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  • Acting for Two:
  • Crossdressing Voices: Fred Tatasciore voices the female Zon.
  • Fake Mixed Race: The biracial Zak's first voice actor was Caucasian and his second one is African-American.
  • I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Before playing Drew and Doyle, Nicole Sullivan and Will Friedle costarred on Kim Possible as Shego and Ron Stoppable.
  • Recycled Soundtrack: If you listen VERY closely you can hear some soundtracks from the Land Before Time sequels!
  • Role Reprise: The only actor to return is Corey Burton, the VA for Argost.
  • Screwed by the Network: The show was moved around on the schedule every few months, and new episodes were rarely advertised. As a result, only diehard fans could actually keep track of it. And if you missed an episode you were pretty much out of luck due to lack of reruns.
  • Viral Marketing: Early ads for the show were just live action shakycam footage with CGI cryptids that had the URL cryptidsarereal.com at the end. Later ads used the same footage from the previous ads mishmashed together with Argost's voice-over advertising Weird World. They eventually advertised the show itself about a month or two before its premiere.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • The show's creator originally pitched it as the adventures of three animal heroes (all of them previously thought to be mythical in Real Life, like the okapi) as they prevented an evil dodo bird from exposing the existence of other cryptids. Nobody wanted the show like that, so he reworked it heavily into what we know today.
    • At some point in the development, the heroes were going to be "anti-detectives", working to keep the existence of cryptids secret from the public. This would have introduced more moral grayness into their dynamic with Argost, who sought To Unmasque the World. This aspect apparently got dropped at some point, as the Saturdays don't seem overly concerned about hiding cryptids in the final draft.

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