Tennessee Tuxedo was originally conceived as an educational series in
response to a 1961 speech by FCC Chairman Newton Minnow calling television
a "vast wasteland."

Bradley Bolke, the voice of Tennessee's pal Chumley the Walrus, was the
brother of comedian Dayton Allen (the voice of Deputy Dawg).

Ross Bagdasarian, creator of The Three Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore),
wrote a number one hit song for Rosemary Clooney ("Come On-A My House"),
in 1951.

Bea Benadaret, the voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones, was
Lucille Ball's original choice for the role of Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy.

Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, was trained by veteran voice
actor Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc.).

Ted Cassidy (best remembered as Lurch on The Addams Family) was
heard in several Hanna-Barbera cartoons (including Godzilla) and was
also the narrator during the opening credits of TV's prime-time, live-action
series The Incredible Hulk. He died during open heart surgery, at the
age of only 46, on Jan. 16, 1979.

Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy, co-wrote the song "Who's Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf" from the 1933 Disney short "The Three Little Pigs." He was
also the original Bozo the Clown. His son, Vance Colvig, voiced Yakky
Doodle's pal Chopper on The Yogi Bear Show.

William Conrad, star of TV's Cannon, was Matt Dillon on radio's Gunsmoke and narrated The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.

In 1965, Underdog made his first appearance as a giant balloon in Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Scatman Crothers, of Chico and the Man, voiced Hong Kong Phooey.

Kenny Delmar, the voice of radio's Senator Claghorn on The Fred Allen
Show and The Hunter on TV's King Leonardo & His Short Subjects,
was one of the actors on the infamous War of the Worlds radio
broadcast.

Monkee Micky Dolenz voiced several Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters in
the seventies. He also starred in the 1957 TV series Circus Boy.

Pat Harrington, best known as Dwayne Schneider on One Day at a Time,
was the voice of The Inspector on The Pink Panther Show.

Allan Melvin (Sgt. Bilko, Brady Bunch, All in the Family) was the voice
of Magilla Gorilla.

Howard Morris (best known as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show) voiced such characters as Atom Ant, Beetle Bailey, and Jughead.

Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger and Dick Dastardly, invented the first artificial heart.

Alan Young, of Mister Ed fame, was the voice of Scrooge McDuck on
Disney's DuckTales.

^Also, Pinto's son Vance had a cameo as a bum on UHF and Howard Morris not only voiced Wade the Duck, but starred as Dr. Lilloman in Mel Brook's Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety.

I may have mentioned this before (or someone did), but Lorenzo Music started out as a writer for The Smother Brothers Comedy Show and creator of The Bob Newhart Show as well as write the theme song "Coming Home to Emily".

Beavis and Butt-Head were inspired by real life people who creator Mike Judge knew.

While going to college, he lived next door to a destructive, unsupervised 12 year-old who called himself "Iron Butt", as he claimed to feel no pain after challenging others to kick him hard in the rear. One of this boy's friends was nicknamed "Butt-head" by Mike Judge and his classmates.

There was another boy who lived a few blocks away named Bobby Beavis, though Judge says that he was absolutely nothing like the character.