History Trivia / BigCityGreens

** The show went into another hiatus from the mid-season finale "Chipwrecked" to "Chipocalypse Now", from September 19th, 2020 to January 16, 2021.

* TalkingToHimself: There are several points in the series in which a cast member voices someone else besides their assigned character role.
** Colton Dunn voices Russell Remington and the Greens' neighbor Brett.
** The voices of the other two Cyber Knights are done by Cricket and Remy's actors.
** The short blue neighbor of the Remingtons in "Mansion Madness" is voiced by Cricket's actor.
** Gloria's three friends in "Clubbed" are voiced by hers, Tilly's and Andromeda's voice actors.
** In "Animal Farm", Marjorie, Melissa, Herbert and Miss Brenda are each voiced by the voice actors of the four nuclear Greens (Cricket, Tilly, Bill and Alice, in that order), with the second and fourth voicing the chickens.
** Cricket's voice actor, show co-creator Chris Houghton, also voices Phyllis in "Park Pandemonium", Ron the security guard in "Tilly Style", and [[InkSuitActor an animated caricature of himself named Topher]] in the animation studio Cricket and Tilly visit in "Animation Abomination".
** Anna Akana voices both Gloria and her boss Ms. Cho.
** Andre Robinson voices Bill and Russell's young selves in "Greens' Acres".
** Tilly and Russel's actors voice the other two members of Nancy's former biker gang in "Trailer Trouble".
** Benny's voice actor, Luke Lowe, has also voiced the bratty kid Bryan in "Present Tense".

** Mayor Hansock is voiced by the same person who played [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Mort]] and [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries Globby]].

* NoExportForYou: The ''NHL Big City Greens Classic'' was not shown in Canada, presumably due to contractual issues as the NHL's Canadian national broadcast rights are controlled by Rogers Communications while the Canadian version of the Disney Channel is operated by Corus Entertainment.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Much of the series settings and the characters was heavily based off of Shane and Chris’s experience of their early life, who both grew up from a rural Michigan area, and had moved to city like Los Angeles after graduating college, as what they claimed to be much of life changing difference between learning about the urban life from rural life, for example, they mentioned about the hairstyle that Cricket has, is what Chris wore as a child as well as the name that also came upon as well as the character, while Bill was loosely based off the creator's father-in-law while Gramma Alice was based off of their real life grandmother, who also had the same name as the character, and had lastly mentioned about the Greens Family pets, Phoenix, a dog similar to the creator's dog that they had, while the cat was similarly compared to the Creator’s grandmother's cat, while Tilly was lastly mentioned of being amalgamation, who they remembered her being similar to a numerous of neighbors they knew of.

** The unnamed "Mostly" girl was voiced by the same person who voiced Tilly in Space Chicken but voiced by Wendi McLendon-Covey in the Season 1 finale, Cricket's Place.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: From May to October 2020, the episode "Cricket's Shoes" was pulled from reruns (along with its sister episode "Feud Fight") in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as it involved Cricket catching the flu and going outside when he shouldn't, and sneezes on Bill twice and gets his germs on him.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** As of today, there are no home media releases of the series, with only digital platforms such as iTunes and Disney+ for distribution.
** Also, the ''Big City Greens'' episode of ''Disney's Magic Bake Off'' has not yet been streamed to Disney+, along with the ''Shortsgiving'' special.

* NoExportForYou:
** The first episode was uploaded on [=YouTube=], but only those who live in the US can watch it.
** The "Bee Tree" Short was spotted on the Canadian Disney Channel, But can be seen by anyone who lives in Canada until it was released later in the US.

* AgeGapRomance: A meta reference. Chris Houghton, who voices Cricket, is in his early thirties, while Cricket's girlfriend Gabriella is voiced by the 17-year old Creator/JennaOrtega.

** Similarly, the promo for the July 2022 premieres does not feature any scenes from the episodes, instead syncing Season 1-2 clips to a StupidStatementDanceMix of the theme song to have everyone sing the word "new" over and over.

** Nikki Castillo replaces Jenna Ortega as the voice of Gabriella as of "Long Goodbye", presumably because Ortega was too busy with other projects at the time (namely her role as the lead character in ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'').

