Daily Urban Legend

That ghost boy in the background of “Three Men And A Baby” died autoerotic asphyxiating. Deal with it.

— Jake Fogelnest (@jakefogelnest) December 27, 2012

FACT: This classic SNL sketch was Reid Carolin’s sole inspiration for the Magic Mike screenplay.

The original title of the Elvis Presley song “A Little Less Conversation” was “Shut Up And F**** Me” but it had to be changed to something a little more family friendly for commercial release.

Out of all of The Monkees, Peter Tork murdered the most cops.

Although he asked to remain uncredited, acclaimed choreographer Bob Fosse choreographed this classic Three’s Company scene.

On February 2, 1997, Bill Murray reached over the counter and choked a Starbucks employee for quoting the movie Groundhog Day to him. Despite nearly being strangled to death, the employee didn’t press charges cause he’s “a huge Ghostbusters fan.”

Bill Murray purchased his own island for the sole purpose of avoiding any and all contact with other human beings and their awful jokes on February 2nd each year.

For many wildly popular break-out characters on television shows, there’s usually a story about how the show runner intended to kill off or write that character out after a brief story arc. However, that character usually ends up sticking around for the length of the series due to the overwhelming fan response. In actuality, that character was always intended to be the break-out star, but the story about the character initially only appearing for a few episodes is usually just a PR creation. In the biz, these roles are known as “Fonzies.”

FACT: Jeff Goldblum and Conan O’Brien are the only two tall men in Hollywood. Everyone else is around 5 feet or so. There used to be three tall men in showbiz before Andre The Giant passed on.

-Joel Tannenbaum

The original title of Limitless was Flowers For Bradley Coopergernon.