33 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Brought a Knife to a Gun Fight

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33 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Brought a Knife to a Gun Fight
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Some people are amazing at one thing, but complete dolts in so many other areas. We normally wouldn’t care, but they’ve become bad influences on these TV facts and it’s affecting our workplace environment. 

Like, yes, they know a ton of great little tidbits about TV, but their workspace is a complete wreck and we constantly have to pick up their slack. If they weren’t so darn good at gathering sweet TV knowledge, they’d be out on their butts for sure.

Pinky and the Brain

WB executives suggested adding a third character to Pinky And The Brain, so the creators obliged. GRACKED.COM Writers responded with the episode Pinky & The Brain And...Larry which featured a third, superflu- ous mouse named Larry that added nothing to the plot but repeatedly saying I'm Larry.

Star vs. The Forces of Evil

Jon Heder is Oskar Greason Disney StaR vs The FORCES of EViL Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder may be under the radar right now, but he's keeping things offbeat on Disney's Star VS. The Forces of Evil. Не provides the voice of keytar-loving high school dropout Oskar Greason and is otherwise just so goldarn quirky. CRACKED.COM

Futurama

THE DUPLA-SHRINKER NAMEDROPS A MATHEMATICAL PARADOX. Benderama BANACH-TARSKI 0 DUPLA-SHRINKER The Banach-Tarski paradox states that you can break up a ball into several pieces, and then rearrange the pieces into two identical copies of the original ball (in theory). CRACKED.COM

Hey Arnold

HEY ARNOLD sounded funny for a reason 33 CRACKED.COM The problem with kid actors is puberty. Once the voice changes, Arnold starts sounding like a grown-ass man. In all, five different actors voiced Arnold - six if you count Arnold as a baby.

The Crown

CRACKED COM THE CROWN Believe it or not, it took Claire Foy months of training to just be able to say the word one like Queen Elizabeth II does.

WandaVision

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE CAST HAD TO GO THROUGH A SITCOM BOOT CAMP. CLEASE STA In order to learn the style and structure of each specific sitcom decade portrayed on the show, the actors had to attend a two-week sitcom boot camp where they watched and analyzed several different classic sitcoms.

Bulba

BILL HICKS was in a sitcom? BULBA BILL HICKS CORPORAL, U.S.A.C CRACKED.COM Yep. Or at least, a sitcom pilot. Bulba was a made-up island near India and Hicks worked in its goofy U.S. embassy. The counterculture comic played Phil, a bumbling marine who didn't wear pants. Maybe it's a good thing that ABC passed.

Emily Reasons Why Not

CANCELED RIGHT AWAY EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT ABC committed to a sitcom starring Heather Graham without even seeing its pilot. After the pilot aired, programming chief Steve McPherson said It's not going to get better, and immediately canceled it. CRACKED

Louis C.K.

LOUIS С.К. was unlucky with his first sitcom LUCKY LOUIE CRACKED.COM Lucky Louie was filmed like a traditional sitcom on a one-set stage with live laughs. But the HBO show tackled subjects not seen in conventional TV comedy: orgasms, interacial friendships, misplaced profanity. TV or real life, cringe has always been Louis C.K.'s speciality.

Quack Pack

They tried to spin off a standard '90s sitcom from DuckTales (unsuccessfully). QUACK Disney's PACK It was called Quack Pack, and it took the regular sitcom formula and tried to put the DuckTales characters into it. It lasted a total of one season. CRACKED.COM

Marvin Marvin

GRACKED A YOUTUBER'S FAILED SITCOM MARVIN MARVIN Nickelodeon thought Lucas Cruikshank's insufferable act warranted his own sitcom. Terrible writing and acting aside, the alien among us premise was a rip-off of Mork and Mindy, and 2 other Nick shows, Invader Zim and The Journey of Allen Strange.

Doctor Who

DOCTOR WHO Karen Gillian Before becoming the 11th Doctor's companion, she had a bit part in the same episode that Peter Capaldi did. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

BEN STILLER IS A HUGE TREKKIE. SA Stiller's film company Red Hour Films is named after the red hour from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Return of the Archons. Не also regularly references Star Trek in his movies. CRACKED.COM

The Nanny

CRACKED.COM The Nanny isn't Jewish in Italy. If you ever saw The Nanny (and you most likely did if you lived through the '90s), then you know that being Jewish was a huge part of Fran Drescher's character. Which makes it particularly odd that the Italian dub turns her into a Roman Catholic hailing from Italy, for some reason.

Ashton Kutcher

CRACKED.COM Ashton Kutcher's first job was at General Mills as a cereal dust sweeper.

