29 Pieces of TV Trivia We Hacked From the Mainframe Just in the Nick of Time

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29 Pieces of TV Trivia We Hacked From the Mainframe Just in the Nick of Time

Telling us to “tune in next time” was a pretty genius way for a TV show to hook us. In the pre-binging world of TV, you really had to mark the next episode on the calendar. Literally with a pen. Insane, right? 

Well jump back into the present day and tell you that you dont have to worry about a “tune in next time” at the bottom of this list. We told a TV fact story with a concise beginning, middle and end, so you can save yourself some ink. Or typing a reminder in your Google calendar or whatever.

Happy Days

SCOTT BAIO ERIN MORAN CRACKED.COM Cute as the younger relatives of Richie and the Fonz, less so as post-adolescent first bananas. For God's sake, why cast them as aspiring singers when Baio couldn't carry a tune? #17 on TV Guide Network's 25 Biggest TV Blunders.

Celebrity Cameos

CRACKED.COM Awful Sitcom Tropes Celebrity cameos  the Matt Lauer cameo in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt pilot? Yeah. Add to that Michelle Obama in iCarly, Donald Trump in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Quentin Tarantino in All American Girl, Bob Dylan in Dharma and Gregg, or Elon Musk in The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, and you'll agree that celebrity cameos in sitcoms can be highly obnoxious.

Mork & Mindy

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

Mad Men

JON HAMM SOMETIMES HAD TO BE SHAVED THREE TIMES A DAY ON THE SET OF MAD MEN. Apparently the man has a beard that won't quit, and on long shooting days he had to get a shave done two or three times to get that clean look the show was going for. CRACKED.COM

The Inbetweeners

In an episode of The Inbetweeners, Will flips when the boys lose their front seats on a CRACKED.COM roller coaster, calling the riders who took their spots @rseholes and demanding the line-jumpers be moved. He's mortified after learning the seats were given to special needs visitors. Actor Simon Bird revealed it had really happened to one of the show's writers.

7th Heaven

MILA KUNIS, LEIGHTON MEESTER, KERI RUSSELL 7TH HEAVEN C You may  Jessica Biel's role, but many actors had parts before they were famous. CRACKED.COM

John Lutz

John Lutz (Lutz) and Sue Galloway (Sue) are married in real life. So Lutz's girlfriend didn't live in Canada after all. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

Rachel Dratch

Rachel Dratch was originally cast as Jenna. Dratch ended up playing various smaller characters on the show. BEHIND-THE-SCENES CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

CRACKED 30 ROCK It was originally going to be called Rock Center, and Tina Fey preferred the title The Peacock, but NBC didn't want them to mock the company logo.

SNL

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM BILL MURRAY VS CHEVY CHASE SNL VENKMAN While this slide could be named Chevy Chase Vs Everyone He's Ever Come in  With, we'll focus on Bill Murray. Bill replaced Chevy on the show and when Chevy returned to host in the 3rd season, what Murray describes as an oedipal fueled Hollywood fight broke out and the two had to be separated by Murray's brother.

Ben Stiller

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BEN STILLER ED THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CAST IN 1989. Не did a bunch of celebrity impersonations, including Mandy Patinkin and Bruce Springsteen, but left pretty quickly - he didn't make it until the end of the year.

Key & Peele

CRACKED.COM KEY& PEELE JORDAN PEELE ALMOST WAS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Peele was approached to do his Obama impression on SNL, but was unable to do so because he was still under contract with Mad TV. When the contract expired, he took his impression to his own show.

He-Man

Low-Effort Pop Culture He-Man's Orko He-Man's companion originally went by Gorpo. To get the most out of the animators' work, the character was renamed as Orko, so that when the footage was flipped, it would look exactly the same and they'd get double the amount of animation. CRACKED

WandaVision

A winery name in Wanda Vision actually has a big hint about the source material. MARVEL 7 HOUSE OF ASTONISHING X-MEN - OF e OF RENDIS COUPEL FOUNDEND D'ARMATA 1953 M 2 GAMAY MÉPRIS M . I i a I I 1 SAINT - 1 AMBLARD 800 But The winery Maison du Mepris, or House of Contempt, is probably a reference to House of M, a 2005 story that the show heavily drew on. CRACKED.COM

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29 Pieces of TV Trivia We Hacked From the Mainframe Just in the Nick of Time

Big Little Lies

Masterfully Subverted Tropes Big Little Lies Mean rich lady During the first season, Laura Dern's Renata is an uptight, snobbish rich lady, particularly focusing her classist scorn on Shailene Woodley's Jane. By the end of the season, however, she realizes she was wrong, apologizes, and offers friendship like an actually fallible human being. We were not ready for such emotional maturity, to be honest. CRACKED.COM

The Boys

CRACKED.COM THE BOYS BLACK NOIR'S ACTOR IS ALSO ALLERGIC TO NUTS. In Season 2, Queen Maeve takes out Black Noir by shoving an Almond Joy down his throat. Actor Nathan Mitchell reportedly also has a nut allergy, and Eric Kripke incorporated that into his character.

True Detective

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolato cleared up Julie's fate at the end of S3. CON Ultimately, that is really her at the end. And I think it's enough to know that she made it, he said. CRACKED COM

Quantum Leap

in QUANTUM LEAP, SAM BeCKeTT SPenT HIS DAYS TIME-HOPPING INTO OTHER People's BODIES. 1012 Dr. Sam Becket 65 never returned home. AND не neveR FOUND HIS WAY Home. Each episode of the series opened with a brief narration explaining the premise, concluding that Sam hopes his next leap will take him home. In the last episode, Sam somehow leapt into his own body in some kind of odd purgatory-like dimension that looked like a bar. It concluded with a title card (with his name misspelled) stating that he never got home. CRACKED COM http:/www.nbc.com/classic-tv/quantum-leap/video/mirror-image-august-8-1953/2927336

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Rob McElhenney had a nightmare that inspired the show. Glenn Howerton describes, The show started as a night terror, basically. A late-night sweating station. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Entourage

JEFFREY TAMBOR JOKES ABOUT HIS OWN SCANDAL. ENTOURAGE GRACKED Не was accused of groping by his former assistant, and they jokingly allude to a similar scandal years earlier. Ari says, There was that little incident on Arrested Development, and Tambor replies, You haven't heard about it, there's no reason to hear about it.

The Wonder Years

The big brother from The Wonder Years used to be a PR shill. Jason Hervey (whom you might  bullying Fred Savage) was in 2003 the head of PR at healthcare giant HealthSound. But when HealthSound got involved in a billion-dollar ing scandal, Hervey sucked at his job of making the company look as good as possible. Не was eventually fired, so he sued them for $400,000. CRACKED.COM

Jessica Biel

cartoon celebrities BoJack Horseman Jessica Biel Biel herself pushed the writers to hold nothing back and be really mean to her in her recurring appearances. That's how put-downs like attempted movie star and future hard Jeopardy! question were born. CRACKED.COM

The Most Pirated Show of All Time

GAME OF THRONES IT'S THE MOST PIRATED SHOW OF ALL TIME. According to TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones was the most pirated show from 2012 to 2016. The premiere of the final season was pirated 55 million times in just 24 hours. CRACKED.COM

The Buddy System

EARLY GIGS OF STAR TREK ACTORS WIL WHEATON THE BUDDY SYSTEM The Buddy System - in which a child tries to set his mom up-is potentially the most forgettable comedy in the world. And it's where Wil Wheaton got his start before becoming Wesley Crusher, the role everyone in the world wishes they could forget. CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

For the sound of dragon wings in Game of Thrones, they used leather. Leather jackets, specifically-that, canvas, and a shammy (a new shammy that has never been wet, it has a really nice heavy sound to it, apparently). CRACKED.COM

Drunk History

CRACKED TWO DRUNKS HAD A BRIGHT IDEA, AND COMEDY CENTRAL SAID, WHY NOT? In 2007, two drunk guys had an idea to make a show about people getting drunk and telling stories about historical events. They filmed the first episode in a backyard, and eventually Comedy Central picked it up as Drunk History.

Family Guy

TOM BRADY FAMILY GUY 54 28 12 68 GRACKED.COM Seth MacFarlane must be a Brady fan - - he cast the QB in Ted 2 in addition to numerous mentions on Family Guy. Brady guest-starred during Season 4, inviting Peter to  the Patriots after he plows through a crowd on his way to the bathroom.

Betty White

A Rose by any no other name - She's very consistent. Betty appeared in four different TV shows, over the course of seven years, as the character Rose Nylund: The Golden Girls (1985), Empty Nest (1988), Nurses (1991), and The Golden Palace (1992). CRACKED.COM

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