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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a Twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his internet. His Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. Scientology and it's known he had connections to the church, which explains how Nancy Cartwright (also a member) got involved. It was revealed in a Twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. stroke. However the few people who manage managed to find info on or make contact with him during his lifetime have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Bash Street Kids'' and ''The Rhapsody Street Kids'', both of which had to be changed after they were found to already be copyrighted by other companies.[[note]]The former one may not have been coincidental, given that Colin Slater was originally from the UK, where The Bash Street Kids are regulars in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', and both works feature characters called Smithy/Smiffy -- albeit the ''Beano'' version is a CloudCuckoolander rather than the annoying prankster seen here.[[/note]]
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Bash Street Kids'' and ''The Rhapsody Street Kids'', both of which had to be changed after they were found to already be copyrighted by other companies.[[note]]The The former one may not have been coincidental, given that Colin Slater was originally from the UK, where The Bash Street Kids are regulars in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', and both works feature characters called Smithy/Smiffy -- albeit the ''Beano'' version is a CloudCuckoolander rather than the annoying prankster seen here.[[/note]]
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* WorkingTitle: ''The Bash Street Kids'' and ''The Rhapsody Street Kids'', both of which had to be changed after they were found to already be copyrighted by other companies.[[note]]The former one may not have been coincidental, given that Colin Slater was originally from the UK, where The Bash Street Kids are regulars in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', and both works feature characters called Smithy/Smiffy -- albeit the ''Beano'' version is a CloudCuckoolander rather than the annoying prankster seen here.[[/note]]
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors of Wolf Tracer being a money laundering scheme have circulated the internet since the special's first airing. It's never been confirmed, but Colin's shady history suggests there's some truth behind it.
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** Rumors of Wolf Tracer being a money laundering scheme have circulated the internet since the special's first airing. It's never been confirmed, but Colin's shady history suggests there's some truth behindit.it.
** Grandma's being TheUnintelligible is often rumored to be the result of her audio recordings being corrupted, and the producers being too cheap to redub them. Creator/DebraWilson has confirmed this to be untrue, and that her performance in the film is the one she was instructed to give. Additionally, direct-to-digital recording was not yet the industry standard approach, with voice tracks usually being recorded to either magnetic tape or Minidisc, meaning that even if the files ''were'' corrupted it would have been a trivially easy task to make new ones.
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** Grandma's being TheUnintelligible is often rumored to be the result of her audio recordings being corrupted, and the producers being too cheap to redub them. Creator/DebraWilson has confirmed this to be untrue, and that her performance in the film is the one she was instructed to give. Additionally, direct-to-digital recording was not yet the industry standard approach, with voice tracks usually being recorded to either magnetic tape or Minidisc, meaning that even if the files ''were'' corrupted it would have been a trivially easy task to make new ones.
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** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
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** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For over a decade this special was thought to be lost, until Dycaite, founder of the Lost Media Wiki, managed to secure a copy and upload it to the internet. The software used for animating the special itself, 3D Choreographer, remained lost for a few more years until [[https://lostmediawiki.com/3D_Choreographer_(found_build_of_CGI_animation_software;_1992-2006) a build of it]] was found by a reddit user in 2021.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For over a decade this special was thought to be lost, until Dycaite, founder of the Lost Media Wiki, managed to secure a copy and upload it to the internet. The software used for animating the special itself, 3D Choreographer, remained lost for a few more years until [[https://lostmediawiki.com/3D_Choreographer_(found_build_of_CGI_animation_software;_1992-2006) a build of it]] was found by a reddit Reddit user in 2021.
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** One of the animators grew increasingly frustrated with the poor graphics and the limited functions with the software, to the point that he told the investors who financially backed the special that they were being ripped off (up to this point they haven't seen a single footage of the special). When Colin Slater found out [[LaserGuidedKarma he promptly fired him]], forcing the remaining animators to work overtime as the deadline was just days away.
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** One of the animators grew increasingly frustrated with the poor graphics and the limited functions with the software, to the point that he told the investors who financially backed the special that they were being ripped off (up to this point they haven't seen a single footage of the special). When Colin Slater found out [[LaserGuidedKarma he promptly fired him]], him, forcing the remaining animators to work overtime as the deadline was just days away.
