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June 01, 2025

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Hook

Amazing effects made without CGI Hook The island is a painting - and yet, the perspective subtly changes as Robin Williams blue-screen flies over it. This was done by slightly tilting the painting, and then returning it to an upright position. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rocky

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Madonna

MADONNA PRAISED COVID FOR MAKING US ALL EQUAL. CRACKED On March 23, 2020, from a milky bath with rose petals, Madonna gave an out-of-touch we're in this together speech, saying what's wonderful about it is that it's made us all equal in many ways. Less financially secure people ripped into her online. — Source

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Indiana Jones

The first ideas for Indiana Jones involved making him a pedo. At an early brainstorming session for the character, George Lucas suggested that he and Marion Ravenwood might have had an affair when he was an adult and she was 11. Не then moved her age up to all of 15 (Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore.) NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Intriguing, Now-You-Know Things About Movies (And More)

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Drake

Drake dropped $2 million on a pair of solid gold sneakers crafted by an artist. GRAMM And that's just the rough price of the material - it doesn't include whatever Drake paid artist Matthew Senna for the work of sculpting them. CRACKED.COM — Source: GQ

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Cubone

cubone IS An ADORABLE poKemon. AND IT WEARS THE SKULL OF ITS DEAD MOTHER AS A HAT. Cubonea16 .60 UC Headbutt 1O Bonemerang 20x THis attck does 20 tees

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage made $2,161,000 selling the first-ever Superman comic book. His copy of Action Comics No.1, which features Superman's first appearance, was the first comic to break the $2 million mark in an auction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Up in the Air

THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE NOVEL UP IN THE AIR IS A NOBLE, TRAGIC FIGURE. In the movie, Ryan Bingham is a lonely consultant with a life that's all about racking up frequent flier miles just for the hell of it. In the book, we find out at the end that he's dying of cancer and plans to donate his miles to children's hospitals. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Superman

Is guided by his belief in the goodness of humanity and even reverses time to save CRACKED.COM as many people as he can. VS SUPERMAN THE MOVIE MAN OF STEEL Never establishes a moral code and kisses a girl he just met in the middle of the ruins of a major city he just destroyed with his recklessness. — Source

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates and Paul Allen took advantage of software glitches while in middle school. CRACKED.COM The pair lost computer privileges after obtaining free computer time from the company that provided them. They were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to de- bug the program. — Source

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Midge

Product Recalls Midge doll In 2002, Walmart stopped selling the Mattel Happy Family set, which had a pregnant Midge doll wearing a it's a girl! pink skirt and a removable stomach with a baby inside. Mom loves newbo baby ppy famile Mom & Baby CRACKED — Source

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Cher

Cher CRACKED.COM She requires an entire separate room to keep her human hair wigs in. — Source

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The Fart Song

Comedians were arrested for a fart song Dallas police arrested comedy team Bowley & Wilson on stage in 1981, after a woman complained that her 16-year- old daughter was exposed to vulgarity. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff said, They were facing a year in prison for doing 'The Fart Song.' VULGARITY HISTORY CRACKED — Peter Zvonar/Shutterstock

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The Birds

Illegal filmmaking Alfred Hitchcock terrorized actors and birds] on The Birds. Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing the birds), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still for longer. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. CRACKED — Universal Pictures

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Jenny Slate

CRACKED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JENNY SLATE Jenny Slate got let go from Saturday Night Live after she said fuck on the show. She later said, It took me a few years to get back to myself; | developed stage fright, so | went to a hypnotist. — ABC / Dujour

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Whiplash

CRACKED Notes From Execs WHIPLASH Damien Chazelle wrote and directed Whiplash, which ended with a long drum solo, and he got a note to cut it. The note said, verbatim, He's good at drumming. We get it. But the solo was the whole point of making the movie, says Chazelle. — Sony PIctures Classics

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TigerSharks

Sharks Movies & TV TigerSharks The show was the forgotten cousin of Thundercats and Silverhawks. Beyond just having essentially the same tropey characters as the other two cartoons, TigerSharks also shared several writers and voice actors with both of them. (If you are under 30, you probably have no idea what we're talking about.) CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Facts About Sharks in Movies & TV To Sink Our Teeth Into

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Wag the Dog

Anne Heche Movies Wag the Dog The cast had an awkward encounter with President Clinton. Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert De Niro ran into Clinton, who asked them about their movie. As the movie was about starting a war to cover up a presidential sex scandal, they had no ideas what to say-and then Hoffman started tap dancing. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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The Iron Sheik