* AdoredByTheNetwork: While not exactly overexposed, a combination of high ratings and positive reception from the show's target audience has made ''Big City Greens'' quite the darling for Disney Channel.
** Among the other Disney series such as ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'' (2017), they renewed the series for a second season before it premiered.
** It was able to start off with a week's worth of premieres that ranged from June 18th to 22nd, similar to ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}''. The first episode (the two 11-minute segments) was also released on the Disney Now App and on [=YouTube=] ten days before its initial release on the channel.
** As of late, Disney XD loves to air the show multiple times a day, even having weekend marathons.
** When "Uncaged" premiered after the Disney Channel premiere of ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', it got ''925,000 views''. A month later, and Disney Channel would increase its airtime to 4 times a day, and airs more than any animated series in regular Disney Channel airtime.
** As of 2021, the show has been known to air around six to ''twelve'' times a day. It seems to have become the successor to ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.
** Matter of fact, the show has the most animated shorts out of any other Disney cartoon, having ''over thirty'' by the end of 2020.
** In April 2021, the show became the most-watched series on Disney+ Latin America, surpassing ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''.
** As of mid-2021, the show has become the ''only'' animated series on Disney Channel other than ''Miraculous'' to air every single day instead of only airing when new episodes are premiering, unlike ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''.
** In January 2022, [[https://deadline.com/2022/01/big-city-green-movie-disney-fourth-season-disney-channel-1234917171/ Disney officially greenlit]] the series for a fourth season, making it one of the very few Disney Channel originals to accomplish such a feat. [[note]]Among Disney's animated line-up, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', and ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' are so far the only other shows to have made it past three seasons.[[/note]] Not only that, but a movie musical based off the show was also announced to be in production.
** On June 21st, 2022, Disney announced that three already released episodes of Season 3 would be joined on Disney+ by a new episode, the mid-season finale "Rembo"/"Dirt Jar", on July 27th, three days ahead of it's linear TV premiere, making it the second Disney Channel original after ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' to do so.
** As of fall 2022, Disney XD airs the show every weekday from 12:00am to 10:00am, and that's not including the extra reruns outside of this slot. It's pretty much gotten to the point where if the show isn't airing on Disney Channel, its airing on Disney XD.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen / WorkingTitle:
** The series was originally going to be called ''Country Club''. Also, it was supposed to premiere on Creator/DisneyXD in Spring 2018 before being moved to Creator/DisneyChannel, along with the release date being pushed back to Summer 2018.
** [[https://mobile.twitter.com/chrischoughton/status/1009445226249719808/photo/1 An early concept art of the series when the show was originally named Country Club]] shows some notable changes in the characters' designs, while Cricket's design remained unchanged except he appeared a bit rough on certain portions of his design and his original name was "Bucket".
*** Tilly was slightly taller than her actual height in the series, she originally wore a dress with flowers, while her facial appearance appeared a bit aged up as she had puffy cheeks.
*** Bill originally wore a straw hat and overalls similar to what Cricket wears, while his head shape appeared rock like.
*** Gramma Alice originally was in a wheelchair while her facial appearance is closely similar to Randl's Mom from ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks''.
*** Remy’s design depicted him, having a bigger head shaped has a little strands of hair, a bit taller, and seen with a portable laptop. His design was adjusted due to him resembling to Irwin from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/countryclub9732/images/9/92/F9D3D8A1-4E36-4F94-8909-4FAA3E313770.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20180719205458 While another concept art showed three stages of character design change:]]
*** Remy appeared almost more like his current one, except his hair was shorter, had a slightly long head, and he does not wear a sweater.
*** While the Greens looked closely like their final version with a few minor changes.
*** The episode Welcome Home was originally paired with Space Chicken, while there were a list of episodes that were released randomly out of order. Both episodes were paired with each other on Creator/DisneyPlus.
** Big Coffee was originally called "Cafe de Urbana".
** [[https://mobile.twitter.com/caldy/status/1204150564558274561 Cricket's]] naughty musical number in "Green Christmas" originally had a scene where he put on a red costume and wear horns, similar to Krampus. Understandably, it was scrapped.
** Originally, Cricket launching a chicken into space in "Space Chicken" was to get everyone to remember his name, but the plot got changed to focus more on his relationship with Bill. The only remnant of the original plot was Cricket saying, "My name's Cricket! I'm your new neighbor!" after Gloria drops him off at the house.
** Cheap Show [[https://mobile.twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1296156963777077248 originally]] had a gag where live-action versions of the show's voice actors would've made a cameo, but it was cut for being too expensive.
** A scene in "Chipwrecked" has a woman walking a man like a dog. Shane Houghton said [[https://mobile.twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1307545461566316545 the scene]] was different, where it was originally where a woman walking a dog, and they were covered in coffee, but the dog was changed to a human man on all fours because [[ExecutiveMeddling the higher-ups]] didn't want to show a dog drinking coffee ([[DontTryThisAtHome coffee being poisonous to dogs]]).
** For the episode "Animation Abomination", [[https://mobile.twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1374001683026436099 there was going to be]] a production coordinator to show how animation is made, but couldn't be represented. As such, Gloria took on a similar type of role by being an intern since she's otherwise not qualified for the job.
** There exist an episode in the show's first season that, to date, seems to be the only episode that was ''completely'' scrapped. It was called "Hands-On History", and it would've featured Creator/MarkHamill as a character named "Dr. Ponderstein", a sinister curator who ran a museum, which would've resulted in the conflict; with Cricket and Remy being at odds at how Ponderstein was teaching kids. However, the Houghton brothers thought Remy's character in the script was "too unlikeable", and they couldn't find a way to make the episode any good, even with constant rewrites, leading to it eventually being left on the cutting room floor. This was slightly alluded to in "Chipocalypse Now" when Cricket accuses Remy of signing the destruction petition and Remy admits he never once betrayed Cricket.
** Season 3 was set to have the traditional 30 episodes, but was cut down to 20 episodes due to Chris and Shane working on other BCG-related projects, one in particular being the upcoming movie.

