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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In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!
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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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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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The iconic roar made by Godzilla was produced by rubbing a leather glove across the strings of a double bass.
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The janitor from Scrubs was originally a figment of J.D.'s imagination.
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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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