Bizarre urban legends about cartoons

Nope, buried not far from the studio in Glendale, California.



I'm not sure if there was ever any sort of animation, but I did read that during the long, tedious years of work on Snow White, animators would distract themselves with, err, less-than-family friendly drawings of the leading lady.

So, half-true, at least.
 
Kinda animation-related, I heard a rumor that Bill Cosby bought the rights to the little rascals (which i guess would include the cartoon) so as to keep it unseen since he found the portrayals of buckwheat and stymie racist. Obviously theres no truth to this rumor.
 
As an extension to this, I've heard that as a way to test how well Walt's vision was, the animators sneaked one frame of a lewd drawing into a daily. Walt waited for the end then told them to take it out or they'd be fired.
 
I guess that urban legend gived lost of inspiration. There was a Spider-man episode where Spidey was trapped in a freezer and awaken years later in a futuristic New York City a la Planets of the Apes. Also in France, there was the French movie "Hibernatus"(1969) when they found a man trapped in the ice since 65 years http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064425/
and there was also a South Park episode where Stan and Kyle founded a man trapped in the ice... wait there also Captain America but he was frozen before that urban legend beginned.
 
I want to see this even more now. :sad:

Seriously, why the hell show something like this ONCE to a very little audience in the first place? Doesn't make any sense.

I wish the rumor about Adult swim airing this episode were true.
 
I remember that rumor too. I might have thought it was a possibility back when I was first getting into Pokemon, but after awhile, I thought that it felt too much like a fan-fiction short of idea to be true. I'm not sure if there are people who still believe this rumor.
 
When Teen Titans: TAS first began airing on Cartoon Network, there were some fans of the show who believed that Slade was Bruce Wayne in disguise. It didn't help matters much that in the episode "Apprentice", there was a fight atop a Wayne Enterprises building. Of course, the majority of fans who believed were simply unfamiliar with the comics and didn't know anything about Deathstroke the Terminator.
 
On Teen Titans: TAS, Slade (they didn't use the name 'Deathstroke the Terminator' on the show because Toon's execs didn't want a character with the word 'death' in his name on a kids' show, and also presumably to avoid confusion with Arnold "The Governator"'s movie character, but that's another urban myth) was voiced by Ron Perlman.
 
Last year in my European History class, my teacher showed us a few episodes of the Smurfs and handed out papers that claimed the Smurfs were based off of communists. The more and more I looked into it, the more and more it seemed viable. Anyone else heard of this?
 
The Smurfs are 'ruled' by Papa Smurf who is the oldest and smartest of the bunch, its obviously an Ogliarchical system were the educated elite rules the masses.

The fact that they don't use money doesn't make them 'communists', it just makes them decent folks :p
 
I think I remember seeing a storyboard of that years ago on a website I do not remember. The only thing I heard from it was that it was merely a joke one of the artists did for fun, nothing more. Can't say how much truth is in that, but hey, that is the basis of this thread, no?
 
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