Trivia / Camp Lazlo

• Acting for Two:
  • Tom Kenny voices both Lumpus and Slinkman.
  • Carlos Alazraqui voices Lazlo, Clam, and Chef McMuesli.
  • Jeff Bennett voices Raj, Samson, Harold, and Commander Hoo-Ha.
  • Steve Little voices Chip and Skip, as well as the Lemmings and Mayor Pothole McPucker.
  • Mr. Lawrence voices Edward, Dave, Ping-Pong and Nurse Leslie.
  • Jill Talley voices Gretchen, Nina, and Miss Mucus.
  • Jodi Benson voices Jane Doe, Patsy Smiles, and Almondine.
  • Tara Strong voices Amber, Toodie, Honey, and Susie.
• Banned in China: Due to Cartoon Network UK's feed not liking episodes where potty emergencies are the main plot for some reason, "Hold It, Lazlo" rarely aired in the UK.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In a case of corporate Early-Installment Weirdness, an early press release for the show (and the Cartoon Network website) described Edward as a stickler for the rules rather than The Bully who tries to break them.
• Creator Breakdown: Shortly after the show's first season, Joe Murray's second wife divorced him. As was the case when his first wife had committed suicide during production on Rocko's Modern Life, Murray started drifting away from the show's production until he left completely, angry that his involvement in a TV show had ruined his love life once again.
• Creator's Favorite:
  • Joe Murray said on his website (before it was updated) that his favorite characters were Edward and Lumpus due to how fun they were to write.
  • Tom Kenny has stated Slinkman as his all-time favorite role.
• Dawson Casting: The campers range from kid age to teenagers, yet are voiced by adult actors.
• Descended Creator: Series writer Steve Little voices the Dung Beetles. On the creators' side, creator Joe Murray provides a minor voice respectively on "Miss Fru Fru" and "Bad Luck Be a Camper Tonight".
• Fake Nationality: American Jeff Bennett voices Raj, who is from India.
• Kids' Meal Toy: In 2007, McDonald's sold a set of eight toys based on this series, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Squirrel Boy, with each franchise having two characters. The Camp Lazlo toys were a plush pencil topper of Lazlo and a plastic pencil topper of Raj in a pencil holder shaped like a canoe.
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: The series was originally planned as a children's storybook.
• Playing Against Type: Jodi Benson's roles here are far sillier than her usual ones.
• Production Posse: Many alumni from Murray's previous show, Rocko's Modern Life, worked on this show. Several of them were also alumni of SpongeBob SquarePants, a show created by former Rocko director Stephen Hillenberg.
• Screwed by the Network: According to Joe Murray, Cartoon Network cancelled the series not long after he refused to appear in a McDonald's commercial.
• Throw It In!: According to Murray, the entire ending of "Lumpus' Last Stand" (wherein Lumpus is revealed to be the fake scoutmaster, playing impostor to Heffer, who he locked up, and is thrown into the insane asylum) was thought up by Tom Kenny during a recording session. Joe Murray decided to use it because "It tied up his character well."
• What Could Have Been:
  • The show was originally going to be named Three Beans.
  • The first press release (that was later copied word for word to the Cartoon Network website's character sheet) lists character traits that didn’t really shake out once the show started. Namely, describing Edward as a stickler for the rules when in the show he was a bully who enjoyed breaking them; and describing Gretchen as being eager to eat anyone around her, when in the show while she’s aggressive she never tries to eat anyone.
  • Lazlo was going to have a Brazilian accent, but Executive Meddling told Joe Murray that he could only have one so he chose Raj's. Word of God says that Lazlo's parents are from Brazil though, but Lazlo was born in America.
  • Chef McMuesli was initially planned as the camp deacon. Executive Meddling forced Joe Murray to remove the religious themes.
  • Scoutmaster Lumpus was originally envisioned as a horse named Leonard, but Joe Murray decided to make him a moose instead as he felt it would fit the setting better.
  • There were plans for a Thanksgiving special during the second season, but it never got produced.
  • "Parasitic Pal" was planned to be the one of the first episodes broadcast and indeed it was the first episode in production order, but Cartoon Network believed that Lazlo should be established as a character "without a leech stuck to his head".
  • Jeff Bennett revealed that Raj initially was supposed to have a lisp, but the creators thought the voice worked better without it.
  • The real scoutmaster ("Heffer") in "Lumpus' Last Stand" was supposed to originally be a dead ringer for the Rocko's Modern Life Heffer, yellow skin/fur, green hair, and all, but Executive Meddling once again stepped in due to the fact that Camp Lazlo was a Cartoon Network show and Rocko's Modern Life was Nickelodeon, making it practically impossible for any sort of copyright agreement to be made. As it was, they were forced to re-color Heffer into a pinkish, wrinkly version of himself, though Tom Kenny was allowed to voice him the exact same way.