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35 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Are Like the Special Guest Stars in Your Brain Today

June 14, 2025

Some movies are cursed with an exorbitant budget. Luckily, Dr. No didn’t have that problem.

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Michael Bay

Michael Bay only has one fresh movie on Rotten Tomatoes. The 1996 action movie 'The Rock, starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery, is the only fresh film by Bay, with a 68% critic rating. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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Vampires

CRACKED VS. FOLKLORE VAMPIRES VS MODERN VAMPIRES INVITATION People believed that all These days, vampires have varieties of supernatural held onto this weirdly creatures and spirits were courteous reputation, while unable to cross the most other creepy threshold of your home creatures can dodge the uninvited, not just vampires. doorbell entirely. CRACKED.COM — Source: Brittanica

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Smithers

THE SImPSONS Smithers has spent decades making unwanted advances and inappropriate comments towards Mr. Burns. All harassment victims deserve sympathy

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The Overblown Misunderstanding

CRACKED.COM Awful Sitcom Tropes The overblown misunderstanding We get it, you can't have a situation comedy without situations, but must every misunderstanding be blown out of proportion like it's the ending to Batman V Superman? This was pretty much the entire narrative force behind Three's Company, but Friends and Modern Family have also relied strongly on it.

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Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Sorting Hat

The Eriovixia gryffindori spider is named after one of the oldest characters in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The odd-looking spider is shaped like the Hogwarts School Sorting Hat, which originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor (one of the school's four founders). Its patterned body lets it camouflage as a dried-up leaf for survival purposes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kyle Mooney

CRACKED BEFORE SNL, KYLE MOONEY WAS A WRITER ON NATHAN FOR YOU. It was his first writers room of any kind. — Source

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Dr. No

The spider scene is Dr. No could have been pretty forgettable if they'd had more money. The production designer only had £775 to build that set, so he went with something cheap but memorable - a grid that cast a shadow that's kind of like a web. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Poltergeist

THERE'S A POSTER ON ROBBIE'S WALL IN POLTERGEIST FROM THE 1988 SUPERBOWL. An odd choice of - set decoration, considering the movie was released in 1982. And downright creepy when you realize that on SuperBowl Sunday in 1988, Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne, became violently ill. She died the next day. She was 12 years old. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/au-QUyjOF7A — Source

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Deadpool 2

DEADPOOL 2 joked about Wolverine's death in LOGAN. Wolverine's send-off in Logan is accompanied by a piece of music - the same music that plays when Deadpool takes a bullet to save the future from Russell. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pogs

Collectible Bubbles Pogs Pogs were incredibly popular for a little while, but so many companies started making them-and the designs weren't very good-that the bubble burst. CRACKED — Source

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Katy Perry

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Roger Waters

CRACKED ROGER WATERS In 2017, Roger Waters put on two shows in Berlin where he showed off Nazi-like symbols and said some really offensive things about Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust. — Billboard

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Easy Rider

Illegal filmmaking Easy Rider's drug use and knife fights, The drugs used on camera were real, and the cast and crew partook off-camera as well. Director Dennis Hopper also threatened actor Rip Torn with a knife, but claims Torn pulled a knife first. CRACKED — Columbia Pictures

Far Out Magazine

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Growing Pains

GRACKED UNREALISTIC: MIKE'S PSA JARGON. GROWING PAINS In A Very Special Episode, everyone (literally everyone) is doing cocaine at a cool kid party. Mike takes a stand in front of everyone, and his talk with his dad solidifies this as the most cliche drug episode of all time. — Source

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John Ritter

Performers Bookends First episode / Last Episode John Ritter Ritter made his TV debut on the Burt Reynolds detective show Dan August, and his last recorded performance was the voice of Great Uncle Stew on Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up. CRACKED.COM — Everett Collection/Shutterstock,
CBS Television Distribution, Cartoon Pizza,

IMDb

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B.B. King

GRACKED LUCILLE (B.B. KING) Lucille was the name given to many of the Gibson ES-335 and ES-355's owned by the Blues Legend. When a fire at a venue started by two men fighting over a woman nearly killed him, King chose her name, Lucille, as the nickname for his guitars. — Rollingstone

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Jason Statham

Sport Celebrities Jason Statham was on the national British diving team. Before becoming a Hollywood action star, he dove in the 1990 Commonwealth Games. CRACKED.COM — Plymouth Live

