Trivia / Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

• Actor Allusion: As Ralph, Jack Burns would occasionally use his stand-up trademark of making a statement to another character then saying "huh? huh? huh?" until the other character, usually Harry, shouts an agreement with him to get him to shut up.
• Follow the Leader: This show was both a follower and a leader on several issues. It was another animated sitcom that Hanna-Barbera had done before (The Flintstones), but, as mentioned in the main page, it became the inspiration for a lot of modern animated sitcoms centered around families, like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, F is for Family, Mark Hentamenn's short-lived series Bordertown, and Seth MacFarlane's trio (Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show).
  • This was also the first example of Hanna Barbera bringing in an outside style and mixing it into their own. As mentioned below, it had a different design but was still likable among the studio's general fans.
• Playing Against Type: This was Hanna-Barbera's only show to deal with any sort of controversial socio-political topics, unlike their usual repertoire of broad, apolitical comedy. It also broke the mold of their signature look by hiring Playboy cartoonist Marty Murphy as character designer (HB's in-house designer Iwao Takamoto refined them to be more animatable, and also based the minimalist background on Murphy's cartoons) in order to have a more explicitly "adult" appearance.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: No season other than the first one has been released on DVD. Originally this was one of the shows that were rumored to have been a bad seller that resulted in no further releases. Years later this was later explained further by the Warner Archive that there are some clearances in the later episodes that were costly. Under the Warner Home Video standard, the sales made getting those clearances seem too high a risk. However under the Warner Archive model, they may eventually see the light of day. The show was rerun on the Canadian Teletoon Retro channel for a spell in 2008, Cartoon Network aired reruns in The '90s and Boomerang aired reruns in the mid-2000s.
• The Other Darrin: Two of the kids had their voice actors recast: Chet (David Hayward and Lennie Weinrib) and Jamie (Jackie Earle Haley and Willie Aames^note the same one who played Buddy on Charles in Charge).