30 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Regret Selecting As Our Only Possession on This Desert Island

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30 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Regret Selecting As Our Only Possession on This Desert Island
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Laugh all you want, but using these as survival tools seemed like the only choice at the time. You’ll see. Take one look at this epic collection of random TV facts next to a jug of water and a lighter, and you’ll see how difficult a decision it can be.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have to try rubbing these together to get a fire going before the sun goes down.

Scandal

GRACKED.COM MELODY GRANT was only slated to appear in three episodes of Scandal. Bellamy Young revealed that after a three-episode arc, her character was supposed to get a divorce from President Grant and disappear from the show. However, the creators loved her chemistry with the rest of the cast and decided to expand her role, which eventually led to Melody becoming President herself.

Adam Scott and Rob Lowe

CRACKED ADAM SCOTT MET ROB LOWE MOMENTS BEFORE SHOOTING THEIR FIRST SCENE TOGETHER FOR PARKS AND REC. Both actors said it was pretty terrifying.

Strangers with Candy

CRACKED AMY SEDARIS HAD INTERESTING INSPIRATION FOR JERRI'S LOOK ON STRANGERS WITH CANDY. She told the makeup department that she wanted to look like a professional golfer and the wardrobe department that she wanted to look like a woman who owned a snake.

Game of Thrones

You can learn the High Valyrian language from 'Game of Thrones' on Duolingo. GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM High Valyrian is the Latin-like language used in formal circum- stances by the fiction- al nobility of Essos and Westeros.

SpongeBob SquarePants

Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM

Pokemon

Pokemon was inspired by Satoshi Tajiri's bug collecting hobby. As a kid, he loved collecting bugs, but by the time he grew up, bug collecting became pretty hard for kids because urbanization was happening so fast. So, once he became a game designer, he made a game based on bug collecting. CRACKED.COM

Boomhauer

GRAGKED.COM Mike Judge based the voice for the marble-mouthed character of Boomhauer on King Of The Hill off of a rambling and angry voice mail he got while making Beavis and Butt-head.

The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls' Mojo Jojo is partly based on an obscure Japanese TV villain. The Japanese show The Kagestar featured a hero with a spiral pattern on his helmet, which inspired the design of Jojo's helmet. CRACKED.COM

Hailee Steinfeld

HAILEE STEINFELD became a real archer. For the role of Hawkeye people give a damn about, Steinfeld learned to become a professional archer. Perhaps not used to the idea that CGI is King, she was a bit disappointed to learn that all her work was for nothing, as MCU bows don't shoot real arrows. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

DANAI GURIRA mastered the blade. Gurira mastered sword-fighting - although maybe not to quite the same degree as her character - over an intense amount of training before The Walking Dead, and years more during theater college. She even frequently practices it as part of her daily exercises. CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

Jerry Stiller

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM JERRY STILLER ALMOST PLAYED HESH. Söpranos OBE Stiller dropped out of the project just days before the pilot was supposed to be shot. The casting director then reached out to Jerry Adler, who was friends with David Chase, and offered him the role.

The Thorn Birds TV Adaptation

Colleen McCullough declared that The Thorn Birds TV adaptation is instant vomit. Despite being the second most watched miniseries in TV history, the author would refuse to talk about it during interviews. In 2009, McCullough helped develop a THE musical based on Colleen THOR her book that better BIRDS reflected her writing. CRACKED CON

TV and Your Dreams

The type of TV you watch as a child majorly impacts your dreams. Back in the 1940s, watching black and white TV influenced the dreams of three in every four Americans such that they would rarely or never see colors in their dreams. As of 2008, only 12% of people had exclusively colorless dreams but the older Americans (who watched black and white TV as kids) still had greyscale dreams 25% of the time -- while the younger generation barely had them. CRACKED.COM

‘Carrie’ TV Series

TV shows we never got to see 2002 carrie This TV movie was meant to launch a Carrie series. It never did. CRACKED.COM

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30 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Regret Selecting As Our Only Possession on This Desert Island

The MAD TV Reboot

COMEDIES that shouldn't have been saved MAD TV Let's go bland! For 14 seasons (1995-2009), Mad TV gave SNL some zanier, spicier competition, and sprouted some now household names. The 2016 revival on The CW failed to produce new interesting characters, and the primetime slot watered down the Mad TV style CRACKED

The First TV Warning Label

CRACKED VULGARITY HISTORY The first TV show with a warning label In 1975, because of controversial characters like prostitutes, illegal immigrants, and one of the first gay couples on TV, the Norman Lear show Hot I Baltimore was the first TV show to be slapped with a warning label before each episode.

He-Man

He-Man was a toy before it was a TV show. When trying to sell the toy a Mattel sales rep told distributors a TV show was in the works- which was a lie. However, the lie sold the toy- forcing Mattel to create a TV show around the action figure. CRACKED.COM

Young Inventors

YOUNG INVENTORS A KID INVENTED TV (SO WE CAN ALL WATCH TOO MUCH TV). 15-year-old Philo Farnsworth came up with diagrams on how to make an actual electronic TV system. In 1921. By 1927, he had created an image dissector that could indeed transmit images. Later, he developed a complete TV system, camera and all. VHE 1. 860L 12 17 - PICTURE UHF ASTOJA -٤8 SOLID STATE HUE COLOR CRACKED.COM

The First Color Broadcast

The First Color Broadcast Guhisson Epiphage Marilall A 1951 variety show called Premiere finally validated anyone who, for whatever reason, bought a color TV before TV was in color. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

Star Trek The phaser was created by Wah Ming Chang. Set phasers to underappreciated. Most everything in the original series was created by the same man, Wah Ming Chang-phasers, communicator, the Gorn, even struggles! OK, wait, actually we take our appreciation back for that past one. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Snatch K.O. The final punch in There Will Be...A Fight Between Wendy and Cartman resembles the knockout punch at the end of Guy Ritchie's Snatch. CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Bad Janet FOR E The costume was inspired by Olivia Newton-John's clothing at the end of Grease. The Good Place CRACKED.COM

Community

Chevy Chase and Dan Harmon bickered like kids while making Community. Chase was infamously terrible to work with, which led Harmon to make a speech amounting to Screw you, Chevy to Chase's family at a wrap party (and even ask others to join in on dissing Chase). Chase then left an extremely profane voicemail for Harmon - which Harmon played back to his audience for the Harmontown podcast. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. One day on the Sesame Street set, Henson asked Oz if he could take a picture of him naked - and Oz said yes. That Christmas, Henson gave Oz an elaborately detailed sculpture of Bert - - but with hollow pupils that contained naked photos of Oz. CRACKED.COM

John Lutz and Sue Galloway

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The pilot of It's Always Sunny only cost $100 That money went towards the cost of pizza for crew as well as camcorder tapes. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm auditioned for the role of Jack Donaghy 3B Не had to settle for playing Liz Lemon's pretty boyfriend. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Mad Men

Mad Men was partly inspired by a particular old-school French movie. The movie is Les Bonnes Femmes, and it was shot in Paris, in the era in which Mad Men takes place-and it influenced the show's production design. CRACKED.COM

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