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Chasing Amy

view Askewniverse chasing Amy Silent Bob's speech was almost entirely improvised by Kevin Smith after he forgot his lines. Confronted by Ben Affleck, Smith said that as he was the writer, it counted as a second draft. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Facts About Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse

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Redwing

COMIC PETS THE FALCON REDWING Before Captain America, The Falcon's best friend was an actual trained falcon that developed a telepathic link with Sam Wilson after interacting with the Cosmic Cube. Better than any parrot you'd ever have. CRACKED.COM — Source: Marvel Database

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Hobbits

HOBBITS ARE NEWCOMERS. Middle-earth has a long story, spanning many thousands of years-but Hobbits have only been around for two or three millennia before The Lord of the Rings. No one is sure where they came from. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Details About Middle-Earth That Show How Deep Tolkien's Lore Goes

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Spice Girls

The '90s were the 095 19 decade the Spice 1993 Girls ruled the 1996 pop 1997 world. 1998 1990 199 1998 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 I AVAIL 1506 They were the most commercially successful British group since the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, 995 and Led Zeppelin. 1998 1999 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s — Source: 22 Amazing, Now-You-Know Things That Happened In The 1990s

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Cowboy Bebop

CRACKED.COM COWBOY ВЕВОР The show's props and weapons master Nick Komornicki revealed that Han Solo's blaster is hiding somewhere on the Bebop. Fans are trying hard to spot the Star Wars Easter egg. — CBR

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Dungeons and Dragons

Cheap, plastic toys from Hong Kong led to D&D monsters. DUNGEONS DRAGONS MONSTER MANUAL Gary Gygax based some of the creatures in D&D's Monster Manual on the toys he found in a Prehistoric Animals pack (some kind of looked like dinosaurs, some didn't look like much of anything). CRACKED.COM — io9

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Empire

LUCIOUS LYON is JAY-Z (among other people). The Jay-Z story ... very much inspired Lucious Lyon, Empire co-creator Danny Strong has said. Inspiration also comes from Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, and more. CRACKED.COM — Complex & The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Pokemon

SLOWASENEDS THE SMART AI ACTUALLY HANDICAPPED NPCS. DRAGONITE :L62 HP: ING NIDOKING L47 47 HP: 82/159 159 Enemy DRAGONITE used AGILITY ORAGKED.COM Computer controlled trainers prioritize Super Effective moves over all others, even if they do not deal damage. This would often result in these trainers spamming non-damaging moves while you safely chipped away at their health. — Source: 16 Facts About Pokémon Red & Blue

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Robin Williams

ROBINWILLIAMS grappled with his inventive mind CRACKED.COM FADE IN: What happens when one of comedy's most brilliant minds discovers that mind is betraying him? Like Williams' improvisational sets, the movie would be a dizzying run through manic comedy, heartbreaking drama, and wrestling matches with mortality. — Biography

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow CRACKED.COM Paltrow is oddly eager to make herself out to be a 9/11 hero. She apparently got into some kind of small skirmish with a jaywalker that morning, causing the woman to be late to her job - at the Twin Towers. She, very modestly, said I am very humbly happy to be a part of her story.

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The Legend of Zelda

The Old Man's most cryptic hint was solved after 25 years. 10TH ENEMY HAS THE BOMB. CRACKED COM Players tried to decipher this riddle for a quarter century before someone figured out the meaning: keep a bomb in your inventory, kill 9 enemies, kill the 10th with said bomb, and... you

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Defibrillators

Movies keep lying to you about defibrillators. No matter how many movies you see where flatlining patients are shocked back to life- defibrillators just don't work that way. What they do is restore normal function to a heart during certain types of cardiac arrest they can't start a stopped — More: 6 Medical Myths Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

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It’s A Wonderful Life

It became a Christmas classic thanks to a lapsed copyright and TV. R oy The film accidentally became public domain after Republic Pictures forgot to r — Slate

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Pinhead

Funny, Pinhead never struck us as the paternal type. - Cenobites aren’t exactly childproof, and Pinhead looks particularly hazardous -- but that doesn — Source: 10 Backstage Photos That Make Scary Movies Look Hilarious

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Ryan Reynolds

DEADPOOL WAS A DORKY TEENAGE ACTIVIST IN ORDINARY MAGIC. RYANREYNOLDS ORDINARY MAGIC Ryan Reynolds plays a Canadian kid raised by an activist dad in I

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Chrissy Teigen

CRACKED.COM When a troll attacked Chrissy Teigen for posting pictures of herself breastfeeding, she replied: christine teigen Following Gchrissyteigen

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Spider-Man

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