History AluminumChristmasTrees / WesternAnimation

** The episode "The Console" begins with Richard buying a bootleg UsefulNotes/GameBoy for Gumball titled a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Game Child]]. The [[https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Child Game Child]] was actually a bootleg console made in the Game Boy's heyday.

** "All the Presidents' Heads" has the Planet Express Crew going back in time to stop Professor Farnsworth's ancestor David Farnsworth, a loyalist spy, from engaging in a plot to destroy the US economy using counterfeit money. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farnsworth There really was such a person with that name]]. The episode additionally [[GeniusBonus nods]] to inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth and colorblindness test developer Dean Farnsworth as members of the fictional Farnsworth's family tree.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': This series gives us the character known as [[MadScientist Doc]][[HeroicComedicSociopath tor]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bar]][[NightmareFetishist ber]]. At first glance, his profession might seem completely random in terms of pairing, but [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon Barber/Surgeons]] were a very real profession in Medieval times, for [[DungAges obvious reasons]]. Even as recently as the 19th century, many barbers (especially in the wild west, where dentists were few and far between) would pull and drill teeth... usually with only a bottle of whiskey to dull the patient's pain.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[AluminumChristmasTrees/TheSimpsons has its own page]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': There is an episode of The Magic School Bus whose plot is about solving the mystery of why Arnold's skin has turned orange, which turns out to be because he ate too much of a snack food containing carrots. While this may sound silly and improbable, this actually can happen and is called carotenosis, but it is rare as it requires a person to consume a lot of beta carotene over a long period of time. It's harmless and eventually reverses with a change in diet. Many people affected are either vegan/vegetarian or babies fed an excess of some baby foods with a high carotene content (usually meaning a lot of carrots, though sweet-potato-based baby food can do the same thing).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': In one "Slappy the Squirrel" skit, Slappy asks her nephew Skippy who is playing onstage, leading to [[WhosOnFirst confusion]], because the band is called "Who". At one point, Slappy thinks the band is called "Yes" because an exchange went "Who's onstage?" "Yes." While on the surface, "Who" and "Yes" sound like made-up names, with the joke being that it's an absurd thing to name a band, ''Music/TheWho'' and ''Music/{{Yes}}'' are indeed real bands.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales 1987}}'' episode [[Recap/DuckTalesS1E13BermudaTriangleTangle "Bermuda Triangle Tangle]]'', the heroes discover that the frequent disappearances in the area are caused by an incredibly thick growth of seaweed ensnaring ships. You might be surprised to learn [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6QphdyfvYk that part's not made up.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales 1987}}'' episode [[Recap/DuckTalesS1E13BermudaTriangleTangle "Bermuda Triangle Tangle}'', the heroes discover that the frequent disappearances in the area are casued by an incredibly thick growth of seaweed ensnaring ships. You might be surprised to learn [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6QphdyfvYk that part's not made up.]]

** Unfortunately, NAMBLA (the "man-boy love" one) from "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E5CartmanJoinsNAMBLA Cartman Joins NAMBLA]]" is, in fact, a real group. Even Trey and Matt said on the DVDCommentary that they couldn't believe an organization like that exists. Unfortunately, the "North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes" do not exist.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': Pickles' plan to use bleach to pass a drug test in the episode "Dethhealth" and the gang's general acceptance of the idea was just an example of their idiocy, right? Nope, you actually can put bleach in a urine sample to kill traces of many drugs (though you'll end up failing it anyway because doctors and lab technicians can tell if someone has put bleach in it, and it goes without saying that ''drinking it'' like Pickles suggested is a bad idea).

** In the HalloweenEpisode "Hilloween", Junnie Harper, [[TheFundamentalist a religious fanatic,]] takes Bobby and several other kids through her "hell house" to show what happens when people stray from God's path, such as [[DeatSexSignalsDeath dying from having premarital sex]], and an ape eating its baby grandchild for believing in evolution. Such places do exist and spring up around Halloween, [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahburton/evangelical-hell-houses-that-will-terrify-you-if-youre-int?utm_term=.fx2WGejOX#.aqlM4xYJL particularly in Southern states]] (like Texas, where the show takes place).

** A lot of viewers outside Texas were shocked that not only is Whataburger ''real'', but it's actually a very large chain that's incredibly popular in Texas.