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...that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?
...that in the animated Laff-a-Lympics, non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers?
...that the Fire Nation, from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean?

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...that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation?
...that Information International, Inc. (Triple-I) used the Super Foonly, the world's fastest PDP-10, to render 3D animation for the 1982 film Tron?
...that the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation? (example pictured)

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...that Winsor McCay's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (poster pictured) was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
...that Têtes à Claques was originally intended to be stop motion animation, but instead superimposed faces on the figurines to save time?
...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?

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...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
...that Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (pictured), Bambi and Pinocchio were produced?
...that Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng and received the highest awards in his profession?

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...that 1999's Scooby-Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform?
...that the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
...that American film maker John Korty’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola (pictured) to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area?

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...that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?
...that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?
...that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films?

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...that one fan's elaboration of Quake's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra, the longest work of machinima at the time?
...that Friz Freleng's 1937 cartoon Clean Pastures narrowly evaded Hollywood Production Code censors, before being removed from distribution by United Artists in 1968?
...that the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons?

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...that the actors in the film Planet of Dinosaurs had to sign partial payment deferments on their contracts, because most of the budget was spent on stop motion dinosaurs?
...that after bad reviews, the distributors of the 1992 animated film The Princess and the Goblin used enthusiastic comments from children in its promotional material?
...that Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award-winning studio Se-ma-for?

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...that Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High?
...that Groundskeeper Willie, a character on The Simpsons, coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
...that Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters?

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...that Cliff Friend co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
...that Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle, the two-hour finale for Avatar: The Last Airbender, was the most-watched cable television broadcast in the week of its transmission?
...that Paul McCartney's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" was that Lisa, who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?

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...that the Phineas and Ferb season two premiere was the most watched cable telecast on Friday, March 13, 2009?
...that an IGN review of "The Rise of the Blue Beetle!" noted that some people would like "wormholes, single-cell organisms and evil intergalactic pirates ... mentioned in the same breath as Batman?"
... that the 2011 film Legend of a Rabbit was made over the course of three years, with a crew of 500 animators involved?

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...that the Simpsons short Good Night aired April 19, 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family on television?
...that the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
...that the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode "Blind Ambition" was originally created for the episode "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire"?

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...that Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon, whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
...that before beginning a career in animation, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (pictured) worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?
...that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto, has been described as "China’s first homegrown Jewish film"?

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...that the first Filipino full-length animated film, Adarna, was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
...that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
...that Bruce Timm, the producer of the animated film adaptation Batman: Year One, said that adapting the comic story arc was straightforward since the original story was already cinematic?

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...that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
...that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries?
...that critics praised The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Natural Selection" for its action and fight sequences?

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...that the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons Sheep Ahoy, A Sheep in the Deep, and Don't Give Up the Sheep were censored by ABC to remove a dynamite stick, a smoke break scene, and a spanking scene respectively?
...that William Hanna claimed that the Tom and Jerry character Jerry Mouse was named Jinx in his first appearance while Joseph Barbera claimed that the mouse went nameless?
...that an animation database stores fragments of animations or human movements and can be used to re-assemble new animations?

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...that the 1935 Disney cartoon Three Orphan Kittens was later censored for having negative portrayals of African Americans?
...that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast?
...that The World of Strawberry Shortcake, the first television special to feature American Greetings' popular character, was rejected by the major U.S. networks and premiered in syndication instead?

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...that "squash and stretch" is considered the most important of the 12 basic principles of animation?
...that the Rugrats episode "A Rugrats Chanukah" was pitched to the series crew by Nickelodeon in 1992?
...that award-winning experimental filmmaker and animator Skip Battaglia is also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology?

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...that the original cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will appear in "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", a seventh season episode of Family Guy?
...that the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Animated Programs"?
...that the Rugrats episode "A Rugrats Passover" fell under controversy from the Anti-Defamation League over the designs of two characters featured in it?

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...that the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris reimagined the Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital?
...that in the 1960s, Yōji Kuri was regarded as the creator of Japanese animation most known to the West?
...that Peter Keefe's 1980s series Voltron "helped prepare the way for other Japanese-style animation in the United States" such as Pokémon and Power Rangers?

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...that The Simpsons' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office?
...that Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California, when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn?
...that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?

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...that "I Love to Singa," an Al Jolson (pictured) song written by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon?
...that the cast of Home Movies completely improvised the show's pilot episode?
...that the Phineas and Ferb episode "Are You My Mummy?" originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel?

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...that according to a BBC Radio 2 poll, "The Gruffalo", which was adapted into a film in 2009, is the UK's favourite bedtime story?
...that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry, A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzie Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
...that Spongiforma squarepantsii is a sponge-like bolete (pictured) that lives in Malaysia?

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...that Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site? (pictured)
...that Handling Ships, the first animated British Technicolor feature film, was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946?
...that filmmaker Daniel St. Pierre led the team that developed the Deep Canvas system for the animated film Tarzan for enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds?

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...that Leaving Springfield is a non-fiction anthology of essays analyzing the impact of the television program The Simpsons on society?
...that the Family Guy episode "Ocean's Three and a Half" includes the actual audio of Christian Bale's outburst (pictured) on the set of Terminator Salvation, making it appear to be directed at Peter Griffin?
...that former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain?

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...that the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur?
...that the film BloodSpell, licensed under Creative Commons, is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights?
...that the Théâtre Optique (pictured) show of 1892 was the first public projection of moving images, predating the Lumière Brothers' screening by three years?

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...that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation, the flow is snow white?
...that it took 16 years for the pilot episode of Phineas and Ferb to be picked up?
...that the first season of the animated sitcom Home Movies was the only season of the series to utilize the "squigglevision" style of animation?

