Trivia / The Crumpets

• Acting for Two: Erica Schroeder voiced Ms. McBrisk and Ditzy, who interact in "Ghost In The Attic". Billy Bob Thompson voiced Pfff and Cordless, who both share their attachment to an inflatable man while hallucinating in "Murder Everywhere".
• Actor Allusion: Cassandra once mentioned a TV show whose title is nearly identical to Eastenders. Her then-English voice actress Nicola Barber played a role on Eastenders in 2005.
• Adaptation First: The show is the first work in the franchise to be released for English-speaking audiences. The books, which are mentioned in the opening, has never seen an English translation.
• Anachronic Order: In the third episode "CrumStep", Cordless already knew Ms. McBrisk and Cassandra is romantically obsessed with Pfff, but in the sixth episode "The Courting of Ms. McBrisk", Cordless gets introduced to McBrisk and Cassie is in love with Marylin.
• Banned in China: Averted with the Chinese online release of the show, which depicts the same-sex romance and wedding between Grownboy and Steve.
• Channel Hop: Although these channels are owned by the Canal+ Group, the show's fourth season had its French premiere on Télétoon+ instead of Canal+ Family.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: A Nigerian content guide provider once promoted the series on Twitter with a picture of an all-girl band, covered below, instead of the cartoon.
• Executive Meddling: The Season 3 Retool to Teen Crumpets was the result of the network deciding to try appeal more to the show's Periphery Demographic after audience feedback revealed to the executives that the show's teen characters were actually the ones viewers liked the most.
• Fake Brit: The reliance of British accents in the original 52 episodes' English dub leads this to play. Melissa Chambers (Ma) is Australian, Marc Thompson (Pa), Mary O'Brady (Granny), Erica Schroeder (Ms. McBrisk, Ditzy, Fynartz, Bother), Kate Bristol (Caprice), Billy Bob Thompson (Pfff and Cordless), Rebecca Soler (Triceps, Blister, Ohoh, Aunt Harried), Eli James (Hurry), and Jason Griffith (Grownboy) are American, and Darren Dunstan (Steve) is Canadian.
• Fandom Life Cycle: In the English-speaking world, the series is between Stages 1 and 2, but closer to Stage 1 due to the show's obscurity.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most episodes mentioned on this website had appeared to be hidden on the internet, until when entire English dub of seasons 1 and 2 came out on Amazon Prime UK in September 2020. Time will tell if the rest of the Anglosphere will become exposed to the remaining Teen Crumpets episodes.
• Invisible Advertising: Seasons one and two had a bit of publicity on social media when they were fresh. Later on, the Teen Crumpets episodes or even the entire show, in contrast, have scarce advertising on the Canal+ Family/Kids Instagram account aside for premieres or a return to the network in the summer of 2023, having been dwarfed by network favorites Kaeloo, Les p'tits diables, and Les Sisters.
• No Export for You: The show's English dub likely never aired on TV outside of Africa, although Amazon Prime UK gave it a September 2020 release date on the platform. For those who are unlucky, the first 20 episodes in English are officially available on YouTube, not counting "The Mix-Up" through a Kickstarter fundraiser summary. The places where the first two seasons in English had been completely available include the African services Kwesé and Showmax, and China's Youku (with a Chinese logo and subtitles). The French version, however, has aired in the US via TiVi5 Monde (current as of June 2020) and Canal+ International. Other than the English version of "Baby Sister" available on the C21Media website, there were few more English Teen Crumpets episodes offered on Malaysia Airlines flights in early 2018.
  • Averted with the 2022 TV airing in Russia, which came not long after the commencement of the Ukraine-Russia war despite that numerous Western world media companies have halted distributing content there.
  • There are no signs that the 2021 special has been released outside of France, as there is no mention of it on the Mediatoon Distribution website.
• The Other Darrin: It seems none of the voice actors in the first 52 episodes' English dub have reprised their roles for Teen Crumpets.
• Prop Recycling: The episode "Troc de trucs" reused plenty of props from the older episodes, such as the gnome from "The Mix-Up", Caprice's toys from "Girls on Holiday", and the bride and groom figures from "Cheep Shot" (aside for the groom being decapitated).
• Rereleased for Free: The first twenty episodes (in French and English) are available on YouTube after the French episodes were only found on premium TV and the iTunes store in France.
• Screwed by the Network: The show's premiere on the Brazilian TV channel Gloob in November 2014 happened at a 10:30 pm slot. Also, there was an airing in December 2015 at a 3:00 am slot. What an admired show on a channel who outright called it a "guaranteed success".
• Similarly Named Works: "The Crumpets" is the name of a Swiss all-female band.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: A brief tune resembling "My Heart Will Go On" is heard throughout "Ransoming Dad".
  • In "Octosquito", the montage of Grownboy and Blister building the former's costume uses a spoof of "Eye of the Tiger". It's also a recurring song in the show.
  • In "Ice Lust", the song heard when Cordless first sees Triceps in her room is very reminiscent to "Cars" by Gary Numan.
  • In "Mum's Double", when Pa parodies the Star Wars quote "I am your father", a brief "Imperial March"-sounding tune plays.
  • The disco song in "Marilyn Blues" is obviously inspired by The Beegees song "Stayin' Alive".
• Uncredited Role: Marylin's English voice actor has not been credited in season two (when he finally debuted).
• What Could Have Been: The show's 2011 teaser and pilot, and early pieces of concept art contain what haven't made it to the final production. Many of these concept art pieces are prominent on online French TV guides.
  • Petite Pousse, the little girl who starred in one of the picture books, appears in concept art but not the final show.
  • Other children did not make it either. They include one with a short mohawk, a blue-nosed girl with pigtails (one picture suggests she's an early version of Cassandra), an early version of Fynartz with an eye-covered bowl haircut who splashes paint besides brushing, one who's dressed like a classic airplane pilot, a girl with very long gray hair, and a small blue-nosed boy who's placed between Hurry and Harried in one image (probably an early version of Cordless). There's even a web game in the Teletoon+ website that contains some of the discarded Crumpet children.
  • The unnamed Crumpets were going to have different hair colors as seen in the 2011 teaser.
  • The concept art has more hints of Mid-century modern design.
  • Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harries have different clothes in one image. The former's bottom half of his body was going to be extremely thin.
  • Pa's design would have been closer to his own from the first Petit Dernier book.
  • Ms. McBrisk's transformation in "CrumStep" was going to have her breasts and buttocks visibly expand. There is a clip of this alternate transformation in the "Pff Crumpet" Facebook page. Cordless' interactions with her was also imagined to be substantially raunchier, according to behind-the-scenes clips on Facebook.
  • The season 3 English dub Kickstarter aimed to have the original English voice actors reprise their characters, if possible.