The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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