History Trivia / TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat

* GodNeverSaidThat: Formerly on this very page, Milton Knight was once stated to have "disliked" Thom Adcox Hernandez's Felix performance in the episodes Knight worked on, which were intentionally directed to feel like the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatOttoMessmer silent-era Felix cartoons.]] However, Knight has [[https://twitter.com/miltonknight17/status/1270184136968470529 clarified]] that his disdain was only about the [[FillingTheSilence superfluous amounts of dialogue]] added to his episodes, and not Hernandez's Felix himself, who he actually enjoyed.

* CreatorBacklash:
** Despite efforts to shift to script written episodes in Season 2 in an attempt to "salvage" the show due to the first season's poor ratings and unfocused direction, [[GoneHorriblyWrong it had a truly turbulent production and was even more of a ratings disaster than the first season]], got it canceled 8 episodes in, and it was seen as a disaster in the eyes of everyone involved with it, according to Milton Knight. Also, Don Oriolo, then-owner of Felix, was very unhappy with how both seasons turned out, and was absolutely ''furious'' with how the staff handled the characterization of his dad's characters in the second season, especially the depiction of Professor and Rock Bottom. That season 2 was [[TakeThat full of snipes against him and his dad's version of Felix]] [[WriterRevolt after he forced a lighter retool on it]] didn't help either. Tellingly, in his own History of Felix video, Twisted Tales is only given a ''very'' brief and grudging mention in passing. Felix the Cat Inc. in general became so unhappy with the show that they began to see it as a lost cause and refused to renew the license for Film Roman to continue using Felix while season 2 was still in production, precluding any chance of a third season happening even if it hadn't bombed in ratings.
** Milton Knight absolutely enjoyed working on the show, but had mixed feelings about it as a whole, feeling the show suffered from a lack of direction and didn't put enough focus on Felix himself, and that the overseas animation was uncertain and sluggish. He also wasn't a fan of the additional dialogue "the studio added [to Felix] after the job ended", primarily his silent-era inspired episodes.

** Felix's second season voice actor Creator/CharlieAdler [[https://twitter.com/charlie_adler/status/1754899122312917266 considers]] this series to be his least favorite voice acting job, due to not liking Thom Adcox Hernandez being replaced and feeling he was miscast as his replacement.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Because Creator/{{CBS}} wanted the show to be aimed at kids, the staff was forced to pull back much of the adult humor. And apparently, a big reason for the season 2 retool was because Don Oriolo wasn't too happy with the first season and wanted to put his dad's characters in the show, hoping to "save it". All of the new supporting characters, Peeking Duck, Fats Holler, Candy, etc. [[PutOnABus were ordered to be scrapped]], and characters from the Joe Oriolo era were brought back on his orders (though Don eventually relented and allowed a few of the first season's recurring cast, such as Roscoe and Sheba to stick around). Years later, Don Oriolo rationalized that what he was doing was an attempt at damage control on the show due to the many hands in the first season giving it an unfocused direction that took too much of the limelight away from Felix himself.
* FranchiseKiller: Along with the box office failure of ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'', the poor ratings of this show and its abrupt cancellation led to the Felix the Cat cartoons getting put on ice yet again. Only low key revivals of the show came out in the years after, including ''[[SpinoffBabies Baby Felix]]'' and the direct to DVD film ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'', before the franchise fell off the radar altogether.

* OldShame: Creator/CharlieAdler has said that this was his only role that he was thoroughly unhappy with, recalling it as a dreadful experience because he got wrapped up in the rest of the show's turbulent production troubles and, as with many of the other staffers, he had no idea what kind of show it was supposed to be. [[https://twitter.com/charlie_adler/status/1754899122312917266 He also felt he was miscast as Felix and prefered Thom Adcox's work as Felix from Season 1]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Part of the reason the show tanked so hard in ratings was because of it being plopped in very poor time slots; Half the time "Twisted Tales" was completely bumped by sports shows, making it very difficult to establish regular viewers. To make matters worse, the show was also plopped directly opposite to ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', which was a huge ratings hit at the time.

