Trivia / Wild Kratts

• Acting for Two: Gourmand and Zach are both voiced by Zachary Bennett.
• Adored by the Network:
  • In the summer of 2014, PBS Kids launched a "Double the Fun" event that selected 5 shows to be playing back-to-back episodes all summer. The rest of the shows were either taken off the air on some stations or moved around, which caused one fandom member's Berserk Button to be hit. Wild Kratts was one of the five shows, mainly because they were airing new episodes that July. (The same goes for the other shows as well.) So during that time, they play 2 episodes, 4 times a day. 4. Times. A day. (For some PBS stations.) So typically, you could say this trope fits to a tee... at least for 2014.
  • On June 15, 2018, every PBS Kids station held an all-day marathon of the show just to premiere 4 new episodes.
  • "Our Blue And Green World", like most new PBS Kids specials, often pre-empted the slots of other shows on both the channel and the block, but what made this different from their other specials is that it aired every day following its' premiere during the first week of April, and on the PBS Kids channel, it would sometimes air twice a day, something that's never happened before for a special.
• The Danza: Aside from Chris and Martin Kratt voicing themselves, Zachary Bennett plays the Big Bad named Zach.
• Dub Name Change: The German Dub seemed to love this. First Aviva is called "Stella", probably cause it's easier to pronounce for Germans. Koki is renamed to Chloe. Zach Varmitech is Zach Van Tech and Paisley Paver becomes "Petra Pflasterstein", literally meaning Petra Cobblestone.
• Fake Nationality: Two notable examples:
  • The African-American Koki is voiced by the Caucasian Heather Bambrick. At least until "Cats and Dogs" — see The Other Darrin.
  • The Latina Aviva Corcovado is voiced by the mixed Egyptian and Greek Athena Karkanis.
• The Other Darrin: Sabryn Rock replaced Heather Bambrick as Koki for "Cats and Dogs" + Season 7 onward in a recasting decision clearly brought on by the 2020 George Floyd protests that caused the entertainment industry to rethink how it handled representation of minorities onscreen.
• Out of Order: PBS generally premiers the episodes out of order, which causes Character Development to be undone/reversed. This results in Zach transforming from a magnificent bastard into a Manchild, when it's supposed to be the other way around.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Along with Martin and Chris, their kids also appear on the show—Gavin and Aidan (Martin’s) and Ronan and Nolan (Chris’) are accounted for.
  • Five of them—Martin, Chris, Gavin, Aidan, and Ronan—are together on "Happy Turkey Day".
• Schedule Slip: "Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink" replaced "Spring Bunnies" as the first episode of season 6.
• Science Marches On: "The Mystery Of The Two-Horned Narwhal" lost a lot of its scientific credibility when recent studies revealed that a narwhal's tusk is a sense organ, not a weapon. So-called "duels" between male narwhals are now thought to be tactile communication, not combat; indeed, a living tusk's outer layers are so soft and pain-sensitive that fencing with them should have stunned both Kratts.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • Everyone that got the SCETV stations 29.1 and 49.1 at the time was screwed out of seeing the first airing of "Ker-Honk" after the Riverbanks Zoo obtained the 5:00 PM time slot to show an episode of Riverbanks Round-Up. What's even more ironic is that the zoo, when the show first started, had rented that slot every last Friday of the month, then dropped it for a while. This was the first time in at least 4 months that Riverbanks Round-Up had been shown. The episode "Ker-Honk" was not shown until 2:00 PM the following Sunday.
  • The Other Wiki says they did it again with another episode- same station, same shows, same day of the week.
• Series Hiatus: As the show progressed, it went on longer and longer hiatuses. Things came to a head for the season 6 finale, "Cats and Dogs", which aired in July 2021... over half a year since the last episode. It also ended up being the only episode to air in 2021. And if that wasn't enough, the next episode only aired in May... of 2023.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Chris and Martin said in an interview that producing "Wild Kratts" enabled them to provide something of theirs for their children to watch, and since producing an animated series was less demanding of their time than producing a live-action series, producing Wild Kratts enabled them to have more of a home life than before.
• Role Reprise: The Brazilian Portuguese dub brings back Sérgio Rufino to voice Chris and Márcio Araújo to voice Martin, both having done so for Zoboomafoo.
• Working Title: The episode "City Hoppers" was originally listed as "We Make Great Jumps!"
• Written by Cast Member: And directed as well. Three people have invoked this trope: Chris, Martin, and Eva Almos (Donita Donata).