‘Revenge of the Nerds’ star Curtis Armstrong Explains the Difference Between Dorks and Nerds

If anyone knows the true essence of nerdom, it’s Booger

Authors: By Ian Garner
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 4

‘Platonic’ Features the Low-Key Darkest Joke of Any Comedy So Far This Year

Seth Rogen rarely riffs on real-life tragedies

Authors: By JM McNab
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 3

12 of the Most Unlikely Duos in Entertainment History

Good or bad, these unlikely collabs were all downright weird!

Authors: By Jay L'Ecuyer, JhallComics
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 3

14 Trivia Tidbits We’ve Been Fostering From The Time They Were Factoids, But It’s Time Now To Send Them Off Into The World As The Listicle They Were Always Destined To Become

Shakespeare was a great writer known for inventing the valley girl name we know and love.

Authors: By Reba C, JhallComics
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 4

The Man Making A.I. SpongeBob Covers of Emo Songs

Gerard Way has some competition

Authors: By Ian Garner
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 2

28 Blood-Spattered Facts About Quentin Tarantino Movies

By:: Brian C. Miller; Cracked Writers

August 01, 2021

28 Blood-Spattered Facts About Quentin Tarantino Movies

Don't you hate it when you're sitting in a car with your co-worker, passing the time before your next big assassination? Here are some fun facts about the films of Quentin Tarantino that'll make you look like the real Big Kahuna before you go off and, you know, walk the path of righteousness or whatever.

28

That's Tarantino spitting in Uma Thurman's face in Kill Bill. Michael Madsen's character is spitting, but Tarantino wanted to do it himself. I love Michael, he's a terrific actor, but I didn't trust him with this kind of intricate work, of nailing this. So the idea is, I'm doing it, I'm taking responsibility. Also, I'm the director, so I can kind of art direct this spit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

27

Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs was played by an actual felon. The actor, Edward Bunker, went to prison for robbing banks, forging checks, assault ...etc. He also wrote novels and screenplays, and eventually became an actor. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

26

Actress Linda Kaye was a HARD LUCK WOMAN PULP FICTION RESERVOIR DOGS CRACKED That innocent woman who got carjacked by Mr. Pink? She's the same unfortunate bystander who gets shot by Marsellus Wallace. Some people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

25

Jamie Foxx kinda trolled Christoph Waltz on the set of Django Unchained. Waltz broke his pelvis by falling off a horse on the set, so Foxx gave him a saddle with a seat belt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

24

Better drag. More flavor. Less throat burn. RED APPLE ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Red Apple REGULAR CRACKED.COM Red Apple cigarettes have appeared in nearly every Tarantino film. Since the fictional company has been around since 1862, Bounty Hunter Jake Cahill can roll his own. Take a bite and feel all right. Take a bite of Red Apple. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

23

The Japanese girl band made it into kill Bill because of a random encounter Tarantino had. He heard the 5.6.7.8's in a second-hand shop in Tokyo and asked to buy their album, but they told him no, because that was the owner's album. He insisted, because he was on his way to the airport -- and he got it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

22

The Tarantinoverse found its way to THE MCU CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER LOL. NICHOLAS J FURY The PATH OF the RIGHTEOUS MANA EZERIEL 25:17 19 201 CRACKED.COM When Nick Fury died, directors Joe and Anthony Russo needed to enscribe his tombstone with an epitaph. They decided on Ezekiel 25:17, the path of the righteous man verse Samuel L. Jackson recited in Pulp Fiction. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

21

Tarantino typed Django Unchained with one finger. He first wrote it out in longhand, then typed it up, using one finger, on the same old typewriter / word processor he'd used to write Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

20

Is Mr. Pink masquerading as BUDDY HOLLY? PULP FICTION SHIT CRACKED.COM While it's unclear which movie is set earlier in time - Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs -- some fans speculate that Steve Buscemi's Mr. Pink is hiding behind those Buddy Holly hornrims. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

19

At one point, Will Smith was the top choice to play Django in Django Unchained. He ended up passing because he thought it should be a movie about love, not vengeance, and that just didn't work for Tarantino. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

18

OH BROTHER where art thou? PULP FICTION RESERVOIR DOGS CRACKED.COM We never see Vic and Vince Vega in the same movie, but they're criminal siblings all the same. Tarantino had a prequel in the works with the brothers opening a club in Amsterdam, but unfortunately it never came to be. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

17

The Reservoir Dogs car showed up again in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Rick Dalton's '66 Cadillac was also Mr. Blonde's car. Michael Madsen (who played Mr. Blonde) had kept it in storage all those years. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

16

Count Chocula's forgotten cousin was FRUIT BRUTE PULP FICTION CRACKED Count Chocula and FrankenBerry are the popular monster cereals, but in Tarantinoverse, it's all about the Fruit Brute. The fruit-flavored cereal with marshmallow bits made cameos in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

