History Trivia / TheClevelandShow

** Creator/JessHarnell replaced Creator/SethMacFarlane as Tim The Bear late in the third season. Tim had been alternating between both actors until then (Harnell for cameos, [=MacFarlane=] for major appearances), since [=MacFarlane=] continually had difficulty in making Tim funny. This was lampshaded in the episode "He's Bla-ack!" when Quagmire (also voiced by [=MacFarlane=]) comments on this.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://cleveland.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cleveland_Show_Wiki The Cleveland Show Wiki]].

* TalkingToHimself:
** Played straight with Mike Henry, whenever Cleveland and Rallo interact with each other.
** Creator/SethMacFarlane voiced Tim the Bear and Dr. Fist (until he found replacement voice actors for those characters). Compare with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', where [=MacFarlane=] voices a sizeable amount of male characters, mostly the father of the family[[note]]Peter Griffin and Stan Smith[[/note]], the bizarre live-in guest of the house[[note]]Brian the talking dog, and Roger the alien[[/note]], the next-door neighbor with a sexual side[[note]]Quagmire, a serial rapist who's into all kinds of kinky stuff, and Greg Corbin, a gay man who's in a committed relationship[[/note]], and a newscaster character[[note]]Tom Tucker and Greg Corbin[[/note]].

* RelationshipVoiceActor: From the Latin American Spanish dub: Creator/RominaMarroquinPayro (Vanessa) and Creator/NallelySolis (Arianna) have also worked together on ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' as Nagisa and Honoka/Cure Black and Cure White.

** [[https://cleveland.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cleveland_Show_Wiki:Introduction?file=The_Cleveland_Show.png A promo released prior to the show airing had different designs for the family]]. Donna's hair was smaller, Rallo had a buzzcut instead of an afro, and Roberta's clothes [[{{stripperiffic}} were more revealing]] (she had short-shorts and a midriff with a jacket top).

** Viacom picked up the rights to the series in 2018 and aired the series on Comedy Central (2018–present), BET (2020–21) and [=VH1=] (2020)

* CreatorBacklash: When Cleveland returns to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' following this series' cancellation, the writers and Creator/SethMacFarlane express how much they dislike the spin-off by having Peter and his friends roast the protagonist. Quagmire is overjoyed that ''The Cleveland Show'' has been cancelled, pokes fun at its poor ratings and states that Tim was such a terrible character that Seth refused to voice him in later seasons; Joe says the show failed to connect with black viewers and ridiculizes its logo by comparing it to a penis; and Peter criticizes the show's dialogue by claiming it was devoid of jokes.

* RenewedBeforePremiere: The show was renewed for another season before it's premiere. Given the show tends to be savaged as little more than a reskin of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', this decision is now a source of much laughter at Fox's expense.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: With its short existence, the show becomes a microcosm of late aughts to early 2010's references and jokes with each passing year. Including references to things like pre-bad boy Music/JustinBieber, Sarah Palin, the "[[Music/KanyeWest I'm a let you finish]]" incident and so forth.

** Viacom picked up the rights to the series in 2018 and aired the series on Comedy Central (2018–present), BET (2020–21) and VH1 (2020)

* TheCastShowoff: Cleveland Jr. is shown to be an amazingly gifted singer for his age, and the show occasionally stops just to give Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson a chance to demonstrate his higher vocal range. His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0mLDYPmc8 falsetto cover of "This Woman's Work" by]] Music/KateBush is particularly impressive.

* TheOtherDarrin: During the first 13 episodes, Roberta was played by Nia Long. Then, from episode 14, "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at The Stool" to the last episode ("Wheel! Of! Family!"), Roberta is played by Reagan Gomez-Preston (who played the teenage daughter, Zaria, on the WB sitcom ''The Parent 'Hood'').
** Creator/JessHarnell replaced Creator/SethMacFarlane as Tim The Bear late in the third season alternating between both actors until then (Harnell for cameos, [=MacFarlane=] for major appearances), since [=MacFarlane=] continually had difficulty in making Tim funny. This was lampshaded in the episode "He's Bla-ack!" when Quagmire (also voiced by [=MacFarlane=]) comments on this.

