20 Surprising Origins Of Famous Pop Culture Ideas

Jun 23, 2015 4:42 AM

CodyL95

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Upvote for Babylon 5.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#2 that's not even a manta ray...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Non Kane didn't make Batman. It was actually Bill Finger. Bob Kane just made the earliest version of Batman s design.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Brought to you by cracked.com

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

But that's a sting ray..

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Whoa whoa whoa... we can just repost Cracked articles here and get Front Page? brb...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Joel Schumaker was wrong.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Bob Kane came up with the name The Bat-Man, Bill Finger came up with pretty much everything else including the costume, story and alter ego.

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

WILLY WONKA WAS MADE FOR THE BIG SCREEN WITH GENE WILDER. *angry face*

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

That pissed me off too.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anyone else think that Stan Lee's thumb looks like a penis coming into the photo?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Glans Lee?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

damn, i forgot how strange looking Babylon 5 cgi was

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one who doesn't think that Depp actually achieved what he was going for in both of those roles?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

#12 Johnny Deep? Johnny DEEP?!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#2 yeah thats not a manta ray

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Now we introduth Warner Brotherth produther Leon Thchlethinger. - Mike Tython

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

+1 for Tython

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought Vaders helmet was based off of Nazi's helmets? They both have that same curved lip around the helment.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

That and Stormtroopers.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

seriously, it's identical to the nazi helmet, and they're basically space nazis, what gives?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That and Stormtroopers.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Charlie and the chocolate factory is originally Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory which originally is a book. And Depp is horrible in it

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Actually the book is called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too, it's just the 70's movie called Willie Wonka (and Roald Dahl HATED it)

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

he hated the title or the film?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, I didn't name the book, it didn't fit. And I don't think he would very much care for Depp's performance as well

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anyone else notice 2x daffy duck images?

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 7

I did, sorry, must have saved the image into the folder twice

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Anyone else notice 2x daffy duck images?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not even going to pretend like this wasn't just copied and pasted from Cracked, huh?

11 years ago | Likes 115 Dislikes 3

Cracked.com? America's ONLY comedy website since 1952? Never heard of it. This is real OC...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not seen the watermarks?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 13

All you're fucking doing is taking a goddamn Cracked Photoplasty and moving it here. what the fuck.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 2

Not everyone goes on that website, so some people might not have soon it before...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm angry about the laziness of it, not that it's here.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This is a Photoplasty? Meaning it's all fake?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It's a photoshop contest that Cracked runs, they call it a Photoplasty. The stuff in it is supposed to be factual, but still a lazy (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

way to get some points. (2/2)

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#2 Del Torro based the pale man on Francisco Goya's painting Saturn devouring his son. You should look it up it's really freaky.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Does it bug anyone else that in #2 that's a sting ray and not a manta?? No?? Just me?? Okay

11 years ago | Likes 197 Dislikes 5

I didn't realize, but thanks. I feel smarter for you pointing it out. Seriously!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And that it's on its back not its belly?

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Potato tomato

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I thought stingrays were a sub-set of manta rays?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, I had it backwards: "Although they do not have stingers, manta rays are technically a type of stingray"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Joel Schumacher was wrong apparently. Doodling on filmposters doesn't seen like a good casting approach

11 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 3

To be fair the whole jedi concept is basically a rip of samurais and Buddhism

11 years ago | Likes 120 Dislikes 7

To be fair, with the Jedi Order, it's more a half and half mix between that and Knightly orders in Europe, like the Knights Templar

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

EXCEPT THAT IT'S IN SPACE AND HAS ALIENS AND EXPLOSIONS AND BOUNTY HUNTERS WITH JETS! WHERE'S THE BUDOKAN FOR LIFE ABOARD THE DEATH STAR?!

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 6

AND SHOUTING, LOTS OF SHOUTING!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's directly based on an old samurai film

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

You say rip off instead of honor to. Were ideas never repeated, they would fade away.

11 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 1

Always looked more like a nazi helmet

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

His goons were called stormtroopers, after all. It doesn't take a historian to get the Nazi parallels.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The whole Star Wars story is generic as fuck so...

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Except Bob Kane is the Thomas Edison of batman, all he did was steal the work for it. I don't remember who actually did it though.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Bill Finger

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Thank you.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Bob Kane didn't invent batman.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well, he invented the initial idea, then greater minds did the rest of the work while he took all the credit :o)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True, I believe DC Comics has started to give Bill Finger credit.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Captain. Captain Jack Sparrow

11 years ago | Likes 103 Dislikes 1

gon triple-check Sparrow isn't Depp's mockery of his own portrayal of Hunter Thompson. even Murray warned that Depp'll play Thompson forever

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By far the worst pirate I've ever heard of

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

But you *have* heard of him.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

FROM THE DAY HE WAS BORN, HE YEARNED FOR ADVENTURE!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

OLD CAPTAIN JACK GIVING THEM WHAT FOR!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm beginning to believe the "any events similar to this story are purely conicendental" line less and less these days

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*scrolls to bottom for rant about Willy Wonka being adapted for film in 2005

11 years ago | Likes 78 Dislikes 3

Ahaha, I did the same thing... going back up now to finish reading the rest.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I didn't even. Can't even.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I too, am looking for this.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But he didn't make a good Batman....

