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Film & TV Facts
Snoop Dogg’s real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., and his nickname came from his mother, who thought he looked like Snoopy from “Peanuts.”
A doctor in Germany diagnosed a medical case all other doctors failed to after observing symptoms he had seen in an episode of “House.”
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.
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.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
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.
An episode of “The Simpsons” can take 6-9 months to produce, while “South Park” only takes a week due to its computerized animation style.
Quentin Tarantino’s first Hollywood screen credit was as a production assistant on Dolph Lundgren’s exercise video “Maximum Potential.”
In 1937, a major fire broke out at the Fox Film Studios in New Jersey. The fire destroyed 75% of their movies, including most of their silent films.
Viggo Mortensen was offered the chance to return as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” trilogy, but turned it down because the character doesn’t appear in the books.
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.
Red Solo cups are a typical souvenir to bring back from the United States. The novelty comes from the cups being used in many party scenes in movies.
Cool Runnings was originally titled “Blue Maaga,” and was intended as a serious and heavy sports movie involving life in the Kingston slums.
Spam mail got its name from a “Monty Python” skit that joked about Spam canned meat being everywhere and impossible to avoid.
The audience members on “Judge Judy” are paid actors, and to attend a filming of the show, the actors need to be members of the Screen Actors Guild.
The Powerpuff Girls had an episode called “Meet the Beat-Alls,” in which almost every line and plot point was based on lyrics from the Beatles.
Real skeletons were used as props in the 1982 film “Poltergeist” because they were easier to source than plastic replicas at the time.
The seagulls in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away.
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.
While filming “The Longest Day,” a tank from the actual invasion of Normandy was found buried in the sand since D-Day. The tank was cleaned up and used in the movie.
In 2016, a UK filmmaker protested high film classification fees by submitting a 10-hour movie of paint drying, which the British Board of Film Classification had to watch in full.
