37 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Classic Animated Movies and TV Shows
Well, I guess this means they’re not behind-the-scenes any longer. But still...
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What happens behind-the-scenes of your favorite classic animated movies and shows? Well, it’s not called behind-the-scenes for nothing. For the most part, it’s the stuff we’re not supposed to know about — whether it’s to preserve reputations or to cover up the drudgery it takes to conjure movie magic. Either way, it doesn’t necessarily stay behind-the-scenes for ever. Case in point…
![In Toy Story 4, they created AI spiders to spin webs... ...saving animators months of work. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/7/798797.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS AANG'S ACTOR CHANGED HIS VOICE DURING PRODUCTION. AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER Zach Tyler Eisen was going through adolescence, and his voice deepened during Season 3. The creators weren't too concerned (it was a coming-of-age story, after all), but his voice was pitched up all the same. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/3/798793.jpg)
![It almost definitely takes place in New Jersey. JENNIFER COYLE CRACKED.COM They kept the location intentionally ambiguous for a while, Simpsons-style But in the Season 3 episode It Snakes a Village, a map of their trek to Florida starts out in the Garden State](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/5/798795.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE TEAM The self-referential brand promotion. At one point, Wayne Knight's character pops in to tell Michael Jordan to pull it together, citing all his famous endorsements: C'mon, Michael! It's game time! Get your Hanes on, lace up your Nikes, grab your Wheaties and your Gatorade, and we'll pick up a Big Mac on the way to the Ballpark. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/6/798796.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS YOU CAN PLAY JERRY'S BALLOON GAME. 21 Rick AND MORE The creators took the balloon popping game Jerry plays on his tablet in season one episode Something Ricked This Way Comes and developed it into a real mobile game, Rick And Morty: Jerry's Game. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/2/798792.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE I AM The Bill Murray joke that was more true than funny. When Daffy asks Murray how he was able to get to Looney Tune Land, Murray says: Producer's a friend of mine. Just had a Teamster come and drop me off. Murray was, in fact, friends with producer Ivan Reitman who directed Ghostbusters, and Teamster is the famous labor union in the U.S. and Canada. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/4/798794.jpg)
![THE VERY TITLE OF FUTURAMAL IS A NERDY EASTER EGG. Futurama was General Motors' futuristic exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. In that same fair, the public got an early taste of television- a technology largely developed by Philo T. Farnsworth. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/1/798791.jpg)
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![They made a cook book featuring every Burger Of The Day. NEW BACON-INGS BURGER TOP BIN A classic all -boef Datty topped with bettere. cheddar choose braces treshess down ALL PLEATE FAST SUCED RED ONEON tag frazes tranch fries 1 tarog.com based Lines BACON SUCES bound 2513 hart Breen milk tasisa TOMATO 1 Preheat the over cook the cocked from and coat them welt CHEDDAR CHEESE =CRACKED.COM bacon Someone started a blog documenting their journey to recreate every one of Bob's burgers OTD. The producers liked it SO much, they co-wrote The Bob's Burgers Burger Book.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/9/798789.jpg)
![At first, Dr. Seuss was dead set against the idea of a Grinch TV special. When his old friend Chuck Jones drove up to pitch him on the idea, Dr. Seuss had planned on stonewalling him by reminiscing about old times until Jones went home. But Jones wore him down. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/5/798785.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GET SCHWIFTY WASN'T WRITTEN FOR THE SHOW. Road MOREM BAS The fan-favorite song from the fifth episode of season two was originally created for Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure- a Flash game Adult Swim put out. The whole team loved the song so much that they wrote an entire episode around it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/9/0/798790.jpg)
![Toy Story 3 was almost about Buzz being recalled to his manufacturer... TOY RECALLO man STORY MAXILE 3 ...but the Disney money- was eventually canceled, resulting in a better plot. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/3/798783.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS APPA IS HALF BISON, HALF MANATEE, HALF MIYAZAKI TRIBUTE. + AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER Bryan Konietzko loves manatees, and studied them closely while designing the sky bison. The extra legs are a tribute to the catbus in Hayao Miyazaji's My Neighbor Totoro. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/6/798786.jpg)
![RELEASED BEFORE THE ENDING OF THE MANGA CRACKED.COM The animated film was released two full years before the end of it's manga, but the movie doesn't spoil the original comic; there are many differences between the movie and the source material, including the titular Akira that is unearthed, which would still serve as a surprise for comic readers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/4/798784.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE The Mighty DAM Ducks jab. 5 50 A 9 When Daffy suggests they call themselves the Ducks, Bugs says: What kind of Mickey Mouse organization would name their team the Ducks? The Walt Disney Company created The Mighty Ducks franchise and founded The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ice hockey club in 1993. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/2/798782.jpg)
![They were given 3 more seasons - after they'd packed up the office. DALES ALAMO ALAMO ITTR CRACKED.com The season 7 finale was designed to be the series finale, and very effectively wrapped up a lot of loose ends. It wasn't until after they'd shut down operations and literally moved out of their offices that they found out they'd been renewed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/1/798781.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS Blink and you'll miss MICKEY CAMEOS CRACKED.com Goofy's pal Mickey Mouse shows up a couple of times during the movie: First, when he and Donald are hitchiking down the road. And later in the film, he's screaming his fool mouse ears off at the Powerline concert.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/0/798780.jpg)
