History Trivia / Doug

** Mayor (later Principal) Bob White is none other than Greg Lee, host of ''WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego''.

*** The movie ''was'' released on [=VideoCD=] in many second world countries. The catch? '''''was'''''. It's out of print.

** It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Viacom and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after the wrapping up of Season 4, Viacom shafted them. Conveniently, at that time, Disney came up to them and sweet-talked them. They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, ended in another dispute because Disney used ''Doug'' and ''PBAndJOtter'' characters in a multi-network music video project that Jim Jenkins did not want the characters to be participating in due to his own beliefs. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way the downsides of partnering up with a major television network.

** It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Viacom and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after the wrapping up of Season 4, Viacom shafted them. They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, ended in another dispute because Disney used ''Doug'' and ''PBAndJOtter'' characters in a multi-network music video project that Jim Jenkins did not want the characters to be participating in due to his own beliefs. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way the downsides of partnering up with a major television network.

** Latin America: Patti Mayonnaise was voiced by Anime/SailorMoon, [[Creator/Disney later]] by Sailor Mercury.

*** Much like Rugrats, Doug's popularity and ratings really soared when it went into daytime syndication. But Disney bought the rights to the show and sweet-talked Jumbo Pictures into dumping Nickelodeon before Nickelodeon had a chance to [[{{Uncancelled}} uncancel]] it.

*** Much like Rugrats, Doug's popularity and ratings really soared when it went into daytime syndication. But Disney bought the show and Jumbo Pictures before Nickelodeon had a chance to [[{{Uncancelled}} uncancel]] it.

** It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Viacom and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after the wrapping up of Season 4, Viacom shafted them. They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, ends in another dispute them too by using ''Doug'' and ''PBAndJOtter'' characters in a multi-network music video project that Jim Jenkins did not want the characters to be participating in due to his own beliefs. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way the downsides of partnering up with a major television network.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original ''Doug'' product was going to be a children's book, ''Doug Gets a New Pair of Shoes'', until the creator found out that Nickelodeon was looking for cartoonists for new original cartoons (during this time, all their cartoons were from different companies), and decided to turn it into a cartoon series. The book ended up serving as the episode ''Doug's Cool Shoes'' in season one.

** In America, Doug would later [[{{Futurama}} work as a pizza delivery boy, be frozen for 1000 years, fall for a purple-haired cyclops, and be roommates with a]] [[JohnDiMaggio whore-mongering, alcoholic, chainsmoking, gambling robot]] -- or go on to [[BillyWest voice everyone and everything in modern animation, from]] [[TheOblongs pre-op transsexual bartenders]] to living M&Ms [[RenAndStimpy to a moronic, blue-nosed cat and his psychotic, chihuahua pal]].

* TheOtherDarrin: Thomas [=McHugh=] and Chris Phillips replaced BillyWest (who didn't want to be part of the Disney variation of ''Doug'') as Doug and Roger's voices, respectively, in the Disney series. This was [[LampshadeHanging made note of]] with Doug in its first episode.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Since ''Doug'' started in the 1990s, it was often rumored that Skeeter was suppossed to be the BlackBestFriend (but depicted as blue, as blue and purple is often used in sci-fi and speculative fiction to depict those of African-American origin). Jim Jinkins has stated that he didn't color Skeeter blue as a substitute for making him black; he made Skeeter blue because he thought he looked good that way.

* CrossDressingVoices: Averted, all of the male characters are done by males (save for Elmo, he's done by the same girl as Beebe), though Doug is done by female seiyuu (voice actor) MasakoNozawa in Japan.

* TheDanza: Guy Hadley voices Guy Graham!
* GodNeverSaidThat: Since ''Doug'' started in the 1990s, it was often rumored that Skeeter was suppossed to be the BlackBestFriend. Jim Jinkins wasn't intending that at all- he just made Skeeter blue because he thought he looked good that way.

** In America, Doug would later [[{{Futurama}} work as a pizza delivery boy, be frozen for 1000 years, fall for a purple-haired cyclops, and be roommates with a]] [[JohnDiMaggio whore-mongering, alcoholic, chainsmoking, gambling robot]] -- or go on to [[BillyWest voice everyone and everything in modern animation, from]] [[TheOblongs pre-op transsexual bartenders]] to living M&Ms to [[RenAndStimpy to a moronic, blue-nosed cat and his psychotic, chihuahua pal]].

** And then we've got Skeeter teaching kids how to read on ''Series/BetweenTheLions''.

** It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Viacom and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after the wrapping up of Season 4, Viacom backstabbed them. They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, backstabs them too by using ''Doug'' and ''PBAndJOtter'' characters in a multi-network music video project that Jim Jenkins does not want the characters to be participating in due to his own beliefs. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way the downsides of partnering up with a major television network.

** Miss Krystal (the substitute teacher who thought Doug was a bad kid) is also [[Series/SesameStreet Zoe!]]

** Herman Melville (the Lucky Duck Lake monster) was voiced by none other than FrankWelker.

*** [[SubvertedTrope Update]]: The film was recently released to DVD as a [[https://disneymovieclub.go.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/AcquisitionProductDetailView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&categoryId=5024503&view=Animated&viewAll=true¤tPage=1&URL=AcquisitionBrowseView&catentryId=15607 Disney Movie Club-exclusive.]]
* NoExportForYou: Some foreign markets only air the Nickelodeon series of the show.

*** [[SubvertedTrope Update]]: The film was recently released to DVD as a [[https://disneymovieclub.go.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/AcquisitionProductDetailView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&categoryId=5024503&view=Animated&viewAll=true&currentPage=1&URL=AcquisitionBrowseView&catentryId=15607 Disney Movie Club-exclusive.]]

* ChannelHop: Started out on Nickelodeon. Then moved to ABC. Then finally to the Disney Channel before disappearing off the radar completely. [[hottip:Details: It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Viacom and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after the wrapping up of Season 4, Viacom backstabbed them. They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, backstabs them too by using Doug and PBAndJOtter characters in a multi-network music video project that Jim Jenkins does not want the characters to be participating in due to his own beliefs. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way that partnering up with a network is never a good idea.]]

** The movie was also going to be made by 20th Century Fox in 1993, along with movies for ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Nick's contract fell through before they could make a movie deal. So once Viacom (Nick's company) bought Paramount, ''Rugrats'' got its movie, Disney ended up making ''Doug's'' movie, and ''Ren and Stimpy'' never got one. It's unknown whether Fox's version of ''Doug's 1st Movie'' would've been the same movie as it became.

** It [[TooDumbToLive took this troper a solid month]] of overhearing her roommate's "WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}" marathon to realize it was the same guy.
** Miss Krystal is also [[Series/SesameStreet Zoe!]]

** Also, the movie was originally going to be called ''The First Doug Movie Ever'', but was later retitled to ''Doug's 1st Movie''.

** Miss Krystal is also [[SesameStreet Zoe!]]

** The movie was also going to be made by 20th Century Fox in 1993, along with movies for ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Nick's contract fell through before they could make a movie deal. So once Viacom (Nick's company) bought Paramount, ''Rugrats'' got its movie, Disney ended up making ''Doug's'' movie, and ''Ren and Stimpy'' never got one. It's unknown whether Fox's version of ''Doug's 1st Movie'' would've been the same movie as it became.

** And then we've got Skeeter teaching kids how to read on ''BetweenTheLions''.

** The movie was also going to be made by 20th Century Fox in 1993, along with movies for ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Nick's contract fell through before they could make a movie deal. So once Viacom (Nick's company) bought Paramount, ''Rugrats'' got it's movie, Disney ended up making ''Doug's'' movie, and ''Ren and Stimpy'' never got one. It's unknown whether Fox's version of ''Doug's 1st Movie'' would've been the same movie as it became.