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32 Random Bits of TV Trivia Our Evil Overlord Raised in Triumph Above His Head in Preparation to Murder His Nemesis
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The Price Is Right

Henry Choi won a trip to Hawaii and a trip to the ER. The Price is Right the PRIDE is Right In June 2023, Henry got so excited that he sprained his shoulder and wasn't able to spin the wheel. His wife Alice spun for him, and won him a spot in the showcase showdown, where he won them a trip to Hawaii. CRACKED

The X-Files

The X-Files Actual scientists helped keep the show grounded. University of Maryland microbiologist Anne Simon joined in the first season and returned for the revival, and Chris Carter's MIT professor brother even patched up scientific jargon used in the pilot. CRACKED.COM

Merlin

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes Merlin Anthony Head used to play Brain Age during breaks, hiding his DS in his costume.

Sarah Silverman

CRACKED SARAH SILVERMAN AS EMILY SEINFELD In her one episode, The Money, Michael Richards berated her in front of everyone for flubbing one line. The next day she yelled at him, I don't give a fuck! I'm not going to be one of those people that acts like nothing happened. That was shitty behavior!

Reno 911

RENO BEHIND THE SCENES Facts 911! OFFICER REINISHA WILLIAM'S BUTT IS FAKE I ATRES 23/07 HEAT RENO 911! Niecy Nash wore a prosthetic butt for all of Reno 911, including a special realistic butt for Reno 911: Miami. CRACKED.COM

Tim and Eric

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS An editor found comedy in ООН, MAMMA TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB! CRACKED.COM A sketch about an indifferent student wasn't working, but a video editor found some funny in looping the line Ooh, Mamma. The sound was paired with new images of Tim and Eric trashing a basement rec room and the result was a very surreal piece of comedy.

Key & Peele

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Ya done messed up, A-A-Ron. SUBSTITUTE TEACHER ELETAL ENDOSKELI NY LOPIAN -SONE/CA VEE CULAR TERUS CONTRACTILE ATTACHED T BLADDAR SONE INTER 43 ARY MATERIAL BODY COVER very SCALES a TIM TUBE EXTE GILLS LUNGS KEY & PEELE CRACKED.COM SPINAL All it took was teacher mangles Caucasian names to light up the writers' room. It was like sharks in a frenzy after chum had been dumped in the water, says Key. Не improvised in-your-face bits with students, who had to suck my lips into my face to keep from laughing.

The Big Bang Theory

The equations on the background in The Big Bang Ang) EME 500 ع Theory are mathematically NEW accurate. TVV ROh 1 shyhns) M=X Y Y Malack PLURA DAVOC Y:Beic DCDC-TOO Pencere = /Y1 DB.DC:0 Preyi = / 10 У/т David Saltzberg, a professor at UCLA studying particle physics, K'H works as the science consultant on the show. CRACKED.COM

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops. CRACKED.COM Lou Telano and John Sepe went undercov- er as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and fe- male nurses in the 1960s and 1970s.

Cher’s Belly Button

The First Belly Button After half a decade being denied Barbara Eden's navel in I Dream of Jeannie, America got to see Cher's, like, all the time, on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

The chocolate pudding cans in Stranger Things were actually Vienna sausages. Hunt's Hunt's snack pa Ж snack pack CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE PUDDING PUDDING Hunt's Hunt's Arti Hunt's pa snack pack snack pack СК Р ack PaCK snack pack LAT OC CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE DINC OO PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING Busin Noth Hunt's mac snack pack CK snack pack PaCK CHO 1 CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE LATE DUE Propmaster Lynda Reiss said the canned meat used to recreate the retro Hunt's Snack Packs smelled so nasty that the child actors would gag when they had to open them. MENNA SAUSAGE PARA CRACKED.COM

The Teletubbies

The Teletubbies' hill was located in a field Teletubbies IM in Wimpstone, Warwickshire, England. Was. The landowner turned the place into a pond after she got sick of trespassing fans. CRACKED.COM

The Three Stooges

Мое from the Three Stooges was a Shakespearian actor. GRACKED.COM Мое Howard dropped out of school and joined a Shakespearian acting troupe that performed on the riverboat, Sunflower, before the Three Stooges was formed.

Cathy Come Home

CATHY COME HOME CHANGED BRITISH ATTITUDES ABOUT HOMELESSNESS. The 1966 BBC TV play was watched by a quarter of the British population, and the homeless charity Shelter found immediate success as a direct result. CRACKED.COM

Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world Mr. Feeny and Dean Bolander are married for real. William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett got married long before their characters did - decades, in fact. CRACKED.COM

LeVar Burton

Jeopardy! controversies LEVAR BURTON'S JEOPARDY! DREAM DASHED. Burton felt wrecked after not landing the hosting job, despite overwhelming fan support. Despite this setback, he has since been presented with other opportunities such as creating and hosting a new game show inspired by Hasbro's Trivial Pursuit. JEOPARDY! CRACKED

Werner Herzog

COMEDY NERD Werner Herzog, of all people, made a cameo appearance on Parks and Recreation. This is how he described it: I play an elderly guy who sells his decrepit house to the young couple who are the leading characters in this. CRACKED.COM

Ellen DeGeneres

CRACKED COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE In Ellen's episode she tells Seinfeld that he could be a talk show host, and he replies, I can't do it. I can't talk to people I'm not interested in. She says, You could do like 6 a year and he replies, That's what I'm doing!