** One of the biggest problems during production was a classic case of [[TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup too many cooks in the kitchen]]; the staff simply couldn't make up their mind what kind of cartoon this series was supposed to be. Studio head Phil Roman was most comfortable with the plot-and-dialogue-driven approach used in his commercial successes ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and had given this series what seemed like a guarded blessing--but then there was one group who wanted a Felix like the Creator/OttoMessmer shorts, one group who wanted [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] surrealism, Don Oriolo, the current owner of Felix, wanting it to be like his dad's made-for-TV Felix cartoons (which most of the staff working on the show was against--they ultimately, but begrudgingly, added certain elements from it into ''Twisted Tales'', like the Magic Bag), one group who wanted the show to be WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy-esque (understandable, since some of the artists on the show were former ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' artists), and one director who wanted a ''Creator/RobertCrumb'' influence! The end result of this gave the show a very helter-skelter direction in tone and content, with Felix himself often getting swamped in importance by a large cast of supporting characters and his chaotic world.
** On top of that, per word of Creator/MarkEvanier, the studio had a terrible time finding a voice for Felix, saying they may have set a new industry record for most actors auditioned for one role (to where even staff of the studio were trying to audition for the role), and they wound up recording the show with a "scratch" (temporary) voice and animating to that. Out of desperation, they settled on casting Creator/ThomAdcoxHernandez as a temporary actor for Felix only a few weeks before an episode aired and he dubbed his voice over the animation, but intended to recast him after the first season wrapped up. The second season would end up recasting him with Creator/CharlieAdler.
** Another problem was that in addition to having a month to storyboard, design and do layout work on each short, they could not learn from their mistakes, because by the time film began to come in, the season had been just about wrapped up. Some directors could handle writing and boarding a good cartoon, while some couldn't. The artists had no say on retakes in animation either, which was left to Phil Roman to decide--and unfortunately, the overseas animation on the show tended to be rather sluggish. This only got worse with the second season, with Korean company Creator/PlusOneAnimation having to rush episodes through, resulting in sloppy artwork and very bad animation timing (with "Nightmare on Oak Street" being one of the worst examples in the second season). On top of that, they were behind schedule, so they couldn't order retakes to correct any mistakes.
** Eventually, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo found the "Cartoonist Driven" approach of the first season to be too taxing on them, and not even worth the trouble since, despite being one of the most expensive shows that Phil Roman's studio had made, the first season turned out to be a flop in ratings, due in part to a terrible time slot--it was usually sandwiched right between sports shows and then-ratings giant ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', making it very hard to establish an audience for the show. On top of that, Don was just unhappy with the weird direction of season 1 having almost nothing in common with Joe Oriolo's Felix, so the second season went through an extensive {{retool}}. While the first season was storyboarded while working from a basic outline, and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, the second season decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach (usually provided by the writer of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Creator/MarkEvanier, [[OldShame who has remained silent on the series ever since]]), resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one liners, as well as bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while forcing most of the new side characters to be scrapped in turn. This move was met with outright hostile reception from the show's staff, particularly Timothy Björklund, the producer of the first season, who knew Don's meddling would only make things worse and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailed on the show]] just ''two weeks'' into the second season's production. Evanier attempted to voice direct the actors instead of the directors, but after a couple weeks of trying that, the results were so disastrous that the studio was forced to drop that position and hand over voice direction back to the cartoon directors. And the biggest slap in the face was that the show's budget was reduced to a third of what it originally was, which guaranteed the animation would take a nosedive in quality. The music was another major casualty. The first season had been scored by the Club Foot Orchestra, whose hot jazz soundtracks accurately evoked the classic cartoons the show was paying homage to. Budget cuts forced the show's second season to use cheaper and less fitting synthesizer music.
** The artists, who were very unhappy about the situation, retaliated by [[WriterRevolt writing whole episodes that took jabs at the second season's toned down retool]], such as "Attack of the Robot Rat" (which infuriated Don Oriolo for being a [[TakeThat ruthless parody]] of his dad's made for TV Felix the Cat cartoons), "Background Details" (which jabs at the show's production), "Phoney Felix" (A jab at the animation industry at the time... [[TechnologyMarchesOn Or at least somewhat today]] It even jabs at ''Creator/FilmRoman'' [[BitingTheHandHumor the company that made the show]]) and "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" (Jabbing at the show's ratings and characters popularity, as well as the other ''Creator/FilmRoman'' made show that dominated the CBS Saturday Morning ratings at the time ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''). The first few scripts they received were followed closely, but Craig Kellman, the show's new producer, finally fought for the artists to have more storytelling and creative control on the show, and they were able to completely scrap the scripts and write their own shows, ironically giving the crew ''more'' freedom than they had in the first season. Some episodes were tightly scripted and some were not. Unfortunately for them, the VP of Children's Programming, Judy Price, who wanted the show picked up in the first place, got fired, and Felix the Cat Inc. was so unhappy with the show in general that they refused to renew the license for Phil Roman to continue using Felix, guaranteeing a third season wouldn't happen. To make matters worse, the second season turned out to be an [[GoneHorriblyWrong even]] ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong bigger]]'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong flop in the ratings]], and it ultimately got the show canned, with season 2 [[CutShort ending after just 8 episodes.]] The show's failure ultimately put the Felix the Cat cartoons on ice yet ''again'', with only low key revivals coming of the series after the fact.

