Trivia / Rocket Robin Hood

• Creator Backlash: As John Kricfalusi found out while working for him, do not so much as ask Ralph Bakshi about what it was like working on the series.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: E1 stated that their DVD release does not have the episode "Safari" as they don't have access to the original footage.
• Troubled Production: According to Ralph Bakshi, this show was no cakewalk.
  • The show was already in production when Bakshi joined producer Steve Krantz's company. Krantz was having trouble with the studio in Toronto that was producing the show, run by Al Guest. There were communications problems with the animators because Guest has hired artists from all over the world, but not all could speak English. On top of that, Krantz discovered that Guest was embezzling money earmarked for the production by investing it in other projects that he wanted to produce himself.
  • As a result of all this, deadlines were not being met and the footage that did come out was deemed unacceptable, so Krantz sent Bakshi to Toronto to straighten things out.
  • Realizing many of the artists in the Toronto studio couldn't draw, Bakshi hired artists (many of whom worked in comic books) in New York to do layouts, which were sent to the Canadian studio for production. Krantz decided that it would be cheaper to produce everything in New York at this point, so he told Bakshi to pick up model charts from the Toronto studio back to the 'States so they could do that.
  • Al Guest (who, at this point, was suing Steve Krantz over the show, with Krantz countersuing) was delirious when he found out and called the Canadian police on Bakshi over the "theft". When Bakshi realized the police were waiting for him at the airport, where he was commuting every weekend, he told his background artist Johnny Vita to go to the airport to distract them while Bakshi would drive to the border (which was a two-hour drive). The police nabbed Vita, but since they had no arrest warrant for him, they were forced to let him go after two days. Meanwhile, Bakshi safely made it back into the US.