31 Slow-Cooked Bits of TV Trivia That Fall Right Off the Bone

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31 Slow-Cooked Bits of TV Trivia That Fall Right Off the Bone
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When chips and candy don’t feel like enough, you might need these juicy, succulent, hearty TV facts. We don’t think that they should fully replace chips and candy, because, well, they’re chips and candy for cryin’ out loud!

We just think that TV with a side of TV facts will surely help hit the spot.

Ozark

AWARDS CRACKED.COM Ozark has been a hit since day one, and has 32 Prime-Time Emmy nominations. Jason Bateman won Outstanding Directing for a Drama in 2019, and Julia Garner won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama in 2019 and in 2020. Bateman also received 2 Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor in a Television Drama.

Selena Gomez

Celebrity Side Hustles Selena Gomez Producer Gomez signed a deal with Univision to produce a true crime docuseries called Mi Vecino, El Cartel for their streaming service. She also produced 13 Reasons Why for Netflix. CRACKED

Schitt’s Creek

October on hulu October 3 Schitt's Creek As the pilot was being shopped around, Alexis Rose was originally played by Abbey Elliot, actor Chris Elliot's daughter. CRACKED.COM

I Think You Should Leave

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The Characters launched I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE CRACKED.COM Netflix's The Characters gave several comedians an episode each to create comedy-and Tim Robinson ran with it. Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer said it was the funniest 20 minutes of sketch I'd seen in years. The episode helped convince Netflix to give Robinson his own show.

Stumptown

CRACKED Mark Webber wasn't handsome enough. After the pilot, he was replaced by Jake Johnson. Не said, Look, I'm a straight white male, so I know my journey has been way less painful in this warped industry, but I'm being recast in a network television show because I'm not 'handsome enough.''' STUMPTOWN

The Original Name for The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM HBO WANTED TO CALL THE SHOW THE FAMILY MAN. Söpranos Worried people would think The Sopranos was a show about opera singers, HBO unsuccessfully tried to get David Chase to rename the show.

David Cross

DAVID CROSS FOUGHT FOX TO KEEP HIS MUSTACHE IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. According to Cross, Fox had three rules for men in comedy: no baseball caps, no puffy sleeves, and no facial hair. But when the actor read the script, he knewTobias Fünke had to have a mustache. The network caved, but demanded that he keep the mustache trimmed. CRACKED.COM

Lost

16-JARRAH N ELECTROLE 42- 29 The magic cave in Lost was a last-minute substitute for a volcano. The show kept mentioning the inactive volcano on the island, and the finale was supposed to be set there, with magma spewing everywhere! But that was too expensive, so they came up with a glowing magic cave. CRACKED.COM

The Newhart Finale

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

Big Brother

The contestants of Big Brother weren't told about the 9/11 attacks when they happened. BIG BROTHER DINNIN CRACKED.COM The show had a policy of keeping the contestants in total information isolation. They had to change the policy after one of the cast's family members was lost at Ground Zero.

Stranger Things

Joe Keery originally wasn't supposed to play Steve in Stranger Things. Не auditioned for Jonathan, along with everybody across the country, but they ended up giving him Steve. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian literally couldn't have been made without fans. The crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes for a Season 1 scene, so they got in touch with the local members of the 501st legion, a group of fans who wear and make super-accurate Stormtrooper costumes. The legionnaires showed up, in their own suits, and played the remaining Stormtroopers. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Bill Nye

Bill Nye got his break into the entertainment industry by winning a Steve Martin look-alike contest in 1978. This was after being reject- ed to join NASA's astro- naut training program in the late 1970s four times, where he stumbled into a new career path that launched his career into stardom. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec!

