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100

Although it started in San Bernardino, this fast food chain's HQ resides in Chicago. It was founded in 1955 by Oak Park native Ray Kroc, who worked as a salesman of milkshake machines and bought out the business of 2 burger brothers in CA for $2.7 million.

MCDONALD'S

The San Bernardino restaurant was eventually torn down in 1971, and the site was sold to the Juan Pollo chain in 1998. This area serves as headquarters for the Juan Pollo chain, and a McDonald's and Route 66 museum.

100

This is what Beverly becomes a part of after being defeated and her AI powers stripped away. 

TOASTER

There 50+ drawovers in our server demonstrating the angle of toast being shot out.

100

Finale song performed for the Bubble Bowl in the episode "Band Geeks". This rock hit was created by David Glen Eisley and Bob Kulick.

SWEET VICTORY

The song was initially released in 1997 as part of a royalty-free music library that Nickelodeon had access to.

100

The 2017 movie that contains this unedited audio in its trailer.

THE MUMMY

The zero gravity scene took sixty-four takes and was shot for two days in a special plane that was lined in a padded green fabric covered in reference marks. Reportedly, a lot of the crew got nauseous during the scene and vomited, except for the main stars, Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis

100

AKA “The Creative Life” (formerly known as Grauman’s), this theater has been the home to the most prominent red-carpet movie premieres and special events since 1927.

TCL CHINESE THEATER

It’s the world’s largest IMAX auditorium, as well as the only movie place in California with a state-of-the-art IMAX Laser projection experience.  

200

John considers his home state to be "The Yellowhammer State". Born in 1984 and also from this home state, this Republican diplomat served as the 66th US Secretary of State under the Bush administration.  


CONDOLEEZZA RICE

In October 2013, Rice was selected to be one of the thirteen inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee. She was also considered as a candidate in the Cleveland Browns' head coach search in 2018.

200

Since he doesn't trust WiFi signals after the Beverly AI incident, Snake is seen with this asset in ep 121. He is protected by WiFi and the meteorite with this asset.  

HATTINFOILA

Tin Foil reflects both heat and light and is completely impermeable, which means no taste, aroma or light gets in or out. Snake's hot head is from his own head.


200
Baby Prunes, remembers when they invented this object. She always hated it is but is deceived into buying it when told that the object would grant immortality. 

CHOCOLATE

Baby Prunes is born in 1900 BC making her at least 3,924 years old. She can also move her wheelchair without arms.

200

DAILY DOUBLE

Name of the character who wore this coat in the 2012 musical film adaptation Rock of Ages.

STACEE JAXX

Cruise had been singing five hours a day to prepare for his work as musician Stacee Jaxx. His performance is described as quote, "It's this brilliant mashup, it seems, of Axl Rose, Bret Michaels, Keith Richards, and Jim Morrison".

200

True or False: The San Andreas Fault is the longest fault in North America, starting from Bombay Beach, slicing through Los Angeles County along the northern side of the San Gabriel Mountains, to Eureka, California.

TRUE

There is a 75% probability of earthquakes with magnitude 7.0 or greater striking Southern California, based on a 30-year period, beginning in 2014.  

300

This 1999 supernatural horror film tells the story of three student docufilmmakers who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland (1.5 hour drive from Olivia's hometown).

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Director Eduardo Sánchez started making small movie projects while attending Wheaton High School in Maryland. With a $60,000 production budget, TBWP made back 20,000% of its budget after grossing $248,639,099.

300

The primary animation image seen here is from this episode.

BAD109 CRIME AFTER CRIME

In these 33 frames, Snake nearly breaks Wolf's leg.

300

Name of King Neptune's daughter in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. She helps SpongeBob and Patrick set off for Shell City to retrieve her dad's crown. 

MINDY

Mindy does not appear again till the episode "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" because of the 2004 to 2015 firewall between Nickelodeon and Paramount. Nick was prevented from using any designs from the movie during those years.

