Line #5 Trivia/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers


1	* ActingForTwo: In the later seasons, when both Duke Nukem and Verminous Scumm were in the same episode; both were voiced by Creator/MauriceLaMarche.
2	* ActorAllusion:
3	** "Gorillas Will Be Missed" had Kwame ([=LeVar=] Burton) trying on a [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration futuristic visor]].
4	** "You Bet Your Planet" had the Planeteers and the villains competing on a game show run by an alien; the announcer (a floating pair of lips) was voiced by [[Series/FamilyFeud Gene]] [[Series/{{Concentration}} Wood]].
5	* AllStarCast:
6	** The earlier seasons had a large number of {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s, including Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/LeVarBurton, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Music/{{Sting}}, and Creator/MartinSheen.
7	** Japanese dub featured Creator/HochuOtsuka, Creator/ShigeruNakahara, Creator/RikaFukami and Creator/ChikaSakamoto.
8	* ChannelHop: The show ran first on Creator/{{TBS}} with additional reruns on Creator/{{TNT}}, Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}. It was also syndicated beginning in 1993, and also aired briefly on Creator/KidsWB in 1997-98 (in both cases to help TV stations meet their E/I quotas; in the latter case it was also due to the Turner-Time Warner merger of 1996).
9	* DevelopmentHell: The live-action movie has been in this since its announcement in 2011. The last anyone had heard of it was in 2018 when Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was set to produce it and Glen Powell set to write, but since time nothing has been heard.
10	* FakeNationality: Malibu-born Creator/ScottMenville voiced the South American Ma-Ti.
11	* InspirationForTheWork: Ted Turner was genuinely angered by pollution and abuse of natural resources, and commissioned the series as his way of doing something about it.
12	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A few VHS tapes containing 1-2 episodes were released way back but they are now out of print and very hard to find. Creator/ShoutFactory did release season 1 on DVD but never released the rest of the series due to low sales.
13	** The trope was finally averted in November 2017 when Madman Entertainment and Cartoon Network worked together to bring the complete series to availability on DVD, [[NoExportForYou but only in Australia and New Zealand.]]
14	** The entire series can now be bought off iTunes.
15	** The comics, published by Marvel, are unlikely to ever be republished as the franchise is now in the hands of their major competitor Warner Bros./DC Comics. Even if the rights were ever transferred, Dr. Blight's robot dragon that looks like Fin Fang Foom would have to be completely replaced, if not the issue shelved.
16	* TheOtherDarrin: To reduce the costs of hiring {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s, many characters ended up being played by different voice actors.
17	** Gaia's voice actress Creator/WhoopiGoldberg was replaced in Season 4 by Creator/MargotKidder.
18	** Creator/JeffGoldblum and Creator/DeanStockwell, who voiced Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem respectively, were replaced in seasons 2 and 3 respectively by Creator/MauriceLaMarche.
19	** Creator/MartinSheen, the voice of Sly Sludge, was replaced in season 4 by [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]].
20	** Creator/MegRyan was replaced in Season 2 by Creator/MaryKayBergman as the voice of Dr. Blight.
21	** Creator/JamesCoburn was replaced by Creator/EdGilbert as the voice of Looten Plunder in season 4.
22	** Creator/DavidRappaport was the voice of MAL for the first four episodes featuring him and Dr. Blight, but was replaced by Creator/TimCurry for the rest of the series because Rappaport committed suicide by gunshot while the first season was still in production.
23	** Music/{{Sting}} was the original voice of Zarm until he was replaced in Season 3 by Creator/DavidWarner, who was subsequently replaced in Season 4 by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.
24	* PlayingAgainstType: One of [[Creator/MegRyan Meg Ryan's]] few roles as a villain.
25	** Also, Verminous Skumm is very different from [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Jeff Goldblum's]] usual roles.
26	* PosthumousCredit: MAL's original actor David Rappaport died (suicide) while the first season was still in production and had only recorded dialogue for four episodes prior to his passing. In spite of this, the show's first season still acknowledges his involvement in the end credits until Tim Curry replaced Rappaport as the voice of MAL.
