History Trivia / BumpInTheNight

* RealLifeRelative: The Boy and his Little Sister were played by real life siblings Scott and his [[PlayingGertrude big sister]] Anndi [=McAfee=].

* TalkingToHimself:
** [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]] voices both Mr. Bumpy and Destructo. He also voices the narrator in "Night of the Living Bread", who even talks to Mr. Bumpy at one point.
** Little Robot and her sister introduced in "Made in Japan II" were both voiced by Creator/JaniceKawaye.

** Multiple songs for the Karaoke Cafe were created, in that they were sung by the voice actors and recorded, but never placed against a visual backdrop, resulting instead in the second season repeating several songs from the first. These songs can be heard on the rare "Complete Series Collection" [=DVDs=].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A third season was planned before the show got canceled after Creator/{{Disney}} bought out ABC.
** Multiple songs for the Karaoke Cafe were created, in that they were sung by the voice actors and recorded, but never placed against a visual backdrop, resulting instead in the second season repeating several songs from the first. These songs can be heard on the rare "Complete Series Collection" [=DVDs=].
** A storyboard reveals that an early draft of the series was intended to have the family cat as an antagonist who would threaten Bumpy and his friends.

* TroubledProduction: In reviewing the show's Christmas episode, ''Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials'' noted that the second season was more rushed than the first. Since stop-motion is notoriously time-consuming, it took one day to finish up ''five seconds'' of footage. They did use shortcuts to get the show done faster, most notably the Karaoke Cafe segments which always used footage from other episodes. Danger Productions didn't count on ABC to renew the show for 13 more episodes plus the aforementioned triple-length Christmas episode... in a shorter amount of time. So they reused all of the previous season's Karaoke Cafe segments, and in some cases they reused entire shorts followed by "sequels" to said shorts. They had to put extra effort into the Christmas episode, which was a whopping 90 minutes long with commercials. Despite all this, the show still looks technically flawless over two decades after it was made.

* RealLifeRelative: The Boy and his Sister were played by real life siblings Scott and Anndi [=McAfee=].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A third season was planned before the show got canceled after Creator/{{Disney}} bought out ABC.

* PlayingGertrude: Scott [=McAfee=] was two years and a day younger than his sister Anndi, as they respectively played Big Brother and Little Sister.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Zig-zagged over time. Shout! Factory eventually released a complete DVD set in 2010, but it was out of print by 2012. The series was later reissued on disc in 2016 by Mill Creek Entertainment.

* PlayingGertrude: Scott [=McAfee=] was two years and a day younger than her sister Anndi, as they respectively played Big Brother and Little Sister.

* RealLifeRelative: The Boy and his sister were played by real life siblings Scott and Anndi [=McAfee=].

* CrossDressingVoices: Doris D. Bird from "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" is voiced by Creator/JimCummings.

** Creator/JimCummings voices both Mr. Bumpy and Destructo. He also voices the narrator in "Night of the Living Bread", who even talks to Mr. Bumpy at one point.

* TalkingToHimself: Creator/JimCummings voices both Mr. Bumpy and Destructo. He also voices the narrator in "Night of the Living Bread", who even talks to Mr. Bumpy at one point.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: This show had the misfortune of being among the shows that got canceled after the acquisition of the ABC network by Creator/{{Disney}}.