Close Menu
    Sunday, October 4
    Digital Culture

    29 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits For Sunday, October 4th That, When Strung End-To

    JamesBy No Comments2 Mins Read
    <img src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/fd0cd84f23d89ea227c4fdf1de76a246d5d2d57a6471172f5790e88951802be3/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w976%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fcracked_901%2F9a7d6a660db9541d37eb67b2ed4ae0b5.jpg" alt="29 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits For Sunday, October 4th That, When Strung End-To-End, Would Reach the Moon and Back”>

    As you’ve probably seen, we’re huge fans of wild stats on this site. We have countless stat lists kickin’ around, and… Wait a minute. If we actually go count them up right now, we’d be able to give you a stat about stat lists! It’ll be interesting for you, and it’ll give us something to do.

    Where were we? We’ve found out so many staggering stats about things strung end-to-end that we decided to try it ourselves. Here, you guys check out this beastlylist of pop culture tidbitswhile we start counting lists of stats. Wow, we both have such exciting little tasks ahead of us!

    29. Kate Mara

    Kate Mara has a clause in her acting contracts for when the Steelers and/or NY Giants play the Super Bowl. Mara is the great-granddaughter of both the founder of the NY Giants, Tim Mara, and the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

    28. Colossal

    Masterfully Subverted Tropes Colossal The nice guy love interest When the Colossal trailers came out, we were too busy theorizing about the kaiju to see that Jason Sudeikis' casting was a set up. Не seemed like a nice guy, a predictable love interest among the mayhem. But against character, the comedian actually plays an alcoholic abuser. It's a clever bait-and-switch that Promising Young Woman would later echo. CRACKED.COM

    27. Carrie 2

    CARRIE 2: THE RAGE WAS THROWN TOGETHER 23 YEARS AFTER THE CLASSIC. CRACKED 1999's Carrie 2: The Rage was supposed to be an original project called The Curse, but it was so similar to 1976's Carrie, that MGM just decided to make it a sequel.

    26. Andy Griffith

    THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Andy's maps are upside-down. Weirder still: why does a sheriff in North Carolina need maps of Idaho and Nevada? CRACKED.COM

    25. Harry Potter

    How do you get a character's hair floating around them, like Katie Bell in Harry Potter? Shoot the actor in a tank of water, then drop the footage into a scene set elsewhere. The technique is called wet-for- dry and also contributed to the floaty effects for the Dementors. CRACKED.COM

    24. Home Alone

    HOME ALONE 1 AND 2 THE EVENTS OCCUR 1 YEAR APART, BUT KEVIN AGES 2 YEARS. DID KEVIN'S BIRTHDAY OCCUR DURING BOTH MOVIES, WITHOUT MENTION? CRACKED.COM

    23. Ronaldo

    Cristiano Ronaldo's sister Katia Aveiro is a musician who's put out six albums. Until 2013, her stage name had been Ronalda, and at one point she announced that she wanted to represent Portugal in the EuroVision Song Contest. CRACKED.COM

    22. The Addams Family

    The conductor in the Mamushka scene in The Addams Family, Marc Shaiman, actually wrote the music. CRACKED.COM

    21. Knives Out

    EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Clue While the 1985 parody film shares the same basic plot, Johnson wanted to stay clear of the arch parody in his own movie while paying an obvious homage to the classic whodunnit. CRACKED.COM Knives Out

    20. Charles Schultz

    Charles Schulz created Franklin because of a fan letter. In 1968, former teacher Harriet Glickman, wrote to Schulz and suggested he add a Black character to Peanuts as a small of way of helping change "those conditions in our society" which led to the assassination of MLK "and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate, and violence." After more correspondence, Schulz agreed, and came up with Franklin. CRACKED.COM

    19. Moana

    MOANA CRACKED.COM Moana's accidental animal companion, a chicken that's dumb even by chicken standards, has a weird habit of trying to eat things it cannot possibly consume. A villager says they were curious about the chicken "eating the rock," foreshadowing the chicken later trying to eat Maui - a character voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

    18. Orgonites

    Orgonites In 2014, Kylie Jenner, Willow Smith, and Jaden Smith posted photos of them- selves making orgonites, which are manmade healing crystals, and reading books by a cult leader influenced by the guy whose theories about "or- gones" (a vague sort of energy derived from orgasms) led to the concept of the crystals. It's not clear how much they knew about the sex cult they were os- tensibly aligning themselves with, but you know. It's probably fine. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

    17. Celeb Dating

    Ashton Kutcher and January Jones used to be in a relationship. Peabody They dated in the late '90s, and were living together in 2000 - there's not a lot of details, though (somehow, there was way less celeb gossip back then). CRACKED.COM

    16. Frasier

    An actress was originally supposed to be cast to play the part of Maris Crane, however, after only 3 episodes they had described her physical appearance as so bizarre that she had practically become uncastable. ? FRASIER GRAGKED.COM

    15. Anderson Cooper

    Anderson Cooper launched his journalist career by forging a press pass. CRACKED.COM After college, Cooper forged a pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fight- ing the Burmese govern- ment. Не ultimately sold his home-made news seg- ments to Channel One.

