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Mr. Deeds

Rigyan Dav Halkon MANDRAKE 1898 FALLS inform in FIRR DEPARTMENT An The 2002 Adam Sandler movie Mr. Deeds was a remake of a 1936 film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town which itself was based on a 1935 short story called Opera Hat. CRACKED.COM

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The Phoenix

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1982 The Phoenix From a Peruvian Sarcophagus rises Bennu of the Golden Light, an alien being with the power of having the clunkiest name ever. Beginning as a TV movie in 1981, it was supposed to be the next big thing, but only lasted one season. CRACKED.COM

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Atari

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THE SKILL SEVELS ONE PLATES created Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny appears unable to control his romantic urges even if it causes other people discomfort and distracts him from other aspects of his life (like an important basketball game in Space Jam.) That's sex addiction, folks! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tyler, The Creator

Rapper Tyler, the Creator trashed a Los Angeles club in December 2011. Apparently, he destroyed some sound equipment at L.A.'s Roxbury Theater and got his fans to start rioting - he ended up having to pay $8,000 in damages. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Newhart

Newhart had a finale that rendered the entire series pointless. The llast two minutes of the finale had Bob Newhart waking up as his character from an earlier sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and announcing that the whole thing - - all eight seasons of Newhart, including all its characters - was just a weird dream. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Floronic Man

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Love, Death + Robots

Anthology Shows 20019 - present LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS The brainchild of David Fincher and Deadpool's Tim Miller, this show features sci-fi and horror stories which are beautifully animated, but can also be anticlimactic bores. Some episodes, though, like Beyond the Aquila Rift, can be particularly creepy and brilliant. CRACKED.COM XBOT 4000 — Wikipedia

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Hugo Weaving

Lord of the Rings Stars' Side Projects Hugo Weaving Worst side project? The Transformers movies, obviously, which were clearly quick paychecks for Weaving. That being said, his indie cred has interesting stuff. 1991's Proof and 1998's Bedrooms and Hallways, in particular, but also the hilarious (and highly problematic) 1994 indie classic, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES THERE IS AN UNAIRED PILOT. According to co-creator David Benioff, the first pilot got everything wrong on a very basic level with the writing of it. It didn't even establish that Jaime and Cersei were brother and sister! CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Facts About 'Game of Thrones' to Prep for 'House of the Dragon' (or Not, Whatever You Prefer)

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Connor MacLeod

THE CHOSEN ONE HIGHLANDER CONNOR MACLEOD There can only be one (Chosen One with an awesome Queen theme song). MacLeod's mentor (Sean Connery as a Spaniard) guides him to be the only immortal left, so the bad guy doesn't bring about the Evilness. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Andy Samberg

Andy Samberg Не became a fan of SNL at 8. Не was trying to watch wrestling without his parents finding out, and instead discovered (and got hooked on) what they were watching. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Things

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Max Greenfield

Guest Stars on Bob's Burgers MAX GREENFIELD as Boo Boo The mini-member of Boyz4Now, Boo Boo has won the heart and affection of Louise (until the next cute butt comes along). CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Shrek

shrekiest shrek Moments shrek Hideous creature Shrek is referred to as a hideous creature, but keeping with his water-off-a-duck's- back attitude, he admonishes them for saying something like that about a donkey. CRACKED.COM — Source: Scene on YouTube

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Call of Duty

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR There's an Easter egg on John McClane's MP5 SMG. There's text on there that reads, Now I have a machine gun, which is a reference to Die Hard's elevator scene. HAVE MACHINECUN CRACKED.COM — Source

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Loki

Apparently, a Loki episode has an homage to the Denzel Washington thriller -Fallen. In Ep 2, the fugitive variant moves through people by touch - in Fallen, the demon Azazel likewise moves through people by possessing them. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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The Lego Movie

The spaceship in The Lego Movie had a hidden shout-out to an old Lego set. 928 LEGO LL929 It's labeled LL929, which means it's a successor to Lego's 928 Galaxy Explorer kit from 1979 (and it looks like a bigger version of that kit, too). CRACKED.COM — Source: Brickipedia

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Latrell Sprewell

Latrell Sprewell 68 GAMES BA RANK MUNS 1ST TS 9TH STLS 5TH CRACKEDG Sprewell was benched after choking out his coach, being sent to the locker ROOM, and then coming back to punch him one last time. The Warriors, understandably, tried to fire him, but he somehow won an arbitration battle. All the team could do was trade him off to the Knicks.

