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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Favorite Cartoons and Animations

October 03, 2024

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cartoon celebrities Close Enough Batman: The Brave and the Bold weird Al Yankovic Is there any celeb more suited than Weird Al to be a cartoon? He's rescued by Batman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and not rescued from a bear in Close Enough, among many other animated appearances. CRACKED.COM — Source

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South Park

Wrestling Comic and Cartoon Characters South Park The boys form the W.T.F. Stan, Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, and the rest get so much buzz in their local promotion that even Vince McMahon attends a show. (We wonder what happened to that guy?) mexico CRACKED.COM — Comedy Central
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Iorek Byrnison in 'His Dark Materials'

Cartoon Bears IOREK BYRNISON WAS DESIGNED TWICE BY THE SAME VFX STUDIO. The armored talking bear from 2019's His Dark Materials was animated to life by Framestore, the same studio that designed and animated him for 2007's The Golden Compass. CRACKED.COM — Source: Winter is Coming

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Pangoro

Cartoon Bears PANGORO IS A STEREOTYPICAL JAPANESE PUNK. This Pokémon's demeanor and look is based on banchō, Japanese juvenile-delinquent leaders. That's why he's got a stick in his mouth, dangling like an unlit cigarette. CRACKED.COM — Sources: CBR, Tons Of Facts

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Lotso in 'Toy Story 3'

CRACKED.COM Cartoon Bears LOTS-O'-HUGGIN' BEAR GOT DISNEY INTO A LAWSUIT. The Toy Story 3 antagonist drew the ire of Diece- Lisa Industries, a company that owns a trademark to Lots of Hugs and licenses it for stuffed bears. They're still technically in litigation. — Sources: /Film, The Hollywood Reporter

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'Brother Bear'

CRACKED COM Cartoon Bears BROTHER BEAR KEPT A FLUB. Kenai misremembers his friend Bucky' name as Binky, and Koda corrects him. Joaquin Phoenix actually messed up his line, and Jeremy Suarez corrected him in character. They kept the mistake in the movie, as it helped establish the bears' relationship. — Sources: CBR, WatchMojo

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CRACKED.COM Don Cheadle voiced Donald Duck in the season one finale of DuckTales when Donald swallowed a voice modulator that made him able to speak with a normal voice. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

cartoon celebrities The Weekenders Family Guy Jennifer Love Hewitt Hewitt isn't afraid to poke fun at her celebrity, voicing a version of herself on the raunchy Family Guy and also cameoing in the children's cartoon The Weekenders. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA AM The Dover Boys SPASE cameo. P P The cartoon characters from Merrie Melodies created by Warner Bros. in 1942 can be seen in the stands. The cartoon was produced by Leon Schlensinger and directed by Chuck Jones, and the cameo spawned a cheeky (but small) petition to — Looney Tunes Wiki, Change.org

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MTANA CRACKEDCON Everyone knows that Dwayne The Rock Johnson was the voice of Maui. But, did this villager sound familiar? IF SO, YOU MIGHT BE A FOOTBALL FAN, BECAUSE HE WAS VOICED BY FORMER PITTSBURGH STEELERS PLAYER TROY POLAMALU.

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Crusader Rabbit 1950 CRACKED.COM This cartoon was the first made-for-TV animated show, created by Alexander Anderson and Jay Ward who also created Rocky and Bullwinkle. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The first animated Aladdin movie, The Adventures of Prince Achmed came out in 1926. The German silent film adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights is the oldest surviving animated feature film. It was animated using Silhouette animation technique, with carefully designed cardboard and tin cut-outs. Prince Achmed even made a cameo appearance in the 1992 version of Aladdin. — Source

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Mr. T

cartoon celebrities Mister T Mr. T The tough '80s icon made several animated appearances as himself over the past 40 years, including his own animated show that aired from 1983 to 1985. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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MILANAVAYNTRUB almost played a live Squirrel Girl MIXED NUTS NUTs CRACKEDGONN Marvel canceled plans for a live- action New Warriors with Milana cast as Squirrel Girl (who she voiced in animation). There are times in the comics where Doreen Green summons hundreds of thousands of squirrels, she said. I would — SyFy

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BILLY WEST TALKS TO HIMSELF A LOT. Not only did West voice Ren & Stimpy, he was also a good chunk of Futurama, the red M&M, and even Bugs Bunny.

