28 Random Bits of TV Trivia We’ve Hypnotized Into Doing Our Evil Bidding

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28 Random Bits of TV Trivia We’ve Hypnotized Into Doing Our Evil Bidding
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We know that hypnotizing the good guys to do bad things isn’t something new, but we’re able to do it with these facts, so why would we pass up the opportunity? TV can be like that, okay? Episode after episode, a villain will try to outwit their heroic counterpart, get thwarted and retreat back to their lair to devise a new plot. Let’s be honest, how many “new plots” can there possibly be? 

At some point, they start pulling their same old tricks, but we love the show enough to keep coming back for more. Like these facts. Here they go again, trying to provide your brain with random TV knowledge, and although that’s a tad cliche of them, you love them enough to let them, don’t you? 

Yeah you do.

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother seems pretty light, but it was influenced by 9/11. It informed HIMYM in very subtle ways, the creators said, as that forced them to learn that life really is about chapters closing and things coming to an end. CRACKED.COM

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld never unironically said What's the deal with ... ? on Seinfeld. No, not even in the pre-intro stand-up sets. It's apparently associated with him just because he said it in a 1992 SNL skit where he played a game show host. CRACKED.COM

Stefon from SNL

STEFON BILL HADER CRACKED.COM One inspiration for writer John Mulaney was an email from a club promoter. Part of the pitch? Rooms full of broken glass. Hader was also inspired by a whispery local barista who lived on the Lower-Lower East Side.

Miley Cyrus’ Bill Murray Tribute

Miley Cyrus was stoned during her Bill Murray tribute, she forgot her lyrics. For the 2016 tribute to Murray's career, she was supposed to do a version of My Way with Murray-fied lyrics, but just stopped and said Sorry guys. I got too stoned. CRACKED.COM

American Horror Story

Lady Gaga based her role in American Horror Story: Hotel on one murderer. It was Robert Durst, and she said she watched him in The Jinx every day to sort of study the practical nature in which he was devious and evil. CRACKED.COM

The 1989 Oscars

Akward Awards 1989 OSCARS EILEEN BOWMAN and ROB LOWE Bowman and Lowe put on an incredibly loud performance of a new version of Tina Turner's Proud Mary as part of a 12-minute show. Afterwards, Bowman was told not to talk about the performance for 13 years. CRACKED

Game of Thrones

In Game of Thrones, LYANNA STARK is КідПАРРЕД by Rhaegar Targaryen. Stories of her taking and rape triggered Robert's Rebellion. As a result, Robert Baratheon wound up on the Iron Throne. The tale bears a striking similarity to that of Lucretia, a Roman woman who was raped by the son of the Etruscan King. Her last words, Pledge me your solemn word that the adulterer shall not go unpunished, triggered the revolution to overthrow the monarchy and establish the Roman Republic. CRACKED.COM http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/4D*.html

CPR on Medical Dramas

Medical dramas greatly overestimate how effective CPR is. X Long-term survival rate of someone who receives CPR is only 13%. CRACKED.COM

Early Wayne Campbell

COMEDY NERD Mike Myers' character from Wayne's World first appeared in Wayne's Power Minute. RATT It was a Mike Myers sketch featuring the same Wayne, on the short-lived Canadian show It's Only Rock'n'Roll, but it was waaaay more awkward and less funny than the movie. CRACKED.COM

Rob McElhenney

Rob McElhenney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was raised by a lesbian couple. McElhenney plays the for- merly homophobic and now out-of-the-closet (and ripped) homosexual charac- ter, Mac. The show has used gay marriage to illustrate America's hipocracy re- garding marriage equality. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Schitt’s Creek

Annie Murphy wrote A Little Bit Alexis with her husband. CRACKED.COM Murphy's husband is in Canadian indie band Hollerado, and the power couple collabbed on the pop abomination.

