Even though the Harry Potter series isn't the most well thought out fantasy series some of it's magic could indeed be highly useful in the real world. For example when you watch a scary movie that creeps you out too much you simply cast the "Ridiculus"-Spell and all's good:

1. Roman Polanski's "Chinatown"

It doesn't even have to be a horror movie - I always found that the scene in which a thug sticks a knife up the nose of Jack Nicholson's character and cuts it in Chinatown to be cringe inducing. But no longer: RIDICULUS!

2. Christopher Lee in "Dracula"

Many movie buffs agree that Christopher Lee played the scariest Dracula ever - and no wonder, the guy is just that intimidating! Or is he? RIDICULUS!

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... and not just a TV series.

Pretty much everyone today grew up watching and loving some type of cartoons and their characters grew into beloved friends. But research by cracked revealed, how mindfuckingly scary they were, if they existed in the real world...

1. Dumbo

As told by Disney the story of an elephant with huge ears who finds out that he can fly is a heartwarming variation of the ugly duckling's story. In the real world, though, a flying elephant would be a NIGHTMARE - especially for airline pilots...

For the recent London Olympic Games cracked tasked the image manipulators to come up with awesome new sports to be added to the games next time for this article. Here's my submissions:

The first event is men's pruning - because I *love* lying in the bathtub and *hate* physical exercise:

And the second one is for animal lovers in general:

Although none of these got chosen for the article I had huge fun with this topic: What if movie titles were meant to be taken literal?

The first is a little riddle - which movie might this be a scene of?

Remember the first season of Breaking Bad? Then you might like this alternative title for the series:

The first two pictures are submissions for a cracked photoplasty about being caught red handed in embarrassing situations, they didn't make the cut: