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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': According to urban legend, in the original airing of "Pigmalion", you could briefly see Trip's bloody mutilated corpse hanging off a hook in the background while Peggy and Luanne celebrate the latter becoming her own woman. However, there's no evidence that this ever happened.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': According to urban legend, in the original airing of "Pigmalion", you could briefly see Trip's bloody mutilated corpse hanging off a hook in the background while Peggy and Luanne celebrate the latter becoming her own woman. However, there's no evidence that this ever happened.happened and when Media Mementos got a copy of a VHS recording of the original airing, he found the ending to be the same as the normal airing.
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**There was a rumor going around for a time that Liz Phair performed the theme song. Phair herself has confirmed this was never the case, however.
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** Season 17's "UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars" trilogy conspicuously fails to make mention of the UsefulNotes/WiiU, which has been claimed to be either the result of the console selling so poorly that Parker and Stone forgot that it even ''existed'', or the two mistakenly thought it was an add-on for the original UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. In reality, the Wii U wasn't mentioned because the trilogy was specifically a parody of the hype and fan wars surrounding the launch of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which the Wii U wasn't involved in as it had launched the previous year.

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** Season 17's "UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars" trilogy conspicuously fails to make mention of the UsefulNotes/WiiU, Platform/WiiU, which has been claimed to be either the result of the console selling so poorly that Parker and Stone forgot that it even ''existed'', or the two mistakenly thought it was an add-on for the original UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. Platform/{{Wii}}. In reality, the Wii U wasn't mentioned because the trilogy was specifically a parody of the hype and fan wars surrounding the launch of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 Platform/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, Platform/XboxOne, which the Wii U wasn't involved in as it had launched the previous year.
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** It's a well-known fact that, early in the show's run, merch and promotional material gave Bart a light blue shirt instead of his trademark orange shirt. For years, it was believed that this was done deliberately by Fox as a [[CopyProtection copyright trap]] to deter fans away from counterfeit merchandise. In actuality, concept art for the series did in fact depict Bart with a blue shirt, [[EarlyDraftTieIn and the merch issue was just Fox forgetting to tell them about the change]].

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** It's a well-known fact that, early in the show's run, merch and promotional material gave Bart a light blue shirt instead of his trademark orange shirt. For years, it was believed that this was done deliberately by Fox as a [[CopyProtection copyright trap]] to deter fans away from counterfeit merchandise. In actuality, concept art for the series did in fact depict Bart with a blue shirt, [[EarlyDraftTieIn and the merch issue was just Fox forgetting to tell them licensees about the change]].
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** It's a well-known fact that, early in the show's run, merch and promotional material gave Bart a light blue shirt instead of his trademark orange shirt. For years, it was believed that this was done deliberately by Fox [[CopyProtection to deter fans away from counterfeit merch]]. In actuality, concept art for the series did in fact depict Bart with a blue shirt, [[EarlyDraftTieIn and the merch issue was just Fox forgetting to tell them about the change]].

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** It's a well-known fact that, early in the show's run, merch and promotional material gave Bart a light blue shirt instead of his trademark orange shirt. For years, it was believed that this was done deliberately by Fox as a [[CopyProtection copyright trap]] to deter fans away from counterfeit merch]].merchandise. In actuality, concept art for the series did in fact depict Bart with a blue shirt, [[EarlyDraftTieIn and the merch issue was just Fox forgetting to tell them about the change]].
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** Another persistent rumor is that Donald Duck cartoons have been banned in some European country (most often Finland) due to the character not wearing pants/trousers. In reality, there is no evidence to support the claims that Donald Duck is banned anywhere in the world, let alone in a country as lax about sexual content as Finland. The rumor comes from a small Finnish town that had to temporarily stop importing Donald Duck comics in the 70s due to their poor financial situation, with media joking that it was because Donald doesn't wear pants. The news spread to other countries with translations missing the joke and reporting it as if it were a fact, and the rumor mill changing it to be the whole country instead of one town.

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** Another persistent rumor is that Donald Duck cartoons have been banned in some European country (most often Finland) Finland due to the character not wearing pants/trousers. In reality, there is no evidence to support the claims that Donald Duck is banned anywhere in the world, let alone in a country as lax about sexual content as Finland. The rumor comes from a small Finnish town that had to temporarily stop importing Donald Duck comics in the 70s due to their poor financial situation, with media joking that it was because Donald doesn't wear pants. The news spread to other countries with translations missing the joke and reporting it as if it were a fact, and the rumor mill changing it to be the whole country instead of one town.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' is allegedly responsible for making kids develop British accents similar to the title character's. This rumour started in 2019, where it was debunked, but resurfaced in 2021, since the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic limited the amount of interpersonal contact people could have, making it much more likely that a child would get most of their exposure to English speech from the show.
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** A widespread rumor for years is that Creator/MelBlanc, the voice of several Looney Tunes characters including WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, actually hated carrots and having to eat them in order to create an accurate crunching sound for Bugs, and that he would always spit them out in between takes due to being allergic to them. However this is not true, in an autobiography written in 1988, Blanc states that he doesn't hate carrots and mainly disliked having to constantly eat carrots and proceed to say his next line, which made him understandably burnt out of having to eat carrots all the time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' is allegedly responsible for American kids developing British accents. This rumour started in 2019, but resurfaced in 2021, when COVID limited the amount of contact people could have with each other, meaning that kids could get most of their exposure to English speech from TV.

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