History Trivia / Freakazoid

* FanNickname:
** JustForFun/CandleJack also goes by Jack Candle, "that spooky boogieman guy", the Boogieman (the for-real one), and the Ghost Who Needs More Rope. [[LoopholeAbuse Note that half of these only exist to talk about him without invoking]] SpeakOfTheDevil.

** Freakazoid makes a brief cameo in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "This Pun for Hire", where he asks Dot Warner which way to his set, and does some of his trademark randomness.

** The ''Series/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Huggbees" sees the characters teaming up with Freakazoid to stop The Lobe.

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Mommie Beerest" has Moe refer to Mr. Boswell by the name "Freakazoid".

* VindicatedByReruns: This show largely flew under the radar back when it was on Creator/KidsWB, thanks to the network death-slotting the show in inaccessible time slots. It wasn't until the show began airing on Creator/CartoonNetwork that the show gained the cult following it has today.

* ActorAllusion:
** In "The Chip", Guiterrez (Creator/RicardoMontalban) gives Dexter a speech paraphrased from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. Heck, Guiterrez would later appear in an episode entitled "The Wrath of Guiterrez".
-->'''Guiterrez:''' Because he tasks me! [[Literature/MobyDick He tasks me!]] 'round the moons of Snivia, I chuckle at thee. Beyond the Corpian clouds I chuckle more at thee. [[BestServedCold Revenge is a dish best served]] [[{{Metaphorgotten}} with pinto beans and muffins!]] Kirk, old friend, I...Oh, sorry.
** The entire character of Professor Jones, voiced by Jonathan "[[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]" Harris. One episode even ends with him saying "Oh, the pain! The pain!"
** Kenneth Mars plays a psychiatrist named "Dr. Gunther Hunterhanker", which was explicitly said in commentaries to have been written to be performed like [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Inspector Kemp]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The pilot episode's depiction of the internet, particularly of how it was obscure and difficult to access.
** The show is very much a product of the 1990's, with many references to UsefulNotes/BillClinton, UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton, and [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Princess Diana]], among others.
** One segment involved Freakazoid doing a "test" of the Emergency Broadcast System. Two years after the episode aired, it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System.

** The show is very much a product of the 1990's, with many references to UsefulNotes/BillClinton, UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton, and [[UsefulNotes/HouseOfWindsor Princess Diana]], among others.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: “[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS6E31Huggbees Huggbees]]”, the {{Crossover}} episode on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', premiered on November 14th, 2020; just a little over 2 months after ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''’s 25th anniversary, and the day before Ed Asner’s 91st Birthday.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: “[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS6E31Huggbees Huggbees]]”, the {{Crossover}} episode on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', premiered on November 14th, 2020; just a little over 2 months after ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''’s 25th anniversary.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: “[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS6E31Huggbees Huggbees]]”, the {{Crossover}} episode on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', premieres on November 14th, 2020; just a little over 2 months after ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''’s 25th anniversary.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The {{Crossover}} episode on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', “Huggbees”, premieres on November 14th, 2020; just a little over 2 months after ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''’s 25th anniversary.

** The show was slated to air on Creator/TheHub in late 2014, but the idea was abandoned when said channel became Discovery Family.

** A second ''Toby Danger'' short was written, but it was dropped due to the aforementioned switch from segmented shows to half-hour episodes (it should be noted that the episode was originally intended to be a segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', but was instead put in to this series to fill space for one episode).

* VindicatedByReruns: This show largely flew under the radar back when it was on Creator/KidsWB, thanks in no part to them barely advertising the show and giving the show questionable time slots. It wasn't until the show began airing on Creator/CartoonNetwork that the show gained the cult following it has today.

** The executives didn't like how the ratings skewed much higher than they intended. It ultimately ended after two seasons when a regime change in studio management decided to clear just about everything out of their SaturdayMorningCartoon lineup. To justify this, they instituted an ad gimmick called "Big Kids Come First", where all the adult-skewing cartoons were aired earlier than the ones skewing for younger kids, making sure that nobody watched anything and ensuring that ratings dropped low enough to justify a massive overhaul.

** An interesting case with the VR game depicted in "Virtual Freak". VR came and went in the 1990's and was considered a passing fad due to enormous amounts of equipment and money required. Then came the New Tens and the resurgence of VR with new arcades popping up featuring set-ups almost identical to the one depicted in a now-twenty-year-old cartoon show.

* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville starred in the show's ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' parody, ''Toby Danger''. Menville had starred in an actual revival of ''JQ'' back in the 80's. They also got Creator/DonMessick, the VO for Dr. Quest in the 60s, to voice Dr. Vernon Danger.

* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville starred in the show's ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' parody, ''Toby Danger''. Menville had starred in an actual revival of ''JQ'' back in the 80's.

** The commentary for the first episode implied that Valerie was intended to be a recurring character, to be used in a sort of BettyAndVeronica type thing between her, Dexter & Steff.[[note]] her appearance near Steff in the opening credits may lend credence to this theory [[/note]] But of course, she never appeared after "Dance of Doom" so it all turned out to be a moot point.

* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville starred in the show's ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' parody, ''Toby Danger''. Menville had actually starred in a revival of ''JQ'' back in the 80's.

* CastingGag: Creator/ScottMenville starred in the show's ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyQuest'' parody, ''Toby Danger''. Menville had actually starred in a revival of ''JQ'' back in the 80's.