ReBoot was the near-constant target of Executive Meddling from ABC. It got so bad that in one episode the network demanded that a shot of Dot kissing her younger brother on the cheek and saying she loved him be cut out for broadcast because it "promoted incest." One side-effect of this was the inclusion of numerous jabs at the Broadcasting Standards and Practices office at ABC in the show.
- In Argentina, Media Watchdogs tried to ban the show, showing the "Evil Dead" episode as evidence that it was not suitable for children. Thankfully, they never succeeded.
- The game portion of the first episode of season 3 aired on Cartoon Network rather than ABC is more or less a non-stop series of "look what we can do now" moments.
- In the episode where Enzo loses in a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game, the demon played by the user is clearly announced as Satan. His fatality is one-handedly grabbing his opponent's heads and crushing them — although the actual crushing part only happens offscreen, you still see him grab their heads and still hear it quite clearly. This is also the episode where Enzo's eye is slashed out onscreen. "Look what we can do now" indeed.
- The line: "It's the ABCs, they've turned on us! Traitorous Dogs!" the ABCs (Armored Binome Carrier) being Megabyte's fleet.
- At one point Enzo aims a ridiculously large bazooka at Megabyte's troops, only to discover, to his disgust, that it fired a life raft labeled "BS Approved."
- And for much of the episode about Enzo's birthday, an uptight female binome rejected most of the acts Dot was planning for the party. This is a confirmed Take That!note and the same episode then features Dot singing in a revealing red dress, with Enzo staring at her in what is, hopefully, surprise.
- Dot's chest, or as the animation studio called it on their own blog, Dot's "Mono-breast." ABC would not allow Dot to show any cleavage, even when she wore costumes where it would be anatomically impossible not to show it. When ABC dropped ReBoot, the studio celebrated by stuffing Dot into an Elvira costume, and dedicating an episode to her new breasts (oh, and Evil Dead and horror movies in general also got a couple of nods).
- According to the making of DVD commentary, Dot was almost not allowed to have breasts at all. The cast had to insist on it while bringing a Barbie doll to a meeting to show that children are introduced to breasts from a young age.
- On the flip-side, the show did actually gain one huge benefit from Executive Meddling: Enzo. They were asked (read: told) to put a little kid character in to boost sales in the U.S. Even the crew of the show has admitted that they ended up grateful that they were forced to include him.
- The cast wanted to allow Enzo to age into a teenager to keep his voice actor, which was denied by ABC. Enzo was later aged up when the show moved to Cartoon Network, albeit with a new voice actor.
- On the topic of Reboot, its, *ahem*, reboot, ReBoot: The Guardian Code, suffered from a major case of meddling on its own. According to a poster on 4Chan who claimed to have worked on the show, the CEO essentially took full control of the production away from the crew working on it. Additionally, some really bad decisions were made, including falsely advertising the show as being the first to be done in the Unreal engine (it wasn't), poor hiring choices where programmers and artists were concerned, not familiarizing himself with the source material, and as an ultimatum, not listening to the fans and then lashing out at the viewers when it became clear that the show's first season did poorly.
- A near-tearjerker happened long after the series ended, when the head of Rainmaker at the time, Catherine Winter, had a falling out with the former Mainframe staff of the company and decided to, as revenge, destroy any and all content created by Mainframe, ordering anything and everything, including awards, to be disposed of, potentially meaning the total loss of any and all content related to the show. Thankfully, in 2023, the master tapes were found for Reboot, allowing for the recovery and preservation effort that everyone thought would never happen.
