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  • Ascended Fanon:
    • According to Po, Tigress did have a crush on Shifu growing up.
    • According to Shifu, there is another level of kung fu mastery beyond the Dragon Warrior: the Celestial Phoenix. Subverted when it turns out the Impossible Task necessary to achieve this role is all a Secret Test of Character. Whether it's a real role a kung fu master can assume after achieving the task for real is never revealed.
  • Early-Bird Release: The episode Has-Been Hero was released as a bonus feature alongside Kung Fu Panda 2 3 months before it aired.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • Inevitable since this is a TV series for an All-Star Cast film. Most of the replacement actors in this series would continue as stand-ins for the film cast in later projects. Ironically, James Sie, who provides the voice of Monkey (taking Jackie Chan's place) voiced Chan himself in Jackie Chan Adventures. This is justified for Tai Lung's appearance where he's Andre Sogliuzzo as Tai Lung is really Po in disguise.
    • In the Latin American Dub, Po, Monkey and Shifu are the only characters from the films to receive a different dub voice actor; as their original dub actors were either unavailable due to not being professional dub voice actors (Monkey and Po, who's film voices were primarily comedians) or had passed away (Shifu, who's original dub voice died in 2011). Monkey and Shifu's replacement dub actors would then go on to reprise their characters in future installments.
  • Playing Against Type: In a meta sort of way—in the Chinese zodiac, the pig is one of the humblest and kindest of animals, yet that is the species chosen for Royal Brat Mei Li. Of course by the end of the episode she gets better and ends up playing true to type after all.
  • Role Reprise:
    • The film voice actors that reprised include:
      • Lucy Liu as Viper.
      • James Hong as Mr. Ping.
      • Randall Duk Kim as Oogway.
    • Mick Wingert, Fred Tatasciore, and James Sie reprise their respective roles as Po, Shifu, and Monkey from the first movie's tie-in game.
    • The Latin American Dub has the majority of the cast reprise their roles save for Monkey, Po and Shifu. Notably, Blas GarcĂ­a reprises his role as Tai Lung for the series.
  • Screwed by the Network: This series along with The Penguins of Madagascar and Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) were canceled after Nickelodeon executives decided to put more resources on original programming instead of licensed material. Since DreamWorks Animation co-produced and owned the show's elements, Nickelodeon felt it was a strain in financial resources. The remaining episodes that didn't air on Nickelodeon were slowly doled out to Nicktoons, then with NBCUniversal acquiring DreamWorks, Nicktoons did a quick run of the last five episodes every Wednesday in June 2016 before it left television for good. Since then, Dreamworks have taken their properties to Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, which has benifited them better (No having to deal with timeslots after all and much quicker production rates).
  • What Could Have Been: This gallery of early concept art reveals that Fung's name in the initial planning stages was "Dirk."

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