* AgeGapRomance: A meta reference. Chris Houghton, who voices Cricket, is in his early thirties, while Cricket's girlfriend Gabriella is voiced by the 17-year old Jenna Ortega.

* DescendedCreator: [[http://variety.com/gallery/10-animators-to-watch-2018-variety/#!4/chris-and-shane-houghton Series co-creator Chris Houghton voices Cricket.]]
** His brother Shane voices most of the unnamed male characters that appear in many episodes.

* EarlyBirdRelease: Season 3's midseason finale "Rembo"/"Dirt Jar" will be released to Creator/DisneyPlus three days before its official airdate.

* NeverTrustATrailer: Explained from OutOfOrder, the series' first trailer led many to believe that the Welcome Home episode was the first chronological episode, but instead, Space Chicken (a pilot episode) had aired first, as the said episode did not air until later after the release.
* NoExportForYou: The first episode was uploaded on [=YouTube=], but only those who live in the US can watch it.

* TheOtherDarrin: A voice director variant. During the first season, the show's creators, Chris and Shane Houghton, were the sole voice directors initially but due to them being too busy running the show, Monica Ray joined them in season 2 until mid-season 3. Co-star Marieve Herington, and Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn took over as the sole voice directors in mid-season 3 onward.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Despite its AdoredByTheNetwork status, the show has fallen victim to this a few times:
** It had no episodes for ''eight months'' between the Season 1 finale and the Season 2 premiere, and most recently, there were no new episodes between February and July 2020 because of the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic slowing production. And when episodes do air, they either are released one episode per week or in a "bomb" format. It doesn't help that it eventually releases short series in-between the hiatuses. Currently, 2019 and 2020 are tied for the fewest episodes premiered with a grand total of 15 each.

* TheOtherDarrin: A voice director variant. During the first season, the show's creators, Chris and Shane Houghton, were the voice directors initially but due to them being too busy running the show, Monica Ray (Up until "Dependabill/The Delivernator"), co-star Marieve Herington, and Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (both from that episode on; "Listen Up/Big Picture" being the first episode to credit only them) took over as voice directors in mid-season 3.

** In 2022, storyboard artist Charlie Gavin revealed on Twitter he was fired from the series due to struggling with alcoholism at the time, [[CreatorBreakdown which greatly effected his work ethic and personal life]].

* NamesTheSame:
** Cricket's name was used similarly on another character in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' as mentioned above and the other one was ironically named by a mobile phone company, Cricket Wireless.
** There's [[WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}} another show]] where the central location is also called Big City.
** "Cricket" is also the name used for [[WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe a little sister to a fairy chef.]]
** While Tilly's name is loosely named after a store that spelt "Tilly's".

* PlayingGertrude: Artemis Pebdani, who voices Alice Green, was born in 1977, making her younger than Bob Joles (voice of Bill, born 1959) and Wendi [=McLendon=] Covey (voice of Nancy, born in 1969).

*** Chris apparently confirmed BCG takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'', which is a ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'' show. However, it is not in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''.

* TheOtherDarrin: A voice director variant. During the first season, the show's creators, Chris and Shane Houghton, were the voice directors initially but due to them being too busy running the show, Monica Ray (Up until "Dependabill/The Delivernator"), co-star Marieve Herington, and Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (both from that episode on; "Listen Up/Big Picture" being the first episode to credit only them) took over as voice directors in season 2.

*** Gramma Alice originally was in a wheelchair while her facial appearance is closely similar to Randl's Mom from WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks.
*** Remy’s design depicted him, having a bigger head shaped has a little strands of hair, a bit taller, and seen with a portable laptop. His design was adjusted due to him resembling to Irwin from WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventruesOfBillyAndMandy.

