History Fridge / TheBackyardigans

** That’s true. Also, if they killed off the boys they would lose their chance at friendship.

* If you pay attention to the choreography in the theme song, you'll notice that Austin dances slightly offbeat compared to the others. It has also been stated that he had just moved to the Backyardigans' neighborhood (Backyardihood?) at the beginning of the series. Of course he wouldn't be perfectly synced up; he hasn't known them as long!

** Uniqua does a lot of fancy dance moves. When she really gets into a groove, she adds a lot of flourish to her dancing.Really, the entire group was freestyling near the beginning of the song.

** In "News Flash", there's a scene where farmers Pablo and Tyrone are sitting in chairs on their front porch. A similar set of chairs can be seen on Tyrone's real life front porch.

** At the beginning of "The Amazing Splashinis", Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua slide down the slide in the backyard. This is possibly the real-life equivalent to the waterslides at Splashini Water Park.
* The ending credits play the theme song over the Creator/NickJr and Creator/{{Nelvana}} logos. This may seem insignificant at first glance...until you realize that the series has a heavy focus on music.

** An alternate reason why Tasha and Austin are absent from so many episodes is because ''it's not really their backyard''. Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua all share a backyard, but Tasha's and Austin's backyards are both fenced off. Notice how, whenever they go to Tasha's house for a snack, they walk in front of Pablo's house, and whenever it's Austin's house, they go through a gate in the fence.

* You might get hung up on how it was possible to animate the characters dancing on roller skates if the motion capture for the main characters was performed by resident dancers who, despite their great deal of talent, were unlikely to have learned how to roller skate so well in very short order. Between animated television shows and newer video games, graphic artists have been animating characters roller skating for quite some time. In order to animate characters dancing on roller skates for The Backyardigans, it was necessary to have the dancers dance in place and for graphic artists to incorporate the motion capture for the dancing as usual, then add onto it the animation necessary to create the illusion of the characters roller skating. The animation of characters dancing while running in "Race Around the World" was probably accomplished in the same fashion. It's sort like how acting dogs have to keep their mouths closed so computers can be used to manipulate images of their mouths so it looks like they're talking.

* Pablo having green goo superpowers in "Race to the Tower of Power" is surprisingly clever when you remember the show aired on Nick Jr. in the United Staes. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr.'s mother network, is heavily associated with green slime thanks to ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. Pablo's goo even seems to have a thicker consistency, like the slime in earlier episodes of ''You Can't Do That'' did.

* "The Legend of The Volcano Sisters" gets pretty dark. The episode is about the titular Volcano sisters (played by Uniqua and Tasha) ordering the Luau Brothers (played by Tyrone, Pablo, and Austin) to get them what they want or else the volcano will erupt and ruin the luau the Brothers are having. Although they don’t explicitly say it, it’s heavily implied that if the volcano erupts it will kill the Luau Brothers. Had Austin not realized [[spoiler:that the Volcano Sisters just wanted to come to their luau,]] the Sisters would have killed them without a second thought. Yikes.

* Relationships between sentient and non-sentient animals:

** Chances are [[{{Bloopers}} the animators were probably just messing around]].

** Chances are [[{{Spoof}} the animators were probably just messing around]].

* Going back to how Austin's the new kid on the block, it may be a slight nod to the original "Me and My Friends" pilot. Austin was the only one that wasn't actually there. He's not just the new kid on the block, he's the newest character added to the show!

* Pablo having green goo superpowers in "Race to the Tower of Power" is surprisingly clever when you remember the show aired on Nick Jr. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr.'s mother network, is heavily associated with green slime thanks to ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. Pablo's goo even seems to have a thicker consistency, like the slime in earlier episodes of ''You Can't Do That'' did.

* Pablo having green goo superpowers in "Race to the Tower of Power" is surprisingly clever when you remember the show aired on Nick Jr. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr.'s mother network, is heavily associated with green slime.