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* AllStarCast: Even with its extremely low production values, ''Rapsittie'' managed to get a cast that includes Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/JodiBenson, Creator/GreyDeLisle, and Creator/NancyCartwright, the latter of whom was also a producer for the special.
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* AllStarCast: Even with its extremely low production values, ''Rapsittie'' somehow managed to get a cast that includes Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/JodiBenson, Creator/GreyDeLisle, and Creator/NancyCartwright, the latter of whom was also a producer for the special.
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* AllStarCast: Even with its extremely low production values, Rapsittie managed to get a cast that includes Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/JodiBenson, Creator/GreyDeLisle, and Creator/NancyCartwright; the latter of whom was also a producer for the special.
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* AllStarCast: Even with its extremely low production values, Rapsittie ''Rapsittie'' managed to get a cast that includes Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/JodiBenson, Creator/GreyDeLisle, and Creator/NancyCartwright; Creator/NancyCartwright, the latter of whom was also a producer for the special.
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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter Twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* RelationshipVoiceActor: Probably not a coincidence that the two main female characters are voiced by Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For over a decade this special was thought to be lost, until Dycaite, founder of the Wiki/LostMediaWiki, Lost Media Wiki, managed to secure a copy and upload it to the internet. The software used for animating the special itself, 3D Choreographer, remained lost for a few more years until [[https://lostmediawiki.com/3D_Choreographer_(found_build_of_CGI_animation_software;_1992-2006) a build of it]] was found by a reddit user in 2021.
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* NamesTheSame: [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rapper Ricky's not the only obscure rapping child named Ricky raised by a female relative after the death of their parent(s).]]
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--->'''Debra Wilson:''' They were like, "Great-grandma is disheveled; she can’t get her words together." So that had to be in the script. That’s not audio. That’s me. I can tell the difference. That’s me.
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* NoBudget: Inverted, as the special was produced on a modest $500,000 budget. While most of it was clearly spent on the voice cast, the animation is way more primitive and unfinished than it should have looked. This has fueled many conspiracy theories about Wolf Tracer being a front to scam producers out of their money by pretending to be an experienced animation studio.
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* CreatorBacklash:
** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Creator/GreyDeLisle called it a "secret shame" on Website/{{Twitter}}.
** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Creator/GreyDeLisle called it a "secret shame" on Website/{{Twitter}}.
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** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Creator/GreyDeLisle called it a "secret shame" on Website/{{Twitter}}.
** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Creator/GreyDeLisle called it a "secret shame" on Website/{{Twitter}}.
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** One of the animators grew increasingly frustrated with the poor graphics and the limited functions with the software, to the point that he told the investors who financially backed the special that they were being ripped off (up to this point they haven't seen a single footage of the special). When Colin Slater found out he [[LaserGuidedKarmahe promptly fired him, him]], forcing the remaining animators to work overtime as the deadline was just days away.
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** The software used, 3D Choreographer, was never meant for film and television production. Described by the developers as “an animation program designed for non-artists,” it was a way to create simple animation using pre-designed models for use in [=PowerPoint=] presentations and late-1990s internet. Because of this, the software's functions proved to be ''very'' limited. The animators found out that it doesn't let you model new character designs, forcing the studio to send the concept art to the software developers so they could create custom models specifically for the special's production. The animators were horrified when the resulting models came back.
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** The software used, 3D Choreographer, was never meant for film and television production. Described by the developers as “an animation program designed for non-artists,” it was a way to create simple animation using pre-designed models for use in [=PowerPoint=] presentations and late-1990s mid-1990s internet. Because of this, the software's functions proved to be ''very'' limited. The animators found out that it doesn't let you model new character designs, forcing the studio to send the concept art to the software developers so they could create custom models specifically for the special's production. The animators were horrified when the resulting models came back.
