History Trivia / PippiLongstocking

* OnlySoManyCanadianActors: Lot of prominent Canadian talents appear in the film and its TV spinoff, including big-name stars like Creator/DaveThomas and Creator/CatherineOHara, actors also well known for other Creator/{{Nelvana}} works like Creator/GordonPinsent and Creator/NoahReid, and prominent Canadian talents like Creator/WayneRobson, Creator/RickJones, and Creator/LenCarlson.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The end credits on the 1997 series only feature a list of the main voice actors. As of 2021, any supporting and minor roles remain unknown.

** According to Inger Nilsson (Pippi in the 1968 show), the director Olle Hellbom's first pick for Pippi's BigFun DisappearedDad Efraim Longstocking was actually a short and skinny, somewhat stoic german actor, most likely in an attempt to invoke AbilityOverAppearance. However, said actor turned out to have terrible chemistry with the kids and [[CreatorChosenCasting Astrid Lindgren herself even exclaimed at a point]]: "I want someone who is ''big'' and ''warm'' and ''sensitive'' - I want [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beppe_Wolgers Beppe Wolgers]]!", which led to Wolgers being casted for the role.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Tommy and Annika's voice actors, Creator/NoahReid and Olivia Garratt, are also known as [[Literature/{{Franklin}} Franklin the Turtle and Goose]].

** A 1997 animated film TV series, both co-produced by Nelvana and starring Melissa Altro.

** In October 2019, [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/pippi-longstocking-the-worlds-strongest-girl-is-getti-1838698727/amp a new live-action adaptation was announced]], to be overseen by Creator/{{StudioCanal}}.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The animated film did even worse in America in part due to a limited release. Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, ''$505,335''.

* Main/NamesTheSame: [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Clefairy]] is called Pippi in Japan.

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Pippi, Tommy and Annika are voiced by young actors in the 1997 animated film and series: Melissa Altro (Pippi) was fifteen at the time, and Noah Reid (Tommy) was ten.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking''... not with the setting itself, considering it mostly appears to take place in the 1940s, however, most of Harriet Schock and Misha Segal's songs, with the latter's synthesized underscores, have obvious 80s vibes to them.

* CreatorBacklash: Lindgren disliked the idea of having Pippi animated, and claims that she was convinced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} to allow them to do an AnimatedAdaptation. Although her final thoughts on the film weren't actually recorded, it ''is'' notable that the next animated adaptation of another Lindgren book, ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof'', was given ''much'' stricter guidelines for script, design and tone by The Astrid Lindgren Company. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Lindgren died seven months before the latter film's release.]]

* CashCowFranchise: ''Pippi Longstocking'' has become one of Astrid Lindgren's heaviest hitters and the character has a strong following among children within decade upon decade of books, live-action films and TV series, as well as a theme park. The character is even featured on the Swedish 20-crown bill starting in 2015.

* WordOfDante: Everybody in Sweden knows that Pippi's horse is named Lilla Gubben. This name never appears in the books, who simply refers to Pippi's horse as "Pippi's horse." The name incidentally means "Little Old Man" and originated in the 1969 TV series -- though even there, Tommy (as the voiceover narrator) explains that the horse doesn't have a real name; "Lilla Gubben" is an affectionate term Pippi uses when talking to him. It was actually coined by Inger Nilsson, the actor who played Pippi; she called him "lilla gubben" after she'd fed him, and [[ThrowItIn the film team liked the name so much that it was written into the scripts]].[[note]]The term is quite common in Sweden, especially about young boys (despite meaning "old man", the word "gubbe" is often used for basically anything humanoid: a stick character is a stick "gubbe", a smiley face is a happy "gubbe", a video game character is just a "gubbe" and so on). May also be used patronizingly (especially towards adult males).[[/note]]
* WrittenForMyKids: Astrid Lindgren originally wrote the series to cheer up her daughter who was not feeling well.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Fay Masterson was in the running for Pippi Longstocking in ''The New Adventures'' before Tami Erin was attached to the role. Masterson would later play the head girl in the childrens' home.

* DiedDuringProduction: Jan Johansson, the music composer for the 1969 series, suffered a fatal car accident three months before its premiere.
* DirectedByCastMember: The Swedish dub of ''The New Adventures'' was directed and [[WrittenByCastMember written]] by Doreen Denning, who also voiced Miss Messerschmidt.

** Astrid Lindgren herself did not like the end result of the 1949 film adaptation due to the casting of Viveca Serlachius, then 26 years old, to play the titular character as well as Per Gunvall's extensive rewrites of her source material. Eventually, Lindgren decided to script any further adaptations of her books, including the 1969 TV adaptation of ''Pippi Longstocking''.
** Though Lindgren gave ''The New Adventures'' her approval, she [[https://www.astridlindgren.com/en/movie/the-new-adventures-of-pippi-longstocking was candid]] in her thoughts that the film was terrible.
* ExecutiveMeddling: For the 1949 film, director and writer Per Gunvall made several alterations to Lindgren's books to include various Scandinavian celebrities of the day. Astrid Lindgren didn't have positive things to say about it and that experience led to Lindgren scripting any future adaptations of her works.
* FakeAmerican: English-born Fay Masterson plays the head orphanage girl with an American accent in ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking''.

** ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking'' was co-produced by Columbia Pictures in the United States and Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden.
* InvisibleAdvertising: The 1988 film had a thousand prints released nationwide when it was first released on July 29. By August 5, however, no press ads were made for the film according to Ken Annakin.

** The 1949 film never made it to a DVD/Blu-ray release, meaning that fans will have to hunt down an old copy of the film if they want to watch it.

* RecursiveImport: ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking'', which was produced in the United States, was released in Sweden and it didn't go over well for the critics there.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: About one week after the 1988 film opened, Columbia pulled all press advertisements.
* SelfAdaptation: Creator/AstridLindgren rewrote her books for the 1969 TV series and 1970 films herself.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: For ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking'':
** Producer Gary Mehlman acquired the rights in 1984 as a favor for his daughters, Romy and Alexandra, who watched the original Swedish films. While Mehlman was negotiating with Creator/AstridLindgren and Svensk Filmindustri (who holds the rights to the films and TV series in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries), she was initially hesitant about Mehlman's offer to buy the film rights. When she met Mehlman's daughters, however, she accepted his offer. As a bonus, Romy got to play Lisa in the film.

* ThrowItIn: Tami Erin improvised most of her dialogue in ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking''.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking''... not with the setting itself, considering it mostly appears to take place in the 1940s, however, most of Harriet Schock and Misha Segal's songs used in the movie, with the latter's synthesized underscores, have obvious 80s vibes to them.

** At one point in 1971, Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata planned to work on [[http://www.ghibliworld.com/news.html#0405 anime adaptation of Pippi,]] however when they went to get personal permission from Lindgren, they were denied and the project was canceled. Some samples of Miyazaki's lovely artwork for the project still exist and can be seen [[http://community.livejournal.com/miyazaki_ru/463300.html here.]] Then in 1972 Miyazaki and Takahata created another anime called [[http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/panda/story.html "Panda Kopanda"]] (in English "Panda! Go Panda!"), and the heroine Mimiko is [[{{Expy}} a spunky, pig-tailed redhead who is an orphan and lives by herself in a house with animals.]] A lot of the concept art did make it into later pictures though, especially the extensive background work in Visby and Stockholm which became most of the backgrounds for ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''. Pippi's braids are resurrected in the pirate queen from Laputa, who has a youthful portrait in her airship cabin looking suspiciously like Pippi...

*** Kimi Peck and Paul Haggis were in the running to write the script before Ken Annakin came on board.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The film did even worse in America in part due to a limited release. Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, ''$505,335''.

* CreatorBacklash: Astrid Lindgren disliked the idea of having Pippi animated, and claims that she was convinced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} to allow them to do an AnimatedAdaptation. Although her final thoughts on the film weren't actually recorded, it ''is'' notable that the next animated adaptation of another Lindgren book, ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof'', was given ''much'' stricter guidelines for script, design and tone by The Astrid Lindgren Company. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Lindgren died seven months before the latter film's release]].

* InternationalCoproduction: Both the film and TV Series were produced by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden, Taurus Film and TFC Trickompany in Germany, and Nelvana in Canada. They also co-produced with Germany's Iduna Film and Beta Film for the film and in association with Canada's Creator/{{Teletoon}} for the TV series. Coincidentally, both Nelvana and Teletoon are owned by Creator/CorusEntertainment.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Tommy and Annika Settergren's voice actors, Creator/NoahReid and Olivia Garratt, are also known as [[Literature/{{Franklin}} Franklin the Turtle and Goose]].

* TheOtherDarrin: The 1997 animated film and subsequent animated series share a large amount of cast and crew but Creator/CatherineOHara is replaced by Creator/JillFrappier and her fellow ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' member Dave Thomas has his duties taken over by Creator/LenCarlson. Additionally, the schoolteacher has a different (unidentified) voice actress than the film featuring singer Carole Pope, while Creator/BenedictCampbell takes over the role of Pippi's father from Creator/GordonPinsent.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The end credits on the 1997 series only feature a list of the main voice actors. Any supporting and minor roles remain unknown.

* InternationalCoproduction: Both the film and TV Series were produced by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden, Taurus Film and TFC Trickompany in Germany, and Nelvana in Canada. They also co-produced with Germany's Iduna Film and Beta Film for the film and with Canada's Creator/{{Teletoon}} for the TV series. Coincidentally, both Nelvana and Teletoon are owned by Creator/CorusEntertainment.
* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The end credits on the 1998 series only feature a list of the main voice actors. Any supporting and minor roles remain unknown.

* InternationalCoproduction: Both the film and TV Series were produced by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden, Taurus Film and TFC Trickompany in Germany, and Nelvana in Canada. They also co-produced with Germany's Iduna Film and Beta Film for the film and with Canada's Teletoon for the TV series. Coincidentally, both Nelvana and Teletoon are owned by Corus Entertainment.

* TheOtherDarrin: The 1997 animated film and subsequent animated series share a large amount of cast and crew but Creator/CatherineOHara is replaced by Jill Frappier and her fellow ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' member Dave Thomas has his duties taken over by Len Carlson. Additionally, the schoolteacher has a different (unidentified) voice actress than the film featuring singer Carole Pope.

*** Fay Masterson was in the running for Pippi Longstocking before Tami Erin was attached to the role. Masterson would later play the head girl in the childrens' home.

* DirectedByCastMember: The Swedish dub of ''The New Adventures'' was directed by Doreen Denning, who also voiced Miss Messerschmidt.