History Trivia / DirtyPair

* FountainOfExpies: The two title characters, who compose of a TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair, the tomboy usually having short reddish hair (though it can be long or just lighter colored hair in general as well) and the girly girl having long, more feminine hair (and like with the tomboy, can also be inverted as having short, yet dark colored hair). Three of the best-known pairs, that are often thought of as being the best-known direct expys of the two, are:

* MissingEpisode: The original TV series didn't receive an English-language release until Nozomi released it on subtitled DVD in 2010.

* ScheduleSlip: The Kickstarter for the English dub of the original TV series was funded in October 2021, but it hasn't come out yet due to endless delays involving COVID [[note]]The studio had shut down their physical location because of it, forcing the owner to operate out of his home.[[/note]], travel [[note]]Both lead actresses live in Texas while the dub is recorded in NY.[[/note]], schedules [[note]]The retired Pam Lauer had to wait to take time off from her day job.[[/note]], the show's large episodic cast, among other reasons. Two episodes of the dub were briefly released to backers in October 2023 to tide them over.

* OneHitWonder: Pamela Lauer Jones, who voiced Kei in ADV's dub of the [=OVAs=] and later movie redubs, has no other voice credits outside bit roles and additional voices in two other shows. When she was confirmed to be reprising Kei for the 2021 TV series dub, she acknowledged that she was "coming out of retirement" for the project. Despite this, she hasn't appeared in any other new anime dubs.

* ForeignRescore: The sequel OVA series had one for the English dub, by Scott Van Zen, because the isolated music and effects tracks were believed lost at the time. The 2023 Blu-ray release from Nozomi Entertainment restores the original score to the dub while including Van Zen's as a bonus alternate track.

*** Yuri was voiced by Creator/WendeeLee in Streamline's dub. Then, for ADV's dub of ''Flash'' and the OVA series, the character was respectively voiced by Kim Sevier and Creator/JessicaCalvello. When ADV redubbed the films, Yuri was voiced by Allison Sumrall since Calvello had moved to New York. Calvello reprised the role in Nozomi's 2022 dub of the TV series.

* RoleReprise: In the 2022 TV series' English dub, Pamela Lauer and Creator/JessicaCalvello reprised their respective roles as Kei and Yuri from the 1999 OVA series dub. Pam had previously reprised Kei for the 2003 redubs of the three movies.

* ScheduleSlip: The Kickstarter for the English dub of the original TV series was funded in October 2021, but it hasn't come out yet due to endless delays involving COVID [[note]]The studio had shut down their physical location because of it, forcing the owner to operate out of his home.[[/note]], travel [[note]]Both lead actresses live in Texas while the dub is recorded in NY.[[/note]], schedules [[note]]The retired Pam Lauer had to wait to take time off from her day job.[[/note]], the show's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, among other causes. Two episodes of the dub were briefly released to backers in October 2023 to tide them over.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: "Dan et Danny" in France; "Kate & Julie" in Italy -- because Kei sounds like "Chè" ("What?") in Italian

* OldShame: Sue Ulu feels this way about her own performance as Kei in ''Dirty Pair Flash'', feeling that it suffered from the long recording sessions, and agreeing with the fans that panned her performance. Nonetheless, she said she enjoyed working on the show itself, and was happy that she got to record together with Kim Sevier (Yuri).

* TheWikiRule: [[https://dirtypair.fandom.com/wiki/Dirty_Pair_Wiki Dirty Pair Wiki]].

* ReferencedBy: As a result of the numerous shout-outs to the original series, the producers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' sneaked in a few references to the Pair. For instance in "Conspiracy", a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151117175021/http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/3/3e/Dytallix_B%2C_lcars.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120726015448&path-prefix=en graphic]] of Dytallix B has what looks like an upside down silhouette of Kei and another of Yuri[[note]]as well as what looks like the continent of '''UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}''' also turned upside down, but that's another story[[/note]]. More obviously, the Exocomps from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife The Quality of Life]]" were blatantly inspired by Nanmo. And there was "Operation Lovely Angel."

* ReferencedBy: As a result of the numerous shout-outs to the original series, the producers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' sneaked in a few references to the Pair. For instance in "Conspiracy", a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151117175021/http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/3/3e/Dytallix_B%2C_lcars.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120726015448&path-prefix=en graphic]] of Dytallix B has what looks like an upside down silhouette of Kei and another of Yuri[[note]]as well as what looks like the continent of '''UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}''' also turned upside down, but that's another story[[/note]]. More obviously, the Exocomps from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife The Quality of Life]]" were blatantly inspired by Nanmo.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The license for various ''Dirty Pair'' anime have been gained and subsequently lost by three different studios in North America: Streamline, ADV Films, and Nozomi Entertanment.

* OneHitWonder: Pamela Lauer Jones, who voiced Kei in ADV's dub of the [=OVAs=] and later movie redubs, has no other voice credits outside bit roles and additional voices in two other shows. When she was confirmed to be reprising Kei for the 2021 TV series dub, she acknowledged that she was "coming out of retirement" for the project.

*** Yuri was voiced by Creator/WendeeLee in Streamline's dub. Then, for ADV's dub of ''Flash'' and the OVA series, the character was respectively voiced by Kim Sevier and Creator/JessicaCalvello. When ADV redubbed the films, Yuri was voiced by Allison Sumrall. Calvello reprised the role in Nozomi's 2022 dub of the TV series.

* DuelingDubs: All three movies were dubbed from 1993-1994 by Streamline Pictures with Lara Cody as Kei and Creator/WendeeLee as Yuri. They were redubbed by ADV Films (who had previously dubbed the [=OVAs=] and ''Flash'') in 2003 with Pamela Lauer Jones as Kei and Allison Sumrall as Yuri.
** This will also be the case with Creator/NozomiEntertainment's Blu-ray release as they're redubbing the [=OVAs=] from scratch due to them recovering the original M&E tracks [[note]] "Music & effects" tracks, which are pretty much a requirement for anything to be dubbed [[/note]].

* OneHitWonder: Pamela Lauer Jones, who voiced Kei in ADV's dub of the [=OVAs=] and later movie redubs, has no other voice credits outside bit roles and additional voices in two other shows. When she was confirmed to be reprising Kei for the 2021 TV series dub as well the redub of the [=OVAs=], she acknowledged that she was "coming out of retirement" for the project.