Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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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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The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
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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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