The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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There is a cup of coffee in every scene of the movie Fight Club.
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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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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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
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HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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