsts (That Seem Pretty Mundane Now)

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

There's a real funny DELETED SEQUENCE of Sarah Marshall on a RUNAWAY HORSE. The horse is pretty tame as it veers off the horse trail and onto a golf course, but Kristen Bell's character can't ride a horse, so she freaks out when no one tries to help her. BEHIND THE SCENES I FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mad Men

An ordinary cheesecake package on Mad Men was surprisingly tough to make. They couldn't find actual '60s cheesecake packaging so they had to look for it in images of '60s kitchen scenes and redraw it from scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collectors Weekly

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Grim Fandango

The HD remaster of Grim Fandango required stolen hard drives. The gaming industry already sucks at preserving old data, which was compounded by the fact that LucasArts was as dead as the game's characters. So remastering Grim Fandango required some underhanded methods, such as using old hard drives obtained through, ahem, unofficial channels. — More: 5 Wacko Behind-The-Scenes Shenanigans Of Great Video Games

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Katt Williams

Comedian Katt Williams did such a terrible show, he got sued for it. In an Oakland show, he confronted a heckler, took his clothes off, and attempted to fight at least three audience members, according to the lawsuit. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Huffington Post

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Hugh Grant

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Cartman

Archie Bunker was the main character in a '70s sitcom called All in the Family. He was bigoted, childish, spiteful, and chubby. He was an objectively — Source: 4 Cartoon Characters (Surprisingly) Based On Real People

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X-Men

The X-Men remember Havok's Apocalypse death as a heroic sacrifice. But what was he trying to accomplish, shooting out that laser? He blows up the mans

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X-Men: First Class

There are plenty of miniskirts in X-Men: First Class, set in 1962. They were invented two years later.

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Man of Steel

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