Trivia / Random! Cartoons

• Absurdly Dedicated Worker: Wil Wheaton was very interested in performing the Kyle character in Kyle + Rosemary due to the story reminding him of his troubling school crushes as a kid, to the point where he kept asking his agent about the status of his audition. Months later, his agent called Wheaton back informing him that he got the job. Wheaton documented his experience auditioning and recording for the short on his blog.
• Based on a True Story: According to creator Aliki Theofilopoulos, Girls on the Go was inspired by her high school crushes.
• Creator Backlash: John R. Dilworth stated that although he enjoyed producing "Garlic Boy", he wasn't particularly fond of the final result because he blindly produced it with the mindset of trying to sell it as a series rather than making it the way he wanted to do, just for the sake of making a film.
• Creator-Driven Successor: Due to being a Nickelodeon cartoon created by Fred Seibert that serves as an anthology show with each episode consisting of three animated shorts intended as pilots for potential cartoon shows, the series is something of a follow-up to Oh Yeah! Cartoons. As a matter of fact, the series was initially produced as a revival of Oh Yeah! Cartoons before being rebranded as its own thing.
• Creator Killer: "The Dangerous Duck Brothers" was Pat Ventura's final cartoon short and since then he has not made a new cartoon nor worked on a cartoon following the failure of this short and his other shorts that he had previously pitched to What A Cartoon! Show and Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
  • "Dr. Froyd's Funny Farm" was also animator Jaime Diaz' final work for Frederator due to his death in 2009. He simultaneously worked on this short with his own personal one Gauncho Pampa, which featured music composed by the short's co-creator Bill Burnett.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Dorothy and Carrot, the titular characters of "Two Witch Sisters", are respectively voiced by S. Scott Bullock and Dee Bradley Baker.
  • Tabby from "Mind the Kitty" and Lady Rainicorn in the "Adventure Time" pilot are also voiced by Baker.
  • Skippy/The Kid from "Krunch and the Kid" is voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey.
  • Smart Alec and Strikeout from "Hero Heights" are both voiced by Jessica DiCicco and Annie Mumolo. Mumolo also voiced Rusty in "Thom Cat".
    • Both actors also played incidental males on "Sparkles & Gloom".
  • On "Yaki and Yumi", Candi Milo and creator Aliki Theofilopolous voiced two male incidentals.
  • Bossy Lecow from "Dr Froyd's Funny Farm" is voiced by Charlie Adler.
  • Roger Jones from "The Infinite Goliath" is voiced by Alanna Ubach.
  • The titular character from "Victor the Delivery Dog" is voiced by Elizabeth Daily. Bullock also voiced the female Gi in said short.
  • Brett Pels voices Zero/Bit-Boy in "Dr. Dee and Bit Boy".
  • The titular character in "Super John Doe Jr." is voiced by Kimberly Brooks.
  • June Foray voiced an incidental male in "Ratz-A-Fratz".
  • Chum Chum from the "Fanboy" pilot was voiced by Nancy Cartwright.
• Descended Creator: Many of the shorts (specifically Solomon Fix, Moobeard, Two Witch Sisters, Bronk & Bongo, Ivan the Unbearable, Girls on the Go, Yaki & Yumi, Garlic Boy, Boneheads, The Finster Finster Show and Teapot) have their creators provide additional or main character voices. The short Flavio ended up being What Could Have Been as creator Mike Milo was supposed to be the voice for the titular character.
• Divorced Installment:
  • The similarities the show has to Oh Yeah! Cartoons (i.e., being created by Fred Seibert, the title consisting of "Cartoons" put after a word or phrase ending in an exclamation point and serving as an anthology for seven-minute animated shorts that are intended to serve as pilots for potential cartoon shows) are no coincidence, as the series was originally announced as a fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons before the Nickelodeon execs chose to rebrand it as its own thing.
  • "Hornswiggle" was initially conceived as a short starring Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, but was changed so that the protagonist was a rhino named Hornswiggle when it was discovered that Nickelodeon did not have the rights to the Terrytoons characters at the time.
• In Memoriam: Ivan the Unbearable was dedicated to creator Andrew Dickman's father, Rainer Dickman, whom died during production. This was only Random! Cartoons short with a dedicatee credit, though it was omitted during the short's premiere and air on Nicktoons Network.
• Inspiration Nod: Moobeard's voice was modeled after creator Kyle Carrozza's Uncle Doug from Long Island. His ability to rejuvenate weapons from his sleeves was inspired by Mousse from Ranma ½, Felix the Cat's Magic Bag from The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat and Wakko Warner's Gag Bag from Animaniacs.

  • Despite rumor speculating that JonTron was the inspiration or voice for the character, Carrozza dismisses the rumors pointing the obvious production time for the short pre-dates the latter from being known on the internet. When quoting direction for Billy West, Carrozza specifically asked for "Howard Stern's voice trapped in the body of an excited 11 year old".
  • Sailor Bird's design was influenced from Project A-Ko and Sailor Moon while Darkblade's design was based off the works of Doug TenNapel.

