Trivia / Twelve Forever

• Acting for Two: A couple of the characters share the same voice actor.
• Channel Hop: The series was originally pitched to Cartoon Network, who produced the pilot episode, only for it to be passed on to Netflix.
• Creator Backlash: Given the show's Troubled Production and the scandal of Julia Vickerman, her replacement as showrunner, Shadi Petosky, doesn't have nearly anything nice to say about it, other than being proud of the show's LGBT themes. In fact, she left the animation industry after the show ended to focus on live-action projects.
• Crossdressing Voices: Actor Matt Berry voices the female Butt Witch.
• The Danza: Reggie Abbott is voiced by Kelsy Abbott.
• Dawson Casting: Basically, all of the kid characters are voiced by adults.
• He Also Did:
  • Creator Julia Vickerman is also known for being a writer/storyboard artist on Clarence and Yo Gabba Gabba!, as well as helping with the animated opening and comic book effects for the movie Super as well as being involved in The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
  • Writer Spencer Rothbell is known for being the head writer on Clarence, where he also replaced creator Skyler Page as the showrunner and the voice of the eponymous character.
• Invisible Advertising: Netflix did not do particularly good job of advertising the series, with next to no promotion before its debut, and any actual acknowledgement of the series before its release just being Twitter retweets from people who worked on the show.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The English version of Twelve Forever's pilot was removed from Cartoon Network's YouTube channel following the discovery of Julia Vickerman's disturbing posts on Tumblr that had been dated back in 2010, meaning anyone who wanted to watch it would have to go scrounge around for an illegal reupload.
• Quietly Cancelled: The series premiered on Netflix with little fanfare in July 2019, with the news that its animation studio had already closed down before the premiere and the season ending with And the Adventure Continues. Two months later, showrunner Shadi Petosky announced on Twitter that the series would not continue because it didn't become a huge hit that justified moving to another studio; also, the revelation that series creator Julia Vickerman had been fired for mistreating the series crew and was exposed as having written social media posts with creepy tones for years made other studios wary of stepping in. Netflix did not comment on the ultimate fate of the series, but Petosky implied they were not to blame.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Creator Julia Vickerman was fired from the show during its production due to her mistreating her co-workers. She was replaced as showrunner by Shadi Petosky (Danger & Eggs), although Vickerman is still credited as executive producer for much of the series' run. Vickerman continued to promote it on her social media until a long history of creepy social media posts she had made (including one story on her now-deleted Tumblr about her stalking a fourteen-year-old emo boy) dating back to 2010 came to light, at which point her online presence went quiet and she blocked anyone who brought the scandal up. She eventually made a public apology, claiming she was only joking with her Tumblr posts.
• Screwed by the Network: Netflix kept moving the release date for the series around, and, according to Shadi Petosky, Netflix execs wanted it to be on-par or bigger than The Loud House. What ultimately killed it was the animation studio going under before the series released, and Julia Vickerman, the series creator, mistreating the crew, and several creepy Tumblr posts with pederasty overtones made by Vickerman were found online, meaning no other studio wanted to touch the show with a ten-foot pole, and so Netflix canceled it quietly.

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