34 Bits of TV Trivia to Fire Into Your Noggin With a Motorized Pitching Machine

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34 Bits of TV Trivia to Fire Into Your Noggin With a Motorized Pitching Machine

We’d yell, “Duck,” but we actually want these to ding you in the dome. Don’t worry, we’re sure that thing can handle a serious pelting of hardened TV tidbits. You take episode after episode of TV to the skull during a long binge anyways, so a few dozen TV facts should totally be fine. 

Here, see for yourself…

Grey’s Anatomy

Ellen Pompeo didn't earn as much as Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy. Beattle - I At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than him just on principle, because the show is Grey's Anatomy and I'm Meredith Grey. They wouldn't give it to me. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

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

Game of Thrones

CHOOSING THE NEXT RULER OF WESTEROS PRODUCTION GAME OF IS A TOUGH JOB... THRONES 200 00 ROL so the Stark kids needed to take a break during filming. We can't believe they decided the guy wearing no pants should be king. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

The actor who played The Soup Nazi was nominated for an Emmy, after he paid the $100 application fee himself. Не was still working as a bail bondsman. CRACKED.COM

MythBusters

JAMIE HYNEMAN ASKED ADAM SAVAGE TO CO-HOST THE SHOW WITH HIM - - 2% SALE fund Uniter FRANC Fit MASS Dist. a Passals N - and Endo MYTHBUSTERS اليوم CHEF CHANGE CRACKED COM Hyneman asked Savage because he believed he wasn't interesting enough to host the show by himself.

Bridgerton

Daphne Bridgerton's wardrobe consisted of 93 dresses. Six people worked on making her dresses from scratch and hand-embroidered. BEHIND THE SCENES CRACKED.COM

Ted Lasso

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BRETT GOLDSTEIN WASN'T SUPPOSED TO ACT IN THE SHOW. TED LASSO DUBAIAIR Goldstein was originally hired as a writer for the show. While writing the show, he realized how much he loved the character of Roy and decided to audition for the role. CRACKED.COM

Nickelodeon

There were guns on the set of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That On Television. YOUCANT DOTHAT ON TELEVISION Show creator Roger Price kept multiple guns in the studio. At one point, he held a gun in his hand and told crew members that, if they gave the kids on the show drugs, he'd shoot them. CRACKED.COM

The Sopranos

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM THE RUSSIAN'S FATE WAS ALMOST REVEALED. Sopranos According to Tony Sirico, a scene was shot where his character would leave a bar and find the Russian standing outside on the corner. David Chase didn't like the scene and eventually decided to remove it.

Saved by the Bell

Dustin Diamond terrorized the Saved By the Bell cast with dumb pranks. Diamond, AKA Screech, did things like sneak backstage to pee in an extra's bag (because that extra insulted him), and make up rumors about people on the show getting into drunken threesomes. And he described location shoots as all you can bang buffets and subsidized trips to Assylvania. CRACKED.COM

Sesame Street

Jim Henson gave Frank Oz a bizarre Christmas present. One day on the Sesame Street set, Henson asked Oz if he could take a picture of him naked - and Oz said yes. That Christmas, Henson gave Oz an elaborately detailed sculpture of Bert - - but with hollow pupils that contained naked photos of Oz. CRACKED.COM

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.

Bridgerton

CRACKED.COM Sex scenes Bridgerton There's a sex coordinator. Sex scenes (in this show and others) often have stunt or intimacy coordinators, to help with the choreography.

The Thundercats

The ThunderCats voice actors would swear in the booth all the time. They did it to goof off in between recording lines about things like the Sword of Omens or the Eye of Thundera --and, since it was the '80s, they didn't expect anyone except them and the audio engineers would hear those outtakes. CRACKED.COM

Ed Lauter

Actor ED LAUTER died of mesothelioma In 2014, his widow Mia Lauter sued CBS and NBC, claiming that her late husband was exposed to asbestos in their studios. Because he worked in so many movies and shows, his exposure to asbestos was off-the-charts high. CRACKED

Ozark

NOT JUST A WIFE CRACKED.COM Although Laura Linney was drawn to the script, she didn't want Wendy to be just a wife as the seasons went on. She took her concerns to Bateman, who agreed they needed to flesh the character out, and now Wendy is even more Walter White than Marty.

