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* Alison Snowden originally considered stepping down from the role of Margaret for the Toronto seasons to let a Canadian actress take her place, but ultimately changed her mind and chose to remain.
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* AuthorPhobia: Alison Snowden drew heavily from her own unpleasant experiences at the dentist when it came to scenes involving Bob's line of work, helping greatly to explain why many dentistry scenes in the show are uncomfortable even with non-dentophobes.
* BannedEpisode: Creator/{{YTV}} pulled airings of the Season 1 episode "The Holiday" as a result of the September 11th Attacks, as the plot of religious extremists hijacking a plane definitely hit too close to home for the time.
* BannedEpisode: Creator/{{YTV}} pulled airings of the Season 1 episode "The Holiday" as a result of the September 11th Attacks, as the plot of religious extremists hijacking a plane definitely hit too close to home for the time.
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* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The show mainly used British actors during the first two seasons, but Canadian talents Creator/WayneRobson and Creator/JayneEastwood appear as Melvin and Cookie.
* DescendedCreator: Alison Snowden voices Margaret. Averted with David Fine, who did ''not'' voice Bob (or anyone else).
* ExecutiveMeddling: More of a government-motivated decision than an executive-motivated one, but the move to Toronto for the show's third season was necessitated by its production being funded in part by the government-backed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Television_Fund Canadian Television Fund]], which requires programming to be set in Canada. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result (they wrote nearly every episode of season 1 and were the story editors for season 2), as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
* DescendedCreator: Alison Snowden voices Margaret. Averted with David Fine, who did ''not'' voice Bob (or anyone else).
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** The show mainly used British actors during the first two seasons, but Canadian talents Creator/WayneRobson and Creator/JayneEastwood appear as Melvin and Cookie.
** The Toronto seasons took this to a whole new level, with Alison voicing Margaret back in London and Brian George recording his lines for Bob from Los Angeles, while the entire supporting cast was based in Toronto.
* DescendedCreator: Alison Snowden voices Margaret.Averted with And while David Fine, who did ''not'' Fine does not voice Bob (or anyone else).
any of the central characters, he does cameo as a mumbling pizza delivery guy in the second episode.
* ExecutiveMeddling:More of a government-motivated decision than an executive-motivated one, but the The move to Toronto and change in voice actors for the show's third season was necessitated by its production being funded in part by this, as Channel 4, one of the government-backed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Television_Fund two main backers of the show's production, dropped out after Season 1, meaning that since the show was now a wholly Canadian Television Fund]], which requires programming production, Canadian Content regulations required the series to be set in Canada. more overtly Canadian. Around this time, Fine and Snowden also significantly reduced their active involvement in the show series, partly due to being exhausted by production (Snowden even considered stepping down as a result (they wrote nearly every episode of season 1 and were the story editors for season 2), as voice of Margaret), taking on the role of creative consultants whereas previously they had been the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.head writers and story editors.
** The show mainly used British actors during the first two seasons, but Canadian talents Creator/WayneRobson and Creator/JayneEastwood appear as Melvin and Cookie.
** The Toronto seasons took this to a whole new level, with Alison voicing Margaret back in London and Brian George recording his lines for Bob from Los Angeles, while the entire supporting cast was based in Toronto.
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** The show came about due to the critical acclaim of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBirthday'', but originally, it was Creator/{{Universal}} that wanted to produce the series. However, Fine and Snowden turned them down as ExecutiveMeddling feared the show would be "too British" for America audiences and suggested various changes to Americanize the series, such as changing the title couple to English-Americans.
** Alison Snowden only took on as the voice of Margaret later into production; the original casting choice of the crew was Helen Fielding, future author of ''Literature/BridgetJonesDiary'' and a friend of one of the production staff members.
* Alison Snowden originally considered stepping down from the role of Margaret for the Toronto seasons to let a Canadian actress take her place, but ultimately changed her mind and chose to remain.
** The show came about due to the critical acclaim of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBirthday'', but originally, it was Creator/{{Universal}} that wanted to produce the series. However, Fine and Snowden turned them down as ExecutiveMeddling feared the show would be "too British" for America audiences and suggested various changes to Americanize the series, such as changing the title couple to English-Americans.
** Alison Snowden only took on as the voice of Margaret later into production; the original casting choice of the crew was Helen Fielding, future author of ''Literature/BridgetJonesDiary'' and a friend of one of the production staff members.
* Alison Snowden originally considered stepping down from the role of Margaret for the Toronto seasons to let a Canadian actress take her place, but ultimately changed her mind and chose to remain.
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* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The first two seasons don't credit any of the actors to the characters they voiced - just a wall of names. In the Toronto seasons, Brian George and Alison Snowden receive credits for Bob and Margaret respectively, but for everyone else, again, just a wall of names. The cast list doesn't change with each episode either, and incidental actors such as Creator/ChristianPotenza and Creator/TerriHawkes go completely uncredited.
