40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Spoken to Us by the Huge Cloud-Shaped Ghost of Our Father in Our Hour of Need

Not very helpful, but it was nice to see him
40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Spoken to Us by the Huge Cloud-Shaped Ghost of Our Father in Our Hour of Need

Jon Stewart was a literal puppeteer.

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Gilligan’s Island

CRACKED.COM Gilligan's Island was almost rebooted in the '90s (with more cannibalism). According to James Gunn, Charlie Kaufman managed to get a Gilligan's Island reboot greenlit, with the starving castaways killing and eating each other. The project was nixed by Gilligan's creator Sherwood Schwartz.

Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart was a puppeteer. His puppet show aimed to teach kids how to behave towards disabled people. CRACKED COM

Mike Tyson

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MIKE TYSON WAS HIGH ON LAFFS (AND COKE) I was drinking and smoking back then, doing drugs so I didn't know I was involved in the movie, says Mike Tyson of his cameo in The Hangover. Good thing he ran into Zach Galifianakis in a club--that's how the heavyweight champ found out he was filming the next day.

C-3PO

C-3PO might have narcissistic personality disorder. Excessively focused on what makes him special (he always brings up his capabilities, like how many

Sherlock

BEST Moriarty shoots himself as the last step in his plan to defeat Sherlock. None of the fans could have seen it coming; it was an electrical moment.

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's parents may be a little naive, but dammit do they love him... ...to the point where they ignore his many unexcused school absences an

Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon didn't care for a blogger's criticism ofhis Pepsi ad. So he scared the hell out ofhim, NASCAR-style. In the ad, Gordon takes an unsuspecti

Tokyo Drift

In The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift, the protagonists hastily build a working race car by fitting the engine from a Nissan Skyline into a classic

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Animation 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur was the first cartoon ever, and also an interactive vaudeville act. From there, dinosaurs in animation have come a long way. Fantasia's segment was terrifying, and The Land Before Time was terrifying and adorable. With the coming of CGI we got Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which was, erm... a movie someone saw, probably. CRACKED.COM

Tyler, The Creator

Rapper Tyler, the Creator trashed a Los Angeles club in December 2011. Apparently, he destroyed some sound equipment at L.A.'s Roxbury Theater and got his fans to start rioting - he ended up having to pay $8,000 in damages. CRACKED.COM

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This Is Not a Film

Illegal filmmaking This Is Not a Film was an illegal production. Banned from filming movies in Iran for 20 years, they filmed it secretly as a protest against the Iranian government's sentencing of director Jafar Panahi to six years of prison. They smuggled the film from Iran to Cannes on a USB drive hidden inside a birthday cake. CRACKED

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The X-Files

The X-Files Chris Carter didn't think of the show as science fiction. Carter preferred the term speculative science, with the character of Scully helping ground the show. If it weren't for Scully, I think the show could be just kind of loopy, Carter said. CRACKED.COM

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Spock’s Brain

... TELL US NOW. STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES SPOCK S BRAIN Karen В. has only this to say about the episode, So, so bad. When an episode's Wikipedia page doesn't need a citation to say that it's consideered the worst episode of the series then you know it's bad. CRACKED.COM

Shaq

Shaq says adversity ain't sh*t to him. CRACKED.COM Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it, ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.

Super Mario RPG

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia Spoken to Us by the Huge Cloud-Shaped Ghost of Our Father in Our Hour of Need

Jayson Miller

MMA fighter Jayson Mayhem Miller once broke into an Orange County church. There, he had spray-painted on walls, torn up books and pictures, set off

Lego

In 1924, Ole Kirk Christiansen's carpentry workshop burned down. 0937) 0537 Ole Kirk Christiansenr 0831 And that's why we have Lego. When Christiansen

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