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2 days ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
Pretty much everything is funnier when a baby does it. Think about it, when’s the last time you watched a reel of adults just laughing? Or smashing a cake with abandon? Hopefully never, because such things sound obnoxious and cringe when an adult does them. But a baby explaining the plot of Star Wars? Hilarious.
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4 days ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
The moment John Burns stepped through the doors of the Sunshine Cab Company, his days were numbered. Things seemed good at the start; in the very first episode of Taxi, Burns, a country bumpkin who had just arrived in the big city, almost immediately got a job as a cabbie. But it was all downhill from there. Throughout Season One, Burns appeared less and less, and in some episodes, he barely spoke at all.
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4 days ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
First a beloved weatherman and children’s show host in Indianapolis, David Letterman eventually graduated to becoming a regular on game shows and talk shows in L.A. And after he filled in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show with great success, NBC’s Fred Silverman gave Letterman his own 90-minute morning show, The David Letterman Show. It did not go well.
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4 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Brian VanHooker
2 hours agoIt was just after midnight Saturday morning that U.S. Air Force stealth B-2 bombers took off from the U.S. under the cover of darkness. Defense officials said they were headed to Guam and while everyone was looking West, seven bombers quietly flew in the opposite direction, straight to Iran. NBC’s …
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6 days ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
Most movies based on books — even the massively successful or critically acclaimed ones — will always be considered books first, movies second. However, there are those few films borne from works of literature with stories so perfectly suited to the medium that it’s difficult to imagine the book ever even existed in the first place. The Wizard of Oz is one, and so is Jurassic Park. Another adaptation that belongs to this rare category is the 1988 Academy Award winner Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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1 week ago | 
aol.com | Brian VanHooker
When it comes to sitcoms and their theme songs, there are a few different categories. First are those that debut with the perfect theme song and never change it — shows like Cheers, The Jeffersons and Welcome Back, Kotter. Then there are those that keep things fresh by using the same song, but with different arrangements, like how The Cosby Show or Frasier changed its opening theme a bit each year or how Growing Pains kept the same theme, but occasionally altered who performed it.
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1 week ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
When it comes to sitcoms and their theme songs, there are a few different categories. First are those that debut with the perfect theme song and never change it — shows like Cheers, The Jeffersons and Welcome Back, Kotter. Then there are those that keep things fresh by using the same song, but with different arrangements, like how The Cosby Show or Frasier changed its opening theme a bit each year or how Growing Pains kept the same theme, but occasionally altered who performed it.
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2 weeks ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
Forty years ago this month, one of the biggest movies of the 1980s arrived in theaters. A coming-of-age story of kids on a search for buried treasure, The Goonies captured audiences at the time with its whimsy and imagination — and it continues to find new fans to this day. But the movie isn’t just about the kids.
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2 weeks ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
Sure, there are plenty of great, wholesome dads on TV. You’ve got sweet corndogs like Danny Tanner, Andy Griffith and even, dare I say, Cliff Huxtable. But these ever-patient sages aren’t the most relatable figures for real 21st century dads (shout out if you regularly half-listen to the stories your kid tells you or if you take an extra 15 minutes in the bathroom for a little peace and quiet).
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2 weeks ago | 
cracked.com | Brian VanHooker
The will-they-or-won’t-they relationship has been around long before sitcoms were even a thing, and though it can prove fruitful comedically, it also has its many pitfalls. If the characters don’t end up together, the audience isn’t satisfied (like The Wonder Years), but if they do end up together, the show loses a big avenue for comedy (like Frasier), and often a dramatic tension.
