Steve Martin had a Top 40 hit with King Tut.
EDIT: Chevy Chase starred in Caddyshack as a playboy golfer who was a member of Bushwood Country Club.
The gopher noises used in Caddyshack were actually voiced by a dolphin.
Beverly D’Angelo starred in the Milos Forman-directed film version of Hair, choreographed by Twyla Tharp.
ETA: Gah! indeed. I’m supposed to be working here!
The Miami Dolphins are the only team in NFL history to have an undefeated season.
Colin Firth played a French pervert in Milos Forman’s 1989 movie Valmont
Two future “Saturday Night Live” cast members worked on the MTV quiz show “Remote Control”: Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn.
Before being on SNL, Adam Sandler appeared a few times on The Cosby Show.
Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman are both from New Hampshire.
Sarah Silverman’s real-life sister Laura plays her sister on The Sarah Silverman Program.
Laura Ingalls Wilder died in Missouri in 1957 at age 90.
Meramec Caverns in Stanton, Missouri, has a new attraction for 2010: the “Caveman Zip Line”.
The character name for ALF, the cat-eating alien from the planet Melmac on the eponymous sitcom, was Gordon Shumway.
The “real” name of the Venus Flytrap character on WKRP in Cincinnati (played by actor Tim Reid) was Gordon Sims.
The city of Cincinnati was named for George Washington, who often compared himself to the Roman farmer-general Cincinnatus.
George Washington manumitted his slaves in his will but delayed it until the death of his wife and he encouraged her to free her slaves as well; she did not, but she freed his slaves during her lifetime because she realized that otherwise they all had a vested interest in her death.
New knowledge! I’ve never come across the word “manumitted” before.
The USS Lady Washington was the first US military vessel named for a woman.
The NBA’s New York Knickerbockers were named after a character created by Washington Irving.
Dwight Babcock of Knickerbocker Bank and Trust Company was the administrator of Patrick’s inheritance and the title character’s archenemy in AUNTIE MAME by Patrick Dennis (whose real name was Edward Everett Tanner, III and who later became a butler for Ray Kroc). I decided to give lots of possible things to play off of; I wish I could think of a way you can play off previous tiles as with doubles in real dominoes
Ray Kroc approved the Egg McMuffin without test marketing it after eating 2 of them on a suggestion from one of his franchisees.
The first fast food franchise was for A&W Root Beer stands, which began to be franchised in 1921.
There is an A&W restaurant located in the Desert Dome of the U.S. Naval Support Activity in Bahrain.