![THE NUMBER 729 SHOWS UP A LOT IN FUTURAMA MERRY XMAS SON #1729 It isn't just a coincidence. 1,729 is Hardy-Ramanujan's number, the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways- in this case, 13 + 123 or 93 103. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/8/798778.jpg)
![Cyndi Lauper sang a song called Taffy Butt. TAFFY BUTT PERFORMED BY CYNDI LAUPER CRACKED.co The Belcher kids find a butt-shaped map of a taffy factory in The Belchies. Ms. Lauper herself sings a parody of Goonies 'R' Good Enough from The Goonies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/9/798779.jpg)
![They used Max just to stretch out the running time. The story took 12 minutes to read aloud, so they needed another 12 minutes for the special's 24-minute length. They settled on spending time with Max, as he's both observer and victim, at one with the audience. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/7/798777.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS RICK'S CATCHPHRASE WAS AN ACCIDENT. Rick And MORKA The original script had Rick saying, Wub-wub-wub-wub- like Curly from the Three Stooges. However, Justin Roiland misread the line and said, wubba lubba dub-dub - inadvertently creating a catchphrase. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/6/798776.jpg)
![Tom Hanks and Tim Allen wept at Jessie's backstory scene... ...when they first watched Toy Story 2, even though they both knew the whole script. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/4/798774.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE CABBAGE MERCHANT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO RETURN. AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER The poor produce peddler was just another one-off character, but then he got unexpectedly popular with fans. James Sie, his voice actor, even got fan mail for playing him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/3/798763.jpg)
![USED THE AMERICAN WAY OF VOICE RECORDING did CRACKED.COM Akira was one of the first anime films to record voice over lines before being animated, like American features. Actors had to deliver their lines while looking at, essentially, storyboards.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/7/798787.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA The Dover Boys SPACE DAM 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 get more Dover Boys added to a Space Jam sequel. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/8/8/798788.jpg)
![Luanne was named after a Texas diner meal. CRACKED.co The Lu Ann Platter is a meal at the Texas chain restaurant Luby's - which, incidentally, is a much funnier name than Luly's, the stand-in Luby's where Luanne gets something resembling her namesake platter in the show.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/6/798766.jpg)
![BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS You'll never guess who voiced BOBBY Z CRACKED.COM Pauly 'Bio-Dome Shore did not want to be credited as the voice of AV club king Bobby Zimurski. Somehow, we were still able to guess the Weasel was behind the mic.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/5/798765.jpg)
![FUTURAMA CREATED A NEW MATH THEOREM, TT The Prisoner of Benda Not happy with just sneaking in math references, Futurama writer Ken Keeler took it to the next level, and formulated a completely new theorem to solve the plot of an episode. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/2/798772.jpg)
![Jon Hamm voiced a 00000 sentient toilet. CRACKED In the episode O.T. The Outside Toilet, Gene discovers an advanced, talking toilet in the woods and VOWS to protect it from Max Flush, the toilet hunter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/1/798771.jpg)
![The Grinch's songs were sung by the guy who voiced Tony the Tiger. Thurl Ravenscroft sang The Grinch's songs, but he's probably best known for the line They're Gryrrreeeat! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/9/798769.jpg)
![BEHIND-TH BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS THE SHOW STARTED AS AN R-RATED PARODY. Rick MORED And Rick and Morty's first versions appeared all the way back in 2006, in Justin Roiland's The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti- a raunchy parody of Back to the Future that was meant to poke fun of getting cease and desist letters. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/2/798762.jpg)
![In Toy Story 4, there are over 17,00 lights in the carnival scene... ...but 3% of them were made to look burnt out to maintain realism. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/7/798767.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS SHAOLIN SOCCER WAS AN INFLUENCE ON AVATAR. According to co-creator Bryan Konietzko, the show drew inspiration from Hong Kong movies combining martial arts and mystical powers - or in his own words, films like Shaolin Soccer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/8/798768.jpg)
![LUCAS AND SPEILBERG TURNED IT DOWN CRACKED.COM In 1987, both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg turned down an opportunity to bring Akira to the big screen, claiming it was totally unmarketable to western audiences. It's a shame Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the animated feature, didn't listen to the person riding high off Ewoks: The Battle For Endor.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/3/798773.jpg)
![EASTER EGGSTRA SPACE IAM Bill Murray's intention of joining the NBA in the movie is a callback to a string of basketball ads he did in the early '90s. When Michael Jordan retired from basketball in 1993 and later signed on to play baseball, it inspired the NBA to do a series of spoof ads in which Murray announced that he was retiring from acting to take up a career in basketball. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/5/798775.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS -SCENES Jackson + Prince + Brown : POWERLINE GRACKED.COM Filmmakers envisioned pop star Powerline as a combination of three of the biggest music icons of the early 1990s: Michael Jackson, Prince, and Bobby Brown.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/7/0/798770.jpg)
![Producers trolled fans to think the Hills were moving to LA. CRACKED.co Fox made a big deal about the show's move after season 2, implying that Judge had agreed to change the setting from Arlen, Texas to Los Angeles, California. After collecting hundreds of angry phone calls (and tons of free press), the move was revealed to be from Sunday to Tuesday nights.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/6/4/798764.jpg)