1Arthur
Arthur is the second longest-running animated series in the U.S., behind 'The Simpsons.'
2. Scooby Doo's full name is "Scoobert Scooby Dooby Doo."
3. Scooby-Doo was a triplet who had 5 brothers total and 1 sister. His sister is the mother of his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.
4. There was an episode (Blue Cat Blues) of Tom and Jerry where they both commit suicide, it is narrated by Jerry.
5. From 1904 to 1925, a cartoon called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in a New York paper. It featured bizarre nightmares, and among other things pioneered the idea of giant characters destroying a city. It has been called "perhaps the most bizarre newspaper feature in American history."
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6The Flintstones
“The Flintstones” sparked a lot of controversy by being the first cartoon series to show a couple together in the same bed as well as dealing with matters such as infertility and adoption.
7. Doug's neighbors on the 90's cartoon Doug were named Mr. and Mrs. Dink because "DINK" means Double Income No Kids.
8. The Nickelodeon cartoon series, ‘The Angry Beavers’, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall that is visible in most episodes updates in real time.
9. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.
10. There is a Cartoon Network special crossover episode called The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door, also featuring Ed Edd n' Eddy, with cameos from the Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab among other shows.
11XXX
XXX on cartoon jugs of alcohol originally denoted three-time distilled, resulting in almost pure alcohol content.
12. Simpsons characters Lenny and Carl both possess master's degrees in nuclear physics.
13. In two episodes of the first season of ‘The Simpsons’, Lou the cop was yellow colored. It wasn’t until Season 2 that they kept him black permanently.
14. The producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode's animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% off before it could go to air.
15. Moe from The Simpsons was only given the surname Szyslak so that he would have the initials M.S., and hence be a suspect in the Burns shooting.
16Chocolate Salty Balls
The song Chocolate Salty Balls from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts.
17. Trey Parker stated that Mr. Mackey is based off his old school counselor Mr. Lackey. On South Park season 1 commentary Trey said “[Mr. Lackey used to say], ‘Trey, quit fooling around and get back to your school work, m’kay’ ‘but, now, I'm making millions out of him’”.
18. Mr. Hankey from South Park was inspired by Trey Parker's Father who told him that if he didn't flush the toilet, Mr. Hankey would come out and eat him.
19. The ‘Family Guy’ episode in which Stewie drinks horse sperm with cereal caused FCC to receive 188,368 complaints.
20. Jerry Seinfeld once refused to play a turkey on South Park. However, George Clooney was totally fine with playing a dog.
21Family Guy
Every episode of Family Guy includes at least one instance of a character saying “What the hell …”
22. Futurama has had 4 designated series finales, due to the recurringly uncertain future of the series. "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Into the Wild Green Yonder (Part 4)", "Overclockwise", and "Meanwhile" have all been written to serve as a final episode for the show.
23. All characters on The Simpsons have 4 fingers except for God, who has 5 fingers.
24. Homer Simpson’s idea to fill a mine with other cities’ garbage dissuaded a small Canadian town from implementing the exact same idea.
25. The Simpsons is credited with the popularization of the word "Meh".
