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We Remade Zack Snyder's Justice League For Only $20

Not everybody has 4 hours to devote to Zack Snyder’s Justice League, so we went ahead and made a Snyder Cut of our own. We’ve got Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Flash, Steppenwolf, Alfred, Lois Lane, Iris West, Darkseid, Martian Manhunter, Martha, Joker, the other Joker, that dumb kid in the bank, and it only cost us $20. Even better, it costs you nothing. Sorry, HBOMax.

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#4 Elephants Can Imitate Human Speech

Let’s be real: if you heard an elephant “talk,” you’d crap yourself hard enough to achieve flight just long enough to seriously hurt yourself once you finally go down. But it’s the mental scars that would stay with you the longest. See, we tolerate talking animals like parrots because they’re small and harmless and can be taken down with some bird seed, a cardboard box, and a string tied to a stick. A talking elephant, though, would be terrifying because if elephants were smart enough to talk, they’d also be smart enough to be pissed off at humanity for, well, everything really. And unlike parrots, they could do something about it.

The good news is that we aren’t headed towards a Planet of the Elephants just yet but modern research suggests that it’s just a matter of time. See, scientists studying a male Asian elephant named Koshik at the Everland Zoo in South Korea, discovered that the pachyderm learned to imitate certain human sounds. Koshik did it by putting his trunk in his mouth to change the shape of his vocal tract and produce sounds that sound eerily human. He could reportedly “say” Korean words like “annyong” (“hello”), “anja” (“sit down”), “aniya” (“no”), “nuo” (“lie down”), and “choah” (“good”) or the exact phrases he and his kind will one day need to order their human servants around. Coincidence? You wish.

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Why Did So Many '90s Kids Cartoons Feature Edgy, Adult Comedians?

With the early 1990’s came the bizarre fad of famous stand-up comedians, who weren’t necessarily “kid friendly” getting greenlit for their very own Saturday morning cartoons. Comedians like Howie Mandel, John Candy, David Wayne, and the now kinda-problematic... Roseanne Barr and Bill Cosby. We're talking Camp Candy, Bobby's World, Little Rosey, Waynehead, Life with Louie, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley and a ton more shows that make us go wait a minute... whaaaaat?

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