Line #6 Trivia/TheBackyardigans


1	* ActingForTwo: In the UK dub, Uniqua and Austin are both voiced by Creator/LizzieWaterworth, while Creator/MariaDarling voices both Tyrone and Tasha.
2	* BeamMeUpScotty: Pablo never says "Why aren't we alive?" in the episode "It's Great to Be a Ghost" contrary to a lot of the memes shown circulating throughout the internet. The image associated with the quote is actually of him saying "Let's see what kind of spooky stuff is inside the haunted house!".
3	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Austin's voice actor recorded lines for early episodes when he was only seven years old. The other voice actors ranged between ten and twelve, with a few staying into their teens.
4	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Italian, the show is titled ''Zonzoli'' (an Italian word literally meaning "loiter").
5	* CrossdressingVoices: Most foreign language dubs have the male characters voiced by adult women, rather than actual young boys like the original US version.
6	* DawsonCasting: Most of the time, the actors were a few years older than their characters.
7	** It got pretty ridiculous in the final season, when only three of the cast members from Season 1 remained: 13 year old Jonah Bobo, 15 year old Sean Curley, and ''16'' year old [=LaShawn=] Jefferies as 5-7 year olds Austin, Pablo, and Uniqua, respectively.
8	** Multiple foreign dubs have the characters voiced by full grown adults. In the Czech dub, Austin's voice actor was in his ''forties''… [[VocalDissonance and it shows]].
9	* FandomNod: The production team did the viewership a favor by getting the show's least original example of GenreBusting out of the way in the form of the hip-hop-western adventure "Riding the Range" early in season 1.
10	* InternationalCoProduction: Produced and recorded in America, but animated by Creator/{{Nelvana}} in Toronto, Canada.
11	* TheMerch: Tons, including plushies, books, and clothing.
12	* NonSingingVoice: Each character has two voice actors; one for speaking and one for singing.
13	* TheOtherDarrin:
14	** As of season four, the only remaining cast members from season one are Uniqua's speaking voice, Austin's speaking voice, and Pablo's singing voice. The other characters have had at least one replacement. Tyrone is the biggest victim of this, as he gets a new actor/singer ''every season''. [[note]] Well, Jordan Coleman and Tyrel Jackson Williams stuck around for two seasons, but that's it. [[/note]]
15	** For the Latin Spanish dub, Abraham Vega was replaced by Creator/AlejandroOrozco as Tyrone in season three due to the former hitting puberty. Orozco also grew out of the role by season four, and was replaced by Omar Hernández. Manuel Díaz, who voiced Austin in the first two seasons, was replaced by Héctor Ireta De Alba in season three for the same reason as Abraham and Alejandro. However, he quit from the project with his mother's support after that season as the director Eduardo Tejedo refused to pay the money he owed Héctor for his work. Creator/ElsaCovian (Pablo), Creator/AnnieRojas (Uniqua) and Claudia Bramnfsette (Tasha) were the only original cast members (at least all female) whose characters weren't recast. For the songs, Austin was sung by Iván Filio in the first two episodes, before being replaced by Maggie Vera, starting from the eighth episode.
16	* OutOfOrder: No two networks seem able to agree to an episode sequence. In the US, Nick Jr. used "Knights Are Brave and Strong" as the premiere. Sometimes, episodes would be pushed back and worked into a theme. For instance, "Match on Mt. Olympus" was held back in America, and aired during the 2008 Olympics. This does not mess up any of the aforementioned {{Call Back}}s, though.
17	* ProductionPosse: When creator Janice Burgess started working on Nickelodeon's revival of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', lots of her co-workers from ''Backyardigans'' joined the production team too.[[note]]''Backyardigans'' writers Jeff Borkin, Adam Peltzman and Carin Greenberg all carried over to ''Winx'', plus the script coordinator Jonathan Foss. The show's lyricist [=McPaul=] Smith also wrote the Winx specials' theme song.[[/note]]
18	* RealLifeRelative: Boinga, the baby alien from "Mission to Mars", is voiced by the niece of Music/AliciaKeys. Boinga's mother was voiced by Keys herself.
19	* ReferencedBy:
20	** The song "Secret Agent" was sung by Suzanne in the ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' episode "Who Knows Better Than I".
21	** In ''Fanfic/DontCryForMeIveAlreadyWilted'', [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Pegitan and Chiyu]] run through Pablo's FreakOut routine, where Pegitan (who also happens to be a blue penguin) loses his cool over something small, and Chiyu has to yell his name three times to get his attention.
22	** In ''Fanfic/PreCureInANutshell'', [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Yuni]] gets the parody name of Uniqua.
23	** In ''Fanfic/CATEAcademy'', Uniqua is one of the students at the academy.
24	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Its earliest form dates back to the late 1990s, with a live action pilot being filmed all the way back in 1998.
25	* SimilarlyNamedWorks:
26	** "Mission to Mars" shares its name with an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo''.
27	** "Surf's Up" is not to be confused with an [[WesternAnimation/SurfsUp animated movie from 2007]] (also starring a penguin).
28	* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Alicia Keys took the Mommy Martian role in the episode "Mission to Mars" because her niece was a fan of the show, and even let her tag along to voice the baby.
29	** Adam Pascal took up the role as the Dragon in "Tale of the Mighty Knights" for the same reason.
30	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
31	** One episode was supposed to use the avant-garde jazz of Music/SunRa as a music genre, but the show's producers thought it would scare [[MoralGuardians parents]] and decided not to go through with it.
32	** As of the 1998 pilot, the series was going to be a live-action show called "Me and My Friends." Austin was not present in this pilot, or the 2001 animated pilot. [[http://backyardigans.wikia.com/wiki/Me_and_My_Friends See here for more on the pilot]]. The character's designs mainly stated stationary, except Uniqua's body was more purple, Tasha had a tiny bow on her head, and Tyrone has blonder hair and a different color sweater.

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