I Learned Something Today

[Mandouga]

Summer Sunshine, the opening and ending theme of Barbie in a Mermaid Tale, is an English cover of a song (which has the same name) from a Korean drama called Mackerel Run.


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[PinkieLopBun]

Cats can dig. I saw a stray (feral?) one doing that in a neighbor's yard.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

M&M's were the original choice for the sweets that E.T. eats in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial but the snack's maker Mars Chocolate said no, so director Steven Spielberg turned to their rival Hershey, who agreed to use their Reese's Pieces, which turned out for the best as the peanut butter sweets' sales increased by 300% thanks to the film.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

THE SIX DEATHS OF LAMBERT FROM ALIEN, MOST OF THEM PATHETIC

1) Head twisted off by creature (early draft)

2) Lambert leaves picture early with no explanation, later on Dallas says the creature ate her

3) From a script where Parker has the flamethrower, he aims it at the Alien but hits Lambert instead (not making up any of these)

4) Xeno's acid blood opens a pinhole in the storage room, causing Lambert to slam against the wall and get sucked into space one bit at a time (this idea was reused for Alien Resurrection)

5) Lambert crawls into a locker and dies of fright (this is hilarious, they really didn't think highly of Lambert)

6) Lambert is standing right next to the Xeno and doesn't notice...this is the one that was filmed, but it couldn't be used. They thought having the actor walk like a crab would be creepy, but it made the head bounce up and down and it was too obvious it wasn't real. They did not shoot a scene where it attacks her.


In the end, there was no time to shoot a better death scene for Lambert, so it was largely done through offscreen noises and one imported shot of Brett's boots.

 

[MatthewP]

TIL cheetos popcorn isn’t as new as a thing as i thought

 

[Mandouga]

Well, well, well. It appears that one “Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy” (AKA: the voice of everyone’s favorite “peachy” princess) is a high school dropout. I wonder if a certain “Miyahon” knew about this…

Also, she's fluent in both English in Spanish. Despite this, however, she didn't dub herself in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Instead, Princess Peach was dubbed by someone named “Ale (as in “Alejandra”) Pilar”.

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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Unlike his Simpsons character Homer Simpson, who is a big eater and an alcoholic, Dan Castellaneta is actually a vegetarian and a teetotaller.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

When Cheerios were first introduced in 1941, their original name was "Cheerioats."

 

[Mandouga]

Not only that, but the name was temporarily brought back when it celebrated its anniversary in…2021, I guess.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Despite German being his first language, Arnold Schwarzenegger has never dubbed his own voice in said language for his films due to his accent.

 

[Red Arrow]

Despite German being his first language, Arnold Schwarzenegger has never dubbed his own voice in said language for his films due to his accent.

Which is totally insane because he also had that accent in English. But Germans and French dubbing studios are somehow obsessed with the standard accent of their languages.

 

[Chris]

When Garfield says "flibbertigibbit!" in the Halloween special, he's saying an actual word.

 

[Mandouga]

I don't seem to remember him “saying” that. When exactly does this happen? All you did was give a link to the full special itself without pointing to the part where he supposedly says it. I personally ever only heard Granny (Sylvester and Tweety’s owner) say it in the short where her pets are snowbound and she can't get to them because the roads are cut off.


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[Chris]

He says it a few seconds after I posted the time stamp. I thought it would work, it works on my computer.

 

[Red Arrow]

Tracy Beaker has two slightly different intros in its first season. One for episodes 1-3, 6 and 9-10 and one of the other episodes.

 

[Spacething7474]

Maulik Navin Pancholy has potrayed a character named Sanjay Patel in 2 completely different shows (Sanjay and Craig & Weeds), and in addition to that, there's a Canadian filmmaker and British animator both named Sanjay Patel.

 

[Low Spark of Lyman]

Today is not only Garfield's birthday, but also that of a certain Tasmanian Devil. Devil May Hare premiered 70 years ago this day.

 

[Spacething7474]

Julia Pott (creator of Summer Camp Island) married the actor of the titular character from Phil of the Future, Raviv Channan Ullman, last year.

 

[harry580]

r.e.m.'s shiny happy people was going to be the theme song for friends

 

[Spacething7474]

The sound effects from the Williams Street vanity plate is taken from a previous logo, that being Mark VII Limited's "Hammer", which was used from 1967 to 1971.