History Website / Cracked

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The final entry in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18550_5-true-war-stories-that-put-every-action-movie-to-shame_p2.html 5 True War Stories That Put Every Action Movie to Shame]]. We'll just let it speak for itself.

* BuddyCopShow: Combined with TheyFightCrime in ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-crimes-would-never-get-solved-at-a-tv-police-station/ Why Crimes Would Never Get Solved At A TV Police Station]]''

* FantasticRacism: An article [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18475_6-horrifying-implications-awesome-fantasy-movie-universes.html 6 Horrifying Implications of Awesome Fantasy Movie Universes]] mentions how Middle-earth is segregated in the time of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': "There are no humans or elves living in the Shire, and if a hobbit is going to live in Rivendell, he'd better be a big goddamned deal."

* IWantMyJetpack: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15756_3Cem3E20013Cem3E-to-3Cem3Etimecop3Cem3E-8-movie-futures-already-proven-wrong.html 8 Movie Futures Already Proven Wrong]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Robert Brockway mentions killing an old woman for her eyeglasses in FalloutNewVegas, having taken the Four-Eyes trait and didn't find glasses anywhere else; however [[spoiler:the woman sold a pregnant woman into slavery and would have been killed in a quest anyway.]]

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-internet-in-11-days-epic-online-odyssey/ An Epic Online Odyssey]], TVTropes plays the part of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis Charybdis]], with YouTube serving as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla Scylla]].[[hottip:*:[[AllBlueEntry Blueness]] not in original; that would have just been cruel.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe (for lack of a better term). One article has an [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18881_5-reasons-greatest-movie-villain-ever-good-witch.html alternate interpretation]] of [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Glinda the Good Witch]].

** In the making of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19087_the-9-most-offensive-911-references-in-pop-culture.html this article]], Fletcher W. seems to have neglected to do any research into ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' beyond the fact that the creator based Unova off of New York. He believes that Route 4 is Ground Zero (to be fair, it ''is'' in roughly the same location and features a pair of ruined towers) and was somehow caused by Team Plasma and Kyurem, the latter of which resides in a cave about ten routes away. He also [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking says that it's 9'11" instead of 9'10"]], additionally failing to realize that, since Pokémon games are designed in Japan first, that the mons are designed in ''meters'' and then converted into feet.

** One article calls JeffDunham a redneck and jokes that a statement of his was followed up by things such as copious spoon-playing and cattle rustling. While Dunham is indeed from the American South and debatably a redneck, he in fact was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, which is about as far removed from the banjo-strummin' cowboy stereotype as one can reasonably hope to get.

** In the making of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19087_the-9-most-offensive-911-references-in-pop-culture.html this article]], Fletcher W. seems to have neglected to do any research into ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' beyond the fact that the creator based Unova off of New York. He believes that Route 4 is Ground Zero and was somehow caused by Team Plasma and Kyurem, the latter of which resides in a cave about ten routes away. He also [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking says that it's 9'11" instead of 9'10"]].

Relying largely on (ostensibly) humourous list articles, Cracked has become rather famous on the internet. Its lists, which can be written by anyone, are rooted in fact (usually) and coated in humour (mostly), dispensing interesting (often), historical (sometimes), and scientific (occasionally) trivia surrounded by dick jokes (always). It has about a half dozen full-time columnists on payroll, who dish out weekly and biweekly articles on serious subjects from the cultural effects of the Internet, to Choose Your Own Adventure Gonzo-styled articles about visiting the zoo while on an amount of drugs capable of killing most men, to action reporting while getting kidnapped by pirates.

* Ian Fortey (2007-2010)

Relying largely on (ostensibly) humourous list articles, Cracked has become rather famous on the internet. Its lists, which can be written by anyone, are rooted in fact (usually) and coated in humour (mostly), dispensing interesting (often), historical (sometimes), and scientific (occasionally) trivia surrounded by dick jokes (always). It has about a half dozen full-time columnists on payroll, who dish out weekly and biweekly articles on serious subjects from the cultural effects of the Internet, to Choose Your Own Adventure Gonzo-styled articles about visiting the zoo while on an amount of drugs capable of killing most men, to action reporting while getting kidnapped by pirates.

For a rundown of who's who on the current column writers:

* Adam Brown, a frequent poster promoted to columnist. (2007-)

* ''AgentsOfCracked'', Cracked's main comedy web-miniseries starring Michael Swaim and Daniel O'Brien.

* {{Batman}}. Seriously. He's the [[FrankMiller god-damn]] Patron Saint of this site. If ''anything'' can have a Batman reference, it will.

* BerserkButton: Seanbaby has a HUGE one in the "romance" guides of one Gregory JP Godek. Every article he even tangentially features in devolves into Seanbaby cursing his birth.

* CreatorBreakdown: Several of John Cheese's articles, particularly his recent ones, have been informed by his less-than-happy childhood and personal issues stemming from this.
** DOB's gotten in on this trope, too, on occasion, though not nearly to the extent Cheese has.

* DescriptionCut: Quite common. Sometimes an entry will end with something along the lines of 'The only thing crazier than that would be if x happened.' with the next entry being x.

** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19373_5-ridiculous-sex-myths-everyone-believes.html Robert Evans]] using Dan Savage as a source to analyze bisexual behaviour. [[http://www.afterelton.com/oysters-04-28-2011-dan-savage-biphobic Dan Savage]] may be a respected advisor on sex, but he is also infamous for being extremely prejudiced on this particular subject.

* InUniverseGameClock: Taking 10 minutes to climb a stairway is the #11 [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_388_27-science-lessons-as-taught-by-famous-video-games_p2/ Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games]], and accelerated crop growth as seen in farm simulation video games such as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' series and ''VideoGame/{{FarmVille}}'' is #6.

** [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18380_the-dark-secret-behind-quirky-romantic-comedies.html This sketch]] mocks this trope thoroughly. Bonus points for actually using the exact name of the trope.

* MistakenForRacist: The author of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19036_too-stupid-satire-how-media-branded-me-as-racist.html this article]] explains how a video he made (called "Straya Day") came back to bite him after this happened because of too many people watching it not realizing it was satirical.

** Seanbaby gets fairly frequent comments from straight men who'd like to have his children.

* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: In the 2011 AllCGICartoon ''{{WesternAnimation/Rio}}'', Blu is the last blue macaw left. The article [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19796_6-disturbing-unanswered-questions-from-childrens-movies_p2.html 6 Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies]] shows what would probably happen in the next generation: BrotherSisterIncest in the next generation would result in infertility.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-overused-jokes-internet/#ixzz1bYF8pemD Edouard Manet? Best.19th Century French Impressionist Painter Whose Last Name Is One Letter Away From Another French Impressionist. Ever!]]

** Ke$ha's debauchery is becoming a fairly common theme...

* ScunthorpeProblem: Seen in the comments section, due to a word filter that targets a given word sequence even as part of a larger word. For instance, the racial slur "Jap" is rendered as "J*p" so that it'll also catch "Japs" and turn it into "J*ps", and consequently the comments on an article about Japanese subcultures talked about "j*pan" (in lowercase). This makes writing "j*panese" a bit of a problem. "Cum" is also banned, so you can't say "doc*mentary". "Cock" is banned as well, which is a problem since most of the site is made of dick jokes. "Spic" makes it a problem writing the word "susp*cious". We could list a whole bunch of examples. Basically, their filter s*cks d*ck.
** The main problem is that the article will usually curse up a storm, while the comments section is censored. The problem is why they would ''need'' to censor it at all when the site's main demographic is 18-34 year old males who wouldn't be offended by cursing. Now you can say that it's the server's policy not to host foul language, but again: why is it that the article can say "fuck shit piss" all they want while the community is treated like children? Do they really think that a site like that is going to be visited by 8 year olds?

* TakeThat: The tendency to mock MadMagazine has continued, especially since the magazine's sales figures have been in decline whilst "Cracked" has enjoyed a reasonable amount of success as a website. [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/cracked-eases-mads-transition-into-obscurity/ This article]] is a good example, which, upon closer reading, can be seen as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Mad.

* TrainingMontage: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17417_6-awesome-80s-movie-montages-that-make-no-damn-sense.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=flashback Mocked]].

** And Neville Chamberlain.

* WhaleEgg: {{Pokemon}} coming from eggs is the #27 [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_388_27-science-lessons-as-taught-by-famous-video-games/ Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games]].

* BurnTheWitch: Being burned is MaryPoppins's nightmare according to a Photoplasty: [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_334_24-nightmares-famous-fictional-characters_p24/#8 24 Nightmares of Famous Fictional Characters]]

* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: In the 2011 AllCGICartoon ''Film/{{Rio}}'', Blu is the last blue macaw left. The article [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19796_6-disturbing-unanswered-questions-from-childrens-movies_p2.html 6 Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies]] shows what would probably happen in the next generation: BrotherSisterIncest in the next generation would result in infertility.

* ParodyOfEvolution: The #14 [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_388_27-science-lessons-as-taught-by-famous-video-games/ Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games]] is an allusion to F. Clark Howell's illustration "The March of Progress" done with game sprites.

* HealThyself, HealingFactor, HealingHands, HealingPotion, HealingShiv: Among the [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-bullshit-video-game-healing-methods/ 7 Video Game Healing Methods Least Likely to Actually Work]]

Relying largely on (ostensibly) humourous list articles, Cracked has become rather famous on the internet. Its lists, which can be written by anyone, are rooted in fact (usually) and coated in humour, dispensing interesting historical and scientific trivia surrounded by dick jokes (always). It has about a half dozen full-time columnists on payroll, who dish out weekly and biweekly articles on serious subjects from the cultural effects of the Internet, to Choose Your Own Adventure Gonzo-styled articles about visiting the zoo while on an amount of drugs capable of killing most men, to action reporting while getting kidnapped by pirates.

** They also tend to bring up the infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnDizZ7UT0 "I'm Han Solo"]] from ''Kinect Star Wars''.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Called [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18721_the-5-stupidest-ways-movies-deal-with-foreign-languages_p2.html The 2nd Stupidest Way Movies Deal with Foreign Languages]].