85 Gaping Plot Holes You Didn't Notice in 'The Matrix'

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The Mind-Blowing Hidden Meaning of 'Back to the Future'

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Why Tarantino Films Take Place in the Same (Insane) Universe

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7 Amazing Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI

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The Terrible Truth 'Star Wars' Fans Can't Admit

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Why Being a Henchman in the Zelda Universe Would Suck

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Why the Ghostbusters are Secretly the Bad Guys

Happy Halloween everybody! If you're too old to trick or treat like me, the holiday doesn't mean too much anymore. It's just another excuse to throw a party, and probably the only valid reason to dress up in a costume in public. Anyway, enjoy the night!

Keeping with the Halloween theme, Cracked asks if the Ghostbusters are really the bad guys... take a second to think about it. What do they do with all those ghosts? According to the animated series, they basically banish them all to "Ghost Hell" regardless of degree of haunting. It would be like a mass murderer getting the same punishment as a trespasser! Watch their discussion on the topic below:

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9 Normal Things That Look Trippy Under a Microscope

From Cracked, who thought that these common things would look so awesome under a mircoscope? I particularily like the way that different alcohol looks, totally trippy indeed.

#9. Sand



#8. Aspirin


#7. Asbestos


#6. Alcohol




#5. Illicit Drugs (Meth)


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The Awful Secret Implied by The Dark Knight Trilogy

From Cracked, and it actually makes some sense when you think about it! Nerds sure are smart, at least when it comes to super hero movies.

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The 36 Worst Action Figures From Iconic Toy Lines

Cracked.com brings you "The 36 Worst Action Figures From Iconic Toy Lines," and boy, there are some bad ones.  Personally, I only owned 1 (Pizzaface) so I ended up pretty lucky.  Series include, TMNT, He-Man, GI Joe, Batman, and Star Wars; check them out!

6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes

#6. "Loser" -- Beck

The first and biggest hit of Beck's life would be the result of a bored Beck and his ability to make up random bullshit on the fly.

He had a lot of practice. Before he got famous, Beck played his music anywhere he could -- in clubs, in coffee houses and on the streets of L.A., usually to crowds who couldn't give less of a shit about him. Being the type of guy he is, he'd eventually break out of whatever song he was playing and start making up random lyrics instead, just to see who was paying attention.

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"Heathcliff the cat, fucking a midget, with a pigeon's foot in the skyyyyy!"

This particular skill came into play later when Beck and Carl Stephenson, a producer for Rap-A-Lot Records, spontaneously decided to record a song in Stephenson's kitchen. Beck started rapping, and they both got a laugh out of how terrible he sounded. As they were playing it back, Beck just started sarcastically singing, "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me." Everything else is just random nonsense Beck made up while staring at things in Stephenson's kitchen.

Suddenly the lines about dog food, beef and Cheez Whiz make sense. Well, more sense, anyway.

The track took six and a half hours to record and produce from start to finish. Beck wasn't happy with the song, it being something he slapped together as a demonstration of how bad he was at rapping, and only agreed to release it under pressure from his label at the time, Bong Load. Because who wouldn't recognize the wisdom of every business decision made by an organization with such a name?

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U2, for example, got their first big break while signed to Boner Fart Records.

"Loser" got Beck the attention he needed, and he soon got picked up by a real label, Geffen Records, which reissued the song in 1994. It peaked at 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, made Beck a star and was ultimately ranked #203 in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Not bad for a bunch of gibberish made up in a kitchen.

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5 Sequels Made by People Who Must Not Have Seen the Original

#5 Jaws: The Revenge

 

Jaws invented the summer blockbuster, is the most famous and profitable movie about people getting eaten ever made -- including Debbie Does Dallas -- and to this day, is the one joy of children made to learn the cello. The sequels were stuck with trying to make "SHARK! AGAIN!" interesting, and plausible.

The conceit of the second film is the same as the first: A giant shark is eating people off of Amity Island, and nobody will believe Sheriff Brody when he says that's what's happening. In the third movie, nobody will believe Chief Brody's son that a shark has broken into Sea World and is eating people, presumably because that could never happen anywhere but inside the mind of a crazy person.

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8 Filthy Jokes Hidden in Ancient Works of Art

Yep, that's what we call a dick tree.  In a work of art from Medieval Italy called the Massa Marittima Mural.  See the rest of the perverted list at 8 Filthy Jokes Hidden in Ancient Works of Art.

7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows

From Cracked.com, it's their list of 7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows.  The easter eggs they include are mostly pretty interesting, and I hadn't heard of most of them.  For example, there's a hidden movie in "The Simpsons", a hidden language in "Futurama", and a couple movies that would be spoiled if you understood another language.  Click above for the full list.

The 14 Most Unintentionally Terrifying Statues in the World

From Cracked, it's the list of the 14 most unintentionally terrifying statues in the world.  With plenty of pictures, these statues are certainly worthy of this "honor".  I'd guess that some of these aren't so unintenional, however.  Here's just the first example:

Yeah, apparently it's supposed to be a man fighting off spirits shaped like, well, babies.  I mean, I can make a statue of Mike Vick beating up a dog and say it's a "spirit" in the form of a dog, but come on now.







Actually that sounds like a good idea.

8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI

From Cracked.com, movies include The Dark Knight, Independence Day, T2, The Lord of the Rings, Dracula, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Apollo 13, and Escape from New York.  There's some stuff in there that most people would bet all their money that it were CGI, but they'd be broke.  Some of it just seems like way too much time and effort; had it been CGI I feel it would have been cheaper.