Trivia / Fanboy and Chum Chum

• Acting for Two:
  • Jamie Kennedy as Kyle and Fankylechum.
  • Candi Milo as Nancy, Francine, and Cher Leader.
  • Jeff Bennett does the voices of many recurring characters, including Mr. Mufflin, Duke, Boog, and Agent Johnson, the latter two who argue with each other in "A Bopwork Orange". He also voices Man-Arctica and his Arch-Enemy, the Global Warmer, who have a lot of scenes together when brawling.
• All-Star Cast: The show as a lot of famous celebrities (Josh Duhamel, Jamie Kennedy, etc.) voicing a good number of characters, alongside voice actors like Jeff Bennett and Candi Milo.
• Approval of God: The show's creator has liked fanart depicting Kyle as trans and has stated he would implement it in a hypothetical continuation/reboot.
• Billing Displacement:
  • Yo is credited as one of the main characters despite not being as prominent as Kyle and most of the time, she doesn't even talk in the episodes, making her more of a recurring character.
  • The end credits for all episodes list all voices after Fanboy and Chum Chum alphabetically, placing Kyle's voice near the bottom even in episodes where he has a starring role.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: The descriptions and script of "Little Glop of Horrors" say the cafeteria is serving grey glop; in the actual episode, the glop is red.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Nika Futterman as Chum Chum.
• The Danza: Lucky Charlie in "Lucky Chums" is voiced by Charlie Day.
• Fake Brit:
  • American Jamie Kennedy as Kyle.
  • When Chum Chum believes that he is Kyle in "Lord of the Rings", he begins speaking with a British accent.
• Fake Nationality: Jeff Bennett fakes a German accent with Sigmund, and an Austrian one with the Dollarnator.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Kyle has never had a song to himself in the series; his voice actor, Jamie Kennedy, is a professional singer.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only two DVDs were released, though both seasons are available on Paramount+ and Apple TV+.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Nancy Cartwright voices Chum Chum in the original Random! Cartoons pilot as opposed to Nika Futterman in the main series.
  • Lenny was originally voiced by Jeff Bennett in the pilot before Wyatt Cenac voiced the character for the series proper.
  • Francine’s one line in “Pick a Nose” was done by Annie Mumolo instead of her usual voice actress Candi Milo.
• Playing Against Type: Josh Duhamel, who usually plays badasses in live action, does the voice for Oz, a comic book collector who still lives with his mom.
• Release Date Change:
  • The episodes "Risky Business", "Kids in the Hall", "Crib Notes" and "HypnotOZed" were going to air on August 6, 2011, but were delayed at the last minute to August 27.
  • "There Will Be Shrieks" was going to air on October 22, but was pushed forward one day later to make room for a SpongeBob SquarePants rerun.
• Screwed by the Network: One of the biggest examples of this on Nickelodeon. After being Adored by the Network for 2 years, the show was moved to a 7:00am timeslot and had several episodes delayed for a solid year and a half. In fact, it's final episode, "Brain Freeze" (which was initially a DVD exclusive), didn't air until 2014, nearly three years after the DVD release, after a rerun of Power Rangers Super Megaforce. Reruns were also practically nonexistent, as the show would air only on Sundays at 7:00 am from mid-2013 to early 2015, when it was banished permanently.
  • The treatment it got on Nicktoons wasn't great, either. The show usually aired between 4:30am and 6:00am after it ended until March of 2016, when it disappeared completely.
• Throw It In!: Kyle's line "The Great Griffon!!" in "Wizboy" when he spots the great griffon flying through the air was not in the original script. It was ad-libbed by Jamie Kennedy last minute.
• Word of God: According to Eric Robles, Chum Chum is two years younger than Fanboy, but is in the same class as him due to sneaking him in without anyone noticing.
• What Could Have Been: Tons.
  • The Pilot Episode "Wizboy" was to have a scene in the hallway right before the lunch scene; also, some dialogues were longer.
  • For "Pick a Nose", the boys' preparation scene was longer, such as Fanboy painting his head. Also, the boys originally got dirty by crawling in a dumpster, while in the episode, they repeatedly sniff a dirty Chuggy.
  • Two scenes in "Trading Day", one involving Yo sneaking away with Chum Chum in her mouth and Kyle with his own Mechatech. These scenes were restored for the novelization.
  • The episode "I, Fanbot" had an alternate opening where the boys watch Kyle make a potion with his Lil' Warlock Kit, and Fanboy is caught drinking from it before burping up a smoke skull (Which explains why Kyle is sitting between the boys in the first shot). This was removed in the final version as it was deemed too harsh and unsettling, and skipped to the scene where Mr. Mufflin announces the test, and Fanboy is caught making a weird face instead.
    • Originally, Oz removed Fanboy's brain first; in the episode, he takes out the robot's brain first. Also, the robot didn't speak originally, he was given a voice near the end of production.
  • There was an extra scene involving the three boys giving out a note in the hallway in the script and storyboard for "Excuse Me".
  • "Present Not Accounted For" originally had Dollarnator giving Chum Chum a joke-of-the-day calender; in the final episode, he had no lines, and his gift remained unknown. Also, Kyle's dramatic monologue originally started right when he was introduced, and was a little different.
  • The Halloween Episode "There Will Be Shrieks" was originally going to end with the boys not getting their taste back, and Chum Chum's grapes from earlier falling out of the sky into his bowl.
    • Kyle's first scene in said episode is much different in the storyboard than the episode. In the storyboard, he is sitting at a desk reading from a book; in the episode, he grabs a book off the bookshelf to read it.

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