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...that Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
...that The Simpsons episode "In the Name of the Grandfather", scheduled to debut on Sky One, will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the United States?
...that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?

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...that the animated sitcom Home Movies switched to Flash animation for its second season?
...that the Rugrats episode "At the Movies" introduced the character of Reptar, who became a heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-ins?
...that the Burka Avenger is Pakistan's first animated female superhero?

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...that the Simpsons episode "The Devil Wears Nada", in which Marge poses for racy photographs in a calendar, aired soon after she appeared nude on the cover of Playboy?
...that the third season and its episodes of the animated sitcom Home Movies won two Pulcinella Awards in 2003?
...that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode "200"?

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...that the Simpsons episode "Million Dollar Maybe" will feature a new character created by the winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show?
...that the Rich Representation Language includes commands for displaying a wide range of emotions in the faces of animated characters?
...that Daddles the duck would "accompany" batsmen who were on their way to the pavilion after being dismissed for a duck?

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...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
...that the mockumentary Male Restroom Etiquette is the most viewed Sims video on YouTube?

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...that John Powell's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award, and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
...that the Young Justice episode "Independence Day" introduces a younger version of the DC Universe?
...that according to John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis, the shorts included on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 are "among the finest cartoons ever made"?

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...that there is an upcoming animated series starring Spider-Man based on the Ultimate Spider-Man storyline that will air on Disney XD?
...that DreamWorks plans to produce at least three films in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise?
...that Egor the Animator, an early computer animation program released on February 6, 1996 by Sausage Software, was the first commercial software Java applet?

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...that the machinima-based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
...that after Larry Niven's first attempt (pictured) at writing a Star Trek: The Animated Series screenplay was rejected, Gene Roddenberry suggested he adapt one of his short stories which became "The Slaver Weapon"?
...that press releases for the Phineas and Ferb episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror" detailed a cut subplot where the character Lawrence Fletcher searches for a rare bottle cap?

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...that the animated film God's Faithful Servant: Barla was the fourth highest-grossing Turkish film in 2011?
...that, based on its pilot episodes, one critic stated that Danny Antonucci's (pictured) Ed, Edd n Eddy was the worst Cartoon Network show, and another said that the funniest thing about it was its title?
...that writer Chris Sheridan, who has received three Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy, initially feared that writing for it would end his career?

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....that the South Park episode "The Coon" spoofs such dark comic book movies as The Dark Knight, The Spirit and Watchmen?
...that the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America?
...that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special "Destination: Imagination" won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)" in 2009?

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...that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense?
...that Monty Oum, the creator of Rooster Teeth Productions' upcoming series RWBY, was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
...that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny?

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...that independent filmmaker Frank Sudol wrote, animated, voiced, directed, and composed all of the music for his film Dead Fury?
...that cartoon producer Hal Geer successfully campaigned for Bugs Bunny to have his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
...that Mallory Hagan (pictured) compared the ideals of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to those of the Miss America pageant while promoting its third season finale?

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...that during the opening sequence of "The Squirt and the Whale", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode "201"?
...that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
...that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London?

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...that Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan, a 2012 Indian animated film, was a surprise success at the box office?
...that the directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill's short film The Scarecrow took inspiration from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Metropolis?
...that "Weird Al" Yankovic (pictured) offered to guest star in an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic after a co-executive producer found him showcasing fan works with his music on Twitter?

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...that the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!" has characters voiced by people from Batman: The Animated Series?
...that "We Belong Together" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media?
...that the 1940 cartoon Ants in the Plants, about an ant colony that defends itself against an anteater, was called a war allegory that possibly referred to France's Maginot Line?

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...that the Socialite application of the NECA Project allowed "face to face", emotion-based interactions between animated agents on the internet?
...that "You Debt Your Life" was the second American Dad! episode to feature the story of how Roger the Alien saved Stan Smith at Area 51, the first episode having been "Roger Codger"?
...that the Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. sponsors a yearly festival that features the works of Filipino animators?

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...that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots, showing sexual activity among robots, is described as "art-porn"?
...that the donkey character Rucio in the 2007 children's film Donkey Xote, executive-produced by Giulia Marletta (pictured), was made to look like "Donkey" from Shrek?
...that Ed, Edd n Eddy's TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network?

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...that Jeremy Irons (pictured) guest-starred in The Simpsons episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" as the voice of a bar rag?
...that U.S.-based television production company Zodiac Entertainment intentionally avoided references to American culture in its shows?
...that Tissa David, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure?

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...that comedy writer Al Jean (pictured), who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons, graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?
...that The Old Lady and the Pigeons lost the Oscar but won the Genie?
...that to watch an early screening of "The Gathering", attendees of the Star Wars Celebration VI had to bring their kids with them?

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...that animator Nickson Fong is the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award?
...that combining computer animation with live action, Adhisaya Ulagam 3D was the first 3D Indian film that featured dinosaurs?
...that Roger Ebert said the animated documentary film Ryan "is hard to describe, impossible to forget"?

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...that Toy Story 3 was listed in Time's 25 All-Time Best Animated Films?
...that Walt Disney died during the production of his last film, The Jungle Book?
...that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas"?

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...that Walt Disney Animation Studios has released 53 animated features to date, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Frozen (2013)?
...that the eponymous character of A Kitty Bobo Show was based on one of the co-creators' experience as a Korean adoptee?
...that the eponymous character of Mr. Pickles, a Border Collie, is based on one of the creators' Australian Cattle Dogs? (breed pictured)

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...that a cash prize Ryan Larkin won at the Melbourne International Film Festival for the animated film Street Musique was used to support young artists in Montreal?
...that the early animated film Katsudō Shashin (frame pictured) lasts just three seconds?
...that a producer of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! described the "Scooby Gang"'s clothing as "what a hipster dresses like in their world"

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