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36 Easter Eggs and Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Iconic Animated Movies

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Toy Story 2 had a rocky climb before becoming one of the greatest animated movies of all time. Not only was it almost a direct-to-video sequel, but it was also almost entirely deleted halfway through production. Here are a number of other behind-the-scenes facts and tidbits about iconic animated movies and shows…

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Rick and Morty

BEHIND-T BEHINO-THESCINESPACTS RICK'S BURPING CAME ABOUT BY ACCIDENT Rick Mary 02 Roiland says that he accidentally burped while recording lines for Rick and Morty's precursor, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti. He found it funny and gross, and the trait stayed with the character ever since then. CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly

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Toy Story 2 was almost a direct-to-video release... )Roundur SAY TV STINKY PETE ...but Disney saw the potential ($$$) and it made almost $500 million at the box office. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — RetroJunk

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King of the Hill

There's an official King of the Hill album. GRACKED.COM They put out an album of southern rock COVERS by some popular country music stars, including Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow, as well as some of the characters themselves. — 15 Dang Ol' Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'King Of The Hill,' Man

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Toy Story 2

Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 in the middle of production... ...luckily the supervising director had a back-up on her home computer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — 6 WTF Stumbling Blocks (That Almost Killed Famous Movies)

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Love is all around

COLLEEN LOVES EVERYONE (AND ALSO MATH). AIXX II The Beast with a Billion Backs Colleen O'Hallahan is seen wearing a shirt that expresses her all- encompassing love with math symbols: For all X, I love x. CRACKED.COM — The Infosphere

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Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE CREATORS DON'T KNOW WHICH BETH IS A CLONE. Rick Mony goal Dan Harmon says that Rick saying he's a terrible father for not knowing which Beth is the real one is a metaphor for the writing team being bad writers because they themselves still haven't decided which one is a clone. CRACKED.COM — CinemaBlend

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Aang

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BENDER HAS THE PROCESSOR OF AN EARLY. APPLE COMPUTER, 6502 Fry and the Slurm Factory A scan reveals that Bender is powered by a 6502 microprocessor, just like the Apple II computer from the late '70s. CRACKED.COM — IEEE Spectrum

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Bob’s Burgers

Louise wears bunny ears because of a manga. CRACKEDO Louise's wardrobe, and by extension, her mischievous aura, are inspired by a character from According to BB creator Loren Bouchard, there's a little boy who's only ever seen wearing bear ears. He says a weird combination of kid and animal allows the audience to experience Louise both as a little girl and Bugs Bunny at the same time. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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Dr. Seuss

Chuck Jones and Dr. Seuss worked together in WWII. PRIVATE SNAFU They met working on the Private Snafu cartoons, which showed soldiers what they absolutely should never be doing. CRACKED.COM — Vulture

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Pickle Rick

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS PICKLE RICK WAS INSPIRED BY AN EPISODE OF BREAKING BAD. Rick Many According to Dan Harmon, season three's Pickle Rick episode was influenced by Breaking Bad's season two episode 4 Days Out. In the episode, Walt and Jesse get stuck in the desert and have to use their smarts to escape. CRACKED.COM — Newsweek

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Woody

Woody was originally going to be a ventriloquist dummy... ...but executives didn't like the idea because of dummies' association with horror films. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — RetroJunk

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Avatar

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

VOICE TALENT WAS ESPECIALLY HEROIC CRACKED.com Kaneda, in the original English dub, is voiced by Cam Clarke (Leonardo; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series), Masaru and Kai were voiced by Bob Bergen (current Porky Pig), and, in the 2001 remaster, Kaneda was voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam Park, the black Power Ranger). — Uproxx

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EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE CAM There are pro-union messages scattered throughout the film. The 1940s was considered the golden era in animation. It was also the era of labor strikes and picketing animators who, in 1945, famously clashed with Burbank police outside Warner Bros. studios. CRACKED.COM — MEL Magazine

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King of the Hill

The theme song was some band's sound check. CRACKEDG The Refreshments, out of Arizona, were asked to submit a demo to Mike Judge. They recorded a live set, and encouraged the crowd to really hoot and holler during their sound check jam, which they named Yahoos and Triangles. — CityBeat

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Powerline

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS An unlikely band inspired outfits for POWERLINE GRACKED.COM While Powerline's music sounded a lot like 90s pop and hip-hop stars, his haz-mat look was based on the wardrobe of a completely different group of musicians: surrealist rockers Devo. — Houston Press