Star Trek

Chekov was added to Star Trek to attract young viewers. CRACKED.COM Pavel Chekov did not ар- pear on 'Star Trek' until the first episode of the second season. The character was created to attract young viewers by resembling Davy Jones of The Monkees.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. CRACKED.COM

Brent Spiner

Actors who wrote episodes for their shows Star Trek: Nemesis Brent Spiner Spiner gives Data a tragic honor as he strives to understand humanity and dies to save Picard and the crew, while Patrick Stewart brings gravitas to Picard's wistful regret and debates with Shinzon, encouraging him to find redemption. CRACKED

Thriller

Anthology Shows LER LER HRI 1960 - 1962 THRILLER Stephen King considers this one of the best horror shows ever. Boris Karloff hosted this gothic horror show, and even starred in some episodes. The series was canceled when Alfred Hitchcock pulled strings to not have it compete with his own anthology. CRACKED.COM

Lena Headey

Lena Headey from Game of Thrones said that once, at San Diego Comic-Con, people flat out ignored her like they were actually afraid of her (or just really freaking hated her). I was sitting between (Peter) Dinklage and Emilia (Clarke), who are the most beloved characters on the show, I literally just got ignored. People were giving Pete the books to sign and they kept moving away from me as if I was going to curse them. CRACKED.COM

Chris Pratt

CHRIS PRATT - - CRACKED GOM Most of us first met a looser version of Star-Lord on Parks and Rec, but teens in the mid 2000s knew him as Bright Abbott on the teen drama Everwood, and as Che on The О.С.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS AANG WAS GOING TO HAVE A FULL HERD OF SKY BISON. is AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER Bryan Konietzko pictured Aang as shepherding 20 bison. But then his partner Mike DiMartino said, Where are we going to put all of these giant creatures in every episode? CRACKED.COM

Law & Order

In season 4, Ben Stone resigns when his boss doesn't allow him to retry a case that ended with a hung jury. LAW & ORDER Michael Moriarty's character was written out after the actor publicly opposed the Attorney General of the United States, who thought shows like Law & O dre inspire real-life violence. CRACKED.COM

Adult Swim

Adult Swim causes a citywide bomb scare in BREAKING NEWS TURNER BROADCASTING ADMITS HOAX CRACKED.COM Adult Swim had local artists across the US install little Lite-Brite murals of Mooninites as part of a guerilla marketing scheme. The good people of Boston thought they were bombs, and shut down bridge, highway, and river traffic as they investigated and detonated the objects. Adult Swim wound up owing the city $2 million.

Project Runway

Auf wiedersehen LAME HEIDI KLUM GRACKED COM Auf Wiedersehen is a regular way of saying goodbye in German, and Heidi Klum just kind of started spontaneously using it as Project Runway judge - and she did it for years and years.

Farway Hill

The first soap opera 1946 the entire production Faraway written and directed by Hill DAVID P. LEWIS GRACKED.COM Farway Hill, about a New York City widow who finds herself upstate in a love triangle, was the first to port the soap opera from radio to TV.

Grey’s Anatomy

Dr. Erica Hahn was a breakout character on Grey's Anatomy. But in season 6, she walked out to her car and was never seen again. DE W She was an open lesbian who was involved in a romance with Dr. Torres, who previously had been noncommittal about her sexual orientation. She was dumped from the show without explanation. CRACKED.COM

Community

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS DANIELLE community HARMON ALL 5 Dances At the dance during the season 1 finale, the Dean announces the nominees for the Transfer Dance Queen. One of the names is Danielle Harmon, a shout-out to the show's creator, Dan Harmon. CRACKED COM

The Boulder

GRAGKED.COM AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER The Boulder, a character inspired by The Rock... ...was voiced by another WWE legend, Mick Foley aka Mankind.

The Office

COMEDY NERD GRAGKED.COM Mike Shur Hated Mose The Office Mike Shur, creator of The Good Place and writer for the office, hated playing Mose. Shur says The joke became with the writers because they knew how much I hated it. Greg Daniels even told Shur he had to grow the Mose beard himself because a prosthetic beard would look fake.

SNL Finland

SNL around the world SNL Finland attempted to entertain Scandinavians with material lifted from the American show. It was canceled after a single season. CRACKED.COM

Law & Order: SVU

CRACKED.COM ODAFIN TUTUOLA wasn't meant to be a big character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Ice-T says he was originally only supposed to do four episodes of Law & Order: SVU. At first, the producers weren't sure if they wanted more of him, but eventually asked him to join the cast. He's been on the show for 20+ years.

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