History Trivia / TheRedGreenShow

** This is also why Steve Smith decided to end the show at the 15th season: He didn't want to start letting down loyal viewers by delivering a sub-standard product.
** This is also why many acclaimed Canadian actors and comedians played recurring characters on this show. This was an opportunity for them to make unabashedly Canadian content at a time when Canadian productions obscured their origins to better appeal to the export market.

* RealLifeRelative: Dougie Franklin's brother Benjamin was played by Ian Thomas' older brother [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]].

* YouLookFamiliar: George Buza appeared as Mike's "guardian angel" in the Season 9 episode "Angel" before taking on the role of Dwight Cardiff. He also played a motel manager in TheMovie.

* NamesTheSame: [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Stinky Peterson]], although Stinky is probably a nickname in this show's case.

** Anthropomorphic fox versions of Red and Harold are some of Jenny Black's relations in the webcomic ''WebComic/TwentyFirststCenturyFox.'' Red is noted to be something of a MadScientist who spent his carreer trying to get a fusion reactor to run on duct tape. The Possum Lodge van has since been refurbished with plywood paneling instead of fibreglass. It's still a cantankerous jalopy, at least untill Jack's (equally bonkers) great-uncles get their paws on it.

* ReferencedBy: In the song "Jackpine Savage" by Music/DaYoopers: "He always watches ''Red Green Show'' and makes me take down notes."

* WikiRule: [[https://redgreen.fandom.com/ The Red Green Wiki]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: One portion of a province ''doubling for another''. The show is set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, but exterior scenes were filmed in and near Hamilton, Ontario (where CHCH-TV broadcasts from). Sometimes averted between the third and sixth seasons, as some scenes (mainly at Ranger Gord's watch tower and Buzz Sherwood's dock) were actually filmed in and near Port Carling, a town located in the Muskokas.[[note]]Unsuprising for canadians, but For non-canadians, keep in mind Ontario is 1.076 million square km, big enough to fit Texas in '''with room to spare'''[[/note]]

* CaliforniaDoubling: One portion of a province ''doubling for another''. The show is set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, but exterior scenes (in the early seasons at least) were filmed in and near Hamilton, Ontario (where CHCH-TV broadcasts from) [[note]]Unsuprising for canadians, but For non-canadians, keep in mind Ontario is 1.076 million square km, big enough to fit Texas in '''with room to spare'''.[[/note]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the show itself is largely timeless, because the denizens of Possum Lodge are behind the times by design, "Something in the Heir" from 2001 touches upon the limited rights the Canadian queer community had at the time.
** Occasionally, particularly in the first season, Harold will make a reference to a celebrity that's contemporary and trendy, that modern teenagers are into...like Alanis Morrisette.

* ChannelHop: The show began on CHCH-TV in Hamilton, who cancelled it two seasons in, though the show was quickly picked up by CFPL-TV in London and Creator/{{YTV}} (for national distribution) for a third season. The show then moved to Creator/{{Global}} in the fourth season and eventually to Creator/{{CBC}} starting in the seventh season.

* CaliforniaDoubling: One portion of a province ''doubling for another''. The show is set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, but exterior scenes (in the early seasons at least) were filmed in and near Hamilton, Ontario (where CHCH-TV broadcasts from).

* CaliforniaDoubling: One portion of a province ''doubling for another''. The show is set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, but exterior scenes were filmed in and near Hamilton, Ontario (where CHCH-TV broadcasts from).

* ChannelHop: The show began on CHCH-TV, who cancelled it two seasons in, though the show was quickly picked up by CFPL-TV and Creator/{{YTV}} (for national distribution) for a third season. The show then moved to Creator/{{Global}} in the fourth season and eventually to Creator/{{CBC}} starting in the seventh season.

* ''Buddy System'': Debuted during season 4. Red and another character address the camera about a problem they just created (usually something stupid the unseen character said to his wife).

* ''Harold's Handy Crafts'': Debuted during season 5. A Harold version of "Handyman Corner".

