30 Tweed Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Might Make Your Brain Itchy

Like the good ol’ days, these TV facts are comfy facts with just a little grit
30 Tweed Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Might Make Your Brain Itchy
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If you’re old enough to enjoy these classic TV facts, then you’re probably old enough to question why anyone ever thought a couch with thick tweed “fabric” would be comfortable. It’s most likely what you were watching these shows on, and we’re betting that just the thought of that old couch brings you right back to that itchy, sweaty feeling. 

Since we’re bringing back some old feelings, we thought we’d also bring back some more pleasant ones too! So hopefully these classic TV facts bring a nice warm sense of nostalgia while you vigorously scratch your arms, legs and neck.

Colorizing I Love Lucy

CRACKED.COM A fan colorizes I Love Lucy better than CBS. When CBS started colorizing / Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's hair ended up looking like some radioactive carrot. Zach Smothers of Pop-colorture.com doesn't have CBS' budget, but he managed to get much better results.

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Mork & Mindy Costumes

MORK & MINDY Mork's jumpsuit was originally a Star Trek costume. It's from The Savage Curtain, the third-to-last episode in the series. CRACKED.COM

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Happy Days Spin-offs

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LAVERNE & SHIRLEY One of the many spin-offs of Happy Days (of which two make this list) is Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams' Laverne & Shirley. If you want to talk about successful spin-offs, in its second season, Laverne & Shirley was the most watched TV show in America. Ahead of another show called... Happy Days.

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M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H WAS ON THE AIR FOR 3816 DAYS, MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE LENGTH OF THE KOREAN WAR (1128 DAYS). CERNE WARD 18210717 GRACKED COM

Laverne & Shirley Merch

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I Love Lucy

The First Live Studio Audience SHARP I Love Lucy beat All In The Family to the punch by 20 years. CRACKED.COM

WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP IN CINCINNATI CRACKED WKRP in Cincinnati was a sitcom on CBS from 1978-1982. It followed a program director and his team as they switched their radio station from easy listening to rock. It was nominated for Emmys and a Golden Globe. Exactly 1 season is available on iTunes.

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‘Here’s Johnny!’

Jack Nicholson came up with Heeeere's Johnny! in The Shining by himself. It was a riff on The Johnny Carson show, super popular at the time, where Johnny Carson would get introduced with that line. CRACKED.COM

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Dukes of Hazzard

TELL US NOW: MOST BIZARRE EPISODE Dukes of Hazzard to CRACKED Steven C. says When I was a kid, I remember an episode that involved the General Lee finishing a race, flipped upside down on top of another car (or with another car flipped upside down on top of the General Lee).

Bob Denver vs. A Lion

Bob Denver was almost mauled by a lion. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED COM When he sat down next to the big cat, as planned, the lion went off script and lunged at him. Denver yes-and-ed this improv by karate chopping, which further enraged it. That's when the lion's trainer stepped in to

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30 Tweed Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Might Make Your Brain Itchy

Gilligan’s Island

30 Tweed Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Might Make Your Brain Itchy
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The Newhart Universe

30 Tweed Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Might Make Your Brain Itchy

SNL in the '70s

In 1974, Johnny Carson asked NBC to stop broadcasting reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends. To fill the minute gap on Saturday nights, NBC came up w

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