** Apparently, Professor and Rock Bottom were supposed to make more appearances in season 2, but the show was canceled before that could happen, so their only appearance in it was "Attack of the Robot Rat". On top of that, Don Oriolo was so angry at how the characters were handled in that episode, that he gave an order that the redesigns of Professor and Rock Bottom [[DecompositeCharacter were to be retconned into entirely different characters for future episodes.]]
*** The show would have had more characters from the Joe Oriolo cartoon appear in the series such as, General Clang, Martin the Martian, Vavoom, and Alex the Cat (The Comic Strip Only Character) in the second season but the idea was scrapped when Don Oriolo canceled the series, but the Alix character did make a cameo appearance in the episode "Nightmare on Oak Street"
** Around the time that season 2 aired, the first season's episodes were planned to be re-recorded with Creator/CharlieAdler in place of Thom Adcox-Hernandez to keep in continuity. (Similar to what Cartoon Network did to the title character of WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones)
* WorkingTitle: The Twisted Adventures of Felix the Cat.
* WriterRevolt: Most of the staff openly hated the made-for-TV Felix cartoons made by Joe Oriolo in the late 50's/early 60's, and wanted the show to exclusively follow the roots of the original silent cartoons and abandon the characters and tone of the TV cartoons. Don Oriolo, Joe's son and then-owner of Felix the Cat, [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that they at least include certain elements from it like the Magic Bag so that the show would have some kind of tie to his dad's work.]] As mentioned earlier, by the time the second season started production, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach, resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one-liners, as well as [[TheBusCameBack bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters]] like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome scrapping most of the new characters]] while [[DemotedToExtra downplaying the focus of the few new characters who did show up]]. This was a move that did '''NOT''' sit well with the staff--In response, "Attack of the Robot Rat" had the writers shoot back by making it a [[TakeThat very mean spirited parody of the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons.]] "Phoney Felix" can also be seen as a StealthParody of the retool of Season 2, with Felix [[HostileShowTakeover having his show hijacked]] by an imbecilic imposter who imitates some of the traits of Oriolo Felix, such as saying his "Righty-O!" catchphrase, singing the TV show theme song and using a (shoddy knockoff) of the magic bag of tricks, It even takes brief jabs at Film Roman (the company that made the show) and Spumco (where the artist used to work on Ren and Stimpy) and the industry as a whole where the Knockoff character can't find work unless he has a hit movie or successful toyline. "Background Details" Takes jabs at the show's hectic production such as being un-focused and taxing on the artist and later having the artist coming up with the episode coming off as un-focused. "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" takes it a step further by having a direct snipe at [[BitingTheHandHumor Don Oriolo with a caricature of himself being responsible for getting Felix's show cancelled]] in favor of the cutesy bunny cartoon and the TV executive [[BitingTheHandHumor The building there in is called APC Network a jab at CBS]] congratulating hem. "Wizards and Lizards" that has a running gag with a network executive giving Felix suggestions to improve the show and even scolds him at the end of the episode for being too mean and violent, [[BitingTheHandHumor This was another jab at the CBS network]] [[ExecutiveMeddling for wanting the show to be more kid-friendly]].

* OldShame: Creator/CharlieAdler has said that this was his only role that he was thoroughly unhappy with, recalling it as a dreadful experience because he got wrapped up in the rest of the show's turbulent production troubles and, as with many of the other staffers, he had no idea what kind of show it was supposed to be.

