17 Movie Lines and Moments That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time

Plus: 33 Things You’re Doing That Are Making Your Life Harder                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 September 26, 2023 | [Read Online]( [fb]( [tw]( [in]( [email](mailto:?subject=Post%20from%20Cracked%20Newsletter&body=17%20Movie%20Lines%20and%20Moments%20That%20Thoroughly%20Failed%20the%20Test%20of%20Time%3A%20%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fcracked.beehiiv.com%2Fp%2F17-movie-lines-moments-thoroughly-failed-test-time) Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about TV shows that were too bad to air, the problem with romcoms, trivia, silly secrets, movie lines that don’t hold up, and much more. Was this email forwarded to you? [Subscribe here](. [Five TV Shows That Were Too Terrible to Ever Air]( Even the dumbest TV shows take a lot of time, effort and funds to produce. Carpenters got up at the crack of dawn to build sets [for]([ALF](, special effects technicians worked [tirelessly on]([Manimal]( and the vast amount of drug money spent on Charlie Sheen shows could have likely stopped world hunger. So for a TV show to be so bad that its fully-produced, 100-percent finished episodes never see the light of day is a rare occurrence. But it has happened before, with unaired turds such as… [READ MORE]( [‘Still Up’ Demonstrates Why Most Romcoms Should Be Movies, Not TV Shows]( A romantic comedy can present itself in a variety of shapes and tones. Maybe it’s elegant and urbane, like The Philadelphia Story. Maybe it’s raunchy and hilariously gross, like The 40-Year-Old Virgin. What most of them have in common, however, is that the story ends at “they lived happily ever after.” Maybe they did and maybe they didn’t; it’s really none of our business either way. This is why the growth of romcom TV shows — and the contraction of romcom feature films — can result in projects that feel fundamentally ill-conceived. AppleTV+’s Still Up is just the latest example of a romcom series that came to us in the wrong form. [READ MORE]( 12 Madness-Inducing Bits of Trivia Too Awesome and Terrible to Be Processed by the Human Brain 33 Spooky Facts We Wish We Didn’t Know 22 Loathsome Characters Saved By the Actors Who Played Them 33 Facts We Didn’t Know What Else to Do With 21 Silly Secrets People Are Keeping 4 Iconic Pop-Culture Names We Got Stuck With Because Someone Sued 28 Funny, Strange or Unbelievable Things Security Guards Have Seen People Do On Camera 33 Things You’re Doing That Are Making Your Life Harder 15 Inconsistencies in Sci-Fi Shows to Cheerfully Point Out If You Ever Need to Demonstrate You Have Wasted the Precious Gift of Life 17 Movie Lines and Moments That Thoroughly Failed the Test of Time TWEET OF THE DAY [ARTICLES | PICTOFACTS | VIDEOS]( [fb]( [tw]( [ig]( [yt]( [tk]( Update your email preferences or unsubscribe [here]( © 2023 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. 190 West St., Unit 17B Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States [[beehiiv logo]Powered by beehiiv](