*** Remy’s design depicted him, having a bigger head shaped has a little strands of hair, a bit taller, and seen with a portable laptop.

** In 2022, storyboard artist Charlie Gavin [https://twitter.com/charliepgavin/status/1584730671087751168/ revealed] he was fired from the series due to struggling with alcoholism at the time, [[CreatorBreakdown which greatly effected his work ethic and personal life]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Much of the series settings and the characters was heavily based off of Shane’s and Chris’s experience of their early life, who both grew up from a rural Michigan area, and had moved to city like Los Angeles after graduating college, as what they claimed to be much of life changing difference between learning about the urban life from rural life, for example, they mentioned about the hairstyle that Cricket has, is what Chris wore as a child as well as the name that also came upon as well as the character, while Bill was loosely based off the creator's father-in-law while Gramma Alice was based off of their real life grandmother, who also had the same name as the character, and had lastly mentioned about the Greens Family pets, Phoenix, a dog similar to the creator's dog that they had, while the cat was similarly compared to the Creator’s grandmother's cat, while Tilly was lastly mentioned of being amalgamation, who they remembered her being similar to a numerous of neighbors they knew of.

** On June 21st, 2022, Disney announced that three already released episodes of Season 3 would be joined on Disney+ by a new episode, the mid-season finale "Rembo"/"Dirt Jar", on July 27th, three days before it aired on Disney Channel, making it the second Disney Channel original after ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' to premiere an episode on Disney+.

** It was able to start off with a weeks worth of premieres that ranged from June 18th to 22nd, similar to ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}''. The first episode (the two 11 minute segments) was also released on the Disney Now App and on [=YouTube=] ten days before its initial release on the channel.

** "Date Night" was aired the day before Valentine's Day in 2021. Coincidentally, it plus "Valentines Dance" two years prior are both Gabriella episodes.

* TheOtherDarrin: A voice director variant. During the first season, the show's creators, Chris and Shane Houghton, were the voice directors initially but due to them being too busy running the show, Monica Ray took over as voice director in season 2.

* OutOfOrder: The series first trailer, that previewed "Welcome Home", should’ve had aired first instead of "Space Chicken", since that's the first episode that chronologically starts the series and the characters off, while the latter was actually a pilot episode, which had a very awkward head start to introduce the characters and the series with at first since The Greens had already arrived to the city and had gotten some experience of the city already.

** And then following after "Phoenix Rises", any continuation about Nancy since she returned at the end of the said episode, was held off by two holiday themed episodes.

** The Disney+ version of S2 was ''completely'' out of order than it aired on TV, as it's vastly out of production order. For instance, "Chipocalypse Now" is the very first episode listed, despite not happening until Episode 21. Episode 20 before it is listed as Episode 29. This was fixed later on.
** The Season 3 episode "Squashed" aired in October 2021, which is fitting considering it's a Halloween-themed episode. However, WordOfGod confirmed it wasn't actually the Season 3 premier, with the rest of the season not airing until February 2022. Though in this case, it was justified because Season 3 wasn't finished yet at the time and the development team wanted "Squashed" to avoid being an OutOfHolidayEpisode.

** Paul Scheer, a comedian known for playing characters his image, plays [[BigBad Chip Whistler]].

** After the last of the first ten of Season 2 ("Garage Tales"/"Animal Farm"), the show went on hiatus from February to July, with shorts released in-between. This is because of Disney Channel's new binge watching strategy as confirmed by co-creator [[https://chrishoughton.tumblr.com/post/611039264829046784/hey-chris-my-son-is-begging-me-to-find-out-why Chris Houghton]] on Tumblr, where they have to finish storyboarding, recording and editing about 8-10 episodes instead of one or two, which could take about 3-5 months or longer, and have them released all at once. This is also due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, resulting in production being temporarily halted and the crew was confined to their homes to finish the work from there, as part of attempting to slow the rate of those catching the sickness.

** After the sixth episode of Season 3, the show entered another four month long hiatus from March to July so ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' can finish airing their respective seasons.
* ShortRunInPeru: As shown [[https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonnguyen2606/status/1201544018867314688 here]], the Christmas special , "Green Christmas", airs in Asia on December 6, 2019, with its US debut on December 7.

*** Remy appeared almost more like his current one, except his hair was shorter, had slightly long head, and he does not wear a sweater.

** Cheap Show [[https://mobile.twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1296156963777077248 originally]] had a gag where live action versions of the show's voice actors would've made a cameo, but it was cut for being too expensive.