Trivia / Geography Now

• Acting for Two: On a few occasions Paul will act as both sides of a historical controversy, such as the ones between Macedonia and Greece (over the former's name) and Israel and Palestine (over...several things).
• Corpsing: In the Trinidad and Tobago episode, guest star Mason bursts into a fit of laughter when trying to say the Tobago town of "Goodwood" with a straight face.
• Creator Breakdown: In late September 2020 Barbs put out a video in which he was putting the show on hiatus for a time due to the general ennui brought on by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and out-of-control wildfires plaguing the U.S. West Coast. He specifically made a note that trash collection in Los Angeles has become virtually nonexistent and that he's tired of looking at his city being dirty, so he announced that he'll be cleaning up trash on his own terms, with or without others helping him. Later social media posts indicate that around twenty fans volunteered to help him out for the first day. The show resumed production three months later, posting the Slovakia episode on the next-to-last day of 2020.
• Falsely Advertised Accuracy:
  • In the Bulgaria video, Paul implied (twice) that Bulgaria was part of the Soviet Union, when in fact it wasn't. This is probably due to a script error or a slip.
  • In the France episode, he says that French people are entomophagus because they eat a lot of snails. Snails are not insects, they're mollusks.
  • In the Guyana episode, he refers to (and spells) Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott as "Philly Nott". He corrects this error in the Ireland video.
  • When comparing Ireland and its beer culture with other international examples, he points out that Argentina would be unrecognizable without its salsa. Argentina's national dance is actually Tango.
  • In the Canadian video, the capital city of Ottawa is misspelled as "Ottowa" on an animated map of the country - which Barbs did indeed acknowledge in the comments. Unfortunately, in a follow-up video on Canada's administrative divisions, he mistakenly listed Ottawa as the provincial capital of Ontario, when it's actually Toronto (Ottawa is the national capital). This was even more glaring in that Paul not only had a Canadian guest assisting in that video, but one who grew up about an hour's drive from Toronto and ought to have known.
• Fan Community Nicknames: In return, Paul has taken to call those who follow him and the series Geograpeeps.
• In Memoriam:
  • The South Korea episode ends with Paul and his mother playing traditional Korean instruments as a tribute to Paul's late father.
  • On January 9, 2022, Barby released a compilation video of all the Bob Saget gags in memory of him.
• Milestone Celebration: The Lesotho episode doubles as a "halfway done special" as it's the 96th country in the UN's list of 193 sovereign member states, thus making the series halfway done (although Paul's and the UN's country list can differ at times as evident in the GN playlist numbering, nonetheless Lesotho is still regarded as the halfway point of the series).
• Schedule Slip: Paul usually tries to keep to a regular schedule in producing and releasing videos about once a week or two weeks, but there have been at least a couple instances where he's had to put the series on hold due to real-life circumstances. Sometimes it's personal such as the death of his father and him subsequently having to take care of his mother or needing to get back into physical shape; other times it's more due to outside circumstances such as the COVID-19 Pandemic (in GN's case, not that anyone was directly affected by the disease itself by getting sick so much as the resulting increase in litter and trash around Paul's hometown Los Angeles and the resulting ennui it had on his mental well-being.)

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