** Eventually, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo found the "Cartoonist Driven" approach of the first season to be too taxing on them, and not even worth the trouble since, despite being one of the most expensive shows that Phil Roman's studio had made, the first season turned out to be a flop in ratings, due in part to a terrible time slot--it was usually sandwiched right between sports shows and then-ratings giant ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', making it very hard to establish an audience for the show. On top of that, Don was just unhappy with the weird direction of season 1 having almost nothing in common with Joe Oriolo's Felix, so the second season went through an extensive {{retool}}. While the first season was storyboarded while working from a basic outline, and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, the second season decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach (usually provided by the writer of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Creator/MarkEvanier, [[OldShame who has remained silent on the series ever since]]), resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one liners, as well as bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while forcing most of the new side characters to be scrapped in turn. This move was met with outright hostile reception from the show's staff, particularly Timothy Björklund, the producer of the first season, who knew Don's meddling would only make things worse and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailed on the show]] just ''two weeks'' into the second season's production. Evanier attempted to voice direct the actors instead of the directors, but after a couple weeks of trying that, the results were so disastrous that the studio was forced to drop that position and hand over voice direction back to the cartoon directors. And the biggest slap in the face was that the show's budget was reduced to a third of what it originally was, which guaranteed the animation would take a nosedive in quality. The music was another casualty. The first season had been scored by the Club Foot Orchestra, whose hot jazz soundtracks accurately evoked the classic cartoons the show was paying homage to. Budget cuts forced the show to use cheaper synthesizer music.

** Eventually, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo found the "Cartoonist Driven" approach of the first season to be too taxing on them, and not even worth the trouble since, despite being one of the most expensive shows that Phil Roman's studio had made, the first season turned out to be a flop in ratings, due in part to a terrible time slot--it was usually sandwiched right between sports shows and then-ratings giant ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', making it very hard to establish an audience for the show. On top of that, Don was just unhappy with the weird direction of season 1 having almost nothing in common with Joe Oriolo's Felix, so the second season went through an extensive {{retool}}. While the first season was storyboarded while working from a basic outline, and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, the second season decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach (usually provided by the writer of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Creator/MarkEvanier, [[OldShame who has remained silent on the series ever since]]), resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one liners, as well as bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while forcing most of the new side characters to be scrapped in turn. This move was met with outright hostile reception from the show's staff, particularly Timothy Björklund, the producer of the first season, who knew Don's meddling would only make things worse and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailed on the show]] just ''two weeks'' into the second season's production. Evanier attempted to voice direct the actors instead of the directors, but after a couple weeks of trying that, the results were so disastrous that the studio was forced to drop that position and hand over voice direction back to the cartoon directors. And the biggest slap in the face was that the show's budget was reduced to a third of what it originally was, which guaranteed the animation would take a nosedive in quality.

* WriterRevolt: Most of the staff openly hated the made-for-TV Felix cartoons made by Joe Oriolo in the late 50's/early 60's, and wanted the show to exclusively follow the roots of the original silent cartoons and abandon the characters and tone of the TV cartoons. Don Oriolo, Joe's son and then-owner of Felix the Cat, [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted that they at least include certain elements from it like the Magic Bag so that the show would have some kind of tie to his dad's work.]] As mentioned earlier, by the time the second season started production, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach, resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one-liners, as well as [[TheBusCameBack bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters]] like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome scrapping most of the new characters]] while [[DemotedToExtra downplaying the focus of the few new characters who did show up]]. This was a move that did '''NOT''' sit well with the staff--In response, "Attack of the Robot Rat" had the writers shoot back by making it a [[TakeThat very mean spirited parody of the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons.]] "Phoney Felix" can also be seen as a StealthParody of the retool of Season 2, with Felix [[HostileShowTakeover having his show hijacked]] by an imbecilic imposter who imitates some of the traits of Oriolo Felix, such as saying his "Righty-O!" catchphrase, singing the TV show theme song and using a (shoddy knockoff) of the magic bag of tricks, It even takes brief jabs at Film Roman (the company that made the show) and Spumco (where the artist used to work on Ren and Stimpy) and the industry as a whole where the Knockoff character can't find work unless he has a hit movie or successful toyline. "Background Details" Takes jabs at the show's hectic production such as being un-focused and taxing on the artist and later having the artist coming up with the episode coming off as un-focused. "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" takes it a step further by having a direct snipe at [[BitingTheHandHumor Don Oriolo with a caricature of himself being responsible for getting Felix's show cancelled]] in favor of the cutesy bunny cartoon and the TV executive [[BitingTheHandHumor The building there in is called APC Network a jab at CBS]] congratulating hem. "Wizards and Lizards" that has a running gag with a network executive giving Felix suggestions to improve the show and even scolds hem at the end of the episode for being to mean and violent, [[BitingTheHandHumor This was another jab at the CBS network]] [[ExecutiveMeddling for wanting the show to be more kid-friendly]].