    14. Army Man

    Comedy hotbeds Army Man America's Only Magazine Astonishingly Primitive Debut Issue! #1 ARMY Second Printing Not A Collector's Item Why I Love America ur first day MAN why do I love America? yees of the Well, maybe "love" is a an initiation little strong... I mean, to "break" I think it's a good coun- meone whacks try, Definitely. But a shattering WD lot of that is cause I the delicate asher. YOU may be shocked to find was born here, and have- your iced tea full of broken glass, but brother, n't seen that many other you 'd better just

    13. Vanilla Ice

    CRACKED VANILLA ICE THREATENED A HOMELESS MAN. In 1991, he was arrested and charged with battery after threatening a homeless man with a gun.

    12. Demolition Man

    CHECK THE NAMES IMPRISONED WITH WESLEY SNIPES AND SYLVESTER STALLONE IN DEMOLITION MAN: CRYO-PENITENTIARY MORNING HEARING SCHEDULE ID# INMATE TIME 07:00 HYDE, QUENTIN 357-M 08:15 PETERSON, SCOTT 4-NKT 07:30 PHOENIX, SIMON 468-W IT'S A MURDERER NAMED SCOTT PETERSON. Peterson would be the center of a sensational 2004 trial for killing his pregnant wife. The movie even put him in the right jail: its cryoPrison houses california's worst criminals, as does scott's san Quentin, california's last death row facility. CRACKED.COM

    11. Marley’s Ghost

    29 Pop Culture Trivia Tidbits For Sunday, October 4th That, When Strung End-To-End, Would Reach the Moon and Back

    10. ICP

    INSANe N THE THAT COWN POSSE FROM GOT THEIR name RECURRING DREAMS VIOLENT J керт HAVING ABOUT A CReePY CLOWN RUNNING AROUND 27 in DeLRAY. CRACKED.COM

    9. The Blues Brothers

    CRACKED.COM According to an official book... Jake Blues was Elwood Blues the son of a was abandoned woman in prison at a newspaper for murdering stand. her husband.

    8. Hellraiser

    Hellraiser FRANK'S GOOPY BONES CRACKED.COM Frank Cotton's sloppy resurrection was a wet, boney, sinewy rebirth on a budget.

    7. Dazed and Confused

    DAZED AND CONFUSED WENT MOSTLY UNNOTICED. For a movie legendary for giving us both Matthew McConaughey and his "Alright, alright, alright," Dazed and Confused barely made a profit - and only because it was very cheaply made. Compared to other movies released in 1993, it was less than a blip on the radar. CRACKED.COM

    6. Beethoven

    Beethoven CRACKED.COM Beethoven is basically the 90s' answer to Lassie... in that he's a one-trick pony who, like, should probably have died a while ago, right? In his 7th film, Beethoven's Christmas Adventure, we find out that Beethoven can talk, and he sounds strikingly like Tom Arnold. Weirder still, in his 8th and final film, he's dead silent once again.

    5. OITNB

    ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK REGINA SPEKTOR CRACKED.COM Spektor wrote "You've Got Time" especially for OITNB. Producer Kohan "sort of gave me [an attitude] like, 'If it works, it works," says Spektor. "And if it doesn't, don't worry, because I know ... you're not a machine. So just do it if you can."

    4. The Fonz

    Fonzie wasn't even billed in the opening credits. The Fonz was written as a clichéd bully, and Henry Winkler outright refused to play him that way. The producers let him have his way, so Winkler went on to turn a bit part into an uber-cool dude who quickly overshadowed the HAPPY DAYS show's "real" protagonists. CRACKED.COM

    3. Face/Off

    VA Metrics IT 100% 6. Opt T T TT Tr fi o st A English USA Face/Off was inspired by a hang-gliding accident. A friend of co-writer Mark Werb's was in a grisly hang-gliding accident that led to doctors having to take his face off, resculpt the underlying tissue, and then put it back. They wanted to make a movie where the bad guy and the good guy could become each other, and the hang-gliding accident pointed at how that could happen. CRACKED.COM

    2. Clerks

    CRACKED.COM Justic TF kevin smith clerks is in the Library of congress. Never let anyone tell you you dream too big, because Kevin Smith has a film in the Library of Congress. That's right, his slacker hit Clerks made it to the big time, boys. Salsa shark is in position.

    1. Viola Davis

    Viola Davis She spent her honeymoon at George Clooney's house. Davis and her groom spent their time relaxing in a villa owned by Clooney. CRACKED.COM
    Share.

    Related Posts

    Leave A Reply