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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
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* AmateurCast: Averted with the special's [[AllStarCast cast members]], animation director[[note]]who previously worked on the video game spin-offs to ''Franchise/TheMatrix''[[/note]], and technically Colin Slater[[note]]He has worked in Hollywood for years prior to this special, having worked as an executive producer on direct-to-video cartoons such as ''The Norfin Adventures'' and ''Friends Are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess''. However, he has never directed until ''Rapsittie''.[[/note]] This is played straight with the producers (except Cartwright) who literally had no experience in either animation or TV production in general, [[NoBudget and]] [[UncannyValley it]] [[SpecialEffectFailure seriously]] [[DerangedAnimation shows]]. Some of the other actors, like those of Ms. Pennington and Zeke have little to no other acting credits behind them either.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: In a 2019 twitter post from one of the crew on the movie, it was revealed that director Colin Slater had died of a stroke some time in the mid to late 2010s. As such, information about him remain unknown and must be retained by those who knew him.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: In a 2019 twitter post from one of the crew on the movie, it was revealed that director Colin Slater had died of a stroke some time in the mid to late 2010s. As such, information about him remain unknown and must be retained by those who knew him.
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* AllStarCast: Even with its extremely low production values, Rapsittie managed to get a cast that includes Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/JodiBenson, Creator/GreyDeLisle, and Creator/NancyCartwright; the latter of whom was also a producer for the special.
* AmateurCast: Averted with the special's [[AllStarCast cast members]], animation director[[note]]who previously worked on the video game spin-offs to ''Franchise/TheMatrix''[[/note]], and technically Colin Slater[[note]]He has worked in Hollywood for years prior to this special, having worked as an executive producer on direct-to-video cartoons such as ''The Norfin Adventures'' and ''Friends Are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess''. However, he has never directed until ''Rapsittie''.[[/note]] This is played straight with the producers (except Cartwright) who literally had no experience in either animation or TV production in general, [[NoBudget and]] [[UncannyValley it]] [[SpecialEffectFailure seriously]] [[DerangedAnimation shows]]. Some of the other actors, like those of Ms. Pennington and Zeke have little to no other acting credits behind them either.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: In a 2019 twitter post from one of the crew on the movie, it was revealed that director Colin Slater had died of a stroke some time in the mid to late 2010s. As such, information about him remain unknown and must be retained by those who knew him.
* CreatorsApathy: The producer's daughter said that the special's abysmal animation was the result of her father never once looking in on Wolf Tracer to make sure production was going smoothly.
* DescendedCreator: Animator J.R. Horsting provides the voice of Zeke in this movie.
* DomesticOnlyCartoon: A painfully obvious example at that.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For over a decade this special was thought to be lost, until Dycaite, founder of the Wiki/LostMediaWiki, managed to secure a copy and upload it to the internet.
* NamesTheSame: [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rapper Ricky's not the only obscure rapping child named Ricky raised by a female relative after the death of their parent(s).]]
* NoBudget: Inverted, as the special was produced on a modest $500,000 budget. While most of it was clearly spent on the voice cast, the animation is way more primitive and unfinished than it should have looked. This has fueled many conspiracy theories about Wolf Tracer being a front to scam producers out of their money by pretending to be an experienced animation studio.
* OldShame:
** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Reportedly, Creator/GreyDeLisle will ''block'' anyone who even mentions the special to her on Website/{{Twitter}}.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors of Wolf Tracer being a money laundering scheme have circulated the internet since the special's first airing. It's never been confirmed, but Colin's shady history suggests there's some truth behind it.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: Probably not a coincidence that the two main female characters are voiced by Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es.
* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
* StillbornFranchise: There were meant to be more specials (the end credits promise an Easter-themed movie called ''A Bunny's Tale''), but thanks to the failure of this one all hopes of a franchise have completely vanished. A soundtrack album featuring Music/WhitneyHouston was also to be released, but that too was scrapped. Though 2003's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExrzJtRMs4 Wolf Tracer's Dinosaur Island]] (by the same people, including managing to somehow get Mark Hamill back) may be considered a SpiritualSuccessor.
* TroubledProduction: Animating the special was no easy task, hence why it came out the way it did. [[https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/24/22196527/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa-cast-crew-making-of Highlights from the Polygon article]] on the special's making include:
** The software used, 3D Choreographer, was never meant for film and television production. Described by the developers as “an animation program designed for non-artists,” it was a way to create simple animation using pre-designed models for use in [=PowerPoint=] presentations and late-1990s internet. Because of this, the software's functions proved to be ''very'' limited. The animators found out that it doesn't let you model new character designs, forcing the studio to send the concept art to the software developers so they could create custom models specifically for the special's production. The animators were horrified when the resulting models came back.
