26 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Found Recorded by a Missing Scientist Deep Within an Abandoned Lab

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26 Random Bits of TV Trivia We Found Recorded by a Missing Scientist Deep Within an Abandoned Lab

We can take a quick break from finding a missing scientist, right? We’ve been on the hunt for a while, and our feet need a little break. Our minds need one too, but we stumbled upon these awesome TV facts, so our mind is gonna have to keep working. They’re just that good.

Be honest, you’d stop everything to sit and read TV facts too, wouldn’t you? Like, what are you supposed to be doing right now? Exactly. So get off our cases!

Star Trek: Nemesis

Actors who wrote episodes for their shows Star Trek: Nemesis Brent Spiner Spiner gives Data a tragic honor as he strives to understand humanity and dies to save Picard and the crew, while Patrick Stewart brings gravitas to Picard's wistful regret and debates with Shinzon, encouraging him to find redemption. CRACKED

Dollhouse

Genre-Switching Episodes Dollhouse Epitaph One This post-apocalyptic thriller was written as a standalone episode and not as the season finale. It features flashbacks of the main cast, but Joss Whedon has said that these memories may be unreliable. CRACKED

Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so confident in their Hollywood prospects that they WILL packed up and moved into a house KILL FOR in Koreatown where they MONEY continued making comics and working as writers. YOUR S#!T RE ОСТО TOGETHER GET IT ALL TOGETHER AND PUT IT BI BACKPACK ALL YOUP SPIT CRACKED COM SO IT'O

Game of Thrones

Lena Headey from Game of Thrones said that once, at San Diego Comic-Con, people flat out ignored her like they were actually afraid of her (or just really freaking hated her). I was sitting between (Peter) Dinklage and Emilia (Clarke), who are the most beloved characters on the show, I literally just got ignored. People were giving Pete the books to sign and they kept moving away from me as if I was going to curse them. CRACKED.COM

George R.R. Martin

George R. R. Martin purchased the first ticket to attend the first Comic Con in 1964. Martin was 16 at the time, and it cost him $1.50 to sign up. About 100 people were in attendance at the first Comic Con, with a few pros like Stan Lee's secretary and Steve Ditko. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Seinfeld

SEINFELD WAS GONNA BE ONE BIG SAUSAGE FEST. There is a reason why Elaine is missing from the pilot episode - she wasn't supposed to be in the show at all. One of the most iconic female characters in TV history was only added to the cast after the pilot had already been shot, and NBC forced Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David to add a new female character. CRACKED.COM

Chappelle’s Show

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW Chappelle's Show was one of the most extraordinary and exciting shows we ever did, says CC's Tony Fox. It was extremely edgy in of it dealing with racial subject matter. I mean, the very first episode had, like, a 12-minute sketch in it, The Blind Supremacist. CRACKED.COM

ER

George Clooney pranked a co-star back in the '90s on the TV show ER. Не convinced his co-star Noah Wyle that they should both send producer Steven Spielberg nasty notes, but Clooney never sent his (and Wyle did). CRACKED.COM

Scrubs

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SCRUBS' BLACKFACE EPISODES ACTUALLY GOT PULLED FROM STREAMING SERVICE HULU. There were three episodes in total, and show creator Bill Lawrence and ABC Studios requested that they all be pulled.

That ‘70s Show

THAT '70s SHOW was originally Teenage Wasteland. However, Fox was unable to secure the iconic lyric from the Who's Baba O'Riley and the creators had to come up with a new title. CRACKED.COM

Two and a Half Men

CHARLIE HARPER TWO AND A HALF MEN CRACKED.COM Sheen took plenty of shots at producer Chuck Lorre after leaving the show. In the series finale, Lorre fired back. Having already killed off Charlie, the show revealed he was still alive. Cue an hour of jokes about drugs and prostitutes, then the writers dropped a piano on Charlie's head.

In Living Color

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS 'Black Laugh-In' was the pitch for IN LIVING COLOR IN GRACKEDOOM I using Laugh-In as a model during the pitch, says Keenan Ivory Wayans. I emphasized the edge of the show was going to be different. 'Men on Films,' 'The Homeboy Shopping Network' and 'The Wrath of Farrakhan.' We showed it to Fox, and they got nervous.

Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap Spinal Tap started as a failed comedy sketch. SpinaL TGO CRACKED.COM The band came together 5 years before the movie, as a one-off sketch for The TV Show --а sketch show that never became more than a pilot.

Ethel Waters

She was the first Black TV star N в с GRACKED.COM First aired on NBC on June 14, 1939, The Ethel Waters Show was a one-night-only, one-hour variety special hosted by Waters herself. It is possible that, with this first episode, Ethel Waters may have been the first Black actor to appear on American TV. The show featured Waters, Fredi Washington and Georgette Harvey performing a dramatic excerpt from a Broadway play.

The Sopranos

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM HBO WASN'T THE SHOW'S FIRST HOME. HBO THE Söpranos It was originally picked up by Fox, however, the network ed on the show after reading the script for the pilot. According to creator David Chase, Fox thought the therapy angle would be too much for audiences.

Roswell

Roswell fans saved the show by mailing Tabasco sauce to the network. When the WB drama Roswell was about to be canceled after one season, the fans organized a mass mailing of Tabasco sauce bottles to the network. And they were successful(ish), as UPN picked up the show for another season. CRACKED

Workaholics

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHRIS D'ELIA HAD HIS WORKAHOLICS EPISODE GET PULLED FROM STREAMING PLATFORMS. In that ер, he played a child molester - which was just too disturbingly close to real life.

The Office

COMEDY NERD The original plan for The Office had Jim and Pam split up in Season 9. But the people behind the show changed their minds after the audience didn't like the Brian the boom guy plot. CRACKED.COM

Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine LETTERMAN CRACKED.COM Director of Lisa Frank ketamine dream Spring Breakers and famous weirdo Harmony Korine was banned from Late Night with David Letterman after stealing from Meryl Streep's purse backstage. I assume Meryl Streep's purse is filled with Oscars.

Seth Meyers

Recurring at Late Night Seth Meyers vs. Wally the Cue Card Guy After 30 years of SNL cue cards, Wally Feresten ed Late Night with Seth Myers. Ribbing from Seth snowballed into recurring bits where Wally read creepy poetry or went field reporting. Myers says that fans stop to tell him, We want more Wally! SETH, TO ME you ARE PERFECT! CRACKED

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Recurring at Late Night Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Created, puppeteered, and voiced by Robert Smigel, Triumph first appeared in 1997on Late Night, and followed Conan to The Tonight Show and his TBS show. Не was nominated for a Best Comedy Album Grammy in 2005. CRACKED

Dr. Who

What do a late-night host and Dr. Who have in common? IC BO OLICE NIKE BOX PETER CAPALDI AND CRAIG FERGUSON They were in a punk band together. During the '80s, Craig Ferguson and Peter Capaldi were in a Scottish punk rock band called The Dreamboys (originally The Bastards from Hell). And Capaldi suggested that Ferguson go into comedy. CRACKED.COM http://www.nytimes com/2009/10/04/books/review/Borowitz-t.htm1?_r=0

Power Rangers

CRACKED.COM Power Rangers Bulk is a director. Bulk is one of the brainless Team Rocket-esque villains of the show - but Paul Schrier, who plays Bulk, directed some of the episodes.

MythBusters

MYTHBUSTERS HAD TO CANCEL AN EPISODE ABOUT HOW HACKABLE CREDIT CARDS ARE Credit 0031 Gold ster ONIC VING CRACKED COM American Express, Discover, and VISA legal counsel bullied Discovery into not airing the episode.

Jordan Peele

CRACKED.COM Jordan Peele He's a busy producer. Besides his own movies and shows, he has produced The Last O.G., Weird City, Hunters, Lovecraft Country, a 2019 docies on Lorena Bobbitt, the most recent version of The Twilight Zone, and 2021's reboot/sequel of Candyman.

Top Gear

CRACKED TOP GEAR JEREMY CLARKSON Jeremy Clarkson got the boot from Top Gear after getting into a fight with a producer. It started because the producer told Clarkson the hotel kitchen was closed and he couldn't get a hot meal.

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