History Trivia / ENA

** His replacement, Gabe Velez, would also meet a similar fate after he was accused of raping his then girlfriend, meaning Happy ENA was recast for "Power of Potluck".

* InspirationForTheWork: The description of "ENA" (the animation test) says that ENA's design was inspired by "Art/GirlBeforeAMirror" by Creator/PabloPicasso and the art of Creator/RomeroBritto. [[https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-before-mirror.jsp You can definitely see a resemblance]] to [[https://britto.com/artworks/ both of these]] when you compare.

* ScheduleSlip: As stated in the comments section of the game's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLurAhsqXWc second trailer]], ''Dream BBQ'' was originally meant to release in December 2022, but was pushed back to an unspecified point in 2023 due to the development team's ambitions for the project getting too big for it to be finished in time. It was again pushed back into 2024, though in this time, Joel G created and released another ENA "season 1" episode called "Power of Potluck to compensate and tide fans over.

* ScheduleSlip: As stated in the comments section of the game's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLurAhsqXWc second trailer]], ''Dream BBQ'' was originally meant to release in December 2022, but was pushed back to an unspecified point in 2023 due to the development team's ambitions for the project getting too big for it to be finished in time.
** It was again pushed back into 2024, though in this time, Joel G created and released another ENA "season 1" episode called "Power of Potluck to compensate and tide fans over.

** Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, Gabe Velez (in "Extinction Party" and "Temptation Stairway"), who is transgender and uses they/them, he/him, and she/her pronouns, and Creator/GriffinPuatu (in "Power of Potluck"), who is male.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The first three episodes imitated the [=FMVs=] of weird 90s CD-ROM adventure games, especially the Japanese ones, and the second and third also imitated those that dared to have low-quality live-3D gameplay. The fourth episode goes all the way by actually BEING a game.

* TheOtherDarrin: Happy ENA has had three different VA's over the course of the series due to the first two VA's being subject to RoleEndingMisdemeanor (see below).

** Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe Velez (in the other two videos), who is transgender and uses they/them, he/him, and she/her pronouns.

** Griffin Puatu replaced Velez as the voice of Happy ENA for "Power of Potluck".

* TheOtherDarrin: In "Auction Day," Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan. Due to a RoleEndingMisdemeanor, however, the role was recast with Gabe Velez in all later episodes.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Marc Rafanan lost his role as Happy ENA after being accused of grooming a minor shortly after the release of "Auction Day."
** His replacement, Gabe Velez, would also meet a similar fate after he was accused of raping his then girlfriend, meaning Happy ENA will once again be recast.

* ApprovalOfGod: Joel Guerra retweets fan art often. He also approves of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxoczJrOO8 official]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySvTGFG3sw Japanese]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plx2ptEOGG4 dubs]].

* ApprovalOfGod: Joel Guerra retweets fan art often. He also approves of the unofficial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxoczJrOO8 Japanese]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySvTGFG3sw dubs]].

* TheOtherDarrin: In "Auction Day," Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan. Due to a RoleEndingMisdemeanor, however, the role was recast with [[https://twitter.com/RealGamerduck Gabe Velez]] in all later episodes.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://enajoelg.fandom.com/wiki/ENA_Wiki Here]].

** Salesperson ENA is voiced in ''Dream BBQ'' by Aleks Le, who is male.

** Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe Velez (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses they/them, he/him, and she/her pronouns.

** Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe Velez (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses both they/them and he/him pronouns.

* CrossdressingVoices: Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe Velez (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses both they/them and he/him pronouns.

* CrossdressingVoices: Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe Velez (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

* CrossdressingVoices: Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe V. (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

* TalkingToHimself: Both Sad ENA and Moony are voiced by Lizzie Freeman, and both the Auctioneer and the Headtombs in "Auction Day" are voiced by Alejandro Fletes, the only cases in the series in which a pair of ActingForTwo characters vocally interact with one another.

* TheOtherDarrin: In "Auction Day," Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan. Due to a RoleEndingMisdemeanor, however, the role was recast with [[https://twitter.com/RealGamerduck Gabe V.]] in all later episodes.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://enajoelg.fandom.com/wiki/Ena_Wiki Here]].

* CrossdressingVoices: Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day"), who is male, and Gabe V. (in the other two videos), who is nonbinary and uses he/they pronouns.

** Sam Meza plays both Rubik and [[spoiler:Drunk ENA]] in "Extinction Party".
** Hanai Chihaya plays both Robert in "Extinction Party" and Gabo in "Temptation Stairway".

* {{Defictionalization}}: The first three episodes imitated the [=FMVs=] of weird 90's CD-ROM adventure games, especially the Japanese ones, and the second and third also imitated those that dared to have low-quality live-3D gameplay. The fourth episode goes all the way by actually BEING a game.

* TheOtherDarrin: In "Auction Day", Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan. Due to a RoleEndingMisdemeanor, however, the role was recast with [[https://twitter.com/RealGamerduck Gabe V.]] in all later episodes.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Marc Rafanan lost his role as Happy ENA after being accused of grooming a minor shortly after the release of "Auction Day".

* Several people noticed the similarity between ENA and the characters from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFxEhQCgds this Soviet animated short]] from 1969, "Absent-minded Giovanni", apparently set in a surreal version of Italy.

* CrossdressingVoices: Happy ENA is voiced by Marc Rafanan (in "Auction Day") and Gabe V. (in the other two videos), both of whom are male.

* Several people noticed the similarity between ENA and the characters from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFxEhQCgds this Soviet animated short]] from 1969, "Absent-minded Giovanni", apparently set in a surreal version of Italy.