General "Did you Know?"s

[CLXcool]

While on the subject that Hex mentioned about Pixar. John Lassester originally pitched Brave Little Toaster as a hybrid of hand-drawn animation and computer animation. But the idea was later scrapped due to creative differences and budget issues with Disney. The project was later picked up as a fully hand-drawn animated feature. Some people who had worked on Brave Little Toaster would later work for Pixar.

[frankfrost2]

Speaking of pixar easter eggs...


There is an easter egg in some Pixar movies called the "Luxo ball", which is a yellow ball with a red star and a blue stripe. (More information on it here) Its found in some pixar movies, like Toy Story, and more movies that I cant think of at the moment. Anyway, its just... There. However, pixar made a short film back in the 1980's of 2 lamps playing with this ball, so the pixar logo of that lamp jumping is from that movie, and the ball references it.

[gamemaster1991]

More Pixar easter eggs.

Each movie has easter eggs to priveus movies (the pizza planet truck is in all but one if I believe) but each movie also has one easter egg to the next in devlement. Examples: A stuffed Nemo doll can be seen at the end of Monster's INC.



A Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear can be seen in the bedroom of a girl in Up.



A lightning McQueen car can be seen in the day care in Toy Story 3 (yes Cars came out before TS3 but the next film after it was Cars 2).

[Kakariko Kid]

I find the Pixar movie references in other Pixar movies interesting. I was actually going to post that today, but left my phone at home when I went to work.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

David Bowie's real name is David Jones. He chose the stage name of "Bowie" so as to not be confused with fellow Brit Davy Jones of the 60s band The Monkees.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

More music video trivia.
Phil Collins, upon the release of the song "Don't Lose my Number" could not decide on a music video to compliment it. Many different people tried to work with him to create a video, but he felt that none of the suggested ideas actually worked well with the music. Then, he got an idea. Let's just make a music video about me not being able to decide what the video should look like. So, this was the result:

[DeerBoarDude]

You know Lucas Barton? He's that kid from The Wizard with the Power Glove THAT'S SO BAD.



Yeah, he's a child sex offender now.



Oh, and Batman Bin Suparman, the Singapore kid who's name got viral around the internet?



He's recently (November 2013) been jailed for almost 3 years for crimes including theft, breaking and entering and drug use.

[Kakariko Kid]

Holy cow

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In "The Wizard", the truck that Spanky Frank McRae borrows from "Old Pete" is the same truck driven by Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) for most of the movie "Over the Top". You can see "Hawk Hauling" on the door as Spanky climbs off the cab during the rescue of Jimmy from runaway recovery expert Putnam.

[CLXcool]

Didn't think he'd go bad.

[Psychospacecow]

Holy cow

Please don't worship me.

[Kakariko Kid]

I got a good laugh from that. I'm going to eat steak tonight.

[Psychospacecow]

I read on Reddit that there were some German monks that felt bad about drinking beer during Lent because it was good. This being pre-protestant movement, they went to Italy and asked the pope if they could do so. The thing is, their beer had gone bad on the trip, and was all kinds of nasty when the pope tried it. He said it was fine.

[Kakariko Kid]

Charles M. Schultz never did like the name "Peanuts" for his comic. He started it out as "Lil Folks", but it sounded too much like "Little Folks", another comic in the same paper. For legal reasons, the newspaper changed the name.

[CLXcool]

Now for some trivia on Charlie Brown.

During the production of A charlie brown Christmas, nobody at CBS had any hope for the special. CBS was making poor assumptions on how Charles Schultz wanted the special as. CBS didn't think that the special would do well with children voicing the characters(over professional voice actors that are adults), having a jazz soundtrack, and being a special without the infamous 'laugh track' recording that is only heard when funny parts are spoken by the characters. One of the biggest fights Schultz had with the executives at CBS was getting Linus to quote from the bible.

Some of the specials that were made had scenes that would later be taken out from the original broadcast of the Charlie brown specials. These scenes were references/ads to Coca-cola(who helped out funding Charlie brown Christmas among a few other specials). In the opening sequence for A Charlie brown christmas, Snoopy tosses Linus from his blanket into a sign of coca-cola. Linus would later be seen using his blanket to knock down a coca-cola can with a snowball. These scenes from this special as well as others that had references to Coca-cola were later cut out from future broadcasts as well as home releases.

A live-action movie based off of Peanuts was considered, but nothing came out of it. John Hughes(of Breakfast Club fame) had written a script for a live-action film based off Charles Schultz's comic strip. It is not known why the film did not get made. It can be assumed that it didn't get made to hurt the image and reputation of the comic strip. However. Despite not getting off of the ground during development, Charles Schultz did enjoy the script that John Hughes had written for a film based off of Charles Schultz's characters.

[gamemaster1991]

A live-action movie based off of Peanuts was considered, but nothing came out of it. John Hughes(of Breakfast Club fame) had written a script for a live-action film based off Charles Schultz's comic strip. It is not known why the film did not get made. It can be assumed that it didn't get made to hurt the image and reputation of the comic strip. However. Despite not getting off of the ground during development, Charles Schultz did enjoy the script that John Hughes had written for a film based off of Charles Schultz's characters.

That sounds like a really bad idea. Almost like a live-action Calvin and Hobbes movie. All I can think about is the Dennis the Menace movie (Dennis to my UK friends) and how bad THAT was.