* ''Mike's Teen Talk'': Debuted during season 9. Identical to "Red's Advice to Teenagers", but with Mike instead of Red.

* ''Poetry / Winter of Our Discount Tent'': Red reads a poem or passage from a book. During seasons 1-3, the poems often took on a theme based on a season (e.g. "It is winter/It is spring").

* ''Red's Advice to Teenagers'': Similar to "Red's Sage Advice", except it addresses teens and usually takes place outdoors.

* ''Talking Animals'': Debuted during season 8. Animal expert Ed Frid fearfully introduces the day's animal.

* CastTheExpert: The late Joel Harris (who played Young Walter) was a professional stuntman and the show's stunt coordinator, making him all the more qualified to portray one of Possum Lake's resident butt monkeys.

* WikiRule: [[https://redgreen.fandom.com/ The Red Green Wiki]].

* ''North of Forty / Red's Sage Advice'': Debuted during season 4. Red, sitting at his desk, gives humorous advice, usually to middle-aged married men. Always ended with the CatchPhrase "Remember, I'm pullin' for ya; we're all in this together."

* CaliforniaDoubling: The show is set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, but exterior scenes were filmed in and near Hamilton, Ontario (where CHCH-TV broadcasts from).

* ChannelHop: The show began on CHCH, who cancelled it two seasons in, though the show was quickly picked up by CFPL and Creator/{{YTV}} (for national distribution) for a third season. The show then moved to Creator/{{Global}} in the fourth season and eventually to Creator/{{CBC}} starting in the seventh season.

* DoingItForTheArt: The 4th season. As Steve Smith mentioned on the DVD sets, the company had to buy time slots in order for the show to air (this is also why the show was titled "The New Red Green Show" during this time, to differentiate it from seasons 1-3 that were still airing in reruns). Global Television was so impressed with the show's growing American popularity and Smith & Smith Productions' own efforts to find money for the show, they agreed to finance the show for its fifth and sixth seasons. It was no longer a problem by season seven when Steve Smith secured a deal with CBC and got a guaranteed budget.

** Steve Smith credits the CBC both for giving the show a bigger budget (as he put it, "now we could really go nuts") and also for putting an end to the grief he had for the first few years dealing with ExecutiveMeddling and trying to find airtime for the show.

** In season four, Smith made a deal with Global Television for them to air the show, but they wouldn't finance it. Smith & Smith Productions had to buy its own time slots and pay Global to air the show. It had to scramble to find additional funding to meet the show's budget, and even then Steve Smith had to take a second mortgage on his house to cover it.
** Fortunately, Global Television was so impressed by Smith & Smith's efforts, and the show's rapidly increasing popularity in the United States due to airing on PBS, [[EarnYourHappyEnding that they agreed to finance seasons five and six.]]

* DoingItForTheArt: The 4th-6th seasons. As Steve Smith mentioned on the DVD sets, the company had to buy time slots in order for the show to air (this is also why the show was titled "The New Red Green Show" during this time, to differentiate it from seasons 1-3 that were still airing in reruns). Luckily, by season 7 they had secured a deal with CBC, so they didn't have to pay to air their own show anymore.

* NetworkToTheRescue: Steve Smith credits the CBC both for giving the show a bigger budget (as he put it, "now we could really go nuts") and also for putting an end to the grief he had for the first few years dealing with ExecutiveMeddling and trying to find airtime for the show.

* TroubledProduction: The show had a rough first few years, albeit more because of issues with TV networks rather than problems with actually producing the show. Steve Smith repeatedly butted heads with CHCH-TV executives over the show's content, including the network's demanding the show be more like a sitcom. Later, during the 4th-6th seasons, the show's production company had to buy its own timeslots and pay the networks to air the show. The production of the first season also gave the show very limited studio time, so they had to do some marathon shootings to film everything. Smith notably praised Patrick [=McKenna=] for his ability to work through all that material.

* DawsonCasting: An JustForFun/{{egregious}} example; [=McKenna=] was ''29 or 30 years old'' when he started playing teen-aged Harold. Averted in the later episodes, in which Harold was portrayed as an adult.