Line #29 Trivia/Doug


1	!Trivia tropes for ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''
2	!!Trivia With Their Own Pages
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4	* [[ReferencedBy/{{Doug}} Referenced By]]
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7	* ActingForTwo:
8	** Creator/BillyWest voices Doug and Roger in the Nick series. Other voice actors have marveled at West's ability to switch from one character to another without missing a beat.
9	** After West left, Roger ended up talking to himself with Boomer's voice actor in the Disney series.
10	** Judy shares her voice actress with her mom, Theda.
11	** Fred Newman voices ''many'' characters in the series, so this happens frequently (whenever Skeeter and Mr. Dink interact, for example).
12	* TheCastShowoff: In both versions of the show, Skeeter Valentine is voiced by Fred Newman, who, much like Skeeter, is highly talented at providing sound effects with his mouth. In addition, Newman did most of the music on the show with just his mouth sounds. ''And'' he voiced both Porkchop the dog and Stinky the cat.
13	* ChannelHop:
14	** Started out on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. Then moved to Creator/{{ABC}}. Then finally to Creator/DisneyChannel before disappearing off the radar completely. The Nickelodeon series also aired on Creator/{{Telemundo}} in Spanish during the late 1990s.
15	** It's all very complicated company politics. Jumbo Pictures first managed to sell some of their ideas to Creator/{{Viacom}} and become a partner, subsequently getting on Viacom's payroll. Shortly after ''Doug'' ended with its fourth season due to Nick no longer being able to afford the show (meanwhile, Jumbo went to work on ''Series/AllegrasWindow'', ''The Beginner's Bible'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/HoytNAndysSportsbender Hoyt'n Andy's Sportsbender]]''; the latter two being co-productions with Sony, whose Sony Wonder subsidiary had previously released the first ''Doug'' Platform/{{VHS}} sets), Disney convinced them to make new episodes for their new {{Saturday morning\|Cartoon}} season on ABC (prior to 1996, Nick had a rule where the rights to any Nicktoon that ran under sixty-five episodes would revert back to the creators while Nick kept the airing and video rights). They cut off all ties with Viacom and then managed to partner up with Disney instead, getting on Disney's payroll. Which after 4 seasons and a movie, ended in another dispute because Disney forced both ''Doug'' and ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'' to end with [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon sixty-five episodes and no more]]. They then broke up their ties with Disney, changed the company name to Cartoon Pizza, and learned the hard way the downsides of partnering up with a major television network.
16	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: In the Latin American Spanish dub of the Disney series, Creator/EnzoFortuny was fifteen years old when he began voicing the twelve-year-old Doug Funnie.
17	* CreatorBacklash: Jim Jinkins wasn't as involved with Disney's Doug as much as people often thought he was according to Mathew Klickstein's book ''Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age''. Although he has said he is grateful to Disney for giving him the chance to tell more Doug stories and for that reason does not regret signing with Disney, he's also one of the few creators that actually agrees with the majority of the fan-base that the Nickelodeon version was better except for "The Dark Quail Saga". Constance Shulman (Patti) and Billy West (Nickelodeon Doug/Roger) prefer the Nickelodeon version too.
18	* CrossDressingVoices:
19	** In the American version, Elmo is voiced by Beebe's voice actress, and Doug's grandmother is voiced by Fred Newman (who also played Skeeter, Mr. Dink, and others). In "Doug's Fan Club", Todd Bentley, an 8-year-old boy who idolizes Doug, is played by Melissa Greenspan.
20	** In the Japanese dub, Creator/MasakoNozawa (of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' fame) is Doug.
21	* TheDanza: Guy Hadley voices Guy Graham.
22	* DawsonCasting: All of the children in Bluffington are voiced by adults.
23	* DevelopmentGag: The show originated as a potential series of children books before Jenkins turned it into a cartoon. The story of "Doug's New Shoes" was the original intended premiere book.
24	* EditedForSyndication: The episode "Doug's Chubby Buddy" originally ended with a voiceover PSA from Patty about eating disorders and mental health resources. In reruns, this part was removed and replaced by Skeeter and Roger's in-episode dialogue.
25	* FandomLifeCycle: The Nickelodeon series was at the lower end of Stage 4 for the majority of its run, being overshadowed by its fellow Nicktoons ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. When the show was UnCanceled and moved to Disney, it was at a Stage 2 or 3, gaining a significant fanbase, but derided by fans of the original show.
26	* FlipFlopOfGod: In 2016, Jim Jenkins shared his ideas for a SequelSeries with Doug as an adult, which would have revealed that Doug and Patti never became a couple and Patti eventually married someone else. But in 2023, he shared his plans for a completely different SequelSeries, ''Doug Kids'', with the adult Doug and Patti as a married couple who have two children.
27	* GodNeverSaidThat: Since ''Doug'' started in the 1990s, it was often rumored that Skeeter was supposed to be the TokenBlackFriend (but depicted as blue, as blue and purple are often used in SciFi and {{speculative fiction}} to depict black people or any minority who isn't white). Jim Jinkins has stated that he didn't color Skeeter blue as a substitute for making him black; he made Skeeter blue because he thought he looked good that way.