* ScheduleSlip: The series was set to premiere in Spring 2009, but was pushed to Fall 2009 due to Fox's already packed spring schedule with ''The Simpsons'', ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'', the premiere of ''Sit Down, Shut Up'' and the final episodes of ''King of the Hill''.
* TalkingToHimself: Played straight with Mike Henry, whenever Cleveland and Rallo interact with each other. Averted mostly with Creator/SethMacFarlane, who only voiced Tim the Bear and Dr. Fist (until he found replacement voice actors for those characters). Compare with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', where [=MacFarlane=] voices a sizeable amount of male characters, mostly the father of the family[[note]]Peter Griffin and Stan Smith[[/note]], the bizarre live-in guest of the house[[note]]Brian the talking dog, and Roger the alien[[/note]], the next-door neighbor with a sexual side[[note]]Quagmire, a serial rapist who's into all kinds of kinky stuff, and Greg Corbin, a gay man who's in a committed relationship[[/note]], and a newscaster character[[note]]Tom Tucker and Greg Corbin[[/note]].

** (mixed with {{Bowdlerization}}): The theme song originally ended with, "And so, I found a place/Where everyone will know/[[https://www.facebook.com/43532171891/videos/1071484268674/ My happy black guy face]]/This is ''The Cleveland Show''," but for whatever reason (censorship, most likely), "My happy black guy face" was changed to "My happy mustached face." The closed captions had the original line when the show first came on, but have since used the new version.

*** CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some summaries for the show state that the scrapped British family still exists.

** Viacom picked up the rights to the series in 2018 and aired the series on Comedy Central (2018–21), BET (2020–21) and VH1 (2020)

* EditedForSyndication: The show’s airings on Comedy Central, [=VH1=], and BET air the broadcast syndication version of the series (the one shown on TV stations) which has the series' intro shortnened down to 14 seconds, with the theme song cutting straight to the final line (“This is The Cleveland Show!”) after the verse “Right back in my hometown, with my new family”, along with many lines being cut for time and content.

* TheCastShowoff: Cleveland Jr. is shown to be an amazingly gifted singer for his age, and the show occasionally stops just to give Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson a chance to demonstrate his higher vocal range. His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0mLDYPmc8 falsetto cover of "This Woman's Work" by ] Music/KateBush is particularly impressive.

** [[https://cleveland.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cleveland_Show_Wiki:Introduction?file=The_Cleveland_Show.png A promo released prior to the show airing had different designs for the family]]. Donna's hair was smaller, Rallo had a buzzcut instead of an afro, and Roberta's clothes [[{{stripperiffic}} were more revealing]] (she had short-shorts and a midriff with a jacket top).

* ActorAllusion:
** In one episode, Cleveland tells Gus the bartender "Shut up, Film/{{Eraserhead}}!". Gus is voiced by Creator/DavidLynch.
** In one episode, Rallo mentions that instead of using a rap song Murray wrote for them, they should have used a song written by his friend's uncle, T-Pain (who voices one of Rallo's friends, in one of the few times T-Pain isn't autotuned).
* AdamWesting:
** [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye, no, KENNY West]]
** One episode had West, will.i.am of Music/TheBlackEyedPeas, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/BrunoMars and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Questlove?]] as [[spoiler: the Hip-Hop Illuminati]].
* AdoredByTheNetwork: During its first two seasons Fox absolutely loved the show, which was shown by the fact that they ordered a full first season based on reactions to the leaked pilot, and ordered a full second season before the first season even finished. However, the love didn't last forever which leads us to...
** ScrewedByTheNetwork: Following the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' which took the show's post-''Simpsons'' timeslot, ''Cleveland'' was moved an hour earlier, so new episodes aired directly before ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In addition to this, advertising for the show diminished. It got a fourth season, despite all of this but in the end, the constant timeslot changes and popularity of ''Bob's Burgers'' killed ''The Cleveland Show''.
** When reruns of the series moved from Creator/AdultSwim and {{Creator/TBS}} to Creator/ComedyCentral once Creator/ViacomCBS snatched the syndication rights from Creator/WarnerMedia, the latter treats the show extremely well, it's in a nice timeslot, gets lots of promos, and even treats every episode it airs as a new episode.
*** The adoration got even bigger in 2020, when [=ViacomCBS=] began putting reruns of the show on {{Creator/BET}} and {{Creator/VH1}} alongside Comedy Central, with the show now airing up to 80 times a week across all networks.
* TheCastShowoff: Cleveland Jr. is shown to be an amazingly gifted singer for his age, and the show occasionally stops just to give Kevin Michael Richardson a chance to demonstrate his higher vocal range. His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0mLDYPmc8 falsetto cover of "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush]] is particularly impressive.

