History Trivia / SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: PBS launched the show in a blaze of publicity with high ratings... only for the 9/11 attacks to take place and cause the show to lose ratings, thanks to PBS not being able to compete with bucket-tons of news coverage (in fact, Amy Tan appeared on The Today Show the day before the attacks to promote the show. Even worse, one of the show's episodes had the misfortune of airing on the day of the attacks themselves). The show was seemingly stopped in 2002, marking its unofficial cancellation (the "official" cancellation happened in 2004)[[note]]Rumor has it that another reason for its cancellation was because Sesame Workshop wanted to free up funds for ''Series/SesameStreet''[[/note]]. However, the show's titular character did get to appear as part of the PBS Kids Sprout Diner promotion complete with Holly Gauthier-Frankel (who voiced Sagwa, the aforementioned titular character) reprising her role. Some [=PBS=] stations still showed the series as late as February 2009, with PBS Kids Sprout unceremoniously removing it from the schedule in March.

* CreatorBacklash: The show appears to be this for Sesame Workshop, as they have barely mentioned it since circa 2008 due to rights issues with [=CineGroupe=], who the latter acknowledge the show's existence (and celebrated the fact that a Facebook post by Buzzfeed of the intro reached 14 million people in 10 days), and PBS, who acknowledged its existence for a Throwback Thursday post on their PBS Parents site once.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: PBS launched the show in a blaze of publicity with high ratings... only for the 9/11 attacks to take place and cause the show to lose ratings, thanks to PBS not being able to compete with bucket-tons of news coverage (in fact, Amy Tan appeared on The Today Show the day before the attacks to promote the show). The show was seemingly stopped in 2002, marking its unofficial cancellation (the "official" cancellation happened in 2004)[[note]]Rumor has it that another reason for its cancellation was because Sesame Workshop wanted to free up funds for ''Series/SesameStreet''[[/note]]. However, the show's titular character did get to appear as part of the PBS Kids Sprout Diner promotion complete with Holly Gauthier-Frankel (who voiced Sagwa, the aforementioned titular character) reprising her role. Some [=PBS=] stations still showed the series as late as February 2009, with PBS Kids Sprout unceremoniously removing it from the schedule in March.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: PBS launched the show in a blaze of publicity with high ratings... only for the 9/11 attacks to take place and cause the show to lose ratings, thanks to PBS not being able to compete with bucket-tons of news coverage. The show was seemingly stopped in 2002, marking its unofficial cancellation (the "official" cancellation happened in 2004)[[note]]Rumor has it that another reason for its cancellation was because Sesame Workshop wanted to free up funds for ''Series/SesameStreet''[[/note]]. However, the show's titular character did get to appear as part of the PBS Kids Sprout Diner promotion complete with Holly Gauthier-Frankel (who voiced Sagwa, the aforementioned titular character) reprising her role. Some [=PBS=] stations still showed the series as late as February 2009, with PBS Kids Sprout unceremoniously removing it from the schedule in March.

** Some [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4mzq9tXsQ1qme95xo7_250.jpg earlier promo images]] showed Sagwa wearing a different pink and magenta collar than her regular red and yellow collar.
** [=CineGroupe=] has stated through WordOfGod [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cin%C3%A9Groupe&diff=831435149&oldid=825791148 via a since-removed edit on their page on]] [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] that they're looking into rebooting the series.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice:
** The show used the "List of Actors names only" type of cast list, and the PBS Kids website only listed who played who for the Miao family, the palace occupants and staff (excluding Jun), and Fu-Fu. As a result, this can be a problem for fans when trying to figure out who's voiced by who, especially for the sleeve dogs, alley cats, mice, and one-off characters. Fans guess, due to voice recognition, that Haiyo the bird is Zak from ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', a stork who appeared in "The Favorite" is Muffy's Dad from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Ping-Wing and one of the Sleeve Dogs are Polly Esther from ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' (in addition to Polly's voice actress Sonja Ball voicing Nai-Nai), and that Aunt Chi-Chi from "Sister Act" is Lucille also from ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats''.
** Like with most Greek dubs from the ALTER Channel, the Greek dub doesn't credit the voice actors and dubbing staff, though some of the voice actors who have been identified (Creator/PetrosDamoulis, Creator/ChrisoulaPapadopoulou) are known to be from the roster of A-list Greek voice actors that ALTER tended to use in all of their dubs.

* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: Most of the cast is in Toronto, while Hiro Kanagawa who voiced Foolish Magistrate is from Vancouver.

** [[http://kidscreen.com/2003/08/01/apparellicense-20030801/ A float was planned for a Chinese New Year Parade]].

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Rick Jones and Holly Gauthier-Frankel have also worked together on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/FredsHead'', ''WesternAnimation/MonsterAllergy'', and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy''.

* NamesTheSame:
** Shen-Long, the dragon from "Fur Cut" is not the same one from [[Franchise/DragonBall another series]]. They are both based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenlong spirit dragons]] though.
** Oogway the tortoise is not to be confused for [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda another Oogway]].
** Sagwa herself is not related to [[Franchise/StarWars a wookie miner]].

** [=CineGroupe=] has stated through WordOfGod [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cin%C3%A9Groupe&diff=831435149&oldid=825791148 via a since-removed edit on their page on]] [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] that they're looking into rebooting the series.

** According to one earlier promo image, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sagwa/images/f/fb/Sagwa_yehyeh.gif/revision/latest?cb=20220122213527 Yeh-Yeh was originally planned to have markings]]. He was completely mark-less when the actual show aired (and the fact that his curled ears hint his breed is Scottish Fold rather than Siamese).