What’s your favorite movie? Or do you prefer getting stuck into a series? Either way, here are interesting facts about the best (and worst) films & TV shows ever released!
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Film & TV Facts
Hanna-Barbera pitched “The Flintstones” to networks for eight weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.
Mel Brooks helped produce the 1986 film “The Fly” but chose to be uncredited so that audiences would not assume it was a comedy.
Silent movie actors were initially not given on-screen credit for fear that they would become famous and subsequently demand higher wages.
Oscar the Grouch was magenta in his concept sketches, then he was orange in Sesame Street’s first season in 1969, and finally became green the following year.
A 2017 Saudi Arabian social studies textbook error included a doctored photo of King Faisal signing the 1945 UN Charter, with Star Wars’ Yoda added next to him.
In a 2009 interview, James Cameron stated his main reason for making “Titanic” was to fund his dives to the shipwreck, not to create a movie.
All of the sweaters Mister Rogers wore on his show were hand-knitted by his mother. He said he loved wearing them because they always made him think of her.
In 2015, 69,278 people signed a petition to rename the Australian dollar to “Dollarydoo,” a nod to an episode of The Simpsons.
A nickelodeon was a type of early movie theater that charged 5 cents (a nickel) for admission and was the precursor to modern cinema.
Season 9, episode 17 of “The Office” was supposed to act as a backdoor pilot for a spin-off series about Dwight Schrute, but NBC didn’t pick it up.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
In the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island, as the SS Minnow sails out of the harbor, flags can be seen in the background flying at half-mast to honor the death of JFK.
Because Daniel Radcliffe was allergic to nickel in his initial Harry Potter specs, production replaced them with hypoallergenic glasses.
Contrary to their depiction in movies, asteroids in the asteroid belt are so widely spaced that, standing on one, you likely wouldn’t see another nearby.
Larry the Cable Guy’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. His notable Southern accent is fake; he was born and raised in the Midwest, not the South.
From 1953 to 1957, NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee co-host named J. Fred Muggs. It is estimated he brought in the network around $100 million.
In the 1940s, air conditioning became popular in movie theaters and was advertised as “cool entertainment.”
Mulan’s avalanche caused nearly 2,000 Hun deaths, making her arguably Disney’s highest kill-count character.
Star Wars was re-released in the Navajo language in 2013, making it the first motion picture to be translated into a Native American language.
Will Smith owed $2.8 million to the IRS and almost went bankrupt just before signing the contract for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
The boots worn by actors in “Saving Private Ryan” were made by S.M. Wholesale, the same company that supplied boots to American soldiers during WWII.
