Hey, I'm Russ Frostick and I wanted to welcome you to the history of fun.

Each week I'll be joined by Chris Plant and Allegra Frank as we explore the hidden backstories behind the things you love to do.

For example, did you know that the creator of Monopoly totally ripped off the idea

from someone else?

Charles played the Landlords game and loved it so much that he asked this couple

for a copy of the rules.

He's like, hey, how do I play?

I want to, you know, show my friends, stuff like that.

And later that year, he stole the rules and the game and the board and made a game

called Monopoly.

I'm just imagining him literally stealing all those things from his friend's house.

And what's the deal with Dodgeball in Sweden?

They're really into Dodgeball, but they don't call it Dodgeball. Okay. They call it Killer Ball. Amazing. Which I love. So it's basically the same, but all the kids are called Killers. So all the players are called Killers. Sure. Wait, does Killer mean something different? No. Do they act? Is it killer, but it means like blueberry? No, it's killer.

The English word killer. And then there's the original design for the Chucky Cheese robots? Most animatronics, you're picturing like the stage show, right? Sure. That's not how it worked. They were hung kind of in relief. Essentially, as if you imagine like a classic frame. Like hung on the wall like it's like a like a head of a moose

But not dead

Reaching out from a as if you imagine like a classic frame like hung on the wall like it's like a like a head of a moose

but not dead reaching out from another dimension that is within your wall

and what would happen so the curtain would like when they finish their scene

the curtain would close and they disappear behind the wall

there could be no curtain because they're reaching out of frames on the wall

they're just always there.

Sound interesting?

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