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Mike Tyson

MIKE TYSON almost beat down Brad Pitt After his divorce from Robin Givens, Tyson stopped by her house. She was in a car with a guy with flowing blonde hair. Pitt begged, Dude, don't strike me, don't strike me! We were just going over some lines. Tyson relented and — Undisputed Truth

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Arrow

ARROW The show was ready to introduce the Suicide Squad, when DC revoked their right to do so. So Deadshot and Amanda Waller were unceremoniously killed off, while Harley Quinn could only ever be shown from the back. — Source: Screen Rant

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Birds of Prey

Birds ef Prey If Ewan you look closely, you'll see McGregor's pajamas sporting images of his face. This hilarious detail shows how his character wants — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Pirates of the Caribbean

The Pirates of the Caribbean ship returned for the porn parody. Perhaps unable to get the stench of booty out, the owners then sold it in 2010. In 201 — For details, read 5 Famous Movie Locations (With Horrible Secret Backstories)

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Groot

Although Groot is among the heroes who are disintegrated by Thanos at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, fans believe that he is not quite dead yet. T

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Justin Bieber

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Ric Flair

Recognize this financial wizard? Figure-4Process Mortgage Auto Loan Refinance Loan a About Ric Flair Tired of getting the runaround and turndown fro

14

Boxxy

Catherine Wayne, better known as Boxxy, filmed some Youtube videos of herself in 2008 for her friends in Gaia Online. However, those videos became vir

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Rush

CRACKED.COM The bells that begin Rush's YYZ are playing the song's title in morse code. Pilots approaching Toronto International Airport will hear this, as YYZ is that airport's letter code. CP Air A YYZ TORONTO 38-31-53 Flight

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The New York Times

Media blunders 1903 The New York Times WE'LL GET PLANES IN 10 MILLION YEARS The New York Times made a huge miscalculation in 1903 when they said it would take 10 million years for airplanes to be developed. Just nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers proved them wrong by achieving the first successful manned flight. CRACKED

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Tiny Toons

The Tiny Toon Adventures end credits always contained a joke. JEAN MACCURDY CONGRATULATIONS! You HAVE JUST WASTED A HALF HOUR OF YouR LIFE! Other gags included Moral of the Story: We Need More Animators and Created by: Buster and Babs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jimmy Stewart

CRACKED.COM Jimmy Stewart suffered wartime PTSD while shooting It's A Wonderful Life. Stewart was going through much mental turmoil after his service as a pilot during World War II, to the point that he considered quitting acting. Accepting the now-Christmas classic relaunched his career. — Source

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Batman: Arkham Asylum

A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDER CLOSE SURVITILANCE - They had to create 700 different animations and sound effects for the cape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey once got busted while dancing and playing bongos in the nude. Не was spotted doing that at his home, and cops showed up and arrested him. Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts were all over Austin, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cop Shows

CRACKED.COM Long before COPS, there was a 1954 radio program called NIGHT WATCH, which was a ride-along with the L.A. police. POLICE not NIGHT WATCH was gritty, even by today's standards, with suicides, child abandonment, and, in one episode, the reporter getting stabbed. — Source: 23 'Modern' Things That Are JUST. SO. OLD.

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Slender Man

Slender Man caused a real murder attempt. In a story that sounds like a creepypasta (but actually happened), two 12-year-old girls from Wisconsin stabbed a friend in 2014, in an attempt to recreate the Slender Man mythology. The friend survived, and her attackers were sentenced to years in mental health hospitals. — More: 5 Hilarious Memes With Messed-Up Origins

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Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong made an ad mocking his critics (before they were proven right). Everybody wants to know what I'm on, Armstrong said in a 2001 ad for Nike. I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day, he answered. Yeah, his bike and a shit-ton of human growth hormone, as it turned out - let's just say, the piece hasn't exactly aged gracefully. — More: 8 Ad Campaigns That Aged Like Garbage

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Reno 911!

RENO 911! BEHIND THE SCENES Facts TOM LENNON AND ROBERT BEN GARANT ARE ACCOMPLISHED SCREENWRITERS WRITING MOVIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can. Too! RENO 911! $ Tom and Robert went on to write Night at the Museum, Balls of Fury, The Pacifier and of course Lindsey Lohan's Herbie Fully Loaded CRACKED.COM — Source: GQ

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Homeland

CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #blacklivesmatter Homeland is racist I A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting. — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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James Cameron

A fever dream of James Cameron's lead to iconic Terminator imagery. The image of the chrome skeleton of a Terminator rising from a fiery Hellscape came to Cameron in a dream when sick with a fever. When he woke up, he sketched a metal skeleton, torn in half, crawling towards a terrified woman, which would become the finale of The Terminator. CRACKED.COM — Source: BFI

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Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover sued the studio for using his face mold in Back to the Future II. They used the mold (from the first movie) to make the replacement actor look like Glover, and that was a step too far for him, so he sued. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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