27 Cushiony Bits of TV Trivia for Your Brain to Park Its Keister On and House A Big Ol’ Bag of Chips

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27 Cushiony Bits of TV Trivia for Your Brain to Park Its Keister On and House A Big Ol’ Bag of Chips

Just so you know, our TV facts aren’t here to replace your TV time. They’re only here to help enhance your TV time! 

To really prove that to you, we’re totally willing to print each one of these on a comfy pillow for you to snuggle up with while watching your favorite shows. Let us know if that’s something you’d be into.

Jerry Stiller

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM JERRY STILLER ALMOST PLAYED HESH. ONE Söpranos Stiller dropped out of the project just days before the pilot was supposed to be shot. The casting director then reached out to Jerry Adler, who was friends with David Chase, and offered him the role.

Freddie Stroma

Prince Friedric's sideburns were fake. Actor Freddie Stroma, understandably, couldn't grow them himself. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE A DON DOESN'T WEAR SHORTS LINE CAME FROM ACTUAL MOBSTERS. Söpranos In season four, Tony, who is often seen wearing shorts, is told that a real don doesn't wear shorts. This was an actual critique David Chase received from some mobster who didn't like that Tony was wearing shorts on the show.

The Mandalorian

CRACKED.COM Behind the scenes The Mandalorian ILM's Stagecraft features LED screens surrounding the cast- with the filmmakers having the ability to digitally alter the background in real-time.

Captain Kangaroo

Bob Keeshan, AKA Captain Kangaroo, liked exposing himself. An announcer called Mr. Green Jeans would warm up the live audience before each episode, and Keeshan - who was off to the side where the audience couldn't see him --would take his pants off, put a pencil under his dick, and wave it at Mr. Green Jeans. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek: Next Generation

The uniforms in Star Trek: The Next Generation smelled awful. The crew wore spandex uniforms for the first two seasons, and spandex retains smells very, very well. Which is a problem when people wearing all spandex are trapped in an enclosed space together for the better part of a day. Mercifully, they got wool uniforms in Season 3. CRACKED.COM

The Walking Dead

DANAI GURIRA mastered the blade. Gurira mastered sword-fighting - although maybe not to quite the same degree as her character - over an intense amount of training before The Walking Dead, and years more during theater college. She even frequently practices it as part of her daily exercises. CRACKED.COM

Cobra Kai

WILLIAM ZABKA is a weapon himself. Karate Kid's Johnny Lawrence became a karate expert, sticking with it after the film was over, with him even getting a bit typecast due to his skills. Не ended up with a green belt, halfway to a black belt, before Cobra Kai. CRACKED.COM

Kit Harington

KIT HARINGTON is amazing with a sword. Perhaps attempting to do something more interesting than look over a wall, Kit Harington got incredibly good at using a sword during Game of Thrones, and does most of his own fights and stunts in movies. CRACKED.COM

Hawkeye

HAILEE STEINFELD became a real archer. For the role of Hawkeye people give a damn about, Steinfeld learned to become a professional archer. Perhaps not used to the idea that CGI is King, she was a bit disappointed to learn that all her work was for nothing, as MCU bows don't shoot real arrows. GRACKED.COM

Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls' Mojo Jojo is partly based on an obscure Japanese TV villain. The Japanese show The Kagestar featured a hero with a spiral pattern on his helmet, which inspired the design of Jojo's helmet. CRACKED.COM

King of the Hill

CRACKED.COM Mike Judge based the voice for the marble-mouthed character of Boomhauer on King Of The Hill off of a rambling and angry voice mail he got while making Beavis and Butt-head.

Pokemon

Pokemon was inspired by Satoshi Tajiri's bug collecting hobby. As a kid, he loved collecting bugs, but by the time he grew up, bug collecting became pretty hard for kids because urbanization was happening so fast. So, once he became a game designer, he made a game based on bug collecting. CRACKED.COM

A Discovery of Witches

Matthew Goode based his vampire character in A Discovery of Witches on Roger Federer. The actor says he took inspiration from the tennis legend because Federer sort of looks like a vampire in a weird way. I'm meant to be the most formidable assassin of all time, from the vampire world, and I thought he was quite a good person to base the performance on, physically, as he's an assassin on the court. CRACKED.COM

Family Guy

Quahog, Rhode Island FAMILY GUY CRACKED.COM Seth MacFarlane has supposedly said the city was based on Cranston, Rhode Island, but Providence, Rhode Island's skyline can be seen in almost every episode.

