Trivia / 6teen

• Acting for Two:
  • Jamie Watson voices Ron the Rent-a-Cop and Coach Halder.
  • Stacey DePass voices Nikki Wong and Julie.
• Adored by the Network: The series was one of Teletoon's biggest hits during its time on the channel, with the series receiving plenty of healthy airtime at excellent hours. It was one of Teletoon's most iconic shows and a flagship series throughout most of the 2000s. Can't really say the same thing in the U.S....
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The shirtless Greeter Gods seen at Albatross & Finch throughout the series were based on an actual practice by real-life basis Abercrombie & Fitch to have attractive male greeters walking around shirtless in their stores. Due to the discontinuation of this practice in 2015 following many employment controversies, those who grew up watching the show or simply caught it later may not be aware of this.
• Banned in China: Twenty-five episodes from the show never made it to the United States, for various reasons including sexual references and homosexuality in general.
• Canon Welding: Retroactively, with the Total Drama franchise, when years later a contestant on Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race name-dropped Jen as a babysitter she had when she was six.
  • This might present a slight problem in determining the Time Skip between the two series depending on how loosely or strictly the visual clues are interpreted; said TDRR character, MacArthur, is confirmed via Word of God to be 19 years old, participating in a series set in the middle of The New '10s (as evidenced by another character constantly taking selfies on her full-screened camera phone). For that to be the case, 6teen would have to be set fairly early in the 2000s for MacArthur's comment to make sense. It's possible, for instance, to imagine a Jen just hitting 15, a year or so before the events of 6teen, babysitting a six-year-old MacArthur, who later grows up and applies to a police academy at 19. As babysitters can start as young as 15 or even earlier, and aspiring cops can apply starting around college age (19-21), it's plausible for MacArthur's experience with Jen to be set around, say, 2002, thus placing TDRR around 2016 at least (which shifts it into the future by only about a year).
• Channel Hop: In the U.S., the series first showed up on Nickelodeon, but then they dropped it a couple of years after. Later wound up on Cartoon Network, presumably due to the success of Total Drama Island.
• Contest Winner Cameo: In March 2006, Teletoon held a contest where one fan would win a chance to appear on the show as a guest voice and have their likeness animated too. The winner was Breanne Wolkowski, who appeared on the show as Jonesy's boss at Ci Ci Sombreros in "Snow Job".
• Creator's Favorite: Christian Potenza has named Jude as his all-time favourite voice acting role.
• Dawson Casting: The show's teenage cast is principally voiced by adult actors.
• Only So Many Canadian Actors: As a Canadian series, 6teen is required to only use Canadian actors under CanCon laws, so many of the voice actors in the show are names you'll likely have seen elsewhere in animated or live-action shows produced in the Toronto region if you watch a lot of Canadian TV.
• Real-Life Relative: In the Italian dub, Caitlin and Jude are played by an aunt and nephew, Monica Ward and Alessio Ward.
• Screwed by the Network: Whether it was Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, 6teen didn't have much luck in the U.S.
  • Cartoon Network aired the episodes massively out of order from one another ("Dude of the Living Dead" was the series premiere in October 2008 while the actual pilot episode didn't air until March of the following year) as well as removing some episodes due to the content involved in them (e.g. references of homosexuality as well as the occasional mentions of tampons). They aired the final season from April through June of 2010 (with one episode being removed due to a character being homosexual) and continued to air reruns of the past episodes up until early 2011 when the show was permanently taken off their schedule.
  • Nickelodeon wasn't any nicer to the show back when it debuted on December 2005, with only the first season being aired and the show being taken off the channel's airwaves in May 2006, a mere six months later. And as with its later airing on Cartoon Network, the series was heavily censored, with several episodes never reaching seeing the light of day on the network.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Believe it or not, the show was supposed to have a live-action movie at one point.
  • Rumor has it that there was supposedly going to be an episode (potentially an hour-long episode) where Jonesy finds the perfect job for himself in the mall and doesn't quit or get fired—and apparently, this would've served as the series finale instead of "Bye Bye, Nikki".
  • According to Luk Internacional's (who distributes this show and some other Nelvana shows in Spain) promo for the show, it was supposed to air in Germany on KIKA.
  • There were allegedly plans for a reboot of the series in 2019 featuring the characters in their later teens/early 20s (complete with wardrobe updates). Alleged leak footage shows that the show would have maintained its familiar lineless artstyle and character designs, but with improved animation.
• Working Title: The Mall.
• Written by Cast Member:
  • Terry McGurrin, Jonesy's voice actor, wrote quite a few episodes for the show, namely "A Ding from Down Under", "Sweet 6teen", "Silent Butt Deadly", "Oops, I Dialed It Again", "The One with the Cold Sore", "Life Slaver", both parts of "Labour Day", "The List", and "Role Reversal".
  • Nikki's voice actress, Stacey DePass, co-wrote the Season 1 episode "The Khaki Girl".

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