History Trivia / KidsIncorporated

* ActingForTwo: Renee Sands as both Renee and [[UncannyFamilyResemblance British cousin Samantha]]. Also, 1991's "Double Trouble" episode has [[Series/{{PartyOfFive}} Scott Wolf]] playing twins.

* DuelingShows: With ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', another SliceOfLife show containing pre-teen characters performing covers of hit songs from the 80's.

* NonSingingVoice: In her first season, Connie Lew's singing voice was dubbed over, without her knowledge. She was reportedly very upset about it. When the singer who dubbed her was added to the cast, Connie received her own singing voice again.

* NonSingingVoice: Connie Lew's singing voice was dubbed over, without her knowledge. She was reportedly very upset about it.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The main reason that the show hasn't returned to TV or had a home video release since the 80's is twofold: one being the difficulty in clearing the rights to the songs (which, while still difficult, would not be as pricey as these are kids singing them, not the actual artists), while the other is the fact that the show's rights are split between Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer (actual owner and copyright holder) and Disney (who apparently has possession of the actual videotapes); while the library of what's now Halcyon Studios (successor to Hal Roach Studios/Qintex/RHI and known until 2021 as Sonar Entertainment) was acquired in 2021 by [[https://kidscreen.com/2021/04/09/chicken-soup-acquires-sonars-assets/ Chicken Soup for the Soul]].

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The main reason that the show hasn't returned to TV or had a home video release since the 80's is twofold: one being the difficulty in clearing the rights to the songs (which, while still difficult, would not be as pricey as these are kids singing them, not the actual artists), while the other is the fact that the show's rights are split between Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer (actual owner and copyright holder) and Disney (who apparently has possession of the actual videotapes); it's not clear if Hal Roach Studios/Qintex/RHI successor Halcyon Studios holds a stake in the show or not.

* ActingForTwo - Renee Sands as both Renee and [[UncannyFamilyResemblance British cousin Samantha]]. Also, 1991's "Double Trouble" episode has [[Series/{{PartyOfFive}} Scott Wolf]] playing twins.
* CreativeDifferences - [[WordOfGod According to Jerry Sharell]], the reason he left after only the first season was because he was unhappy with the direction that producers Thomas W. Lynch and Gary P. Biller were taking the show in. In particular, he wanted the show to be more realistic while Lynch and Biller wanted it to contain more fantasy.
* TheDanza - Only Martika, Jerry Sharell, and Jennifer Love Hewitt did not use their own first names. Rahsaan Patterson's name was later revealed as being Rahsaan in the season 4 episode, "What's in a Name", which turned out to be his and Renee Sands' last episode.

* DescendedCreator - In the season 4 episode, "Modern Music", in which the kids deal with a computer invention of Riley's called Synthesized Audiovisual Music, or S.A.M. for short, with S.A.M. claiming he can make better music than the kids, the actor voicing S.A.M. is theme song composer and music arranger and producer Michael Cruz.
* DirectedByCastMember - Moosie Drier (who played Riley) directed the 1988 episode "Kahuna Kids".

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes - The main reason that the show hasn't returned to TV or had a home video release since the 80's is twofold: one being the difficulty in clearing the rights to the songs (which, while still difficult, would not be as pricey as these are kids singing them, not the actual artists), while the other is the fact that the show's rights are split between Creator/AmazonStudios (owner of the actual series) & Disney (in possession of the physical videotapes).

* SeriesHiatus: ''Kids Incorporated'' took what would have been the 1990 season off for the series to be refreshed, resulting in the departure of three of the cast members[[note]]most notably the series' lone remaining original cast member at the time, [[Music/{{Fergie}} Stacy Ferguson]][[/note]], leaving Kenny Ford, Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt and Sean O'Riordan as the sole 1989 holdovers when production resumed for 1991. Additionally, the period after the shortened 1993 season was intended to be a break before an even more extensive retool, only to (as mentioned below) see the cast age out or decline to return, resulting in its cancellation.
* TroubledProduction - The show's fifth season. It was in production during the [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes Writers' Guild of America strike of 1988]], and as a result, the show's producers were forced to use non-union writers who presumably hadn't seen the first four seasons up to that point.
* UnCanceled - The first show to jump from Syndication to Cable.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - The show went on what was supposed to be a two-year hiatus, having done so once before, in order to rest the show before a massive ReTool, include reducing the songs in each episode (in fact, some proposed scripts had no songs at all), and moving production from LA to [[CaliforniaDoubling Vancouver]]. However, by the time the show was to resume in 1995, the Season 9 cast declined to return or aged out.

** Audra Lee (a young actress and singer most famous at the time for co-hosting the Creator/{{TBS}} educational segment Kid's Beat) appeared in two episodes in 1988 and 1989. The 1988 appearance had her play Richie's rival in a class presidential race; while the following year she played a character who created a fan club for Devyn.