28	* HeAlsoDid:
29	** Acclaimed writer/director [[Film/ManchesterByTheSea Kenneth Lonergan]] wrote at least one episode of the series, "Doug Throws a Party", a mere two years before what's considered to be his BreakthroughHit play ''This Is Our Youth'' premiered.
30	** Two writers for this show, Ken Scarborough and Joe Fallon, would later move on to work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Quite fitting, as people who have watched both shows will often point out the number of similarities between the two (both being realistic animated SliceOfLife shows, similar character types, the heavy reliance on {{Imagine Spot}}s...). Joe Fallon even threw in a ShoutOut to ''Arthur'' in the pilot of the Disney series, where it turns out that Arthur and Buster were the names of Doug's pre-Bluffington best friends.
31	** During the [[ScheduleSlip many production delays]] on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', several of the artists at Spümcø helped out on the show's second season (mainly to [[MoneyDearBoy stay on Nickelodeon's payroll]]).
32	** One of the show's freelance animators (who also worked on ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'') would later become famed graffiti and sculpture {{art}}ist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws KAWS]].
33	* InternationalCoproduction: Nick seasons 2-4 were a co-production between Jumbo Pictures and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates and Ellipsanime (then Ellipse Programme) in France, with animation assistance by Korea's Creator/HanhoHeungUp Studios. A different Korean studio, Creator/PlusOneAnimation, worked on the Disney series.
34	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
35	** The Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} series: When it was first released on Amazon for their on-demand service, there was a good chance that it had playback errors, and two episodes were missing from season four because of "technical difficulties". However, in June 2014, Amazon made a [[http://www.amazon.com/Doug-Complete-Nickelodeon-Billy-West/dp/B00LBHOCHS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424918703&sr=8-1&keywords=doug new release of the show available on DVD]] now known as "The Complete Nickelodeon Series" including [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin every]] Nickelodeon episode including the two segments missing from the Season 4 set. It's available on iTunes and Creator/ParamountPlus as well.
36	** The Creator/{{Disney}} series: Compared to the Nick series, the Disney series was more challenging to come across (legally). The show was only released on Platform/{{VHS}} and, even then, it was only a select few episodes. Heck, ''TheMovie'' never saw a Platform/{{DVD}} release until recently as a Disney Movie Club-exclusive (although it's the Creator/ToonDisney cut, with some missing/altered scenes). The uncut version is available for video rental/purchase on Creator/{{Amazon}}, if you want to view the original version of it in this day and age. According to Jim Jinkins, Disney, which continues to hold the rights to ''Doug'' to this day, has not expressed interest in re-releasing or reviving the franchise, which is why the Disney series remains largely lost to time while the Nickelodeon series is still available in some capacity...or was, until Creator/DisneyPlus released the entire Disney series of ''Doug'' (including the movie) on November of 2019. Now fans of either Disney's ''Doug'' or the Nickelodeon ''Doug'' can enjoy the show in reruns.
37	** The movie ''was'' released on [[Platform/CompactDisc Video CD]] in many second world countries. The catch? '''''Was'''''. It's out of print, too.
38	* KidsMealToy: In Fall 1994, Hardee's released a set of eight race cars based on the Nickelodeon series, ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} (1991)'', and ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', with each franchise having two characters. The toys based on this series depicted Doug in a drag racer and Porkchop on a skateboard.
39	* LiveOnStage: From 1999 to 2001, ''Theatre/DougLive'' was a stage show performed at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]] in Orlando, Florida. It was a musical adaptation of the Disney series, with original songs and plot elements taken from the Nickelodeon series, the most glaring of which being Roger's outfit taken straight from the Nick series rather than the Disney series.
40	* MissingEpisode: As of 2021, Creator/NickRewind only airs the first two seasons. When they finish said seasons, they go back to Season 1 as if the next two seasons were nothing.
41	* NoExportForYou: Some foreign markets only air the Nickelodeon series of the show in these days, although the Disney series also aired internationally in its day.
42	** Italy got only the Disney series.
43	* NonSingingVoice: Doug Pries is the voice of Mr. Bone but Fred Newman voices him when he yodels.
44	* TheOtherDarrin:
45	** Thomas [=McHugh=] and Creator/ChrisPhillips replaced Creator/BillyWest (who was now too expensive [[note]]Though it's also said West left the show when Disney refused to match Nickelodeon's salary and has been rather critical of [=McHugh=]'s performance[[/note]] for the Disney variation of ''Doug'') as Doug and Roger's voices, respectively, in the Disney series. This was [[LampshadeHanging made note of]] with Doug in its first episode.
46	** When the Disney series was released in UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica, it suffered a whole dub recast from the Nick's version.
47	** Patti Mayonnaise was guest-voiced by Roxanne Beck (primarily known for her roles in anime like ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' and Lum in the ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' movie ''Beautiful Dreamer'') in one Nickelodeon episode.
