30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Escaped Into a Mouse Hole After We Caught Them Causing Mischief and Mayhem

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30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Escaped Into a Mouse Hole After We Caught Them Causing Mischief and Mayhem
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Ha! You sneaky little TV facts thought you were going to escape, but you fell right into our trap. See, we knew that mousy facts like yourselves would dart for a mouse hole when we flicked on the light, so we disguised our ears as mouse holes and you ran right into our brains! 

Next time try running under the fridge instead. Actually, there won’t be a next time. You’re interesting enough to be in our brains forever!

Westworld

Westworld featured an homage to the creators of another HBO show. In the third season, we get to see the repair shop for a new park - and it includes the head of Drogon, from Game of Thrones, being worked on by GoT creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff. CRACKED.COM

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

Stranger Things

The Demogorgon underwent an otherworldly evolution. The strange thing from Stranger Things went through several stages of monstrosity before becoming

BoJack Horseman

BOJACK HORSEMAN Fans are well aware that visual gags are a staple of this show, and will often pause the show to spot all the gags. STOP PAUSING AND J

Patrick Dempsey

Greyis Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey used to be a professional juggler. He even joined and won second place in a national juggling competition. In tur

The Today Show

AI Roker has repeatedly shared his mother's recipe for Sweet Potato Poon on the Today Show. It's one of those sugary yam dishes with marshmallows and crushed pineapples. CRACKED.COM

Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The Drip scene When the Roses move into the motel, a plot point sees Eugene Levy's character having to deal with a leaky roof and water dripping on his head while he's trying to sleep. Levy hated this scene because he hates messing up his hair, and his son Dan Levy knew this...which is why he wrote the bit.

The Angry Beavers

THE ANGRY BEAVERS The beavers break the 4th wall. In the series finale that was written and recorded, Norbert and Daggett find out that they're cartoon characters AND that they've been cancelled. Nickelodeon ultimately decided it made them look bad, so it never aired. CRACKED.COM

Hugh Laurie

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM Hugh Laurie As easy as it is to forget that Hugh Laurie is from the UK, it's almost easier to forget he is a comedian. Hugh starred in a comedy sketch show with Stephen Fry in the 80s called A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Frasier

FRASIER CRACKED COM Frasier aired its series finale on May 13, 2004, after 11 seasons. The episode finds him getting off a plane in Chicago with 33.7 million viewers - its biggest audience since October 2000.

Miss Cleo

Miss Cleo wasn't Jamaican, named Cleo, or toll-free. 100 EAT TING ME? Unlike her clients, Youree Dell Harris avoided any charges. She died of cancer at 53. CRACKED.COM

The Mickey Mouse Club

Ryan Gosling joined The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993, when he was 12. Не was there at the same time as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. I think they needed a Canadian. Every man in my family works in a paper mill, and I'd probably be doing that, too, if I hadn't learned when I was 11 that there's more out there, he later said.0M

The Falcon and Winter Soldier

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS DANIEL BRÜHL IMPROVISED ZEMO'S DANCE. THE FALCON AND TA WINTER SOLDIER The actor revealed that the dance that set the internet on fire wasn't in the script. Brühl thought the character would be itching to let off some steam after rotting in prison for so long. CRACKED.COM

Matt LeBlanc

MATT I EBLANC MODERN FAMILY CRACKED.COM LeBlanc turned down the Phil Dunphy role. I remember reading it thinking, this is a really good script, (but) I'm not the guy for this, LeBlanc said. I'd be doing the project an injustice to take this. Self-awareness for the win!

The Dead Zone

Stephen King Movies Original vs. Remake 1983 THE DEAD ZONE David Cronenberg's dark and moody movie became a more sci-fi oriented, but still decent, series-which ended in a cliffhanger when it was canceled. 2002-2007 CRACKED.COM

Friends

COMEDY NERD The original pilot script for Friends features pretty different characters. CLOSED 8 Phoebe was into busking, Monica was cynical, and Joey was actually sort of mean. CRACKED.COM

Reno 911

RENO 911! BEHIND THE SCENES Facts THE CANCELLATION WAS A SURPRISE TO THE CREATORS RENO 911! Lennon and Garant were blindsided by the show's cancellation. The ratings were high at the time the show was cheap to make, and it only took around 20 days to film an entire a season. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

30 Random Bits of TV Trivia That Escaped Into a Mouse Hole After We Caught Them Causing Mischief and Mayhem

Arrow

CRACKED.COM FELICITY SMOAK was only scheduled for two scenes on Arrow. In her first TV gig, Emily Rickards signed on for a minor role on a single episode of Arrow. Stephen Amell had a fun time working with her, so he talked the producers into giving her a bigger role - which soon led to her becoming a main character. STAR

Adventure Time

PILOTS THAT WERE WILDLY DIFFERENT ADVENTURE TIME The original pilot features Penn (after creator and voice Pendleton Ward) instead of Finn, a fun catchphrase Adventure Time!, and ninjas. M CRACKED.COM

Conan the Barbarian

CONAN THE BE BARBARIAN CRACKED COM With hit 90s fantasies like 'Hercules' and 'Xena,' producers decided to reach back to the 1982 movie for a 1997 TV show 'Conan the Adventurer.' A 1992 animated series with the same name lasted 2 seasons, but 97's live action show was a flop and cancelled after 22 episodes.

Squid Game

Hwang Dong-hyuk had to stop writing Squid Game to sell his laptop. Не was living with his mother and grandmother at the time, and they were pretty cash-strapped-so, at one point, he had to sell his laptop (for $675). CRACKED.COM

Seth Rogen

SETH ROGEN AUDITIONED FOR DWIGHT ON THE OFFICE. CRACKED.COM sletter S N A bonus feature on the box set for Season 9 of The Office revealed the previously unseen tape of Rogen's audition for the role of Dwight. The show's producers ultimately decided Rainn Wilson was better Dunder-Mifflin material. But hey, Rogen avoided Jim's Jell-0 prank. So there's that.

Transformers

CRACKED THE TRANSFORMERS CARTOON WAS MADE TO HAWK PRODUCT. In 1984, Hasbro bought a toy line from the Japanese company Takara, and rebranded them as Transformers. They created the Transformers series based on the toy line, and made $950 million in toy sales from 1984 to 1990 alone.

Emily’s Reasons Why Not

CANCELED RIGHT AWAY EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT ABC committed to a sitcom starring Heather Graham without even seeing its pilot. After the pilot aired, programming chief Steve McPherson said It's not going to get better, and immediately canceled it. CRACKED

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