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* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: The first two seasons don't credit any of the actors to the characters they voiced - just a wall of names. In the Toronto seasons, Brian George and Alison Snowden receive credits for Bob and Margaret respectively, but for everyone else, again, just a wall of names. The cast list doesn't change with each episode either, and incidental actors such as Creator/ChristianPotenza and Creator/TerriHawkes go completely uncredited.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BrianGeorge replaced Andy Hamilton as the voice of Bob starting in season 3. Canadian content regulations strike again: the law requires at least one lead actor to be Canadian; George was raised in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. Although George is a talented voice actor, he's ''not'' a very good impersonator, and does not really sound at all like Hamilton.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BrianGeorge replaced Andy Hamilton as the voice of Bob starting in season 3. Canadian content regulations strike again: the law requires at least one lead actor to be Canadian; George was raised in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. Although George is a talented voice actor, he's ''not'' a very good impersonator, and [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent does not really sound at all like Hamilton.Hamilton]].
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* ExecutiveMeddling: More of a government-motivated decision than an executive-motivated one, but the move to Toronto for the show's third season was mandated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content regulations]], which made further funding for the show's production contingent on a Canadian setting. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result (they wrote nearly every episode of season 1 and were the story editors for season 2), as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: More of a government-motivated decision than an executive-motivated one, but the move to Toronto for the show's third season was mandated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content regulations]], which made further funding for the show's production contingent on a Canadian setting. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result, result (they wrote nearly every episode of season 1 and were the story editors for season 2), as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The More of a government-motivated decision than an executive-motivated one, but the move to Toronto for the show's third season was mandated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content regulations]], which made further funding for the show's production contingent on a Canadian setting. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result, as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
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* NamesTheSame: This show is not to be confused with the erotic novel that Master Roshi used to teach Goku how to read in ''Manga/DragonBall''.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BrianGeorge replaced Andy Hamilton as the voice of Bob starting in season 3. Canadian content regulations strike again: the law requires at least one lead actor to be Canadian; George was raised in Canada and is a Canadian citizen.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BrianGeorge replaced Andy Hamilton as the voice of Bob starting in season 3. Canadian content regulations strike again: the law requires at least one lead actor to be Canadian; George was raised in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. Although George is a talented voice actor, he's ''not'' a very good impersonator, and does not really sound at all like Hamilton.
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* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The first two seasons don't credit any of the actors to the characters they voiced. In the Toronto seasons, Brian George and Alison Snowden receive credits for Bob and Margaret respectively, but for everyone else it's a wall of actor names. The cast list doesn't change with each episode either, and some actors such as Creator/ChristianPotenza and Creator/TerriHawkes go completely uncredited.
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* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The first two seasons don't credit any of the actors to the characters they voiced. In the Toronto seasons, Brian George and Alison Sowden Snowden receive credits for Bob and Margaret respectively, but for everyone else it's a wall of actor names. The cast list doesn't change from the start of the season, so other actors who appear for an with each episode or two (such either, and some actors such as Creator/ChristianPotenza and Creator/TerriHawkes) Creator/TerriHawkes go complteley completely uncredited.
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* ChannelHop: In the States, the first two seasons aired on Creator/ComedyCentral, but the last two were shown on Creator/{{Showtime}} instead.
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* CreatorsOddball: This show is one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s few forays into adult animation.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: More like Government Meddling. The move to Toronto for the show's third season was mandated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content regulations]], which made further funding for the show's production contingent on a Canadian setting. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result, as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: More like Government Meddling. The move to Toronto for the show's third season was mandated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content Canadian content regulations]], which made further funding for the show's production contingent on a Canadian setting. Fine and Snowden reduced their active involvement in the show as a result, as the show's creative direction was no longer their prerogative.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork ''loved'' the series, which is part of the reason it became such a success in Canada. Not only did they promote the hell out of it during its run, but they had continued reruns of the show for several years after it ended.
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* HeAlsoDid: David Fine and Alison Snowden would later go on to produce Creator/{{Teletoon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/RickySprocketShowbizBoy''.
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* InternationalCoproduction: Between the UK-based Creator/Channel4 (season 1) and [=SilverLight=] Productions (season 2), the American Creator/ComedyCentral (seasons 1 and 2), Creator/PhilippineAnimationStudioInc (seasons 3 and 4), and the Canadian Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork (all four seasons).
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* CreatorCouple: Co-creators David Fine and Alison Snowden are a married couple.
* DescendedCreator: Alison Snowden voices Margaret. Averted with David Fine, who did ''not'' voice Bob (or anyone else).
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* NamesTheSame: This show is not to be confused with the erotic novel that Master Roshi used to teach Goku how to read in ''Manga/DragonBall''.
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