SpongeBob

Apparently, SpongeBob Squarepants is messing with kids' brains. That's according to a 2011 University of Virginia study, which found that the show impairs kids' readiness for learning (the issue is that the frequent camera cuts disrupts their attention span). CRACKED.COM

Game of Thrones

You can learn the High Valyrian language from 'Game of Thrones' on Duolingo. GAME OF THRONES CRACKED.COM High Valyrian is the Latin-like language used in formal circum- stances by the fiction- al nobility of Essos and Westeros.

Nickelodeon

The cover of the Nickelodeon Time Capsule was sold at auction for $19,200. MICKELODEON THE FIRST WOILS URLANDA YEAQUEARISMS FLERIDA STUDIOS FOR 123 18г FLE 2147 SHI LIK TEE EL DUY NICKELODEON SOCH THAT BLE CRACKED.COM 5G ZGGL A time capsule filled with books, rollerblades, movies and more was buried at Nickel- odeon Studios in Florida in 1992, to be opened in 50 years. The studio closed and the cap- sule moved, with the 45 lb cov- er being auctioned off.

Seinfeld

Seinfeld's lawyers allowed the real J. Peterman to review the script for every episode that featured him. The show lawyers ар- proached the real John Ре- terman after the first epi- sode and allowed him to review each script before it aired. That same year, the J. Peterman Company posted a $400,000 loss. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Strangers with Candy

CRACKED AMY SEDARIS HAD INTERESTING INSPIRATION FOR JERRI'S LOOK ON STRANGERS WITH CANDY. She told the makeup department that she wanted to look like a professional golfer and the wardrobe department that she wanted to look like a woman who owned a snake.

Parks and Recreation

CRACKED ADAM SCOTT MET ROB LOWE MOMENTS BEFORE SHOOTING THEIR FIRST SCENE TOGETHER FOR PARKS AND REC. Both actors said it was pretty terrifying.

My Little Pony

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC Creator Lauren Faust couldn't use the '80s ponies, as the trademark for the names wasn't available to Hasbro - so she had to come up with new characters. CRACKED.COM

Scandal

GRACKED.COM MELODY GRANT was only slated to appear in three episodes of Scandal. Bellamy Young revealed that after a three-episode arc, her character was supposed to get a divorce from President Grant and disappear from the show. However, the creators loved her chemistry with the rest of the cast and decided to expand her role, which eventually led to Melody becoming President herself.

Betty White

Her first television appearance is lost media. Betty's first time on the small screen, all the way back in 1939, was an experimental TV show in Los Angeles. Betty danced with the student body president of her high school while she wore her graduation dress, to the tune of Merry Widow Waltz. The footage is lost, and even Betty doesn't what the show's name was. CRACKED.COM

Pheidole Drogon

There's an ant with a spine so dragon-like that scientists called it the Pheidole drogon, after Drogon from Game of Thrones. The ant uses its defined spine, which is made up of spikes and filled with muscles, as a weapon of defense against predators. It's also a lot stronger than other ants that don't have spines. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

STAR TREK was saved by writing letters-to: the studio. Now Paramount's leading franchise, Star Trek was saved in its second season by thousands of fans protesting the show's cancellation. Back when this entailed purchasing stamps, writing letters, and sometimes actually trekking to post offices to mail them, the studio received enough complaints to persuade them to create enough episodes to syndicate the series, forging a path for it to become the juggernaut it is today. CRACKED.COM

The Simpsons

VENUS AND SERENA get into doubles trouble CRACKED COM At a tennis tournament, Homer replaces his doubles partner Lisa with Venus. An angry Marge ditches Bart for Serena. The Williams sisters ditch both of them for Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. No Simpson wins the prize money, though Homer lifts a few bucks from Sampras's wallet.

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