31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About TV For Friday, December 19th

Enrich your next Netflix binge sesh with some BTS knowledge.
31 Trivia Nuggets From Pop Culture History About TV For Friday, December 19th
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Sometimes, after a long week of interacting every single day with coworkers, your social battery simply goes kaput and runs out. So, you have to cancel your plans and gift yourself with an evening in. Maybe you order takeout, or perhaps you treat yourself to an elaborate homemade dinner. Maybe you just make some instant ramen or slap some butter and cheese on a piece of toast. And then it begins: the Netflix binge where you lose yourself to a totally different world. Sometimes after a long TV sesh, I end up accidentally adopting the main character's personality for a few days after. So, keep yourself grounded by enriching your brain with BTS facts on all your favorite shows. 

Mr. Burns

Ahoy Hoy. CRACKED.COM Mr. Burns' chosen phone greeting of ahoy hoy seems like just a funny little character choice, but this is actually the original phone greeting suggested by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the 1800s. Ahoy, had been around for at least 100 years longer than hello. It too was a greeting (a nautical one) derived from the Dutch hoi, meaning hello. Graham Bell felt so strongly about ahoy that he used it for the rest of his life.

Wish this had stuck around! Ahoy!

Family Guy

CRACKED.COM FAMiLY GUY Peter Griffin's accent, look, and mannerisms came from a security guard named Paul Timmins who worked at the Rhode Island School of Design. The show's creator, Seth MacFarlane, had been a student there and would smoke cigarettes and chat with Timmins a couple times a day.

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother A real engagement happened on the show. Timothy Russo was friends with one of the writers, and used that connection to get him and his girlfriend Jana Rugan a gig as extras. It was there that he proposed to Jana, and it stayed in the episode. CRACKED.COM

Mad Men

CRACKED.COM Mad Men January Jones wanted to play Peggy Olson. The part went to Elisabeth Moss, but Jones did well enough to be cast as Betty Draper instead (even though Betty wasn't part of the original plans for the show, and it wasn't clear at that time what would ever happen with her).

Christina Hendricks

CRACKED Christina Hendricks JANELLL IS a skilled accordion player. I think it's a very romantic instrument, and it channels all the things I love - French culture, Tom Waits - and all the things I try to make my house look like. She even played it in a Mad Men scene.

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Stranger Things

As many as 20 networks rejected the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things series. CRACKED.COM One executive said they need to make it a kids show or have an adult character (Jim Hopper) be the main protagonist instead.

The fact that they didn't lock in a specific target audience probably helped make the show the big success it is today. 

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Game of Thrones

Isaac Hempstead-Wright just took what he could on Game of Thrones. When he realized he was on Game of Thrones for the very last time, he just started grabbing items, including a wooden tub and spoon, and a straw bowl. CRACKED.COM

I wonder if he managed to snag a dragon egg.

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Walter White

The creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, always had Bryan Cranston in mind to play Walter White, but the executives at CRACKED COM AMC wanted John

Game of Thrones

THE LANNISTER CHILDREN ACTUALLY GET ALONG FINE while cameras aren't rolling.

The Simpsons

James L. Brooks has a condition in his contract that the Fox network cannot interfere with 'The Simpsons.' Не was able to do that, be- cause Fox back then was a minor fledgling network. Former showrunner Bill Oakley compared working on the show to working in a bubble due to the lack of interference. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

That should honestly be the standard for all shows.

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ABC

Due to its lack of sports, ABC has a higher percentage of female viewers (about 62%) and a lower percentage of male viewers than any other network. ab

Johnny Carson

Recurring at Late Night Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent On August 5, 1981, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson debuted his iconic segment, Carnac the Magnificent. The hat and cape sell the mystical powers, and the jokes are legendary. CRACKED

Diahann Carroll

DIAHANN CARROLL was the first Black actress to be cast in a role other than a servant in 1968. She was also the first Black actress to get her own TV show. CRACKED.COM

Fawlty Towers

COMEDY NERD Fawlty Towers originally had a totally different theme song than the one you know. You can hear the original version only in the pilot-it got changed in the very next episode. CRACKED.COM

Chris Evans

CRACKED.COM Chris Evans His brother is also an actor. While he hasn't been in any Marvel films, Evans' brother Scott has a successful acting career as well. He's best known for the soap opera One Life to Live and the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie.

The Ethel Waters Show

The Ethel Waters Show 1939 N в C CRACKED.COM Ethel Waters was the first Black person to star in her own TV show. She would later be the first Black woman to be nominated for a primetime Emmy.

Heat Vision and Jack

COMEDY NERD We never got to watch a TV show with Jack Black and a talking motorcycle. ... 118 OCO OMIC It was called Heat Vision and Jack, and it was created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab-but the pilot was never made into a series. CRACKED.COM

SNL in Russia

SNL around the world СУББО ВЕЧЕР ШОУ Russia had Суббота Вечер Шоу (Saturday Evening Show) a taped sketch comedy show that was canceled after two episodes in 2013. Eventually, though, all six taped shows aired late night in 2014. CRACKED.COM

Parks and Rec

COMEDY NERD Parks and Rec season one feels pretty different from the later show. Those episodes are usually considered the show's worst, and Leslie Knope was a lot like Michael Scott from The Office. CRACKED.COM

Maybe that's why I stopped watching it so soon…

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