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog's pilot episode earned an Oscar nomination. It was titled The Chicken From Outer Space, and it lost to Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave. CRACKED

John DiMaggio

JOHN DIMAGGIO HAS A GOOFY VOICE THAT ALWAYS GETS A LAUGH. BAND OF WEIRDOS His gravelly tone can easily demonstrate strength, wisdom, sarcasm, or even tell a really good fart joke. CRACKED.COM

Orson Welles

CRACKED ORSON WELLES: SLEEPY, NOT DRUNK. Welles wasn't drunk during that infamous Paul Masson wine commercial, he was just really tired from working all night and had taken a sleeping pill.

The Clone Wars

The Clone Wars' K2-B4 is a nod to Kobe Bryant. Animators designed the droid to honor Bryant, who wore the LAKERS number 24 on his purple and yellow Lakers jersey. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

CRACKED COM 123 SESAME STREET The show has won 189 Emmys. That's enough to give four to every US President in history.

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Shoutout to the Props Master .. - سيد 4F il ИХ ONCE MORE I INTO DENA - - - - LIONS LABRY HEMSWORTH GLOWS IT AGAINO GAY PERELLO - - - IT'S Tahini reads from a tabloid magazine with an ad on the back for a book by Gay Perello, the Props Master on the show. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS A BIG STAR TREK FAN. Не encouraged Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura, to stay on the show when she was considering quitting. CRACKED.COM

Spooks

Spooks writers: Prophets? Spooks The writers of BBC One's hit MI5 drama have an uncanny knack for predicting real-life events, from the 7/7 bombings to the global financial crisis, which has led to the show being nominated for a BAFTA award in its eighth series. CRACKED

How I Met Your Mother

BARNEY STINSON totally changed in one episode HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER CRACKED.COM In the reviled finale, HIMYM unravels its final season with the quickie divorce of Barney and Robin. The notorious womanizer gives up skirt chasing and settles down to fatherhood-all in a few scenes pinned to the end of a nine-season run.

Disney’s Adventures in Wonderland

O. J. Simpson DISNEY'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND CRACKED.COM Simpson appeared as himself in this already unsettling kids' show, which made the truly baffling choice to call its final episode White Rabbits Can't Jump.

The Smurfs

Smurfette was created to be a honey pot to trap the smurfs. The recipe Gargamel used to bring her to life called for sugar and spice but nothing nice, a dram of crocodile tears, half a pack of lies, a chatter of a magpie, and the hardest stone for her heart. Her hair turned blonde when Papa Smurf countered the spells. CRACKED.COM

MythBusters

MYTHBUSTERS DESTROYED ALL FOOTAGE OF DISCOVERING READILY AVAILABLE, EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS CRACKED.COM They got ride of all evidence and made everyone swear to never discuss it again because of the potential for homemade bombs.

Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS SQUANCHY ALMOST HAD A STANDALONE EPISODE. Rick And Morty The creators revealed that the original idea for season two's episode The Wedding Squanchers was to set the story on Squanchy's home planet and focus it on exploring the character. CRACKED.COM

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles CRACKED.COM THE SHOW THE FINALE John travels to Teenage John the far future, Connor and his which cancels mother are transported to out everything he's done to this the future (the 90's) to entertain point, effectively a host of time negating the travelers. entire franchise.

Sense8

CRACKED COM The only reason that Sense8 got its two hour finale was massive outcry from fans. Following the show's cancellation after Season 2, fans successfully organized with what Lana Wachowski called passionate letters, the petitions, the collective voice. One Change.org petition had over 500,000 digital signatures, which inspired Netflix to give the show closure.

Roseanne

Actors who wrote episodes for their shows Roseanne Don't Make Me Over Sara Gilbert Roseanne's daughters arrange a Mother's Day spa-pampering for her, but she soon discovers their ulterior motive of attending a rock concert far away from home. CRACKED

The Full House

The Full House TO THE FANS OF FULL HOUSE FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE WE LOVE YOU BUT PLEASE RESPECT OUR NICE NEIGHBORS AND OUR QUIET STREET NO DOUBLE E-PARKING NO LOITERING NO LOUD TALKING NO LITTERING NO BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS E QUICK AND COURTEOUS DON'T MAKE ANYONE CRACKED.COM SAY HOW RUDE! After a few years of peace and quiet, neighbors again clocked over 1,000 tourists a day right after Fuller House was announced. It's hard to imagine 1,000 people have even watched the reboot.

Home Improvement

HOME IMPROVEMENT CRACKED.COM After 8 seasons, we got to see Wilson's full face. The ratings had slipped dramatically in the last few seasons, losing nearly 60% of its audience. On average, 15 million viewers were tuning in, but the series finale on May 25, 1999 brought in 35.5 million viewers.

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