CRACKED.COM Dwayne The Rock Johnson Не got jabroni from The Iron sheik. It was due to The Rock's popularizing the term that it was included in the dictionary, but he credits the word's origin to the Iron Sheik, using it interchangeably to mean jobber or idiot loser. — Source: ESPN

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Snow White

The first character to actually speak in a full-length Disney cartoon was the Evil Queen in 'Snow White.' Her first wicked words were Slave in the magic mirror, come from the farthest space, through wind and darkness I summon thee. Speak! Let me see thy face. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — MickeyBlog

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Star Trek

DARK DELETED SCENES STAR TREK (2009) NERO'S BAD WEEK Perhaps to avoid making them too sympathetic, the pseudo-bad-guy group of refugees whose home was destroyed shortly before they fell backwards through time are not turned into decades-long slaves in the final cut. CRACKED.COM — More: 7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes

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Bruno

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM BRUNO GAYBY Critics were very divided on the release of Bruno. Newsweek said Bara Cohen's style was tired. The Chicago Sun Times called it undeniably funny. San Francisco Chronicle said the bad outweighed the good. NY Times said it was the funniest thing out there at the time. — Source: Indie Wire

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Pulp Fiction

Using Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction to sell insurance should be breaking some kind of law. But that's just what Direct Line did in a series of TV ads. I sell insurance doesn't quite have the same ring as I solve problems. CRACKED.COM — Source: Pop Culture That Was Ruined By Appearing In Ads

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Shameless

... TELL US NOW. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SHAMELESS I I + 308 Robert C. says, Shameless does a great job depicting Chicago--busy, beautiful without being pretty, rough around the edges, but far from the crime-ridden deathtrap certain media outlets make it out to be. CRACKED.COM

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Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman was inspired by the creator's poly marriage. He lived with two wives for decades, and had two children with each of them and he also partly based Wonder Woman on each of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Martian

THE MARTIAN CRACKED.COM Want to experience the grand vistas of Mars but don't have $6 billion to spare? Go to Wadi Rum, Jordan! The Valley of the Moon has appeared in The Martian, Red Planet, and Last Days on Mars. — Source: 15 Unexpected Facts About Movie & TV Show Locations

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Powerline

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS An unlikely band inspired outfits for POWERLINE GRACKED.COM While Powerline's music sounded a lot like 90s pop and hip-hop stars, his haz-mat look was based on the wardrobe of a completely different group of musicians: surrealist rockers Devo. — Houston Press

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Battlestar Galactica

You can't hide in a nebula, because they're very thin. Battlestar Galactica If you were in one, you'd just see black space around you. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Annoying Ways Movies Keep Getting Science Wrong

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The Friend Zone

Friends gave us a super-popular bit of modern vocabulary: The friend zone. It first appeared in a season one Friends episode, when Joey complained that he doesn't have a shot with Rachel and is in the friend zone. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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Wiz Khalifa

Wiz Khalifa made himself unwelcome in Colombia by glorifying Escobar. On a visit to Medellin, he left flowers at Pablo Escobar's grave - - the mayor called him That scoundrel and said he's no longer welcome there. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Carrie Fisher

CARRIE FISHER -+ DAN ACKROYD I was set up with Danny by John [Belushil, says Fisher. John invited me over and then ed out. That was the setup. — Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

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Captain Kirk

21 Details That Movies And TV Shows Got Exactly Wrong - “By installing a booster,” he
says, “we can increase that capability on the order of ONE TO T — Source: Columbia University

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Piper Laurie

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Mork & Mindy

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Only Found Out They Were Related After Sharing a Brief Kiss — Source: My Favorite Orkan

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Kristen Bell

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Only Found Out They Were Related After Sharing a Brief Kiss — Source: Hollywood Reporter

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A New Hope

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Only Found Out They Were Related After Sharing a Brief Kiss — Source: Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined (FXitinPost)

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28 Days Later

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Only Found Out They Were Related After Sharing a Brief Kiss

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Mariah Carey

CRACKED COM MARIAH CAREY LOVES WHITE THINGS. According to co-star Rob Huebel, while on set for her cameo in The House, Carey demanded her trailer be f

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Sesame Street

123 SESAME STREET aired a special in 2007 called Elmo's Christmas Countdown. It featured a wide array of celebrities and Muppets appearing in skits

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Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES The episode Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken features a terrible fight scene between the Sand Snakes and Jaime Lannister, and ends with Ram

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