12 Iconic Things Created From Laziness
Turns out some artists completely half-assed their most famous thing.
![12 Iconic Things Created From Laziness](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/9/2/702792.jpg?v=2)
You probably think of famous movies, songs, and other pop culture staples as being carefully, meticulously crafted from the ground up. The thing is, sometimes a really famous creation is the result of some artist taking the easiest, laziest possible shortcut, and running with it.
And it's not just lesser-known album filler, either. Sometimes well-known works are the result of sloth-level laziness. For example ...
![The original opening sequence of THE SIMPSONS- which didn't appear in the series pilot -- was made unusually long to cut the amount of animation work](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/7/702477.jpg?v=2)
![Guns N' ROSES wanted a breakdown near the end of sweet Child o' Mine, but never got around to writing it. One time, when they got to that section, A](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/2/702492.jpg?v=2)
![Marlon Brando would often gaze to one side in scenes, giving him that iconic cool, detached look. He did it to read his lines.. They were written on a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/8/702488.jpg?v=2)
![The Beatles were too lazy 626 to shoot a cover photo at EVEREST the Himalayas for their 1th album called Everest, named after Everest EXTRA MILD cigar](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/4/702494.jpg?v=2)
![LYNYRD CRACKED COM SKNYRD That awesome log guitar solo at the end of Free Bird'' was added SO Ronnie Van Zant, the vocalist of the band, could take a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/1/702481.jpg?v=2)
![SAMUS ARAN'S ICONIC BALL MORPHING POWERS COME FROM... the Metroid designers realizing that animating her crawling would be way harder than just turnin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/9/702629.jpg?v=2)
![Tchaikovsky really didn't care for the 1812 Overture, and composed it because he was asked to and didn't want to say no. So he just threw together s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/2/702482.jpg?v=2)
![SOUTH PARK'S INFAMOUS VILLAINS, STHE CRAB PBOPLE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE USED WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED They were intended to be a placeholder](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/9/6/702496.jpg?v=2)
![New Order's Blue Monday only exists because the band didn't want to do encores. Instead, they threw together a backing sythesizer track to play whil](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/9/702489.jpg?v=2)
![Love Actually's opening scene of people reconnecting and embracing in Heathrow Airport is the result of director Richard Curtis'laziness He had tons o](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/5/702485.jpg?v=2)
![Groucho Marx's famous painted mustache came about because he couldn't be bothered gluing on a fake mustache prior to a performance. GRAGKEDOOM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/6/702476.jpg?v=2)
![Stan Lee created the Avengers because that was the easiest way to get a comic book out in time. AVENGERS The art on Daredevil #1 was running't late, a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/1/702861.jpg?v=1)