Nick Fury

The first on-screen Nick Fury wasn't Samuel L. Jackson, but David Hasselhoff. Не played Fury in the 1998 TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he said he'd love to play him again (for what that's worth). CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

SEINFELD WAS GONNA BE ONE BIG SAUSAGE FEST. There is a reason why Elaine is missing from the pilot episode - she wasn't supposed to be in the show at all. One of the most iconic female characters in TV history was only added to the cast after the pilot had already been shot, and NBC forced Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David to add a new female character. CRACKED.COM

Chappelle’s Show

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW Chappelle's Show was one of the most extraordinary and exciting shows we ever did, says CC's Tony Fox. It was extremely edgy in terms of it dealing with racial subject matter. I mean, the very first episode had, like, a 12-minute sketch in it, The Blind Supremacist. CRACKED.COM

ER

George Clooney pranked a co-star back in the '90s on the TV show ER. Не convinced his co-star Noah Wyle that they should both send producer Steven Spielberg nasty notes, but Clooney never sent his (and Wyle did). CRACKED.COM

Scrubs

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SCRUBS' BLACKFACE EPISODES ACTUALLY GOT PULLED FROM STREAMING SERVICE HULU. There were three episodes in total, and show creator Bill Lawrence and ABC Studios requested that they all be pulled.

That ‘70s Show

THAT '70s SHOW was originally Teenage Wasteland. However, Fox was unable to secure the iconic lyric from the Who's Baba O'Riley and the creators had to come up with a new title. CRACKED.COM

Sheen vs. Chuck Lorre

CHARLIE HARPER TWO AND A HALF MEN CRACKED.COM Sheen took plenty of shots at producer Chuck Lorre after leaving the show. In the series finale, Lorre fired back. Having already killed off Charlie, the show revealed he was still alive. Cue an hour of jokes about drugs and prostitutes, then the writers dropped a piano on Charlie's head.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family Producer Scott Rubin came up with the idea of turning The Addams Family TV show into a movie after a bunch of people in a van returning from a 20th Century Fox screening started singing the show's theme song. НЕ PITCHED HIS ADAPTATION IDEA THE NEXT DAY. CRACKED.COM

In Living Color

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS 'Black Laugh-In' was the pitch for IN LIVING COLOR IN GRACKEDOOM I remember using Laugh-In as a model during the pitch, says Keenan Ivory Wayans. I emphasized the edge of the show was going to be different. 'Men on Films,' 'The Homeboy Shopping Network' and 'The Wrath of Farrakhan.' We showed it to Fox, and they got nervous.

Batman

Canceled? Really? R BATMAN ABC decided not to renew the '60s series, but NBC offered to pick it up. ABC agreed but didn't tell the art/props department, so the sets were destroyed. NBC wasn't willing to build a whole new Batcave, so Batman met an untimely end. CRACKED

Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. SpinaL TGO CRACKED.COM The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show --а sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

The Ethel Waters Show

She was the first Black TV star N в с GRACKED.COM First aired on NBC on June 14, 1939, The Ethel Waters Show was a one-night-only, one-hour variety special hosted by Waters herself. It is possible that, with this first episode, Ethel Waters may have been the first Black actor to appear on American TV. The show featured Waters, Fredi Washington and Georgette Harvey performing a dramatic excerpt from a Broadway play.

The Sopranos

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM HBO WASN'T THE SHOW'S FIRST HOME. HBO THE Söpranos It was originally picked up by Fox, however, the network passed on the show after reading the script for the pilot. According to creator David Chase, Fox thought the therapy angle would be too much for audiences.

Roswell

Roswell fans saved the show by mailing Tabasco sauce to the network. When the WB drama Roswell was about to be canceled after one season, the fans organized a mass mailing of Tabasco sauce bottles to the network. And they were successful(ish), as UPN picked up the show for another season. CRACKED

Workaholics

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHRIS D'ELIA HAD HIS WORKAHOLICS EPISODE GET PULLED FROM STREAMING PLATFORMS. In that ер, he played a child molester - which was just too disturbingly close to real life.

Jim and Pam

COMEDY NERD The original plan for The Office had Jim and Pam split up in Season 9. But the people behind the show changed their minds after the audience didn't like the Brian the boom guy plot. CRACKED.COM

South Park

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Chewbacca on Halloween. There S a running theme throughout the show, with every Halloween episode featuring at least one character dressed as Chewbacca. CRACKED.COM

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