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
Some DVDs of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” include “Subtitles for People Who Don’t Like the Film,” which is comprised of lines from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 2.
The phrase “To Protect and Serve” is not codified in law but is merely the motto used by the LAPD and popularized by Hollywood.
Dorothy’s slippers in the Wizard of Oz book are silver in the book, but were changed to red for the movie to contrast better with the yellow brick road.
In 2015, 69,278 people signed a petition to rename the Australian dollar to “Dollarydoo,” a nod to an episode of The Simpsons.
“Seinfeld,” “Mad About You,” and “Friends” all share the same universe. A Seinfeld character sublets an apartment from a main character on Mad About You, who later appears on Friends.
Pal, a male collie initially hired as a stunt dog for the 1943 movie “Lassie Come Home,” performed so well that he was recast as Lassie, replacing the original female collie.
The youngest ever PowerBall winner was a 19-year-old from South Carolina who blew all $35 million of his winnings on an all-female wrestling TV show called “Wrestilicious.”
The “Lord of the Rings” costume team spent three years linking plastic chain mail. Each Orc suit had 13,000 rings and took approximately three days to assemble.
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.
In the Titanic movie, crew member William Murdoch shot a passenger and then took his own life. In real life, he went down with the ship while filling lifeboats and saving lives.
In 1964, Andy Warhol made “Empire,” an eight-hour film consisting of a single stationary, slow-motion shot of New York’s Empire State Building.
Throughout “Gilligan’s Island,” it was never disclosed whether “Gilligan” was his first or last name, although off-screen sources state his full name was “Willy Gilligan.”
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
The first Academy Awards, held on May 16, 1929, featured 12 award presentations and lasted just 15 minutes.
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.
A nickelodeon was a type of early movie theater that charged 5 cents (a nickel) for admission and was the precursor to modern cinema.
Spam mail got its name from a “Monty Python” skit that joked about Spam canned meat being everywhere and impossible to avoid.
A doctor in Germany diagnosed a medical case all other doctors failed to after observing symptoms he had seen in an episode of “House.”
The last major motion picture to receive a public VHS release was David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence.”
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.
In 2008, a Buzz Lightyear toy spent 15 months aboard the International Space Station as part of an educational partnership between NASA and Disney Pixar.
Harrison Ford and Sean Connery starred as father and son in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” despite only having a 12-year age gap.