** Another setback with the software was its pre-programmed animation trajectory, which could not be changed or altered. This is why there are strange edits and scene continuity errors throughout; it was the only way they could cut out the unwanted parts of the animation.
** One of the animators grew increasingly frustrated with the poor graphics and the limited functions with the software, to the point that he told the investors who financially backed the special that they were being ripped off (up to this point they haven't seen a single footage of the special). When Colin Slater found out he promptly fired him, forcing the remaining animators to work overtime as the deadline was just days away.
** Speaking of deadline, they only had four months to animate the special. It was such a tight deadline there was no time to storyboard at all. Surprisingly, they were able to deliver the special on-time and on-budget.
** Despite getting screen credit for directing Colin Slater was very hands off during the production, to the point that the animators didn't get any direction at all. Making it worse was that, aside from the very basic instructions, he was not an expert on how the animation software worked, forcing the animators to figure it out themselves as there was no one they could ask for help. As an inside joke, when the "Directed by Colin Slater" card came up in the closing credits they animated a snowman winking in response.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/WhitneyHouston was initially considered to record a soundtrack for the radio as a tie-in for the special's airing. While the album was released as ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Through-Childs-Eyes-Paige-OHara/dp/B0002GXTAK Through a Child's Eye]]'', she had no involvement in the final outcome.
** You know how Ricky's grandma sometimes speaks proper English, and yet the other time speaks in incomprehensible gibberish? Well, according to the daughter of the film's producer, she was supposed to speak actual words. It's unclear when or why this was changed (and it certainly wasn't changed by the producer, who didn't see the film until it was finished), but Grandma's voice actor [[https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/24/22196527/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa-cast-crew-making-of confirmed in an interview]] that she was asked to give that kind of performance.
--->'''Debra Wilson:''' They were like, "Great-grandma is disheveled; she can’t get her words together." So that had to be in the script. That’s not audio. That’s me. I can tell the difference. That’s me.
* WrittenByCastMember: Nancy Cartwright is credited as a producer.
* AmateurCast: Averted with the special's [[AllStarCast cast members]], animation director[[note]]who previously worked on the video game spin-offs to ''Franchise/TheMatrix''[[/note]], and technically Colin Slater[[note]]He has worked in Hollywood for years prior to this special, having worked as an executive producer on direct-to-video cartoons such as ''The Norfin Adventures'' and ''Friends Are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess''. However, he has never directed until ''Rapsittie''.[[/note]] This is played straight with the producers (except Cartwright) who literally had no experience in either animation or TV production in general, [[NoBudget and]] [[UncannyValley it]] [[SpecialEffectFailure seriously]] [[DerangedAnimation shows]]. Some of the other actors, like those of Ms. Pennington and Zeke have little to no other acting credits behind them either.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: In a 2019 twitter post from one of the crew on the movie, it was revealed that director Colin Slater had died of a stroke some time in the mid to late 2010s. As such, information about him remain unknown and must be retained by those who knew him.
* CreatorsApathy: The producer's daughter said that the special's abysmal animation was the result of her father never once looking in on Wolf Tracer to make sure production was going smoothly.
* DescendedCreator: Animator J.R. Horsting provides the voice of Zeke in this movie.
* DomesticOnlyCartoon: A painfully obvious example at that.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For over a decade this special was thought to be lost, until Dycaite, founder of the Wiki/LostMediaWiki, managed to secure a copy and upload it to the internet.
* NamesTheSame: [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Rapper Ricky's not the only obscure rapping child named Ricky raised by a female relative after the death of their parent(s).]]
* NoBudget: Inverted, as the special was produced on a modest $500,000 budget. While most of it was clearly spent on the voice cast, the animation is way more primitive and unfinished than it should have looked. This has fueled many conspiracy theories about Wolf Tracer being a front to scam producers out of their money by pretending to be an experienced animation studio.
* OldShame:
** The producer's daughter expressed her father's feelings on the final film on her [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161217065009/https://thenewpropaganda.tumblr.com/post/145891729831/i-told-the-story-of-the-production-of-rapsittie Twitter account]]:
--->'''Kennedy Rose:''' That movie was my dad's biggest disappointment. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Besides me, of course]].
