I Was Thurman Merman in ‘Bad Santa’

Plus: The Forgotten Comedic ‘Twilight Zone’ Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about the 'Twilight Zone' we forgot, a conversation with Thurman Merman, the best Jim Gaffigan jokes, and some stories you may have missed. [The Forgotten Comedic ‘Twilight Zone’ Featuring Steve Martin, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara]( There’s obviously a ton of comedy content available in the world — a not insignificant portion of which involves Madea and Ernest celebrating holidays — which means that some movie and TV comedies have completely slipped through the cracks over the years. Case in point: the short-lived 1985 series George Burns Comedy Week. While it only lasted for a few months, the talent behind this forgotten comedic anthology show is incredibly impressive, and some of the episodes are surprisingly good. Burns was basically the Rod Serling to this show’s Twilight Zone, playing host and introducing bizarre, self-contained stories each week. But the project came from executive producer Steve Martin, who [admitted at the time that he “pilfered”]( the idea from Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories and didn’t even know what an anthology was. [READ MORE]( [‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’: A Very Classy Oral History of ‘Who Pooped the Bed?’]( Frank Reynolds, the depraved, psychotic, trigger-happy patriarch of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, joined the FX sitcom for the show’s second season after the network demanded that Danny DeVito be added to the cast. While creator Rob McElhenney has [admitted]( to being against it at first, he complied because the series would have been canceled otherwise. Coming on as the father of Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson’s characters in 2006, DeVito quickly established himself as the craziest member of the gang, which is really saying something with the likes of Mac, Charlie, Dennis and Dee in the mix. Since then, he has been a part of geriatric orgies, pimped out his son, waterboarded his daughter and emerged from a leather couch buck naked. One of his earliest standout moments, though, came in Season Four’s “Who Pooped the Bed?.” The episode begins with Frank and Charlie — who sleep on the same foldout couch in Charlie’s apartment — arguing over who was responsible for a turd found in their bed. Since Charlie has holes in his pajamas and Frank only sleeps in a big T-shirt, “Who Pooped the Bed?” presented a genuine mystery for Mac and Dennis to solve. [READ MORE]( More DeVito Reads: - [I Took a Cardboard Cutout of Danny DeVito to Prom]( - [Brotherly Love: How DeVito and Schwarzenegger Turned ‘Twins’ into the Ultimate 1980s High-Concept Comedy]( - [‘Retire, B*tch’: Why Danny DeVito Memes Will Never Stop Slapping]( - [Unky Herb: An Oral History of Homer Simpson’s Long Lost Brother]( [I Was Thurman Merman in ‘Bad Santa’]( [14 Actors Who Weren’t Too Hot On Their Own Movies]( [Summer From 'Rick and Morty' Speaks On Harrowing Knife Attack]( [Is Daniel Craig Just Doing a Foghorn Leghorn Impersonation in the ‘Knives Out’ Movies?: An Investigation]( [Seinfeld Learned Comedy From A 'Christmas Story’s Jean Shepherd]( [15 Jim Gaffigan Jokes For The Hall Of Fame]( [I Was the Hand for ‘Thing’ in ‘The Addams Family’]( [The Hidden Climate Doom Lurking in ‘The Office’ Winter Episodes]( [3 Idiotic Military Blunders That Lost Battles Before They Started]( [‘Rush Hour’ Made Chris Tucker a Superstar. For His Encore, He Walked Away]( [Rashomon: The World’s Most Unlikely Sitcom Trope]( TWEET OF THE DAY [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Literally Media · 190 West St Ste 17B · Brooklyn, NY 11222-3855 · USA