Trivia / Tensai Bakabon

• Channel Hop: Both '70s anime series, originally aired on the Nippon TV network, were rerun in the late 1980s on TV Tokyo. The 1990 remake would air on Fuji TV, then the franchise hopped back to TV Tokyo for the Rerere and Shinya revivals.
• Creator's Favorite: Fujio Akatsuka loves Papa. Not only is he his favorite Tensai Bakabon character, but he's his favorite character spanning over all of his work. In photographs and caricatures of Akatsuka, he's often dressed up as Papa.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Bakabon and Hajime-chan in all four series.
• Cut Short: Thanks to the cancellation of Dengeki Bazooka, Shounen Bakabon ended up as this, with only 16 chapters to its name.
• No Export for You: For the most part, anyway. A bilingual edition in English and Japanese of the first few volumes does exist, but it is long out of print. Oh, and all of the anime series? Raw.
  • A noticeable exception being in Spain and other parts of Europe, where the 1988 Osomatsu-kun anime was mixed with Heisei Tensai Bakabon and Rerere no Tensai Bakabon, and released as "Cosas de Locos", where all episodes are complete and dubbed, at least in Castilian Spanish.
  • Fortunately averted with the 2018 anime, which is being subbed by Crunchyroll.
• Referenced by...: An obscure virtual Satellaview magazine titled Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō had a plush toy of Bakabon being used to portray Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates on a February 1996 broadcast.
• Vindicated by Reruns: Bakabon reruns in 1987 on TV Tokyo attracted high ratings and led to a revival in Fujio Akatsuka's popularity. Over the next few years, Bakabon, Osomatsu-kun and Himitsu no Akko-chan would all get animated remakes.