Trivia / Adventures in Wonderland

• Acting for Two: The actors tended to double as their character's relatives.
• Banned Episode: The episode "White Rabbits Can't Jump" never aired due to it guest starring OJ Simpson.
• Colbert Bump: The show gained attention after DefunctTV did an episode about the series.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Two different episodes follow the pattern of "a disabled female cousin of one of the main cast, played by an actually-disabled actress, visits Wonderland and teaches everyone how she copes with her disability." The episode "On a Roll" features the Hatter's wheelchair-using cousin Hedda Hatter, played by Christopher Anne Templeton, while "The Sound and the Furry" features the Hare's Deaf cousin April Hare, played by Marlee Matlin.
• Early Draft Tie-In: The "White Rabbits Can't Jump" book was intended to be a case of Novelization First, but became this after the OJ Simpson case lead it to becoming unaired.
• Irony as She Is Cast: The nerdy March Hare speaks and sings in a high-pitched, nasal squawk. His actor, Reece Holland, is actually a powerful baritone who was playing roles like Marius in Les Misérables and Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera at the time he was hired.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Of the 99 episodes that aired, 76 have been uploaded on YouTube, leaving 23 episodes missing (24 including the below-mentioned O.J. Simpson episode). Rescued when the entire series (except for "White Rabbits Can’t Jump") was eventually made avaiable on Disney+ beginning April 30, 2021. However, according to a reply to a comment on this video, “There's only one flaw with AIW on Disney+. A handful of episodes (example: Days of Vine and Roses) were the cut versions for syndication instead of the Disney Channel uncut masters.”
• Missing Episode: An episode called "White Rabbits Can’t Jump", featuring a guest appearance by none other than O. J. Simpson, was made prior to his arrest for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. The episode never aired, which is understandable considering the episode would have portrayed Simpson as the White Rabbit's hero. It was made into a book, though, with production stills used for illustrations; to date, this is all that remains of the episode.
  • As stated above, an additional 23 episodes or so were locked somewhere in the Disney Vault for decades; only 76 of the 100 episodes had been uncovered by fans via old VHS television recordings, but the entire series eventually became available on Disney+ on April 30, 2021. With the exception of the OJ episode.
• Recycled Script:
  • The episode "Pretzelmania" has virtually the same plot as the Lamb Chop's Play-Along episode "The Ring," which aired earlier in the same year. Both episodes revolve around a character (Lamb Chop/the White Rabbit) wearing someone else's valuable ring (Lamb Chop wearing Shari's ring for fun/the Rabbit taking the Queen's ring to the jeweler's to be resized) while baked goods are being made (cookies/pretzels). Then the ring goes missing, everyone assumes it fell into the dough and was baked into the baked goods, and they eat all the baked goods to try to find the ring before its owner can learn what happened... but in the end, it turns out the ring was somewhere else all along. The children's book Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto also shares this plot, so it could be that both shows were making a Whole-Plot Reference to that book. The I Love Lucy episode "Building a Bar-B-Q" also has a similar plot, but instead of losing a ring in food, Lucy thinks she lost her wedding ring in the cement that was used to hold the bricks together in a barbecue, so Lucy and Ethel take the barbecue apart to try to find the ring, but the ring was somewhere else all along.
  • The episode "He's Not Heavy, He's My Hatter" has basically the exact same premise as the Rugrats episode "No More Cookies": a character (the Hatter/Angelica) eats too many cookies and makes the others promise not to let them eat any more, but then goes ballistic trying to find the hidden cookies. The Wonderland episode also deals with the Hatter needing to lose the weight he gained from his cookie-binging, though, which isn't the case for three-year-old Angelica. Incidentally, both shows had music by Mark Mothersbaugh.
  • No less than three episodes follow the pattern of "the White Rabbit accidentally damages something that belongs to the Queen in her absence, then seeks help from all his friends trying to fix or replace it before she can find out, and in the end she never does find out." In "Pop Goes the Easel" he accidentally rips the Queen's new portrait, in "This Bunny for Hire" he breaks her new vase, and in "Grape Juice of Wrath" he spills grape juice on her throne and stains it.
• Technology Marches On:
  • "TV or Not TV" - Alice's initial conundrum is that she wants to watch a show but she has a lot of homework. One of the things that come off as weird is the fact that Alice couldn't simply record it. Sure, even in The '90s, many people had a VCR, but not everyone had a blank tape that could easily tape it over - nor the know-how to do it.
  • In "Lips Sunk," Alice has a problem with her brother listening in on her phone conversation. Today, Alice would have some kind of cell phone, making this impossible (although he could still listen to Alice talk anyway).

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