Line #21 Trivia/Madeline


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4	* {{Blooper}}: In the original ''Madeline'', after Madeline is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis, the illustrations show only eleven girls brushing their teeth and going to bed. But at the dinner table, the illustration still shows ''twelve'' girls eating dinner.
5	* DiedDuringProduction: Ludwig Bemelmans passed on in 1962, leaving ''Madeline in America'' unfinished (the story has already been completed, but the illustration hasn't). Bemelmans' grandson, John Bemelmans-Marciano, eventually completed the illustrations and got the book published. He has written and illustrated all-new Madeline books published since.
6	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Madeline at the White House" was originally going to be a collaboration between Ludwig Bemelmans and Jacqueline Kennedy, under the title "Madeline Visits Caroline." Due to the former's death, it was not written until his grandson John Bemelmans-Marciano took up continuing the series.
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10	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film found an astonishing amount of popularity in Canada and it was reported that it sold more VHS tapes there than anywhere else.
11	* OneBookAuthor: Hatty Jones did only this film. The little lady auditioned for the role of [[Film/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] but was turned down for being too old (Jones was b. 1988 and Creator/EmmaWatson was b. 1990).
12	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
13	** The setting was initially going to be 1952 but the clothing and looks of the cars were not considered appealing enough.
14	** Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Miss Clavel.
15	** Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/EricIdle, Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/AlanRickman were all considered for the role of Lord Covington.
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19	* BillingDisplacement: Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as Miss Clavel gets a "starring" label during the credits of ''My Fair Madeline'' with Creator/ChantalStrand (who plays the titular character) coming in second even though the former didn't appear much after her one musical number during the beginning.
20	* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/ChristopherPlummer narrated all of the original specials and the 1993 and 1995 series, and won an Emmy for his efforts.
21	** His daughter, [[Film/PulpFiction Amanda Plummer]], does a guest role in ''Madeline in New York''.
22	** And then Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as ''Miss Clavel'' in ''My Fair Madeline''.
23	* ChannelHop:
24	** From {{Creator/HBO}} to The Family Channel (now Creator/{{Freeform}}) to Creator/{{ABC}} to The Creator/DisneyChannel.
25	** In Malaysia: RTM-[=TV2=] to Disney Channel to Playhouse Disney Channel.
26	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Madeline's first voice actress, Marsha Moreau, was eleven years old when she started and fourteen by the end of her tenure. Andrea Libman was also eleven when she took over the role, although she continued to voice the character until age eighteen, after which fifteen-year-old Chantal Strand replaced her. Likewise, Pepito's voice actors have all been real boys. Some of Madeline's eleven schoolmates have occasionally been voiced by adult actresses, but not always.
27	* EditedForSyndication: The Disney Channel/Toon Disney/Playhouse Disney run in the United States included the CINAR/France Animation specials, but replaced the short intro with the Series 2 one and the Series 1 logo (as well as a credit at the beginning reading "DIC and ANDY HEYWARD Present") as well as adding a title card. Series 1 reruns were the same, but lacked the beginning credit, and they already had title cards.
28	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For a while. After the Golden Books Video/DVD releases and the show being pulled from Creator/{{DiC}}'s Saturday morning block, it was nowhere to be found... Until Shout! Factory started releasing new [=DVDs=] of the series.
29	** However, while the specials are finally released, for a while they were only available from digital download stores, which are [[UsefulNotes/RegionCoding region-locked]] and thus pushed the official releases into NoExportForYou territory. They have since been released on DVD by Creator/MillCreekEntertainment in September 2013.
30	** Though everyone thinks that ''My Fair Madeline'' is the last animated project of Madeline, it's actually not. That title should belong to ''Madeline in Tahiti''; a direct-to-video film made in 2005 (merely 3 years after ''My Fair...'') but its mainstream obscurity was so great, that it has nary a mention on Website/TheOtherWiki's Madeline page, much less Website/ThisVeryWiki even though it's available for download in iTunes and can be purchased on Amazon. Trailers and clips do exist on Website/YouTube but the movie would not be seen publicly until 2020 when the [=WildBrain=] channel finally uploaded it in its entirety.
31	* NoExportForYou:
32	** The early specials still have not aired in several countries to this day, they can only be watched by means of importing the DVD. Likewise, the Hulu and Unbox videos aren't available in countries where the services refuse to cater to.
33	** The abovementioned ''Madeline in Tahiti'' is not available in two thirds of the world where Hulu, Unbox Videos (and forget Amazon Prime, it's not available there) and Youtube Red isn't available. iTunes also only offers the special in a handful of countries and not worldwide. Averted as of 2020 when the "Madeline - [=WildBrain=]" [=YouTube=] channel has uploaded the movie for the world to see.
34	* TheOtherDarrin: Madeline has changed voice actors no less than 4 times, once a season (Marsha Moreau was Madeline #1. Tracey-Lee Smythe was Madeline #2. Creator/AndreaLibman was Madeline #3. And Creator/ChantalStrand was Madeline #4). And none of them played Madeline in the live action movie, either. Come to think of it, most of the characters changed voice actors at least once in the entire run. Sometimes they even switched from one role to another: for example, Tracey-Lee Smythe took over as Danielle when Andrea Libman replaced her as Madeline.
35	* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
36	** ABC removed the show after seven airings in 1995.
37	** Playhouse Disney continued airing it long after people stopped watching it on that channel and were paying more attention to ''WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie'', ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', ''Series/OutOfTheBox'', etc.; eventually in June 2002 it was pushed back to 6 A.M. in the morning when kids weren't even awake to watch it, and eventually when block rearranged it's schedule in January 2003 it got less and less airings until it was quietly removed from the block by 2005 (Though this was more likely due to Disney's license expiring and them not wanting to renew with DIC).
38	* ShownTheirWork: Amidst the errors in the episode ''Madeline and the Mummy'', most Muslim countries, Egypt included, do close for extended lunches on Fridays, due to extended Islamic prayers/sermons being held on Friday afternoons.
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