I Learned Something Today

[Mandouga]

Japan loves the Power Glove, too. It's just as bad over there as it is anywhere else it was released!

Seriously though, a company called Pax Corporation released it over there.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Robert Kirkman's Invincible was originally going to called Bulletproof.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Today I learned Lois Lane got her name from an actress named Lola Lane, who played a hotshot reporter named Torchy in a hit movie around the time Siegel and Schuster thought her up. And then they just decided to make nearly everyone else in Clark's life have "LL" initials, so it's interesting that all started due to a real person.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The Beatles has the longest gap for number-ones in the UK, which is 54 years between "The Ballad of John and Yoko" from 1969 and "Now and Then" from this year.

 

[Mandouga]

“Now, this is a story all about how [his] life got flipped turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll show you how [he] became the prince of a town called”…

Beverly Hills

It turns out that The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was very, very, very, very, VERY loosely based on a true story, which is what the “based on a format” credit refers to.

At the time the original show aired, Benny Medina (who created the “format” with Ted Pollack) was a record executive. He was born in East Los Angeles, coming from a poor family. He lost both of his parents, and was put in a number of different foster homes, but he ran away from both of them. Wikipedia (yeah, I know, but that’s all I’ve got) says that he and his siblings were eventually taken in by their aunt.

However, this is the part that has to do with the show.

He eventually met a white teenager, and they became friends. Eventually, the white teenager’s family let Benny stay “in a refurbished garage behind their property” in Beverly Hills, and even went to Beverly Hills High School.

When he and Ted developed the “format”, Benny thought of Will Smith, who he had worked with before, and the rest as they say, is history.

EDIT (11-16-23):

It would seem that Daran Norris (AKA: Cosmo and Mr. Turner) was the narrator on all the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy commercials, apparently also including the first couple of ones that have what sounds like a different voice.


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[AdrenalineRush1996]

The reason why Wendy's is currently unable to return to Australia and the Benelux region is due to the name being used by Wendy's Milk Bar in the former and Wendy's Fish & Chips in the latter.

 

[Mandouga]

Apparently, it was Queen Victoria who started the idea of brides wearing white dresses at their weddings; either that, or she popularized it.

Felix the Cat: the Movie was animated in Hungary by Pannonia, Hungary's largest animation studio.

Bela Lugosi was Hungarian. That's why most versions of...well, you know, are based on him.

Most people know Don Oriolo for managing the Felix franchise, but that's not all he does. He's also a musician, among other things.

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[harry580]

rio was going to be pg rated but blue sky studios creators got mad and force mpaa to change the rating to a g rating

 

[PinkieLopBun]

There’s an anime based on the family that inspired The Sound of Music.

Trapp Family Story - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Iceland is the only Nordic country to have not yet won the Eurovision Song Contest.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Tiger Lily almost appeared in Steven Spielberg's Hook back when it was in development as a direct live-action sequel to Disney's Peter Pan.

 

[harry580]

south park was pitched to fox but its was turned down because of mr hankey, the show was then picked up by Comedy Central and that show become a hit for the network

 

[prpis]

TIL about a reality tv game show about donating organs, and the show got a lot of flak for it. the show was found to be a hoax and actually just a PSA and encouragement to people to go and donate. It was a huge success and even won an Emmy.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" was originally written for Janet Jackson.

 

[Mandouga]

The Game Awards aren’t as new as some people might think. It’s a spiritual successor to the Spike Video Game Awards which was held from 2003 until the 11th show in 2013 and aired on Spike TV (now the Paramount Network). A year later, Geoff Keighley was able to continue it as The Game Awards. All together, it’s the show’s 20th anniversary (i.e., it had been 20 years since the first show was held).


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[Zorak Masaki]

Marvel's Mighty Mouse comic did a 2 issue parody of Crisis on Infinite Earths

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KgAAAOSwd-9jNuyR/s-l1200.webp

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61PavQkNQCL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

 

[Mandouga]

The car in Megas XLR (you know, the one that became Megas’ head) is a Plymouth Barracuda (or at least it looks like one…).


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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Naruto character Haku Yuki was originally going to be an anthro bear.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

I may have to take back my earlier post about Mrs. McAllister being a fashion designer. It turns out that detail was from the novelization by Todd Strasser, and Strasser confessed he made that detail up. So why so many mannequins? No one knows now. All we do know is that the McAllisters are definitely not poor people.

Federal Reserve Determines That Home Alone's McCallister Family Was Probably in the 1% - IGN

Fans have long wondered how rich the McCallisters in Home Alone truly were, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has given us something of an answer: they were probably in the 1%.

www.ign.com

 

[twilicorn]

I was today years old when I learned that the title of Arthur Christmas is a dialect joke; it sounds like "Father Christmas" in a British accent