* RelationshipVoiceActor: A cross-language one between the original English version and the Japanese dub, as Felix's voice actors, Creator/CharlieAdler in season 2 and Creator/RyuseiNakao respectively, both voiced [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster Bunny]] and [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Ickis]].

* CrossDressingVoices: Interestingly averted in the Japanese dub, as this one of the two times when Felix had being voiced by a male voice actor, in this case Creator/RyuseiNakao.

** Eventually, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo found the "Cartoonist Driven" approach of the first season to be too taxing on them, and not even worth the trouble since, despite being one of the most expensive shows that Phil Roman's studio had made, the first season turned out to be a flop in ratings, due in part to a terrible time slot--it was usually sandwiched right between sports shows and then-ratings giant ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', making it very hard to establish an audience for the show. On top of that, Don was just unhappy with the weird direction of season 1 having almost nothing in common with Joe Oriolo's Felix, so the second season went through an extensive {{retool}}. While the first season was storyboarded while working from a basic outline, and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, the second season decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach (usually provided by the writer of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Creator/MarkEvanier, [[OldShame who has remained silent on the series ever since]]), resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one liners, as well as bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while forcing most of the new side characters to be scrapped in turn. This move was met with outright hostile reception from the show's staff, particularly Timothy Björklund, the producer of the first season, who knew Don's meddling would only make things worse and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailed on the show]] just ''two weeks'' into the second season's production. Evanier attempted to voice direct the actors instead of the directors, but after a couple weeks of trying that, the results were so disastrous that the studio was forced to drop that position and hand over voice direction back to the cartoon directors. And the biggest slap in the face was that the show's budget was reduced to a third of what it originally was, which guaranteed the animation would take a nosedive in quality.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Part of the reason the show tanked so hard in ratings was because of it being plopped in very poor time slots; Half the time "Twisted Tales" was completely bumped by sports shows, making it very difficult to establish regular viewers. To make matters worse, the show was also plopped directly opposite to ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', which was a huge ratings hit at the time.

** Averted with some of the shows other directors such as Robin Steele and Stephen Destefano, who loved working on the show during season 1.

** Eventually, Phil Roman and Don Oriolo found the "Cartoonist Driven" approach of the first season to be too taxing on them, and not even worth the trouble since, despite being one of the most expensive shows that Phil Roman's studio had made, the first season turned out to be a flop in ratings, due in part to a terrible time slot--it was usually sandwiched right between sports shows and then-ratings giant ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', making it very hard to establish an audience for the show. On top of that, Don was just unhappy with the weird direction of season 1 having almost nothing in common with Joe Oriolo's Felix, so the second season went through an extensive {{retool}}. While the first season was storyboarded while working from a basic outline, and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, the second season decided to take the series into a direction more in vogue with the Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons and shift production to make the show a more standard TV cartoon, with scripts replacing the all-storyboard approach (usually provided by the writer of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Creator/MarkEvanier, [[OldShame who has remained silent on the series ever since]]), resulting in much more linear plotting and less surreal humor and more emphasis on wordplay and one liners, as well as bringing back some of the Oriolo era characters like Poindexter, Master Cylinder and The Professor while forcing most of the new side characters to be scrapped in turn. This move was met with outright hostile reception from the shows staff, particularly Timothy Björklund, the producer of the first season, who knew Don's meddling would only make things worse and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bailed on the show]] just ''two weeks'' into the second season's production. Evanier attempted to voice direct the actors instead of the directors, but after a couple weeks of trying that, the results were so disastrous that the studio was forced to drop that position and hand over voice direction back to the cartoon directors. And the biggest slap in the face was that the shows budget was reduced to a third of what it originally was, which guaranteed the animation would take a nosedive in quality.
** The artists, who were very unhappy about the situation, retaliated by [[WriterRevolt writing whole episodes that took jabs at the second season's toned down retool]], such as "Attack of the Robot Rat" (which infuriated Don Oriolo for being a [[TakeThat ruthless parody]] of his dad's made for TV Felix the Cat cartoons), "Background Details" (which jabs at the shows production), "Phoney Felix" (A jab at the animation industry at the time... [[TechnologyMarchesOn Or at least somewhat today]] It even jabs at ''Creator/FilmRoman'' [[BitingTheHandHumor the company that made the show]]) and "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" (Jabbing at the shows ratings and characters popularity, as well as the other ''Creator/FilmRoman'' made show that dominated the CBS Saturday Morning ratings at the time ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''). The first few scripts they received were followed closely, but Craig Kellman, the show's new producer, finally fought for the artists to have more storytelling and creative control on the show, and they were able to completely scrap the scripts and write their own shows, ironically giving the crew ''more'' freedom than they had in the first season. Some episodes were tightly scripted and some were not. Unfortunately for them, the VP of Children's Programming, Judy Price, who wanted the show picked up in the first place, got fired, and Felix the Cat Inc. was so unhappy with the show in general that they refused to renew the license for Phil Roman to continue using Felix, guaranteeing a third season wouldn't happen. To make matters worse, the second season turned out to be an [[GoneHorriblyWrong even]] ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong bigger]]'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong flop in the ratings]], and it ultimately got the show canned, with season 2 [[CutShort ending after just 8 episodes.]] The show's failure ultimately put the Felix the Cat cartoons on ice yet ''again'', with only low key revivals coming of the series after the fact.

