20 Well-Known Movie "Facts" That Are Actually Bulls**t

2. Dust Spells Out The Word "Sex" - The Lion King

There are, indeed, a bunch of Disney movies that do contain instances of actually explicit stuff. There really is (or was, until the DVD) a picture of a naked woman spliced into a single frame in The Rescuers, for example, and some of the poster artwork for The Little Mermaid contains a phallic symbol that just could not have been drawn that way by accident. But the most famous "fact" concerning The Lion King is, for all intents and purposes, a load of poppycock. You know what that refers to, of course: the moment where Simba collapses onto a cliff edge and sends out a cloud of dust that supposedly forms the word "sex" for a frame or two. Though the idea that the word "sex" made its way into a children's film is more exciting an explanation, it isn't a factual one. The real deal? The dust actually spells out the term "SFX," a nod to the special effects team who drew up the scene in the first place. Aren't you sick of hearing about this one nowadays - especially when it isn't true?