History Trivia / Cracked

* OldShame:
** According to Facebook posts, Ed Steckley hated ''Mr. Precious'', saying that he only intended for it to be a one-shot but the editors kept pressuring him into making more. It's also noted that the aforementioned Kulpa constantly shoehorned in word balloons, despite Steckley intending for the comic to be pantomime.
** Then-future ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' artist Tom Richmond seems mostly ashamed of his short tenure with ''Cracked'' at the TurnOfTheMillennium. His first approved piece was a parody of ''Film/Godzilla1998'' that he wrote himself with the intent of sending to ''MAD'' as a sample. After they turned it down, he sent it in to ''Cracked'', and was surprised when they actually ran it! However, Kulpa did not resize the art properly, causing it to appear vertically distorted. Other issues included low payment (despite Kulpa calling him a "flagship" artist, Richmond still only got the same per-page amount as everyone else), his art getting repurposed for front covers without compensation or credit, and his parody of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' getting downgraded from color to black-and-white at the last minute... in favor of a ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' spoof. Thankfully for Richmond, his poor treatment at ''Cracked'' drove him to try again at ''MAD'', who accepted him.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20158_the-6-most-baffling-video-game-spinoffs.html This article's]] #1 spot gets so much wrong about the Sonic franchise it gets more and more baffling the more you try and dissect it. To start with it manages to REVERSE the release order of two games and claim Shadow the Hedgehog was an attempt to make a darker game and "re-invent the franchise" after Unleashed did poorly. Unleashed was released THREE YEARS after Shadow the Hedgehog on a completely different generation of hardware. It also manages to claim Shadow is a re-tooled version of Sonic that tried to turn him into a gun-toting badass instead of a completely different character that's been around since Sonic Adventure 2.
** Their "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_19199_7-bizarre-early-versions-famous-cartoon-characters.html 7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Cartoon Characters]]" article says that Wilkins from Wilkins Coffee commercials was an early version of [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]], even though Kermit already existed by the time Wilkins was created.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In order to be sensitive to the situation after the 2013 Boston Bombings, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20384_the-5-major-cities-most-likely-to-be-spectacularly-destroyed.html 5 Cities That Will Be Wiped Off the Map by Natural Disasters]], an article on possible natural disasters that could take down cities was temporarily removed.
** Unfortunately, they fell victim to this when they added Creator/RobinWilliams to "Ten Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Huge Nerds" (spoilers: it's one of their anti-nerd articles) sometime shortly after his tragic death, mocking him being a fan of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' by saying it's an anime that "[[EvenNerdsHaveStandards people with body pillows]] [[DudeNotFunny say is for losers]]".

* ExecutiveMeddling: Downplayed. In the comment section of ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_21766_the-poop-unicorn-5-other-bizarre-mythical-creatures.html The Poop Unicorn and 5 Other Bizarre Mythical Creatures]]'', the author, [[http://www.cracked.com/members/RyanTerris/ Ryan Terris]] mentions that a lot of stuff had to get cut to make it funnier and shorter. For example, he was originally going to mention that the term "unicorn" originally referred to [[http://scienceheathen.com/2012/11/27/elasmotherium-the-origin-of-unicorn-legends-survived-until-at-least-50000-years-ago-possibly-until-much-more-recently/ the now-extinct Asian rhino.]] But it had go through a lot of editing, reediting, and drafts.

* DoingItForTheArt: Felix Clay has [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-failed-attempts-to-interview-viral-video-villain/ attempted to interview an old, angry lady]], [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-hilarious-things-i-learned-about-orgies-by-going-to-one/ attended an orgy]], [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-life-lessons-gleaned-from-eating-terrifying-fair-foods/ went through intense gastric distress]], [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-craigslist-ads-that-will-shake-your-faith-in-humanity/ and dealt with some craigslist creeps]]. For the sake of his column.

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