** Around the time of season 2 the first seasons' episodes were planned to be re-recorded with Creator/CharlieAdler in place of Thom Adcox-Hernandez to keep in continuity. (Similar to what Cartoon Network did to the title character of WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones)

* DisownedAdaptation: Don Oriolo came to feel this way about the show, feeling that it was just too weird, and he wasn't a fan of how it went out of its way to ''not'' be like his [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat dad's Felix cartoons.]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor: A cross-language one between the original English version and the Japanese dub, as Felix's voice actors, Creator/CharlieAdler in season 2 and Creator/RyuseiNakao respectively, both voiced [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster Bunny]] and [[/WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Ickis]].

** Despite efforts to shift to script written episodes in Season 2 in an attempt to "salvage" the show due to the first season's poor ratings and unfocused direction, [[GoneHorriblyWrong it had a truly turbulent production and was even more of a ratings disaster than the first season]], got it canceled 8 episodes in, and it was seen as a disaster in the eyes of everyone involved with it, according to Milton Knight. Also, Don Oriolo, then-owner of Felix, was very unhappy with how both seasons turned out, and was absolutely ''furious'' with how the staff handled the characterization of his dad's characters in the second season, especially the depiction of Professor and Rock Bottom. That season 2 was [[TakeThat full of snipes against him and his dad's version of Felix]] [[WriterRevolt after he forced a lighter retool on it]] didn't help either. Tellingly, in his own History of Felix video, Twisted Tales is only given a ''very'' brief and grudging mention in passing. Felix the Cat Inc. in general became so unhappy with the show that they began to see it as a lost cause and refused to renew the license for Film Roman to continue using Felix while season 2 was still in production, precluding any chance of a third season happening even if it hadnt bombed in ratings.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Formerly on this very page, Milton Knight was once stated to have "disliked" Thom Adcox Hernandez's Felix performance in the episodes Knight worked on, which were intentionally directed to feel like the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatClassic silent-era Felix cartoons.]] However, Knight has [[https://twitter.com/miltonknight17/status/1270184136968470529 clarified]] that his disdain was only about the [[FillingTheSilence superfluous amounts of dialogue]] added to his episodes, and not Hernandez's Felix himself, who he actually enjoyed.

* CreatorCameo: A couple of the shows staff such as Stephen Destefano and Mike Milo occasionally lent their voices to incidental characters, but its not known which ones at present.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A Felix the Cat series was in the planning stages for six(technically 10) years with the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'' acting as a pilot.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A Felix the Cat series was in the planning stages for six (technically 10) with the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'' acting as a pilot.

** Around the time of season 2 the first seasons' episodes were planned to be re-recorded with Creator/CharlieAdler in place of Thom Adcox-Hernandez to keep in continuity.

** Around the time of season 2 the first seasons' episodes were planned to be re-recorded with Creator/CharlieAdler in place of Thom Adcox-Hernandez previous recordings due to the negative reactions of Felix's first seasons' voice from both the crew, critics, and longtime fans.