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    28 Retro TV and Movie Facts That Time-Travelled to the Present Day and are Terrified

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    28 Retro TV and Movie Facts That Time-Travelled to the Present Day and are Terrified
    • Classic TV shows and movies were shot on film, physically cut with scissors, and glued together into a reel we can still enjoy today.
    • The list of classic films and TV shows includes “The Shining,” “Jaws,” “The Godfather,” “Happy Days,” “The Golden Girls,” and more.
    • Whether you have a classic brain or enjoy modern technology, these facts about classic entertainment can still be appreciated in today’s digital age.

    Whether you’re on the younger or older side of this Earthly experience, we just hope that your brain has a classic vibe. Older brains most likely operate on a calmer vibration, but young ones who always seemed older for their age will also make good homes for these random facts about classic TV and movies.

    See, these facts are from decades ago, and beinghere in the modern day is quite frankly freaking them out. Makes sense, right? They were all shot on film, physically cut with scissors, and glued together into a reel we can all still enjoy today (even though they’ve clearly been digitized since then). Unless you happen to have that classic of a brain, and still enjoy movies and shows on a reel and projector in your living room.

    Either way, we’re just hoping that your brain can make them feel right at home in this AI slop-festof a timeline.

    28. The Shining

    THE FINGER WIGGLING WAS DANNY LLOYD'S IDEA. THE SHiNiNG Lloyd came up with Tony's finger- talking during his audition, and Kubrick liked it enough to keep it. CRACKED.COM

    27. Jaws

    Hooper escaped because of some choice B-roll footage. JAWS CRACKED.COM An actual wild shark visciously attacked the cage while no one was inside. So they rewrote the script to let Hooper get away.
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    26. The Godfather

    The Godfather Frank Pentangeli replaced Peter Clemenza. The plotline involving Pentangeli in The Godfather Part I was written for Clemenza, the Godfat
    Source: New York Post

    25. Happy Days

    AT A GLANCE ROBIN WILLIAMS Robin Williams wasn't the original actor for Mork The original actor quit, and Robin Williams was cast last-minute. Не improv'd most of his character. CRACKED.COM

    24. The Golden Girls

    28 Retro TV and Movie Facts That Time-Travelled to the Present Day and are Terrified

    23. Leonard Nimoy

    LEONARD NIMOY WAS A MARTIAN? FASCINATING! 21-year-old Nimoy played the evil Martian invader Narab in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. CRACKED.COM

    22. Jack Nicholson

    CRACKED.COM JACK NICHOLSON WAS ON THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. The show was huge in the '60s, totaling 249 episodes - and Nicholson was in two of them.

    21. Mork & Mindy

    Worst TV Finales Mork & Mindy After spending the entire episode chased through time by an alien trying to kill them, Mork and Mindy end up in a time vortex, lost in time forever. CRACKED.COM

    20. The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show CRACKED.COM The world was introduced to Andy Griffith in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. Thomas takes time off from being a good comedian and terrible father to get arrested in the small town of Mayberry.

    19. Happy Days

    Happy Days RONNY-HOWARD CRACKED.COM The Happy Days crew started out on an episode of Love, American Style, which was basically an anthology of unconnected rom-com pilots. Their episode was meant to be a pilot for an entirely different show that was never picked up. Two years later, the characters and settings were yoinked for Happy Days.

    18. Sabrina

    Sabrina The Teenage Witch CRACKED.COM Sabrina hails from the Archie universe. She had her own animated series in the 70's, but her first appearance was as the new kid at Riverdale in 1968's The Archie Show.

    17. I Love Lucy

    I Love Lucy 1953 CRACKED.COM The first televised birth (well, not graphic birth) goes to Lucille Ball, who wasn't even allowed to say the word 'pregnant' because it was too taboo.

    16. Leave it to Beaver

    Leave It to Beaver 1957 CRACKED.COM Although not quite the first show to feature a toilet (it was edited out for being too scandalous), it was the first show to show a toilet tank and certainly one of the first to even include a bathroom.

    15. Candid Camera

    Candid Camera 1948 Candia Camela CRACKED COM The show (originally a radio show called Candid Microphone) was the first televised reality show, featuring regular members of the public as its stars.

