The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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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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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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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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