While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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The first South Park episode was made with construction paper. It took 3 months to make.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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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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There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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Jerry Seinfeld turned down US$5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the Seinfeld show for a tenth season.
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