    14. All in the Family

    The first content warning 1971 The program you are about to see is ALL IN THE FAMILY. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. CRACKED.COM All in the Family featured several of the first slurs to appear on TV, and was preempted by this warning to contextualize them-kind of like how Disney+ warns kids about their racist crows and cats.

    13. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake RECEIVING 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Don Siegel's anti-communist metaphor is classic sci-fi noir, with many remakes. The worst one is The Invasion, with Nicole Kidman. The best? That'd be the 1978 one, which adds always reliable '70s paranoia, closely followed by Abel Ferrara's 1993 version. 1993 2007 1978 CRACKED.COM

    12. Sabrina

    Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1954 Sabrina The original is a timeless classic by Billy Wilder, starring Audrey friggin' Hepburn and Humphrey friggin' Bogart. The Sidney Pollack remake with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond adds a nice post- Petty Woman twist, but can't really touch the first one. 1995 CRACKED.COM

    11. Psycho

    Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho as an episode of his TV show. THE IMPROVISATION: Hitchcock shot Psycho with the crew and assets of his TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, because the studio didn't want to give him a cent for a new movie. THE RESULT: An instant classic that influenced pretty much all later horror films. CRACKED.COM

    10. He-Man

    He-Man was a toy before it was a TV show. When trying to sell the toy a Mattel sales rep told distributors a TV show was in the works- which was a lie. However, the lie sold the toy- forcing Mattel to create a TV show around the action figure. CRACKED.COM

    9. Police Academy

    GRACKED.COM The POLICE ACADEMY franchise had 77 movies 1 live action TV show 1 animated TV show Michael "the man of 10,000 sound effects" Winslow was the only original cast member to appear in everything (except, oddly, the cartoon.)

    8. The Brady Bunch

    Robert Reed, AKA Mike Brady, thought The Brady Bunch was a waste of his talents. Не was a Shakespearean actor, and thought TV as such was beneath him, and sitcoms were beneath TV. CRACKED.COM

    7. Betty White

    AT A GLANCE BETTY WHITE Her first TV role was a live show, five and half hours long, six days a week. Her costar Al Jarvis, previously a radio announcer, hadn't been on TV before either. CRACKED.COM

    6. The Sound of Music

    The 1965 film The Sound of Music was based on the 1956 German film The Trapp Family. In the German version, the von Trapp family and RODGERS HAMMERSTEINS ROBERT WISE Maria escape the Nazi THE Production SOUND regime by emigrating to OFMUSIC America and continuing their singing careers. THEM TODO-IO COLOR KX DeLese happy mun's story! An inspiring screen story... JULIE CHRISTOPHER THE ANDREWS PLUMMER We POLICE YOU RICHARD HAYDN TELE PARA NAZIONETICS ELEANOR PARKER our Yord Produce NET adidas vest TRAPP ROBERT WISE RICHARD RODGERS بسبلدة T'e OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Bulgin FREE - NOT LEVER ERNEST LEHMAN 5 I FAMILY

    5. Lillian Gish

    The first film actress: CRACKED.COM Known to act so hard she'd collapse, Lillian Gish was the first actress hired specifically for film. She method-acted so hard, she gave herself permanent nerve damage and almost starved to death on film.

    4. Adventures in Babysitting

    CRACKED.COM Babysitter Movies Adventures in Babysitting There's a Disney Channel remake of the film - and the edited version on Disney+ removes all the cursing. That way, you have two sanitized versions of the film to watch.

    3. Manhattan

    MANHATIAN al A won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MERUAL - - - In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance with a teenage girl. CRACKED.COM

    2. The Marx Brothers

    CRACKED COM THE COCOANUTS The Marx Brothers disliked their first film so much, they tried to prevent its release. Luckily, they failed. The film went on to become a hit and turned the brothers into household names.

    1. Eraserhead

    CRACKED.COM If not for SISSY SPACEK ERASERHEAD David . film Lynch's landmark might not have been made. In addition to funding the film with her husband, production designer JACK FISK, the future Oscar winner served in various behind-the-camera roles, from script supervisor to slate-clapper.
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