Line #13 Trivia/LiloAndStitchTheSeries


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7	* ActingForTwo:
8	** [[AllStarCast Lots of them]], including Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/NancyCartwright, Creator/GreyDeLisle, Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/ChrisSanders, Creator/TaraStrong, and Creator/FrankWelker.
9	** Both Mrs. Edmonds and Aunt Stacy are voiced by Creator/AprilWinchell.
10	* ActorAllusion: In one episode, Pleakley claims he and Jumba are "Canadians from Canada." Creator/KevinMcDonald is Canadian.
11	* AdoredByTheNetwork: From April to around July of 2018, Disney XD loved playing ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', airing around eight episodes a day, despite the show ending in ''2006''.
12	* BetterExportForYou: In the show's native United States, a few episodes of the show were only featured as bonus material on [=DVDs=] relating to its parent franchise, including a DVD game called ''Island of Adventures'' and the ''Leroy & Stitch'' DVD, and as part of Game Boy Advance Video paks featuring other Disney Channel shows, before being fully available on Creator/DisneyPlus at launch years later. In Japan, however, where Stitch is huge, they got the entire series in DVD box set format.
13	* BonusEpisode: "Link" was a bonus on the DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'', and it aired as the last episode of ''The Series'' a month later.
14	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The Dish Network summary for "Dupe" misgenders Stitch, stating that "she has cloned herself".
15	* CreatorsApathy: "Apathy" might be a bit too strong to describe this, since Chris Sanders is still proud of what he started, but he had to make it clear to the fans that he had no intentions of following up his film with a TV series. He will acknowledge things that happened or were established in this series, such as Tantalog being the name given to Stitch's gibberish language or Phantasmo having possessed Scrump at one point, but he will also make it clear how he was basically hands-off with this show (i.e. he only did voice acting and that was it).
16	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
17	** Jess Winfield stated on his TV Tome Q&A thread (partial fan archive [[https://lilo-andstitch.tripod.com/tvtome/page03.html here]]) that his favorite episode was "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E9YinYang Yin-Yang]]", saying that the episode's experiments, story, and theme worked well together. "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E30Angel Angel]]" and "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E36BonnieAndClyde Bonnie & Clyde]]" were also his other favorites. However, he stated this in December 2004, during the early days of the second season, so it's unknown if his opinions have changed afterward.
18	** Series screenwriter John Wray commented on the Lilo & Stitch [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] that he believed "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E23MrsHasagawasCatsAce Ace]]" was his best script, although he clearly stated that it was the original version of the script he wrote that he prefers before it was converted into the final ClipShow version that was produced.
19	* CreatorsPest: Keoni Jameson was mandated by Disney execs as an [[AudienceSurrogate audience avatar]], much to the chagrin of the writers.
20	* CrossDressingVoice:
21	** Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/TaraStrong, Dionne Quan, Creator/NancyCartwright, and Creator/FrankWelker for several experiments.
22	** ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' cast members Creator/ScottThompson and Creator/BruceMcCulloch voice Pleakley's mother and sister Pixley, respectively.
23	* DevelopmentGag: Experiment 258 (Sample) was an early pitch idea of Stitch himself where he was an alien living alone in a forest in the Midwest and having the ability to imitate natural sounds.
24	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Both involving the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami:]]
25	** Re-runs of the episode "Cannonball" were pulled because said episode revolved around the titular experiment causing tsunamis. It was put back in rotation two months later.
26	** According to Jess Winfield, the episode "Ace" was supposed to have a scene where Lilo, Stitch, and some of the experiments create a tidal wave to impress the head of E.G.O. with Pleakley playing a victim until, thanks to the episode's titular experiment, he unintentionally ''becomes'' the victim. Winfield and his staff thought it was insensitive to the victims of the tragedy, so they turned the episode into a ClipShow in which Jumba shows the head of E.G.O. videos of the experiments. You can view the storyboards [[http://www.ersoz.com/storyboard/sb_pages/ls_ace.htm here]] or retrieve them from the Website/InternetArchive over [[https://archive.org/details/liloandstitchacestoryboards here.]]
27	* ExecutiveMeddling:
28	** The executives did not like [[LoveInterest Angel]] and didn't want her to appear again. After finding out about [[BreakoutCharacter her popularity among fans]], they relented, but only for [[GrandFinale the last episode]]. Of course, nowadays, Disney is all too willing to give her some regular promotion and merchandise, and they made sure to make up for screwing her out of this show by giving her several more appearances through the following ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime. She's even a meetable character at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks (notably at Tokyo Disney Resort and Disneyland Paris, as well as the Aulani resort on Oʻahu).
29	** On the other hand, Keoni Jameson was mandated by Disney execs as an [[AudienceSurrogate audience avatar]], [[CreatorsPest much to the chagrin of the writers.]]
30	** The show was originally conceived as an action-adventure series with a similarly somber tone as the film, but Creator/DisneyChannel wanted something LighterAndSofter. One could even possibly tell from watching the {{pilot\|Movie}} ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'', as there are some elements of the original film's melancholic tone in a few scenes.
31	** The show makers had to push for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' crossover because execs didn't want to use a series that had been canceled for five years.
32	* GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld: Creator/ChrisSanders did not create this show, did not create [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch his film]] with the intention of making any TV shows out of it, and was not involved in the creative process outside of voice acting.
