A Trip Down Memory Lane: 35 Facts About Iconic Cartoons

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.

27. Doug's neighbors on the 90's cartoon Doug were named Mr. and Mrs. Dink because "DINK" means Double Income No Kids.

28. “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.

29. 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."

30. There was an episode (Blue Cat Blues) of Tom and Jerry where they both commit suicide, it is narrated by Jerry.

Scooby-Doo was a triplet who had 5 brothers total and 1 sister. His sister is the mother of his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.

32. Scooby Doo's full name is "Scoobert Scooby Dooby Doo."

33. Arthur is the second longest-running animated series in the U.S., behind 'The Simpsons.'

34. During the ending theme to Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, some strange, somewhat creepy gibberish is heard at the end. The gibberish played backward is Maxwell Atoms, the creator of the show, saying "No, no. This is the end of the show. You're watching it backward!"

35. In the unaired series finale of "Angry Beavers": Dag and Norb realize they are cartoons, discuss that they are getting canceled, and even end up both repeatedly calling each other by the voice-actors' names.