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13 Iconic Things Created From Laziness

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You probably think of famous movies, songs, and other pop culture staples as being carefully, meticulously crafted from the ground up. The thing is, sometimes a really famous creation is the result of some artist taking the easiest, laziest possible shortcut, and running with it.

And it's not just lesser-known album filler, either. Sometimes well-known works are the result of sloth-level laziness. For example ...

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The original opening sequence of THE SIMPSONS- which didn't appear in the series pilot -- was made unusually long to cut the amount of animation work

Guns N' ROSES wanted a breakdown near the end of sweet Child o' Mine, but never got around to writing it. One time, when they got to that section, A

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Marlon Brando would often gaze to one side in scenes, giving him that iconic cool, detached look. He did it to read his lines.. They were written on a

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The Beatles were too lazy 626 to shoot a cover photo at EVEREST the Himalayas for their 1th album called Everest, named after Everest EXTRA MILD cigar

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LYNYRD CRACKED COM SKNYRD That awesome log guitar solo at the end of Free Bird'' was added SO Ronnie Van Zant, the vocalist of the band, could take a

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The iconic Infinite Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was created because Douglas Adams wrote himself into a corner and couldn

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SAMUS ARAN'S ICONIC BALL MORPHING POWERS COME FROM... the Metroid designers realizing that animating her crawling would be way harder than just turnin

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Tchaikovsky really didn't care for the 1812 Overture, and composed it because he was asked to and didn't want to say no. So he just threw together s

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SOUTH PARK'S INFAMOUS VILLAINS, STHE CRAB PBOPLE WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE USED WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED They were intended to be a placeholder

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New Order's Blue Monday only exists because the band didn't want to do encores. Instead, they threw together a backing sythesizer track to play whil

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Love Actually's opening scene of people reconnecting and embracing in Heathrow Airport is the result of director Richard Curtis'laziness He had tons o

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Groucho Marx's famous painted mustache came about because he couldn't be bothered gluing on a fake mustache prior to a performance. GRAGKEDOOM

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Stan Lee created the Avengers because that was the easiest way to get a comic book out in time. AVENGERS The art on Daredevil #1 was running't late, a

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