Controversial SNL Sketches

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2015, SNL AIRED A SKETCH THAT SHOWED A DAD SEEING HIS DAUGHTER OFF TO JOIN ISIS. It was a parody of a Super Bowl ad where a dad sees his daughter off to join his army, and it got some people in an absolute uproar (especially as it featured a person saying on-screen Death to America).

Kevin Clash

NO MORE TICKLES, ELMO. SESAME STREET CRACKED Kevin Clash voiced Elmo for 27 years, and was accused of abusing 3 underage boys in 2013. The case was dismissed because the claims were made too late but this does add a new level of creepiness to Tickle Me Elmo dolls.

Chris Pratt

CHRIS PRATT ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY A COP. FBY VOTE CRACKED COM K Pratt says he's had opportunities to play cops before but turned them all down because he takes the role very seriously and doesn't want to screw up his first outing as a cop. I guess that means we likely won't see a Burt Macklin movie anytime soon.

Bob’s Burgers

They made a cook book featuring every Burger Of The Day. NEW BACON-INGS BURGER TOP BUN A dassic at-boot party topped with Interest cheddar cheese onion tomato and barea Use the treshest ingredients you can and DOWN to the bus MAKES PLUS PLENTI OFFICER SUCED RED ONION 1.14-BUNCE bag frezen trach tries 1 targe egg 1 pound bacao 4 buns pound 25's team ground beet Breen tear Immore BACON SLICES F ONE whole milk , targe tom me THE esion TOMATO Preheat the oven and cook the cooked - and cost them well with 1 the muture Transfer them back to triesfor minder Test than calistor on the peck the

Game of Thrones

The arena where the Viper and the Mountain fought looks very different in real life. ads HAPPY It's an amphitheater at the abandoned Hotel Belvedere, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and if you went there today you'd just see this big, colorful mural. That's the crest of Hajduk, a very popular local football club. CRACKED.COM

Boy Meets World

BEHIND-THE-SCINESPACTS BOY MEETS WORLD HAD A DEATH CHAIR OF FIRED CHILD ACTORS. CRACKED.COM Writers eventually gave up trying to fill the role of Cory's second best friend, since none of the actors seemed to fit and were fired one after the other. Since this character always sat in a certain seat in the lunchroom, it became known as the death chair by the cast.

Betty White

AT A GLANCE BETTY WHITE She remembered all the writers David А. Goodman wrote, During my 2 seasons on Golden Girls, I only spoke to Betty White once. 20 years later she came in to Family Guy, I walked up to her and said 'I'm sure you don't remember me...' and she said 'Of course I remember you, David Goodman! I loved the writers! CRACKED.COM

The Rachel

If there was one cut that defined the '90s, OL 92 199 it was the Rachel. 1998 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 One 1993 1993 hairstylist 1994 1995 estimates 1996 1997 that you 40% of her mid-90s clients 1995 1993 wanted that Rachel look. 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM

Friends

Friends star Matthew Perry stated in an interview that due to his substance addictions, he doesn't even remember 3 years of filming the show. Не said it was somewhere between seasons three and six. How could anyone forget this scene?! CRACKED.COM

Hannibal

HANNIBAL Poorly-timed familicide. The Oeuf, an episode about kidnapped children murdering their parents, was pulled at the last minute. It was scheduled to air a week after the Boston Marathon Bombing and a few short months after the Sandy Hook massacre. CRACKED.COM

Mister Ed

MISTER ED They smeared peanut butter around Mr. Ed's mouth to make him speak. Не also had a rider of 20 pounds of hay and a gallon of sweet tea per day. CRACKED.COM

Community

Jeff Winger is named for John Winger, Bill Murray's character in Stripes. Dan Harmon had hoped he could get Murray to play Jeff's father on the show. NOW YOU KNOW: COMMUNITY CRACKED.COM

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Will Smith was cast as the lead of Fresh Prince at a party at Quincy Jones' place. Не wanted to have at least a week to prepare, but Quincy Jones persuaded him to audition right then and there-so he did. CRACKED.COM

The Office

CRACKED COM The placement of the office in Scranton, PA turned the once-struggling former coal city into a tourist attraction. The fandom has brought thousands of guests to the city, revitalizing its downtown, resulting in improvements in commerce and housing. THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON the office ENVENTION in The Office 10th Anniversary Convention

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