33	* HeAlsoDid: Executive producer Jess Winfield is a co-founder of the Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany.
34	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As detailed under NoExportForYou below, only a handful of episodes received some form of home video release in the United States. [[https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-release-lilo-stitch-on-dvd A petition exists on Change.org to give the show a DVD (and possibly Blu-ray) release]] in the West, but it's never even reached 1,000 supporters. Digitally, illegal uploads of the show usually used the 4:3 standard-def versions; the high-definition originals were not as easily accessible and usually came from PAL region-based recordings, which meant that just like with most illegal uploads of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', episodes were slightly sped-up and are higher-pitched compared to the normal NTSC versions. Eventually, ''The Series'' was finally made legally available to watch online in the United States nearly twelve years after it ended, first in 2018 for a four-month run on [=DisneyNow=], then on Disney+ when it launched the following year with the show available on day one, finally putting an end to this trope for American ''Lilo & Stitch'' fans.
35	* MissingEpisode:
36	** The {{crossover}} episode with ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' never aired on Disney Channel, possibly because the network was worried that the kids that were into ''Lilo & Stitch'' would have no idea what ''Recess'' is.
37	** The last three episodes of season one ("Slugger", "Bad Stitch", and "Drowsy") were mistakenly left off Disney+ at launch but were later added shortly thereafter.
38	* NoExportForYou: ''The Series'' has been fully released on DVD, but only in Japan. Some episodes were also released on DVD in other regions, but not in full, and there has never been a Region 1 (the United States and Canada) DVD release of ''The Series''. In those two countries, "Mr. Stenchy" and "Clip" were released on a DVD game called ''Lilo & Stitch's Island of Adventures'', "Slushy" and "Poxy" were released on separate UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance Video cartridges,[[note]]bundled with episodes of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' and--alongside "Poxy" only--''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers''[[/note]] and "Link" is a bonus feature on the ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' DVD.
39	* TheOtherDarrin:
40	** In the episodes where Cobra Bubbles appears, Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson voiced him. Creator/VingRhames does voice the character though, but only as one of Experiment 300's shapeshifted forms in "Spooky" and not for the actual Cobra Bubbles.
41	** Creator/DeeBradleyBaker replaced Jason Scott Lee as the voice of David in ''The Series''.
42	** Chris Sanders did not voice Stitch in every episode even though he was credited in the voice casts for all of them; the character's official soundalike, Michael Yingling, did the actual voice acting for Stitch in a few episodes, including "Finder", "Bonnie & Clyde", and "Angel". Yingling also did most of the initial voicework for Stitch during season two, while Sanders recorded over them in ADR.
43	* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
44	** Subverted, sort of. Some fans believe that Disney canceled the show, but the show was actually planned to be a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon from the start. Never mind the fact that Disney did produce ''[[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch a finale film]]'' for the show.
45	** Disney ''did'' botch the airing of new episodes throughout its second season, however. There were some months-long hiatuses between airings of new episodes during that season, taking nearly ''two years'' to get through season two as a result, despite it having one-third fewer episodes than season one.
46	* TechnologyMarchesOn: [=VCRs=] and videocassettes were shown or referenced a few times in the show. Those things were already in decline by the time ''The Series'' debuted and would become completely obsolete in just a few years.[[note]]In fact, the year the show debuted (2003), DVD rentals exceeded VHS rentals in the United States for the first time. ''Leroy & Stitch'' (2006) even holds the distinction of being the only ''Lilo & Stitch'' film to have never seen a VHS release.[[/note]] Other episodes also showed some older Earth-based computers, including an early 2000s desktop in the Pelekais' living room, and "Splodyhead" had Jumba mentioning that his hi-tech camping tent has a DVD player, which was the highest quality home media standard during the show's run.
47	* TrollingCreator: To some extent; that [[spoiler:pod of Experiment 628]] seen at the end of "627"? That was just a joke added in.[[note]]While Disney outside of the U.S. sometimes treated WesternAnimation/{{Leroy\|AndStitch}} as [[spoiler:being Experiment 628]], he actually wasn't [[spoiler:given a number proper]] in his only animated appearance. Most fans treated him as [[spoiler:being Experiment 629]] instead, which was [[AscendedFanon eventually canonized]] by ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'' in 2020 and a licensed sticker book for the franchise in 2021.[[/note]]
48	* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: The show primarily used a "With the Voice Talents Of" list throughout its run, not identifying the voice actors with their characters. Season two does credit the main cast with their specific roles but still didn't identify voice actors for minor roles.
49	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
50	** The aforementioned original version of "Ace".
51	** Precious (Experiment 400) was meant to have her own episode as a parody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' where she would be thrown into an [[ChekhovsVolcano active volcano]] where the extreme heat from the lava would defeat her but alas, the idea was scrapped due to copyrights. Now why they couldn't use [[MagmaMan Yang]] for a [[FridgeBrilliance lava source]] is beyond anybody's guess.
52	** Spot (Experiment 099) was supposed to appear in "Spike", but the experiment wasn't added to the episode and remains unseen to this day.
53	* WorkingTitle: The show was first announced as ''Stitch! The TV Series'', which explains the title of ''Stitch! The Movie''.

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