The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have "any harmful moral side effects" and were based on "ties of intense friendship."
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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll - and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the animators.
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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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In the cartoon "The Jetsons", Jane Jetson is 32 and her daughter Judy is 16, which made Jane a teen mum.
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