40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Make a Big Sloppy Salad in Your Skull

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Make a Big Sloppy Salad in Your Skull

There was an actual predator in Predator, and his scene had to be deleted when producers found out.

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Tomorrow Never Dies

CRACKED YOUR VILLAIN'S PLOT CAN'T BE EASILY THWARTED BY GOOGLE. TOMORROW NEVER DIES ILL BACK ST This Bond villain is a media mogul who plans to manipulate the news to incite war between China and the UK. Today, social media and a quick googling of countless news sources would label this fake news within a few minutes.

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Irwin Allen

Disaster movies Then vs. Now Disaster men Producer Irwin Allen was the disaster man, with films like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. More recently, the true king of bombastic disasters is Roland Emmerich, with Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Moonfall. CRACKED.COM

Monty Python

Monty Python And The Holy Grail $380K They blew their first attempt at a feature film with 1971's And Now For Something Completely Different. But they scraped together less than half-a-million dollars in funding for Holy Grail, and turned that into a $5 million theatrical run.

That’s My Boy

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Make a Big Sloppy Salad in Your Skull

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves has a private foundation that helps children's hospitals and cancer research. After his sister's diagnosis of leukemia, Reeves has done c

The Princess Bride

In the book, Princess Buttercup is rather stupid, has nothing CRACKED.COM going for her other than her beauty, and she dumps Westley outside the Fire Swamp to save herself. Fortunately, when adapting his book for the screen, William Goldman gives her some personality, and during the Fire Swamp showdown, she sacrifices her freedom in order to save Westley from Humperdinck. THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Frank Costello

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JACK NICHOLSON REJECTED THE ROLE AT FIRST. THE DEPARTED Nicholson initially turned down the role of Frank Costello because he felt the role was too small. Не signed on after Scorsese decided to expand the role. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

Elaine Tries To Convert A Gay Man CRACKED.COM In the season 6 episode, The Beard, Elaine pretends to be the girlfriend of a gay man in order to please his homopho- bic boss. After a fun night at the opera, Elaine goes full Mike Pence and tries to 'convert him,' and asks if he's thought about changing teams. Yikes! This epi- sode would 100% not fly by today's stan- dards unless it was being released by The 700 Club. Do better, Elaine. We're still waiting for an iPhone note-style apology on your Instagram.

The Dominatrix

Irene Adler CRACKED.COM BBC's Sherlock Irene The Dominatrix Being a woman + being cool as hell = you become a dominatrix in this adaptation, because women = sexy sells!

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis' role on Friends was the result of a lost bet. Matthew Perry bet him that their film The Whole Nine Yards would open at No. 1, and if it did, Willis would guest-star on Friends for free. It did, and Willis did three episodes of Friends.

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RoboCop

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Make a Big Sloppy Salad in Your Skull

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin (and the Chipmunks) 1959 NOW DAV Ch Cover art for a Nickelodeon's novelty album high-def wherein some karaoke fever guy harmonizes dream. with h

TV Breakfasts

A typical breakfast on TV beats anything you'll ever eat. Expect a giant fruit platter, freshly squeezed juice, and a mountain of homemade pancakes. I

Harry Potter

Harly Potter AND THR PRISONER OFAZKABAN It would've been SO easy for the crew to use CGI for Aunt Marge's inflation scene. But they didn't. Expandable

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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia to Make a Big Sloppy Salad in Your Skull

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