The 27 Dumbest Ways Movies And TV Shaped Your Life

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The 27 Dumbest Ways Movies And TV Shaped Your Life

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Pop culture has a way of shaping our lives in amazing ways. And sometimes, movies and shows can convince us to make choices that seem really great at the time. In retrospect, though, they usually turn out to be really stupid.

We asked our readers to show us the stupidest things they did to themselves (or their lives) because of some dumb show or movie.

The 27 Dumbest Ways Movies And TV Shaped Your Life
IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE I'VE STOPPED WATCHING THE SIMPSONS, BUT TO THIS DAY I STILL FIND MYSELF SAYING U D'OH 1 CRACKEDON
L started wearing a fedora in high school. Then, when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, people began calling me INDY. My last name lis Jones, SO L sup
AFTER MARATHONING THE GODFATHER FILMS, I BEGAN TALKING TO MY DOG WITH CORLEONE'S ACCENT. WHEN I HAD A TREAT FOR HER I'D SAY I'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER YO
Due to my sudden fascination with Breaking Bad I once told a random camper OWner8 Nice meth lab, dude. Howis the business? I couldn't help myself...
AFTER WATCHING FINDING NEMO AS A KID, FLUSHED ALL OF MY COUSIN'S FISH DOWN THE TOILET TO SET THEM FREE. NOT KNOWING HOW TOILETS WORK, I KILLED THEM AL
The 27 Dumbest Ways Movies And TV Shaped Your Life
CRACKEDc COM AS A LIFE LONG STAR WARS NERD, EVERY TIME I APPROACH AN AUTOMATIC DOOR I HOLD MY HAND OUT IN FRONT OF ME AND USE THE FORCE TO OPEN IT...
BACK in THE '90s, I DECIDED I REALLY needed THE RACHEL. What I also apparently needed was a team of hairstylists to make me look literally anything li
In my early teens, Robin Williams' frantic; random comedy style on Mork and Mindy inspired me to copy him and be the funny guy in school. Unfortun
AFTER BINGE WATCHING the office I STARTED LOOKING INTO AN INVISIBLE CAMERA WHENEVER I MADE A JOKE OR WAS REACTING TO SOMEONE ELSE. CRACKEDCO CON
tHe SiMPSonS The episode where Homer improves his vocabulary by listening to a tape while he slept inspired me to study for a history test by listenin
KINGHILL OF THE convinced me that propane was the only way to grill, SO I spent $200 on a propane grill... only to find out that BBQiNG with charcoal
My fast food consumption has doubled ever since I started watching Supernatural. They make greasy foods (and the act of eating them) look so appetizin
In Finding Forrestern Sean Connery's character likes to wear his socks inside-out with his reasoning being: ...because socks are badly designed. The
When binge-watching random clips from Breaking Bad I'd get so immersed in it that even a few minutes after I stopped, I'd catch myself saying things l
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Thanks to Frasier, I tried acting like a connoisseur. The problem was, I knew nothing about wine.
CRACKEDC CON Thanks to The Blair Witch Project (and the subsequent rise of found footage horror movies), exploring abandoned places at night has becom
When we were growing up, my sister fell in love with Grey's Anatomy. So much that she bought her own set of scrubs. I shouldn't laugh, though. She's a
1010101 HACKERS 0110100 1010101 was one of my favorite movies in middle HRACKEDCON school, and I desperately wanted to be like them, so I bought some
Thanks to Seinfeld I got SO in the habit of declaring ELL0O like Jerry) that I started accidentally answering business calls with it.
In 1994, was MY Siled SO- SO devoted to Lcalled the show LIFE that I dyed my hair red to be just like Claire Danes' character Angela. In typical teen
I've watched The Good Place a couple of times, and now I can't curse like a forking normal human being. NBC holy mother forking shirt balls The CRACKE
Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me to say something interesting about myself, I tell them I can speak French. When they ask me to say somethi
m was so head over heels for Jess Mariano of Gilmore Girls that he made me fall in love with denim jackets and reading. I currently own 12 denim jacke
LION THE KING I cannot count how many times I presented my infant child like Simba CRACKED COM while chanting the first lines of Circle Of Life.
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