* ActingForTwo: In the pilot, Creator/PatFraley voices both Arnold and Virgil, whereas Creator/TressMacNeille voices both Oblivia and Bubsy's nephew.
* ColbertBump: The animated pilot definitely got a boost after it was riffed by [[WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries The Annotators]] and reviewed by [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]].
* CreatorsApathy: The production staffs of ''Bubsy II'' and ''Fractured Furry Tales'' have openly admitted that they hated working on the games and did not care about their quality. They reportedly disliked the title character so much that they strung up Bubsy dolls from the office ceiling as if they were executing them and sarcastically repeated Bubsy's one liners to annoy each other. [[{{Sequelitis}} This probably explains why the two sequels weren't as good...]]
* CreatorKiller:
** Besides doing the visual effects for ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'', the pilot was one of the last major projects by Calico Entertainment, as well as their last animated production.
** Cyndi Kirkpatrick, who was lead programmer on the first game and then lead designer on ''Bubsy II'', hated working on both games so much that as soon as development of the second game was complete, she quit the video game industry altogether, without even waiting to see how the game performed critically or commercially.
* CrossDressingVoices: In the animated pilot, Bubsy's nephew is voiced by Creator/TressMacNeille.
* DisownedAdaptation:
** Original creator Michael Berlyn hated ''Bubsy II'', which he didn't have any involvement in.
** Most at Accolade didn't think fondly of the animated series pilot.
* DuelingGames: ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. While getting substantially better reviews than ''3D'', critical reactions to the new game were still mostly negative and it was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.
* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''VideoGame/JamesPond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}'' and others to obscurity. Only Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later... which also got negative reviews and was overshadowed by concurrent ''Mario'' and ''Sonic'' releases, though it wasn't enough to keep Bubsy from getting another game only two years later, achieving a more middling reception albeit still falling under many people's radar.
* InspirationForTheWork: Michael Berlyn wanted to break away from the story based games and text adventures he was known for at the time and make a ''Sonic'' style platformer. His producer at Accolade originally refused but eventually decided to greenlight the project if Berlyn wrote an analysis on why ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' was a great game. Berlyn played the first ''Sonic'' game for ten hours a day for research and his producer accepted the resulting analysis.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Woolies Strike Back'' has the "Purrfect Edition", which includes at least the game's soundtrack.
* MoneyDearBoy: This is the only reason Creator/RobPaulsen doesn't ''completely'' regret voicing Bubsy in ''II'' and the pilot (though he still does regret it greatly).
* ReferencedBy: ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' spends a large part of his 2010 video "From 2D to 3D" making a (very harsh) review of ''Bubsy 3D''. In a 2020 retrospective of all the games reviewed in ''Joueur du Grenier'', Fred crowned ''Bubsy 3D'' as the the worst game ever featured in the show.
* SequelGap: ''Bubsy is 3D in Furbitten Planet'' was released in 1996. A new installment wasn't released until ''Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back'' in 2017, 21 years later.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA. Creator/DougErholtz, '''yet another''' seasoned VA, is the current voice of the character as of ''The Woolies Strike Back''.
* TroubledProduction:
** When putting the first game on the Genesis, Accolade reverse-engineered Sega's cartridge copyright protection. They did this in order to avoid having to pay Sega's licensing and publishing fees and to avoid having to exclusively release on the Genesis. This got them sued by Sega but the judge ruled in Accolade's favor, claiming that Accolade's actions fell under fair use as they wrote most of the cartridge code themselves and since ''Bubsy'' was a multi-platform game it wasn't dependent on the Genesis to be successful. This lead to Sega offering Accolade a much more favorable contract for future legitimate game releases.
** Accolade wasn't prepared for the marketing costs needed to successfully advertise a game like ''Bubsy'' and the first game almost bankrupted the company. This led to them avoiding creating any new side scrolling mascot games.
** As pointed out under CreatorsApathy, the production staff of ''Bubsy II'' and ''Fractured Furry Tales'' hated working on the games and didn't care about making them good.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The first game was originally envisioned as a Chester Cheetah tie in, but Michael Berlyn wasn't willing to pay Cheetos's licensing fees for the character.
** ''Fractured Furry Tales'' was originally meant to be just an UpdatedRerelease of the first game for the Platform/AtariJaguar, but the developers instead suggested using the game's code as the starting point for a GaidenGame that would do more to demonstrate the system's capabilities. Between the Jaguar's notoriously finicky hardware and their disdain for the character, they quickly came to regret not having just produced the quick-and-dirty port they were originally asked to, but by then it was too late to back out.
** According to the December 1992 issue of [=GamePro=], one of Bubsy's original death animations was going to involve his head being cut off in a cartoonish style. This was removed at the request of Nintendo of America in order to get their Seal of Quality.
** According to the same issue, there was also originally supposed to be a catnip item that looked like a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything green leaf]], which would have made Bubsy go nuts. This was considered inappropriate for the game's audience, and was replaced with banana peels as a hazard in the final game.
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