The Beatles

Paul died in a car accident, was replaced with the winner of a look-alike contest.

Paul is Dead clues are too numerous to list.

The Beatles created the infamous butcher cover as a protest against Capitol Records' "butchery" of their music in the States.

John Lennon deliberately chose the song title Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds because the initial letters of key words are LSD.

 

The Blair Witch Project

The film, The Blair Witch Project is an actual documentary and was found under some rocks a couple years after the disappearance of the filmmakers.

There is a legend of The Blair Witch.

The movie was based on true events, such as the serial killer.

Besides being a well-marketed film, all the extra footage that was originally going to be in the film was put together in a very entertaining special for the Sci-fi Network. It was disguised as a Discovery Channel - type show and is available in the DVD.

 

Mariah Carey

In a 1996 interview, Mariah Carey said the following: "When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

 

Classic TV

The cast of Green Acres ate Arnold Ziffel after the filming of the last episode.

 

Cosby and the Little Rascals

Bill Cosby bought up the rights to The Little Rascals to keep them off the air because of the racist portrayal of African-Americans.

However, Bill did make a really good documentary about the racist portrayal of blacks in film, it's both disturbing and enlightening.

 

The Crow

The scene in which Brandon Lee was fatally wounded was left in the final cut of The Crow.

 

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee was born a hermaphrodite, she admitted it on a talk show

How she was born I don't know, but she never mentioned it anywhere. Take a long hard look at Jamie, and tell me if you'd care.

 

Al Gore

Al claimed that he invented the internet.

He actually claimed that while in congress he "took the initiative in creating the internet" implying (clumsily) that he helped it along. He did however popularize the term "information superhighway" and introduced several bills that involved the internet.

 

Lauryn Hill & The Fugees Quotes

"If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it."

"I would rather have my children starve than have white people buy my albums."

"I would rather die than have a white person buy one of my albums."

 

The Man Without a Face

As a youth Mel Gibson had his face literally beaten off by a gang of thugs. Later on a priest and a plastic surgeon rebuilt him. The movie "Man Without a Face" was based on him.

 

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's phone number was contained in the Universal Product Code (UPC) number used on the Thriller album cover.

 

Harry Potter Books Promoting Satanism

The author of the children's books series starring wizard Harry Potter are written by avowed Satanist J.K. Rowling and were designed to attract young children to Satanism.

However there are many books designed to attact idiots to Christianity, and it works.

 

Heil Tom Green

Tom Green's popular TV show was cancelled by MTV when one of the sketches had Tom attending a child's Bar Mitzva dressed as Adolf Hitler.

 

King Kong vs Godzilla

The Japanese and American versions of the 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla had different endings: Godzilla won in the Japanese version, while King Kong emerged victorious in the American edition.

Actually it was a tie.

 

Off To See the Wizard

In one scene from The Wizard of Oz you can see someone in the background hang themselves.

 

The Oscars

Marisa Tomei won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 because Oscar presenter Jack Palance read the wrong name by mistake.

 

Psychos

Charles Manson auditioned for The Monkees, but didn't make the cut.

Blondie singer Debbie Harry was abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy and narrowly escaped with her life.

The scary part is she's the one that started this rumor.

 

Pulp Fiction

The briefcase contained the soul of Marsellus Wallace. When the devil takes your soul, he takes it from the back of the head, hence the band-aid. The briefcase contained his soul, the three guys who had it worked for the devil and that's why the combination was 666. The "divine intervention" actually was, God was helping them save a soul.

The briefcase contained the Oscar Tarantino hoped to win.

The briefcase contained the stolen diamonds from Reservoir Dogs.

 

Racial Bias

A Midwestern housewife was returning to her hotel room in Vegas with her bucket of quarters in hand. She nervously stepped into the elevator with four black men wearing leather. Just as the doors close one of the men says, "Hit the floor, lady" and she does, spilling her quarters everywhere. The men laugh heartily and as they help her pick up her 'winnings' one of them explains that he meant to press the button for the floor she wanted. Later that evening a dozen roses are delivered to her room with a note: "Thank you for the best laugh I've had in years. Eddie Murphy"

Bill Cosby was doing some lawn work at his new Beverly Hills home and a car pulled up and the woman inside asked him how much he charged. He paused and the woman repeated "How much does the lady of the house pay you, my good man?" Bill replied "She doesn't pay me anything, she just lets me sleep with her every night."

These are both told with a variety of African-American celebrities.

 

Scientology

L. Ron Hubbard founded The Church of Scientology after someone bet him he couldn't start his own religion.

 

Sesame Street

Bert and Ernie are gay.

Ernie is going to die in a future episode, usually of AIDS.

Sesame Street is being canceled.

 

Snipers

Mr Rogers, of the children's television show Mr Roger's Neighborhood, was a highly decorated sniper in the Korean war.

Singer John Denver was a highly decorated sniper in Vietnam.

 

Snuff Films

There is a large black market of filmmakers who abduct people and murder them on camera, for sale to collectors.

 

Songs

Phil Collins' song In the Air Tonight is about witnessing his brother's drowning.

Phil Collins' song In the Air Tonight is about a man who witnessed a drowning but didn't help, after hearing the song the witness committed suicide.

Phil Collins' song In the Air Tonight is about the man who raped Phil's wife.

Phil Collins' song "In the Air Tonight" is about his first wife leaving him.

The Ohio Players' song Love Rollercoaster contains the scream of a woman being murdered.

 

Three Men & a Baby Ghost

In one scene of the movie, Three Men and a Baby you can see in the background the ghostly figure of a small boy who died in the house where it was filmed.

The ghost is actually a cardboard stand-up someone accidentally left on the sound-stage where the movie was filmed.

 

311

The band 311's name refers to three times the eleventh letter of the alphabet, "K." To show their support of the Ku Klux Klan.

For the Love of God will you people stop writing me about this one, I know it isn't true that's why it's here!

 

Twister

Patrons watching the film Twister at Canadian drive-in were greatly impressed by the scene where a tornado rips through a drive-in screen . . . until they realized that was no fancy special effect -- they were in the path of a real tornado.

 

 

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