History Trivia / RandomCartoons

** "The Finster Finster Show" originated as a student film creator Jeff Degrandis made in 1982. The Nickelodeon pilot's recording session was even dated the same date his film was completed.

** "The Finster Finster Show" originated as a student film creator Jeff DeGrandis made in 1982. The Nickelodeon pilot's recording session was even dated the same date his film was completed.

** Bossy LeCow from "Dr Froyd's Funny Farm" is voiced by Creator/CharlieAdler.

** Brett Pels voices Zero/BitBoy in "Dr. Dee and Bit Boy".

* InspirationNod: Moobeard's voice was modeled after creator Kyle Carrozza's Uncle Doug from Long Island. His ability to rejuvenate weapons from his sleeves was inspired by Mousse from Manga/RanmaOneHalf, Felix the Cat's Magic Bag from WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat and Wakko Warner's Gag Bag from WesternAnimation/Animaniacs.

** ''The Finster Finster Show'' started out as a student film Jeff Degrandis made for Calarts in 1985. The recording session for the Nickelodeon short was roughly the exact date after the film was finished.
** ''Thom Cat'' was initially a self-published comic Mike Gray created before the short got the greenlight. He later made additional Flash animated content for the character on his site.

** The opening theme for ''The Infinite Goliath'' was inspired by Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951.
** Razorklaw, an incidental from the short ''Hero Heights'' is an expy of Wolverine.

** Razorklaw, an incidental from the short ''Hero Heights'' is an expy of ComicBook/Wolverine.

** ''The Finster Finster Show'' started out as a student film Jeff DeGrandis made for CalArts in 1985. The recording session for the Nickelodeon short was roughly the exact date after the film was finished.

** ''Thom Cat'' was initially a self-published comic Mike Gray created before the short got the greenlight. He later made additional Flash animated content for the character on his site.

** Despite rumor speculating that WebVideo/JonTron was the inspiration or voice for the character, Carrozza dismisses the rumors pointing the obvious production time for the short pre-dates the latter from being known on the internet. When quoting direction for Billy West, Carrozza specifically asked for "Creator/HowardStern's [[Main/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed voice trapped in the body of an excited 11 year old]]".
** Sailor Bird's design was influenced from Anime/ProjectAKo and Anime/SailorMoon while Darkblade's design was based off the works of Doug TenNapel.

** "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant, but behind the scenes issues (such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} franchise) and copyright restrictions forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.

** According to Fred Seibert, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' was pitched and rejected by Nickelodeon five times to multiple executives in different divisions but they all believed that the concept wasn't a Nickelodeon show. Believing that the specific executive team he pitched may be biased against Seibert's pitches due to his long-term history with the network and his exclusive deal with the studio to produce content for them, he requested his contract to be terminated and decided to pitch the series to Cartoon Network where it got the green-light effectively.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant, but behind the scenes issues (such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} franchise) and copyright restrictions forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.
** Early in pre-production, ''Random Cartoons'' was initially planned out as the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons''. Later on, in hopes of the series getting more exposure on the newly formed ''Nicktoons Network'' channel, it was decided to make the show a SpiritualSuccessor instead.

* DivorcedInstallment: The similarities the show has to ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' (i.e., being created by Fred Seibert, the title consisting of "Cartoons" put after a word or phrase ending in an exclamation point and serving as an anthology for seven-minute animated shorts that are intended to serve as pilots for potential cartoon shows) are no coincidence, as the series was originally announced as a fourth season of ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' before the Nickelodeon execs chose to rebrand it as its own thing.

*** Moobeard also originally was going to feature the whole crew that Creator/KyleCarrozza created for the concept (e.g. Weez, Quill, Lars Olaf) as well as some other aspects (such as a reference to ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' and a Hiroyuki Imaishi battle sequence between Dark Blade and Moobeard), but it was cut for time. The theme song was initially supposed to be a Steamboat Willie-esque opening with the song playing in it's entirely but it was cut for time.

** Creator/BradGarrett was also considered as the voice for Krunch but scheduling conflicts fell that idea through.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant, but behind the scenes issues (such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} franchise) forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.
** Early in pre-production, ''Random Cartoons'' was initially planned out as the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons''. Later on, it was decided to make the show a SpiritualSuccessor instead.

*** Moobeard also originally was going to feature the whole crew that Creator/KyleCarrozza created for the concept (e.g. Weez, Quill, Lars Olaf) as well as some other aspects (such as a reference to ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' and a Hiroyuki Imaishi battle sequence between Dark Blade and Moobeard), but it was cut for time.

* CreatorKiller: "The Dangerous Duck Brothers" was Pat Ventura's final cartoon short and since then he has not made a new cartoon nor worked on a cartoon following the failure of the short and his other shorts that he had previously pitched to ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons''.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Random Cartoons'' was originally planned to air on Nickelodeon, just like its [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons predecessor was]]. However, the show was instead broadcast on Nicktoons Network with little to no advertising.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant, but behind the scenes issues such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} franchise forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Hornswiggle" was meant to be a short starring WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant, but behind the scenes issues such as the fact that Nickelodeon had already tried and failed to revive the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} franchise forced creator Jerry Beck to change course.