diff --git a/examples/ticks/custom_ticker1.py b/examples/ticks/custom_ticker1.py
index ee088fa4d5af..f3e0ec4ef3bf 100644
--- a/examples/ticks/custom_ticker1.py
+++ b/examples/ticks/custom_ticker1.py
@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
 """
-==============
-Custom Ticker1
-==============
+=============
+Custom Ticker
+=============
 
-The new ticker code was designed to explicitly support user customized
-ticking. The documentation of :mod:`matplotlib.ticker` details this
-process.  That code defines a lot of preset tickers but was primarily
-designed to be user extensible.
+The :mod:`matplotlib.ticker` module defines many preset tickers, but was
+primarily designed for extensibility, i.e., to support user customized ticking.
 
-In this example a user defined function is used to format the ticks in
+In this example, a user defined function is used to format the ticks in
 millions of dollars on the y axis.
 """
-import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
-money = [1.5e5, 2.5e6, 5.5e6, 2.0e7]
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
 
 def millions(x, pos):
     """The two arguments are the value and tick position."""
     return '${:1.1f}M'.format(x*1e-6)
 
+
 fig, ax = plt.subplots()
-# Use automatic FuncFormatter creation
+# set_major_formatter internally creates a FuncFormatter from the callable.
 ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(millions)
+money = [1.5e5, 2.5e6, 5.5e6, 2.0e7]
 ax.bar(['Bill', 'Fred', 'Mary', 'Sue'], money)
 plt.show()
 
@@ -33,6 +32,4 @@ def millions(x, pos):
 #    The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
 #    in this example:
 #
-#    - `matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`
 #    - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_major_formatter`
-#    - `matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter`