30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Been Dangling in Front of Our Donkey to Make Him Go

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30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Been Dangling in Front of Our Donkey to Make Him Go
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The Office

... TELL US NOW. THE OFFICE Submitted by Noah U., Michael: If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice. CRACKED.COM

The Princess Bride

Casting director Janet Hirshenson saw Wallace Shawn's performance in My Dinner With Andre and cast him in The Princess Bride. Her fondness for how Shawn said the word inconceivable played no small part in the decision. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Dollhouse

Genre-Switching Episodes Dollhouse Epitaph One This post-apocalyptic thriller was written as a standalone episode and not as the season finale. It features flashbacks of the main cast, but Joss Whedon has said that these memories may be unreliable. CRACKED

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indy's pilot in Raiders of the Lost Ark was a real-life pilot. Не was hired to fly the filmmakers around while they were shooting in Hawaii and to scout out possible new shooting locations, and eventually they asked him if he wanted to be in the movie. CRACKED.COM

Denzel Washington

Chadwick Boseman was accepted into an acting program at Oxford and could only afford to go because of a private benefactor That benefactor turned out to be Denzel Washington. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE A DON DOESN'T WEAR SHORTS LINE CAME FROM ACTUAL MOBSTERS. Söpranos In season four, Tony, who is often seen wearing shorts, is told that a real don doesn't wear shorts. This was an actual critique David Chase received from some mobster who didn't like that Tony was wearing shorts on the show.

Kingdom of Heaven

TELL US NOW. Kingdom of Heaven CRAGKED According to Alex C, Ridley Scott's cut reveals a crucial B-story: the subplot of Sibylla's son and the final fight with Guy flesh out the story in a much-needed way. Mathew P. puts it a slightly different way: the theatrical cut turns it

Lady Gaga

30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Been Dangling in Front of Our Donkey to Make Him Go
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Die Hard

A Roundup Of Surprising, Little-Known Die Hard Facts - The source novel has a much bleaker ending.
Source: Maxim

Ford

Ford held a promotional campaign in Belgium with the bold promise that each car would come with a free zombie. Ford The ad was meant to say, Every ca

Matthew Goode

Matthew Goode based his vampire character in A Discovery of Witches on Roger Federer. The actor says he took inspiration from the tennis legend becaus

The Karate Kid

CRACKEDOON The Karate Kid While Daniel was always a conflicted teenager, he was loyal and respectful towards Mr. Miyagi. But in The Karate Kid Part II

Cinderella

Cinderella CRACKEDCe COM Disney made in 1950, but animation innovator Lotte Reiniger had made the first animated version almost three decades earlier.

Paul Rudd

30 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We’ve Been Dangling in Front of Our Donkey to Make Him Go

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