15

Eli Roth got into character for Inglorious Basterds with the help of Hannah Montana. He thought about his relatives being killed in the Holocaust while listening to a Hannah Montana song, and that put him in the crazy, murderous mindset he needed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

14

There's something familiar about FOX FORCE FIVE PULP FICTION CRACKED.co Mia Wallace explains the premise of her failed TV pilot: Five foxy, forceful secret agents take on the world, each an expert in various kinds of violence. Which sounds an awful lot like the Bride's enemies in the Kill Bill movies. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

13

Simon Pegg was originally supposed to play Lt. Hicox in inglorious Basterds. They only got Michael Fassbender once Pegg dropped out due to scheduling problems. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

12

TARANTINO WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT SHAFT DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED Kerry Washington plays Brunhilde von Shaft, who will eventually have a child with Django. Tarantino confirms they're the great-great-great-grandparents of 'Shut your mouth! — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

11

Tom Waits auditioned for one of the gangster roles in Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino had him come in and read the Madonna speech, just so he could hear Tom Waits say all that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

10

BIG KAHUNA BURGER got some tasty burgers PULP FICTION CRACKED.COM Those Hawaiian burgers are so damn tasty, in fact, that they show up in six films by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez: Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk till Dawn, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

9

Originally, Vincent Vega wasn't supposed to blow Marvin's brains out right away. In the script, Vega would first shoot him in the throat, then he and Jules would frantically try and figure out what to do (while poor Marvin gurgled in the background). Their solution would be blowing Marvin's brains out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

8

The Bride's fightin' clothes are a tribute to BRUCE LEE KILL BILL GRACKED.COM The Bride's yellow jumpsuit is a salute to Bruce Lee's outfit in Game of Death. Another nod to Bruce in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood wasn't as well received by fans. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

7

Tarantino insisted he had to be the one strangling Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds. If it's just a guy with his hands on your neck, not putting any kind of pressure... you're not going to get the blood vessels bulging, or the eyes filling it with tears, he said, and requested to commit to choking you. She agreed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

6

Django, meet DJANGO DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED.COM Foxx's Django explains how to pronouce Django to an Italian gangster. That gangster is played by Franco Nero, the star of 1968's Django. That's some Inception-style, Django- within-a-Django meta-scene. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

5

There's no official answer to what's in the Pulp Fiction briefcase. It was originally supposed to be diamonds, but they decided against that because it felt too hokey and unoriginal. So they left it a mystery. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

4

Q's fave kung fu flick is THE FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH KILL BILL CRACKED.COM So it's no surprise that the Bride's finishing move was called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart. Kill Bill's Vengeance Theme was also featured in Five Fingers. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

3

Beatrix and Elle's fight in Kill Bill owes a debt to Jackass. jackass the movia The first Jackass movie played an influence on the gross parts of that fight, Tarantino said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

2

BIG TROUBLE was just hanging around DEATH PROOF these only SHI B'E CRACKEDo COM Kurt Russell's Stuntman Mike liked to eat at the Texas Chili Parlor, a joint with a lot of retro memorobilia hanging on the wall. One tasty item was Jack Burton's iconic vest from Russell's Big Trouble in Little China. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

1

The Pulp Fiction car got stolen in 1994 (and recovered almost 20 years later). It was Tarantino's owned car, and it was recovered kind of by accident-- in 2013, cops saw two guys stripping down a Chevrolet Malibu, and it turned out the Malibu was stolen ... from Quentin Tarantino. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

Tags

Quentin Tarantino

Recommended For Your Pleasure

15 Swerves of Trivia That Drained Our Bank Accounts This Week

We’ve got some fine things to say about New Jersey

Authors: By Ryan Menezes
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 4

The Funniest Lines from ‘South Park,’ According to Reddit

Reddit ranks the most quotable quips of ‘South Park’

Authors: By Keegan Kelly
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 2

5 Fascinating Technologies the World Forgot Once They Were Replaced

Welcome to the past, when we bounced words off the Moon

Authors: By Ryan Menezes
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 5

Five Times Being Dead Didn’t Prevent Someone from Being Executed

That’ll teach ’em

Authors: By Mike Rampton
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 3

15 Bits Of Trivia We’ve Arranged Into An Impenetrable Factual Phalanx Capable Of Infiltrating Your Hippocampus (Though Admittedly Ineffective Against Cavalry)

Should we all get into fern collecting?

Authors: By Reba C, JhallComics
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 6

Late-Night Guests Who Owned Their Hosts

Lindsay Lohan informed Letterman, ‘This is my show now’

Authors: By Matt Solomon
Published: May 27, 2023
Comments: 6