* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/RitaMoreno as Carmen Sandiego and Creator/TimCurry as Gunnar Maelstrom.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Unlike the previous ''Carmen Sandiego'' shows, Creator/BroderbundSoftware required every episode script to be approved by them before going into production. They also asked for certain scenes they felt were too violent to be toned down.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show was like this for a while, as other than some 2-episode VHS releases from Fox Video and some {{Compilation Movie}}s released on VHS and DVD by Lion Gate Home Entertainment and Sterling Entertainment, and Creator/ShoutFactory's first season boxset, not all the episodes were found. Averted after February 2012, when a DVD of the complete series was released, thanks to Creator/MillCreekEntertainment.
* TheOtherMarty: Production on the first season conflicted with Rita Moreno's touring schedule, so [=DiC=] recorded the episodes with some unidentified voice actresses, whom Moreno dubbed over once her tour ended.
* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** In ''Chapter and Verse'', the ACME Detective Agency's entire database, Chief AI and all, can supposedly fit on a single standard CD (which Zack bizarrely refers to has a floppy disk). Granted, it was one of Carmen's own pieces of tech that pulled it off, but still, she effectively stole Website/TheOtherWiki and put it on a ''CD''.
** ''Dinosaur Delirium'' has Carmen stealing bleeding edge research that she plans to use to turn genetic material from extinct dinosaurs into living dinosaurs. And it all fits on a few floppy disks.
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