I Learned Something Today

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Gillian Anderson is the only X-Files actor to be credited in every episode as well as having the most appearances from any series regular of the show, being absent in "3", "Zero Sum", "Unusual Suspects" and "Travelers" and only appearing via archive footage in "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man" and "The Gift".

 

[Markus]

I just found out that Boomerang UK already started airing modern content not long after the launch in the 2000s. It had advertisers. Meanwhile other feeds were still fully classic.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

There’s a retail chain in Australia called Target that has no affiliation with the American Target. It’s not even a case of being started by the American company before being sold off. It even has a similar logo.

Target Australia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Markus]

I saw today that even when it's freezing outside, rain is still possible.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

A&W Canada used to have the same logo as their American counterpart until 1968 when they opted to go with a different logo, four years before the latter sold them to Unilever.

 

[Mandouga]

Nordic Combined is the only remaining male only Olympic event in the Winter games... :'(

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

James Earl Jones did the narration for Virgin Cinemas' opening ident during the mid Nineties.

 

[Low Spark of Lyman]

(Learned earlier in the week)

Alyson Court, perhaps best known in the cartoon world for voicing Lydia in the Beetlejuice animated series and Jubilee in X-Men TAS, starred in The Big Comfy Couch.

Interesting given how Michael Keaton has played both movie Beetlejuice and Batman.

 

[Red Arrow]

I saw the Camp Lazlo finale years ago, but I never realized that Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life is in it.
The green quiff and tail hairs leave no room for discussion, it's absolutely him.

 

[Spacething7474]

There’s a retail chain in Australia called Target that has no affiliation with the American Target. It’s not even a case of being started by the American company before being sold off. It even has a similar logo.

Target Australia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In a similar situation, there's a Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois that has no relation to 1953's Burger King of Florida (known until 1954 as Insta-Burger King), predates BK by a year (founded in 1952), and thus that BK cannot operate in Mattoon

Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Surreal Kangaroo]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and To Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street (the first Dr Seuss book) were both released on the same day (December 21, 1937).

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Malcolm in the Middle almost became a UPN TV series as it began development in 1998 and was set to air during the 1998-1999 TV series. However, UPN postponed development until a year later and while the pilot was shot during spring 1999, the network passed on the show before Fox came to the rescue and began airing it during the 1999-2000 TV season.

 

[Mandouga]

Golden Crisp (the cereal Sugar Bear "can't get enough of") is still called "Sugar Crisp" (it's original name) in Canada.

Flipping a coin to decide things (i.e., calling heads or tails) goes as far back as Ancient Rome.

 

[John Pannozzi]

Millie Bobby Brown wrote a novel, set during WWII. It's called "Ninteteen Steps" and came out in 2023:

Nineteen Steps

Love blooms in the darkest days... Discover this heart-wrenching, life-affirming tale of first romance in the face of the tragic events of an often forgotten piece of WW2 history. 'Will make you swoon, laugh, and even cry' Daily Mirror 'A dazzling debut' Woman's Own 'A spellbinding read' Fiona...

www.google.com

 

[Zorak Masaki]

Phil Hartman's first role was as an extra (no lines) in Cheech And Chong's Next Movie (His fellow Groundlings performers John Paragon and Paul Reubens were also in this, and it was also the first time Reubens played his Pee Wee character in a film).

 

[Mandouga]

I recently leaned about the tragedy of basketball player Len Bias, and that's all I will say about it.

 

[Mandouga]

It's been a little more than a week since the last post:

Rob Paulsen's first acting job (of any kind) was in a (live action) Jack in the Box commercial in 1979. He was the "employee spokesperson".

it wasn't until 1985 or so that he appeared in his first voice acting roles.

 

[John Pannozzi]

The comic book artist formerly known as Andrew Pepoy has come as a transgender woman, and now goes by Margeaux Pepoy (The first name is pronounced "Mar-go"):

Welcome, Margeaux Pepoy, of Fables, Robin, Archie, Simpsons and X-Men

Welcome, Margeaux Pepoy, of Fables, Robin, Archie, Simpsons, Turtles, New Warriors, Superman, Street Sharks and X-Men

bleedingcool.com

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Japanese actress Shinobu Terajima wanted to perform in Kabuki theatre when she was younger like her father Onoe Kikugorō VIII but that proved to be unlikely since said form of theatre has been all-male since 1629, though variations of the all-female original form do exist with the Takarazuka, OSK and Project Nyx troupes as well as nihon-buyō and the recent all-female version of Sailor Moon musical adaptation Sera Myu from Nelke Planning.

 

[Zorak Masaki]

David Spade's first appearance on SNL was playing Michael J Fox in the infamous Andrew Dice Clay episode.