27	* PropRecycling: The first episode of had Hoggish Greedly attack Planet with a hose that spewed toxic waste; it looked very similar to the neutrona wands on the [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Ghostbusters']] proton packs (both series were made by [=DiC=], although Planet moved to Hanna-Barbera later on).
28	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Captain Planet has an odd track record with this, and it may be why he's mostly shown up in parodies, with new projects involving the character getting stuck in DevelopmentHell. Captain Planet was originally created for Turner by DIC (the show is copyrighted to both DIC and TBS Productions), but when Turner bought Creator/HannaBarbera, the rights were transferred over to them to produce new seasons (the end credits noted the original show being developed by TBS and DIC); but legally speaking, ''Captain Planet'' was never merged into their library. In 2001, when Time Warner abandoned the idea of merging Creator/HannaBarbera and Warner Bros Animation into one entity, they split the Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios off as its own entity under Turner. The rights to ''Captain Planet'' actually went with them instead of with the other HB and MGM brands (presumably because of it having been created by Turner prior to his byout of H-B). As a result, Warner Bros. has had to deal with Cartoon Network on any possible ''Captain Planet'' projects and CN has often soured on new ideas as they came out, as seen below. This is of course also why he was the only non-CN original character in ''VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion''. It's not clear if this will be an issue going forward, in the wake of corporate reorganization at Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery during the AT&T era.
29	* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Dean Stockwell played Duke Nukem for his kids, Austin and Sophia.
30	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A live-action movie was in development in the mid-90s; titled ''Planet'' or ''Dark Planet'', it would've taken place AfterTheEnd and would've been significantly DarkerAndEdgier. However, the script "...fell through the cracks" during the Turner/Time-Warner merger and it didn't happen; they've been trying since, though they may have abandoned those efforts since Creator/{{Paramount}} is trying to pick up the rights, attaching Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as producer.
31	** The reason the titular character doesn't have a CelebrityVoiceActor? He was initially slated to be played by ''Creator/TomCruise'', who backed out at the last minute.
32	* WordOfGod:
33	** The executive producer of the show, Nick Boxer, [[http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/mnntv/captain-planet/captain-planet-older-brother-or-superhero once pitched the idea of removing Captain Planet, the show just being the "Planeteers"]]. But Ted Turner rejected the idea, so the team attempted to find way to keep the Planeteers empowered while Captain Planet did the heavy lifting. [[WoundedHeroWeakerHelper One way they did this was having the kids rescue Captain Planet himself when he is downed from time to time by the villains]]. So in a way, while Captain Planet does do the heavy lifting and rescues the Planeteers, when Captain Planet is down, the Planeteers, without their powers, must work together and rescue him as well. So in a way, the producers attempted to avert a BrokenAesop.
34	** According to the original showrunners, the exaggeration of the eco-villains to the point of cartoonish supervillainy as well as their role as the individual sources of all environmental problems in the show rather than the broader systemic forces of real life was intentionally done so that children watching the show would not be troubled by their parents if they worked in a polluting industry like logging or mining, as the parents in question were more than likely just trying to make ends meet and were just as much victims of the aforementioned broader forces themselves. The hope was that the villains would serve as good enough allegories that the viewers’ would be able to put the pieces together with the very much real-world problems being portrayed. Unfortunately, this largely backfired in practice, since the unrealistic and over-the-top nature of the villains has made them a frequent target for snark from older viewers and [[DontShootTheMessage the genuine environmental threats and ethical problems the show tackled are often thrown out with the bathwater.]]
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36	!!Miscellaneous trivia
37	* A producer was unsatisfied with a number of facial designs for the Captain until one of the artists finally submitted the producer's face as a joke... and to make a longer story shorter, that is why Captain Planet looks like Mr. Boxer (though one would suspect the latter never had a green mullet or the [[HeroicBuild superhero musculature]]).

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