300

Tom Cruise's first Academy Awards appearance was as a best actor nominee for Born On The Fourth of July. This director won the award for Best Director as well as nominations for best screenplay and best picture for the movie.

OLIVER STONE

Oliver Stone was presented his Best Director Oscar for this film by his former film school teacher Martin Scorsese.  

300

This major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California is a bypass route of I-5, running along parts of the Greater LA urban area. It goes from Irvine to Sylmar. 

INTERSTATE 405 (acceptable answers include I-405 and THE 405)

The freeway's congestion problems have led to jokes that the road was numbered 405 because traffic moves at "four or five" miles per hour, or because drivers had spent "four or five" hours to travel anywhere.   

400

Shaun's hometown in Thousands Oaks is known for producing local harvests such as avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, nuts, and nursery products.

True or False: The pecan is one of the official state nuts in California.

TRUE

California’s nut-growing region is so crucial to the state’s economy that it has four official State Nuts: almond, walnut, pistachio, and pecan. Though most pecans are from Georgia, 100 to 200 acres of pecans are grown in CA.

400

This is the date of our trailer drop for The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday Christmas Special.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 2023

The Netflix premise says "The five tire of a life of crime and decide to live their lives as forces of good." Ironically, a tire ruins the holiday in the episode.

400

Released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox, this video game features an original storyline which the player defends Bikini Bottom from a horde of robots created by Plankton.

BATTLE FOR BIKINI BOTTOM

There are several pop culture references including SpongeBob saying, "You've just met the Sponginator" and "Ahhh there's nothing like the smell of bubbles in the morning".

400

The missing line in his previous co-producer/costar's ad monologue:

DAZZLING IMAGES ON A HUGE SILVER SCREEN. SOUND THAT I CAN FEEL. 

SOMEHOW, HEARTBREAK FEELS GOOD IN A PLACE LIKE THIS.  

OUR HEROES FEEL LIKE THE BEST PARTS OF US 

______________________________

BECAUSE HERE… THEY ARE.

AND STORIES FEEL PERFECT AND POWERFUL…

Nicole Kidman's AMC monologue was filmed at the AMC cineplex in Porter Ranch, a suburb north of Los Angeles. None of the movies she watches star Tom Cruise.

400

This college became the birthplace of the internet on October 29, 1969. Starting from this location, the new network design sent "LO" to a sister computer in Menlo Park. 

UCLA

Led by Leonard Kleinrock, distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, an operator attempted to type ‘LOGIN’. However, he only made it to ‘LO’ before it crashed.

500

Joel Trager is first to Billy Joel by name. In the song "Movin' Out", Billy refers to this town located in Joel's home state of New Jersey. 

HACKENSACK

In the 2001 film Zoolander, Mugatu is threatened by someone saying "Perhaps you'd like to go back to turning out novelty neckties in Hackensack."

500

From the start of BAD production (11/11/21) to the premiere of our 1st episode BAD101 (2026), Taylor Swift would have released/ announced this number of albums.

FIVE

Red: TV (11/12/21), Midnights (10/21/21), Speak Now: TV (07/07/23), 1989: TV (10/27/23), The Tortured Poets Department (4/19/24). 


500

This is the number of seasons for the show SpongeBob SquarePants.

FOURTEEN

Over the years the show has covered 14 seasons, 2 spin-off series, 3 movies, numerous video games, and much more.

500

After developing all aspects of Les Grossman's character, including the dancing and make-up, this was the screen time for Tom Cruise in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder.

9 MINUTES

Initially, Les Grossman was not written in the movie till Cruise suggested, "Well, there’s no studio executive, and it would be really fun to be that guy."  

500

Formerly known as NBC Studios, this Burbank television production facility is home to "Days of Our Lives", "Extra", the IHeartRadio Theater, and was formerly home to the Blizzard Arena (home of the Overwatch League). 

THE BURBANK STUDIOS

"The All-New Jeopardy!" was taped here from 1978-1979. The studio is located at 3000 West Alameda Avenue (right across from Burbank's only Chick-fil-A).