She-Hulk

Marvel Stars from the M Alison Brie was the reference for She-Hulk. Not only was Brie up for She-Hulk, but was rumored to be an inspiration, with the character being described as an Alison Brie type. CRACKED.COM

Tinky-Winky

Childhood icons who had a rough time Tinky-Winky Simon Shelton, who played Tinky-Winky in Teletubbies, sadly passed away in January 2018 at the age of 52 due to hypothermia and alcohol consumption. CRACKED

Scrubs

Scrubs The janitor knew Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. The janitor correctly predicted in 2007 that the U.S. should be looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, and a clip of this prediction went viral. CRACKED

The Simpsons

CRACKED.COM YARD WORK SIMULATOR The Simpsons made a FarmVille joke years before Farm Ville. Wouldn't it be silly if people pretended to tend to plants in a computer? The Simpsons thought so in 1998, a full decade before the real thing.

Watchmen

Adrian Veidt's identity in the Watchmen series was hinted at in the very first episode. During a scene, Veidt's famous Roman helmet can be seen in the background behind Jeremy Irons. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

Star Trek: Lower Decks RITOS DISCO ISCO The show not only references the Disco shirts from Star Trek: Discovery by having their own Ritos shirts, but this seems to suggest that every ship has their own casual crew shirts now. CRACKED.COM

Stranger Things

The Stranger Things 4 trailer and all the Freddy Krueger references CRACKED.COM Not only is Robert Englund starring in the fourth season of the show, but his character wears a fedora much like Freddy, and during a dinner scene with his family, Dream A Little Dream Of Me is playing.

Dexter

The Schitt's Creek Easter egg in...Dexter? In season 4 of Dexter (which was released in 2009) Deb tells LaGuerta that she's somewhere in the middle of sh*t creek on one of the cases she's working. LaGuerta tells her if she doesn't get anywhere soon she's going to be working the Vacation Killer case. The name of the alleged Vacation Killer? Johnny Rose, the name of Eugene Levy's character in Schitt's Creek. CRACKED.COM

SNL

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Jason Sudeikis Many times on SNL Sudeikis played the role of a coach, but it was the iteration created for a series of commercials that would lead to his 2021 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy win for fish-out-of-water soccer/football comedy Ted Lasso.

Adult Swim

COMEDY NERD A comedy group that included Chelsea Peretti wrote an Adult Swim pilot in 2012. It was called Getting It Together, and it was about four women who somehow end up living in a tree house in Central Park. CRACKED.COM

The Tonight Show

COMEDY NERD David Brenner (guest host of the Tonight Show) mentored Richard Lewis. Не even gave Lewis a loan so he could afford to quit his job and start a new comedy career. CRACKED.COM

BoJack Horseman

COMEDY NERD Princess Carolyn from BoJack Horseman was originally going to be two characters. There was a male agent and an ex-girlfriend, and eventually they got collapsed into one person - Princess Carolyn. CRACKED.COM

The Big Bang Theory

COMEDY NERD Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory was actually originally named Kenny. But they changed that to Sheldon in homage to great TV producer Sheldon Leonard. CRACKED.COM

Chris Rock

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Chris Rock has a corsage from his prom date. Purple vinyl jacket + Jheri curl + fake lapel flower = 1980s comedy perfection.

New Girl

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM NEW GIRL DESIGNER DEBRA MCGUIRE DESIGNED A FAIR AMOUNT OF ZOOEY'S WARDROBE. Everything Zooey Deschanel wears on the show, that hasn't been bought elsewhere, was designed by McGuire.

Hugh Laurie

COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM Hugh Laurie As easy as it is to forget that Hugh Laurie is from the UK, it's almost easier to forget he is a comedian. Hugh starred in a comedy sketch show with Stephen Fry in the 80s called A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Family Guy

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM A FAMILY GUY EPISODE WAS BANNED BECAUSE IT INVOLVED ABORTION. The episode, Partial Terms of Endearment, couldn't run on TV - but it did make it on DVD.

Strangers with Candy

COMEDY NERD BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Strangers with Candy made Comedy Central history. as CRACKED.COM The show was Comedy Central's first original, live-action, non- sketch series. Yeah, that's a lot of qualifiers, but pretty cool nonetheless.

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