15 Facts About '80s Cartoons You Never Knew
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Any fan of Saturday morning cartoons needs to know these facts!
1. In the spin-off cartoon, ALF is given a real name, Gordon Shumway.
In the live action show ALF stood for Alien Life Form.
2. Brad Garrett played Hulk Hogan on Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling.
3. Ma Beagle from DuckTales is based on Ba Barker from the Barker-Karpis gang.
4. Muppet Babies originated as a sequence in The Muppets Take Manhaattan.
5. Howie Mandel played Baby Animal, Bunsen and Skeeter for two seasons of Muppet Babies
Dave Coulier took over for Mandel when he left the show.
6. Jem was originally a doll created to compete with Barbie.
The TV show came after to promote the dolls.
7. Jem's name was originally going to be simply "M."
It stood for Music, Magic and Mystique.
8. In 65 episodes of Jem there are 151 different songs and 187 music videos.
9. After Mattel passed on buying the rights to create a Star Wars toy line, they created the He-Man.
Like Jem, the TV show came after the toys.
10. The name Optimus Prime is a combination of the Latin words for "best" and "first."
11. Rainbow Brite's real name is Wisp.
12. The first five episodes of She-Ra: Princess of Power were just the animated movie The Secret of the Sword cut up for TV.
13. Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air played Shredder on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
14. The Smurfs became a TV show after NBC President Fred Silverman saw his daughter playing with a Smurfs stuffed animal.
15. The Smurfs once killed a villain by singing him to death.
It happened on The Smurfs' Christmas Special
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