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DEE BRADLEY BAKER IS THE KING OF ANIMALS AND MONSTERS. When someone needs weird sounds, Baker is the man they call. But he does plenty of human voices

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DIEDRICH BADER IS THE VERSATILE VOICE ACTOR YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU KNEW. MIDNIGHT Yep, Drew Carey's friend and the guy who talks about boobs in Office S

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CHRIS PARNELL DOES HIS NORMAL VOIce, AND THAT'S OK. He might not be the man of a thousand voices, but the voice he can do is perfect for the type of c

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Kevin Conroy's favorite moment recording Batman: The Animated Series was in the episode Perchance to Dream. Batman's voice actor found that playing

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? You may already know that you can see a hint of a crotch in this Jessica Rabbit scene. WCETTNT ANS atbt BOOP! CRACKEDCON But — Source

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CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Who Framed Roger Rabbit Roger Rabbit did the opposite of the Chip 'n Dale movie -hand-drawn animation was made to look 3D. The animation was passed through several layers of highlighting and shading to give it its lifelike feel. — Source

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Donald Duck's sister had an 80 year gap between first being mentioned and appearing in animation. CRACKED.COM Della Duck, the mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, was first men- tioned back in 1937, she did not make her animation debut until 2017. — Source

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FANTASLA CRACKED COM During Night on Bald Mountain, two sets of demonic neon nipples briefly consume the screen. — Source

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CLAY ANIMATION 1912 CRACKED.COM Modelling Extraordinary was released in 1912 and was one of the first clay animation movies to use stop motion. It was met with great critical acclaim. — Source

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“Frozen” helped solve a cold case.

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers. — IndieWire

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Animation

Dinosaurs in movies Then vs. Now Animation 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur was the first cartoon ever, and also an interactive vaudeville act. From there, dinosaurs in animation have come a long way. Fantasia's segment was terrifying, and The Land Before Time was terrifying and adorable. With the coming of CGI we got Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which was, erm... a movie someone saw, probably. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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Mr. Magoo CRACKED COM Animation director John Hubley created the bumbling grump as a combo of comedian W. C. Fields and his own uncle.

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WOODY Woody was based on John Lasseter's pull-string Casper doll, so he always had a voice box. CRACKEDCON — Source: Character Design References

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Animation dates way back to the stone age, using only charcoal, flickering flames, and neuroscience. 21,000 years ago, prehistoric artists would draw

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PEPÉ LE PEW The cartoon skunk stalks and sexually assaults Penelope Pussycat, in a weird French stereotype. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Cleese Over the Garden Wall The Monty Python legend lent his voice to the flamboyant Tea Shop owner Quincy Endicott in the show's fifth episode Mad Love, and the mysterious Adelaide, who appears in the sixth episode Lullaby in Frogland. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures

Wrestling Comic and Cartoon Characters ALL RIGHT! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Stump Intergalactic Wrestling Federation Not only did the TMNT need to wrestle their way through outer space, several luchadores adopted their persona in Mexico, too! CRACKED.COM — Archie Comics
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Teddy Ruxpin

HAR FI Cartoon Bears TEDDY RUXPIN IS NOT A BEAR! Per the lore of The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Teddy is a bear-like creature called an Illiop. But just call him a bear anyway, no one will care enough to correct you. Rillo CRACKED.COM — Sources: Fiction Taxonomy Wiki, Perfect Toys/YouTube

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We Bare Bears

CRACKED.COM Cartoon Bears WE BARE BEARS IS ABOUT THE CREATOR'S LIFE GROWING UP AS AN ASIAN-AMERICAN. Daniel Chong shared that his show was about growing up as a minority in the U.S. in the form of three cute bears trying to be accepted by humans. — Source: Daniel Chong/Twitter

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Cartoon Network was really pushing it at the time.

40 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Favorite Cartoons and Animations — Source: These 34 Filthy Jokes Are (Somehow) In Family Movies & Shows

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Reptar from The Rugrats Movie was actually voiced by... ...Busta Rhymes. CRACKED COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Audrey in The Lorax was played by none other than Taylor Swift. In a film with musical numbers by Ed Helms, Betty White, Rob Riggle, and more, how many songs did Tay Tay perform? Exactly none. CRACKED CON — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Tim Curry Regular Show The Rocky Horror star voiced a psychotic sausage during an early episode of the chaotic 2009 show. Curry lent his voice to numerous animated shows and films, including a stint as Chancellor Palpatine on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. CRACKED.COM — Source

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