** Paige O'Hara joked that she was surprised someone actually remembered the special when asked about it by [[WebVideo/RebelTaxi Pan Pizza]]. But when other people started asking her about the special, [[FlipFlopOfGod she claimed to have no memory of making it]].
** Played with regarding Creator/MarkHamill: [[https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/980133614670168065?s=21 He has zero memory of working on the special.]]
** Reportedly, Creator/GreyDeLisle will ''block'' anyone who even mentions the special to her on Website/{{Twitter}}.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors of Wolf Tracer being a money laundering scheme have circulated the internet since the special's first airing. It's never been confirmed, but Colin's shady history suggests there's some truth behind it.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: Probably not a coincidence that the two main female characters are voiced by Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es.
* ReclusiveArtist: The special's director, Colin Slater, has a quiet presence on the internet [[note]]although his Twitter account reportedly featured many retweets from The Church of Scientology. It was revealed in a twitter post from 2019 that Slater had died of a stroke, which could contribute to the lack of the social media presence of Slater[[/note]]. However the few people who manage to find info on or make contact with him have a few... ''[[SmallNameBigEgo interesting]]'' recounts about it.
* StillbornFranchise: There were meant to be more specials (the end credits promise an Easter-themed movie called ''A Bunny's Tale''), but thanks to the failure of this one all hopes of a franchise have completely vanished. A soundtrack album featuring Music/WhitneyHouston was also to be released, but that too was scrapped. Though 2003's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExrzJtRMs4 Wolf Tracer's Dinosaur Island]] (by the same people, including managing to somehow get Mark Hamill back) may be considered a SpiritualSuccessor.
* TroubledProduction: Animating the special was no easy task, hence why it came out the way it did. [[https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/24/22196527/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa-cast-crew-making-of Highlights from the Polygon article]] on the special's making include:
** The software used, 3D Choreographer, was never meant for film and television production. Described by the developers as “an animation program designed for non-artists,” it was a way to create simple animation using pre-designed models for use in [=PowerPoint=] presentations and late-1990s internet. Because of this, the software's functions proved to be ''very'' limited. The animators found out that it doesn't let you model new character designs, forcing the studio to send the concept art to the software developers so they could create custom models specifically for the special's production. The animators were horrified when the resulting models came back.
** Another setback with the software was its pre-programmed animation trajectory, which could not be changed or altered. This is why there are strange edits and scene continuity errors throughout; it was the only way they could cut out the unwanted parts of the animation.
** One of the animators grew increasingly frustrated with the poor graphics and the limited functions with the software, to the point that he told the investors who financially backed the special that they were being ripped off (up to this point they haven't seen a single footage of the special). When Colin Slater found out he promptly fired him, forcing the remaining animators to work overtime as the deadline was just days away.
** Speaking of deadline, they only had four months to animate the special. It was such a tight deadline there was no time to storyboard at all. Surprisingly, they were able to deliver the special on-time and on-budget.
** Despite getting screen credit for directing Colin Slater was very hands off during the production, to the point that the animators didn't get any direction at all. Making it worse was that, aside from the very basic instructions, he was not an expert on how the animation software worked, forcing the animators to figure it out themselves as there was no one they could ask for help. As an inside joke, when the "Directed by Colin Slater" card came up in the closing credits they animated a snowman winking in response.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/WhitneyHouston was initially considered to record a soundtrack for the radio as a tie-in for the special's airing. While the album was released as ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Through-Childs-Eyes-Paige-OHara/dp/B0002GXTAK Through a Child's Eye]]'', she had no involvement in the final outcome.
** You know how Ricky's grandma sometimes speaks proper English, and yet the other time speaks in incomprehensible gibberish? Well, according to the daughter of the film's producer, she was supposed to speak actual words. It's unclear when or why this was changed (and it certainly wasn't changed by the producer, who didn't see the film until it was finished), but Grandma's voice actor [[https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/24/22196527/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa-cast-crew-making-of confirmed in an interview]] that she was asked to give that kind of performance.
--->'''Debra Wilson:''' They were like, "Great-grandma is disheveled; she can’t get her words together." So that had to be in the script. That’s not audio. That’s me. I can tell the difference. That’s me.
* WrittenByCastMember: Nancy Cartwright is credited as a producer.