11 years ago | Likes 512 Dislikes 13

"it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." If the script and directing were better, any decent actor would be ok.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

but he was so damn pretty

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

And that's how you end up with nipples on the Bat Suit.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

for which he actually apologized. at least for that movie with Robin

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I scrolled with great frenzy to see if a comment would said it out loud. Thanks you!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That post is WRONG. It was a magazine cover with Clooney and not a poster.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That movie was a culmination of everything that sucked in the 1990's. No one walked out of that movie unscathed.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Destroyed Alicia Silverstone's career

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Destroyed Alicia Silverstone's career

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"I ALWAYS apologize for Batman & Robin" https://youtu.be/UkfVElZZyNQ?t=96

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

he had nipples for Christs sake

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can you milk him, Greg? Can you?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He can't help it, had good parents

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good *looking* Batman.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope. He made the BEST ONE! Just kidding. Sorry, Adam West.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

quick robin! tweak my bat-nipples!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well to be fair it was mainly the batnipples that threw everyone off

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I didn't really like Clooney as the bat either

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Neither did George http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AXzcSCf3kwg

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A... bat... CREDIT CARD?!?!

11 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

A bat...business card? The tasteful thickness of it. It even has a watermark!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Never leave the cave without it.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

He had a suit with nipples on it and THAT is where you thought it went too far?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a review quote.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I understood that reference to a reference.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

*high five*

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

you de-referenced that reference to a reference

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you de-referenced that reference to a reference

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Keep your C shit away from me.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

IDontThinkYouKnowWhatThatMeans.jpeg

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a moment that makes no sense in the movie and does not progress the plot in any way. Which is what my comment did. Yaburnt.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, I thought you were referencing one in Batman & Robin. I couldn't recall their being one hence my confusion. No need to DV me though.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, I thought you were referencing one in Batman & Robin. I couldn't recall their being one hence my confusion. No need to DV me though.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He did fine. It was a campy version and he did fine in it. The rest of the movie sucked pretty bad though.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

Honestly Clooney fits almost perfectly the Bruce Wayne public persona. It doesn't help that the rest of the movie sucked so hard though.

11 years ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 4

Yeah, Clooney was a great choice for Bruce Wayne at the time, not his fault the writing and the need for a kid-friendly feel tanked it.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

He was a horrible Bruce. "Alfred's dying? better use my every-day grim smile that I show to everyone all the time."

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 4

He may have been a good one in a MUCH better movie. Nobody could have saved that pile of shit.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Pretty much. There's no faulting that casting choice. It was all WB and their interfering that caused that movie to be so goddamned awful!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Great Bruce Wayne though.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

...not that they're the same person or anything.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#3 no mention of the Gene Wilder version...

11 years ago | Likes 1212 Dislikes 15

THIS irks me so damn much. Gene Wilder's was so much better

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I want my orange skinned green haired oompa loompas that aren't digitally re-created...and can sing.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Right? I saw that it said adapted to film in 2006, I'm not even old and I went wtf? I'm only 19.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Was so happy to come and see the top comment was of Gene Wilder.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The Depp version was atrocious. One of the very few movies I've walked out of

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 6

Wow. People sure love to hate it. I prefer it over the Wilder version

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

I walked out of the depp version. I was raised on the orginal. I was so pissed about how crappy they mad the new one.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Honestly I thought the Johny Depp version was shit. Gene Wilder was way way WAY better

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Yeah, I'm gonna come right out and say, FUCK whoever made that one for not mentioning the original.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Yah that shit drove me fuckin nanners as well

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Why would they mention the better movie, when you can talk about the bastardized remake.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm going to see it at a drive-in tonight and I'm so stoked!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I expected CHARLIE & the chocolate factory to be a sequel. Kind of what Charlie has done for the past 20 years as a chocolate factory owner.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that new one ate shit.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

How could you talk about such an amazing story and leave out the Grunga Lungas?

11 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

I got confused and had to look that up. I need to watch the whole series again I guess

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Mmmm Slurm

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Some explaining would be nice... please

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Futurama. Slurm factory episode

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Futurama I'm pretty sure

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Who are those horrible orange creatures?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Gene Wilder detested the reboot.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

No wonder Depp was so shitty in that film with such weird inspiration...

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Looks like YOU GET NOTHING

11 years ago | Likes 239 Dislikes 0

GOOD DAY SIR

11 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

You missed the "YOU LOSE"

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

And you missed the "YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINK"

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I didn't miss anything. This is my first comment in this thread. Anyway, there are a couple of lines between that and "You get nothing".

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

HA!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good DAY SIR!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

http://imgur.com/C2X0aFh

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Axe approves. +1. And I hope to God you understand the reference you're unleashed.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Indubitably!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That would be Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, not Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Isn't it the same story? Been a long time since I read the book

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I don't know actually. All I know is that the book is Charlie and so is the 2005 movie.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Same basic plot, but a lot of detail differences, as well as character differences and song differences.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

My guess is the kid that wrote these up isn't old enough to have seen the original with Gene.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 4

But every kid should see that movie

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My 4 year old has seen the original.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I saw both when I was a kid. WAY preferred the Depp version. It felt closer to the books and I enjoyed it more

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Cheers. Always hated the Wilder one- mainly because I loved the book.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1