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Bender

BENDER STAYS ALIVE AND IN HIS PRIME. 123 STUDIO Rebirth Bender dances in a place called Studio 122'33 the prime factorization of Studio 54. 122'33=1x2x27=54 CRACKED.COM — The Infosphere, Math is Fun

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Fan Art That Paid

A fan artist scored a staff job. I HAD SOME THING FOR THIS PURGER CRACKED.COM Artist Simon Chong tweeted a 4-minute Bob's Burgers / Archer mashup that he illustrated by hand. The cast and producers loved it SO much, they gave him a job as a retake editor and storyboard artist. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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The Grinch

Grinch was ridiculously expensive for its time. It cost $315,000-- and A Charlie Brown Christmas, made the year before, cost $76,000. It was around 10 times more expensive than most other half-hours of animation. CRACKED.COM — Saturday Evening Post, Vulture

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Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS JUSTIN ROILAND ALMOST DIDN'T VOICE BOTH RICK AND MORTY. Rick Mery lock Adult Swim didn't think Morty's character was working with Roiland, so an audition process was started to get a new voice actor. Eventually, the team realized Morty's character was the problem and not the voice. After rewriting the part, Adult Swim gave Roiland a green light to voice Morty. CRACKED.COM — Inverse

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DREW INSPIRATION FROM WAR OF THE WORLDS CRACKED.COM The large-scale destruction of Neo-Tokyo in Akira is reminiscent of older tales featuring unstoppable forces of otherworldly design. Taking this into consideration, it's not surprising director Katsuhiro Otomo calls out H. G. Wells' War Of The Worlds as the book having the biggest impact on him. — Empire Online

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Space Jam

EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE DAM Shawn Bradley references his missionary work. During his college basketball years, Bradley took two years off to do missionary work for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the movie, after the NBA players lose their skills, they talk about what's next for them and Bradley says: I've got other skills. I could go back and work on the farm. Or maybe I could go back to the jungle and be a missionary again. CRACKED.COM — LDS Living

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John Ritter's final performance was on King of the Hill. in we GRACKEDO He recorded his final turn as music teacher Eugene Grandy shortly before his death in 2003. — 15 Dang Ol' Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 'King Of The Hill,' Man

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS The movie inspired a Goofy SEQUEL An Extremely Goofy Movie CRACKED.COM Max goes to college, but to his embarassment his father loses his job and goes to his son's campus. Man, it practically writes itself. — IMDb

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Zoidberg

THAT MUST BE SOME REALLY STICKY GLUE. STRONG Krazy FORCE GLUE The 30% Iron Chef Zoidberg messes around with a bottle of Strong Force Krazy Glue. The strong force is one of the fundamental forces of nature, the one which keeps atomic nuclei together. CRACKED.COM — Futurama Wiki, Live Science

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H. John Benjamin

H. John Benjamin doesn't read. CRACKED.co He can read, he's just too lazy (by his own admission): I am SO poor at planning that I don't even read the scripts. He says he thrives in animation because he's supremely lazy and makes many mistakes. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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If Chuck Jones had pitched a TV special later, Grinch might never have been made. Dr. Seuss' How The GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! They picked Grinch as the book to adapt only because they had enough time have a special out by Christmas. CRACKED.COM — Saturday Evening Post

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS SQUANCHY ALMOST HAD A STANDALONE EPISODE. Rick MORE AND The creators revealed that the original idea for season two's episode The Wedding Squanchers was to set the story on Squanchy's home planet and focus it on exploring the character. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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In Toy Story, each frame took between 45 minutes to 30 hours to render. There were a total of 114,240 frames. They invented a new software to handle it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Insider

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TWICE THE AMOUNT OF SHOTS CRACKED.COM COM The average film has 1,250 individual shots, whereas Akira almost doubles that at 2,212. Moreover, the movie contains a staggering 160,000 single pictures, 2-3 times more than normal, which is a LOT of animated body horror for 80's audiences. — Geek Tyrant

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Space Jam

EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE CAM The Schlesinger Gym where the Tune Squad practice is a reference to a cartoon producer. SCHLESINGER GYM Leon Schlesinger, whose production company later became Warner Bros. Cartoons studios, brought the Looney Tunes series to life. CRACKED.COM — Warner Bros. Wiki, The New York Times

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King of the Hill

King of the Hill's ratings were higher than The Simpsons' (for a year). CRACKED.COM The show hit its stride quickly, already outperforming its lead-in, The Simpsons, in its 2nd season. — HollywoodReporter

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Goofy

EHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS This was the Disney icon's FIRST FEATURE CRACKED.COM While Goofy has starred in more than 30 Disney short films and in TV series like Goof Troop, this was his first feature-length movie. — Disney

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