The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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After Disney threatened to sue three day care centers for unauthorized use of their characters, Hanna-Barbera gave them the right to use Universal characters as decorations.
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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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