** For most of the series, Seth [=MacFarlane=] voiced Tim the Bear and Dr. Fist in addition to his regular Family Guy characters.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[https://cleveland.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cleveland_Show_Wiki:Introduction?file=The_Cleveland_Show.png A promo released prior to the show airing had different designs for the family]]. Donna's hair was smaller, Rallo had a buzzcut instead of an afro, and Roberta's clothes [[{{stripperiffic}} were more revealing]] (she had short-shorts and a midriff with a jacket top).

* ScheduleSlip: The series was set to premiere in Spring 2009, but was pushed to Fall 2009 with ''Sit Down, Shut Up'' airing in the spring instead.

* EditedForSyndication: The show’s airings on Comedy Central, [=VH1=], and BET usually shorten the intro down to 14 seconds, with the theme song cutting straight to the final line (“This is The Cleveland Show!”) after the verse “Right back in my hometown, with my new family”. Much like ''[[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs1993 Animainacs]]''’s shortened intro used for airings on fellow [=ViacomCBS=]-owned channel {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}, the final word in the aforementioned verse is also slightly pitched up to make the fact that the theme has been shortened seem less obvious. The full theme song still occasionally plays on those networks, but only whenever there’s extra time to be filled up after a movie finishes airing.

* EditedForSyndication: The show’s airings on Comedy Central, [=VH1=], and BET usually shorten the intro down to 14 seconds, with the theme song cutting straight to the final line (“This is The Cleveland Show!”) after the verse “Right back in my hometown, with my new family”. Much like ''[[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs1993 Animainacs]]''’s shortened intro used for airings on fellow [=ViacomCBS=]-owned channel {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}, the lines in between cuts are also slightly pitched up to make the fact that the theme has been shortened seem less obvious. The full theme song still occasionally plays on those networks, but only whenever there’s extra time to be filled up after a movie finishes airing.

* EditedForSyndication: The show’s airings on Comedy Central, [=VH1=], and BET usually shorten the intro down to 14 seconds, with the theme song cutting straight to the final line (“This is The Cleveland Show!”) after the verse “Right back in my hometown, with my new family. Much like ''[[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs1993 Animainacs]]''’s shortened intro used for airings on fellow [=ViacomCBS=]-owned channel Nickelodeon, the lines in between cuts are also slightly pitched up to make the fact that the theme has been shortened seem less obvious. The full theme song still occasionally plays on those networks, but only whenever there’s extra time to be filled up after a movie finishes airing.

** Creator/JessHarnell replaced Creator/SethMacFarlane as Tim The Bear late in the fourth season, since [=MacFarlane=] continually had difficulty in making Tim funny. This was lampshaded in the episode "He's Bla-ack!" when Quagmire (also voiced by [=MacFarlane=]) comments on this.

** Dr. Fist was voiced by three people: Creator/SethMacFarlane, Creator/TomKenny, and Bryan Cranston. Tom Kenny stepped in for one episode when [=MacFarlane=] was busy with the movie, ''Ted''.

** Creator/JessHarnell replaced Creator/SethMacFarlane as Tim The Bear late in the fourth season, since [=MacFarlane=] continually had difficulty in making Tim funny. This was lampshaded in the episode "He's Bla-ack!" when Quagmire (also voiced by [=MacFarlane=] comments on this.

** Creator/JessHarnell replaced Creator/SethMacFarlane as Tim The Bear late in the fourth season.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A promo released prior to the show airing had different designs for the family. Donna's hair was smaller, Rallo had a buzzcut instead of an afro, and Roberta's clothes [[{{stripperiffic}} were more revealing]] (she had short-shorts and a midriff with a jacket top).

** ScrewedByTheNetwork: Following the debut of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' which took the show's post-''Simpsons'' timeslot, ''Cleveland'' was moved an hour earlier, so new episodes aired directly before ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In addition to this, advertising for the show diminished. It got a fourth season, despite all of this but in the end, the constant timeslot changes and popularity of ''BobsBurgers'' killed ''The Cleveland Show''.