• Screwed by the Network: Random Cartoons was originally planned to air on Nickelodeon, just like its predecessor was. However, the show was instead broadcast on Nicktoons Network with little to no advertising, years after it was intended to.
• Uncredited Role: Hadley Hudson, head of development for US animation representation firm Radar Cartoons, which represented Polygon Pictures in the US and helped the studio collaborate with Frederator for the development of Boneheads, uncreditly did voice-over for the scene where the snail becomes a bowling ball saying "Strike 1, Strike 2, Strike 3 and your out!".
• What Could Have Been: Early in pre-production, Random Cartoons was initially planned out as the fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Later on, in hopes of the series getting more exposure on the newly formed Nicktoons Network channel, it was decided to make the show a Spiritual Successor instead.
  • According to Fred Seibert, Adventure Time was pitched and rejected by Nickelodeon five times to multiple executives in different divisions because they all believed that the concept wasn't a Nickelodeon show. Believing that the specific executive team he pitched may be biased against Seibert's pitches due to his long-term history with the network and his exclusive deal with the studio to produce content for them, he requested his contract to be terminated and decided to pitch the series to Cartoon Network where it got the green-light effectively.
  • "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring Sidney the Elephant, but behind the scenes issues (such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Terrytoons franchise with the unaired pilot Curbside) and copyright restrictions forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.
  • Solomon Fix was initially going to be a children's book story before TenNapel decided to pitch it to Frederator.
  • Moobeard would have become a show if it wasn't for 'budget issues' and lack of interest over Fanboy and Chum Chum.
    • Moobeard also originally was going to feature the whole crew that Kyle Carrozza created for the concept (e.g. Weez, Quill, Lars Olaf) as well as some other aspects (such as a reference to Homestar Runner, a reference to Napoleon Dynamite, and a Hiroyuki Imaishi battle sequence between Dark Blade and Moobeard), but it was cut for time. The theme song was initially supposed to be a Steamboat Willie-esque opening with the song playing in it's entirely but it was cut for time.
    • The crew at Frederator originally wanted Carrozza to voice Moobeard himself, but he felt that his voice was not deep enough. He still did an audition, but ultimately chose Billy West. Other actors such as Jeff Bennett and Phil LaMarr also auditioned for Moobeard, Diane Michelle and Tara Strong auditioned for Sailor Bird and both Tom Kane and Rob Paulsen auditioned for Dark Blade.
    • Had Moobeard not get the greenlight in the first place, it would've been a Flash cartoon with Carrozza working alongside Andrew Dickman. In actuality, the entire pilot was boarded long before Nickelodeon was involved and asked Carrozza to simplify the story and board before they greenlit it.
    • On 2023, Kyle Carrozza revealed that he was initially going to make a second Moobeard short with a small indie crew for the Youtube channel, SICK MUTT (Carrozza previously did voice-over for one of their shorts) and even completed the script and some concept designs but development fell through. Carrozza revealed that the initial concepts will still be preserved for pitching purposes.
  • Dr. Froyd's Funny Farm initially had an opening sequence as well but was cut for time.
    • Teapot also had an opening sequence and full theme song, which was cut for the same reason.
  • Six Monsters would've also had a Rankin Bass-inspired scene but was also cut for time.
  • Sugarfoot was initially named Summerteeth before it was changed at the last minute due to copyright issues.
    • Another concept that was scrapped was Sugarfoot was going to have a female best friend named Butterbean.
  • Dr. Dee and Bit Boy was initially supposed to have an all Korean voice cast locally in Seoul but contractual restrictions and visa issues led the show to have a majority Asian American cast locally in Hollywood.
  • Mark Hamill was supposed to use his regular voice for Frank the Director on Krunch and the Kid but both him and the creator Adam Henry weren't impressed. Influenced by his experience in Star Wars, Hamill suggested a Cockney accent which they both ended up using.
    • Brad Garrett was also considered as the voice for Krunch but scheduling conflicts fell that idea through.
  • Flavio was rejected as a pitch to Nickelodeon due to it's supposed similarity to SpongeBob SquarePants. A fallen idea was that Flavio would've had a next-door neighbor whom he tested his inventions on, which is vaguely similar to Squidward.
    • Mike Milo was initially the voice of Flavio himself but discussions between Seibert and himself felt that it would've been too offensive to Italians and wanted an actor who could knock the role out of the park. Rob Paulsen was chosen and he ADR-ed his lines.
    • Additional actors that auditioned for the role include Will Friedle, Richard Steven Horvitz, Ben Diskin, JP Manoux, Dominic Catrambone, Michael Kelly, James Arnold Taylor, Bob West, David Kaufman and Vince Corazza.
  • The title card on Teapot initially had the character holding red chalk as he was standing next to a brick wall with his name written in chalk graffiti. This was omitted in the final release.
  • The main characters on Girls on the Go were supposed to be college students until the Nickelodeon execs suggested to age them down to high school students.
  • The main characters on Boneheads were supposed to have more human designs.
  • Greg Eagles and Dahveed Kology-Nagy did a Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaign for a Teapot video game adaption "Teapot: Rap it Up!". Both campaigns didn't meet their goal. A free Flash demo was placed on the official Teapot website until the site expired in late 2022.
• Word of God: According to Alan Goodman, Gaillard from the short 6 Monsters, was originally an anthropomorphic scallion before his death and becoming a ghost.
  • Rumors spread about a Disney Channel adaption of Boneheads where Disney Channel-alumni (ex: David Henrie) would voice the characters but Rita Street of Radar Cartoons (who worked closely with the Polygon crew when working with Frederator) confirmed it wasn't the case.

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