48	* OutOfOrder: When the Disney series came to Creator/DisneyPlus, some of the episodes were released willy-nilly, including the GrandFinale "Doug's Marriage Madness".
49	* PlayingAgainstType: Doug is much more soft-spoken than Billy West's other roles. He's also notably neither an idiot nor a jerk like most of West's characters, though Roger is much more in his usual wheelhouse.
50	* ReferencedBy: [[ReferencedBy/{{Doug}} Now has its own page]].
51	* StarMakingRole: Along with [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy]], Creator/BillyWest's roles as both the titular character and Roger in the Nick series are what established his reputation as one of the biggest voice actors of the modern era.
52	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
53	** The original ''Doug'' product was going to be a children's book, "Doug Gets a New Pair of Shoes", until Jim Jinkins found out that Nickelodeon was looking for cartoonists to create new original animated series (during this time, all of Nickelodeon's cartoons were either imported from other countries [mostly from continental UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, or UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}] or part of a syndication package (the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts and the Creator/{{UPA}} cartoons of UsefulNotes/TheFifties) and decided to turn it into a cartoon series. The book ended up serving as the episode "Doug's Cool Shoes" in season one.
54	** Roger was going to be a rival to Doug for the latter's love interest, Patti. This was scrapped, and the role was taken by Guy once the show was switched over to Disney.
55	** The movie was going to be a DirectToVideo release, but Disney decided to put it into theaters due to the success of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie''. Critically, it didn't work. In box office numbers, it grossed much less than ''Rugrats'', but it was still a huge profit for Disney, and since Disney's mainline animated movies weren't doing so good by then (having to rely on Creator/{{Pixar}} to stay competitive with up-and-coming studio Creator/DreamWorksAnimation), this was big.
56	** ''Doug'' could have had a movie in 1993. Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} signed for a contract deal with the Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to release movie adaptations for its three original Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, but the contract fell through before they could make a movie deal. So, once Viacom (Nick's company) bought Paramount, ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' got its movie in 1998, Disney ended up making a ''Doug'' movie, while ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' never got one (and never will). It's unknown whether Fox's version of "Doug's 1st Movie" would've been the same movie as it became.
57	** In 2016, Jim Jinkins revealed [[http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/08/doug-creator-jim-jinkins-reveals-whether-doug-and-patti-end-up-happily-ever-after/ he has a draft for a revival]]. According to him, 10 years after the events of the cartoon, Doug moved to New York to work as a freelancer and he is sharing a room with Skeeter while his sister Judy is performing off-Broadway. And amazingly, Porkchop is still alive. [[ShipSinking The most shocking revelation is Doug and Patti won't get together]].
58	** Jim Jinkins pitched ideas for SpinOff series focusing on Judy and Quailman to Disney. Nothing ever came of it.
59	** The series bible reveals that Doug's Uncle Happy, who lives on a farm with his family, was intended to be a recurring character. However, he gets nothing more than a mention in one episode, and a very brief cameo in another.
60	* WordOfSaintPaul:
61	** During the original run of the Disney series, an online "interview" with Patti confirmed what many fans have guessed: that her MissingMom died in a car accident, which also left her father paraplegic.
62	** According to Creator/BillyWest in [[https://youtu.be/N6vguLFvDBc?t=15 an interview]], when asked where Roger would be as an adult, he (in character) stated that he's currently in jail. The reason why is unknown.
63	* WorkingTitle:
64	** The title character was originally going to be called Brian.
65	** At one point the show may have been named ''The Funnies''.
66	** The Movie was originally going to be called ''The First Doug Movie Ever'', but was later re-titled to ''Doug's 1st Movie''.
67	** The Game Boy Color game, ''Doug's Big Game'' had a working title of ''Doug: Quailman to the Rescue''.
68	* WriteWhoYouKnow:
69	** The setting and characters all come from Jim Jinkins' childhood. Patty was based on a real girl named Patty whom he had a huge crush on, Roger was named after a friend of his (whom Jinkins jokingly apologized to afterwards) and he even had a principal named Buttsavich.
70	** Jinkins was somewhat pudgy as a child, thus no surprise that he gave Doug something of a pot belly and created a plus-sized character in Connie. Also, although he never had a dog, "Porkchop" was his childhood nickname because of his physique.
71	** In an interesting coincidence, Jinkins got Constance Shulman to portray Patti's voice after seeing the actress in a commercial for Kraft mayonnaise. However, this was not the origin of Patti's last name, as the character was already named Patti Mayonnaise (after Pam Mayo, another childhood crush of Jinkins'). In addition, Jinkins' wife, an aerobics teacher, was already acquainted with Shulman as the actress was one of her students.
72	** Doug keeping a journal where he writes and draws cartoons once every night is taken verbatim from how Jim Jinkins conceived the show itself. Although Jinkins says he did not keep a journal as a kid, he did doodle -- a lot -- and [[AuthorAvatar so does Doug]].

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