Trivia / Allen Gregory

• Bury Your Art: Everyone involved with the production shows great contempt for ever working on it. As noted in Keep Circulating the Tapes, Fox wiped all evidence of this show online by removing the show off all retailers selling the show for sale, and has refused to let it be available or resurface on Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, and even reruns on [adult swim], who frequently aired cartoons produced by 20th Century Fox before the Disney-Fox acquisition.
• Creator's Apathy: While the series' short run is often attributed to its negative reception, it was revealed by one of the show's artists on RebelTaxi that Fox had little faith in the show from the start. On top of cutting the show's budget from the pilot, Fox execs only commissioned seven episodes^note  where as the usual standard for a TV cartoon's first season is thirteen for the show to initially serve as filler between seasons of Family Guy (although the show itself actually aired in the fall, with the equally doomed-to-fail Napoleon Dynamite cartoon taking its place as mid-season replacement), with the intent of cancelling Allen afterwards. The artist also mentions that he and the rest of the animation staff hated the show during its production, but enjoyed the time they spent with each other.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Patrick is voiced by a woman, Cristina Pucelli.
• Descended Creator: Co-creator Jonah Hill voices Allen Gregory.
• Hostility on the Set: This show was one of Rachel Bloom's first credits in the industry, and she has nothing positive to say about her experience as a writer there. This mostly came down to how the otherwise all-male writing staff treated her as if she didn't have anything valuable to contribute, belittling her ideas constantly. It wasn't until she joined the staff of Robot Chicken when she realized that writing rooms aren't inherently designed to put others down and can actually be encouraging and engaging spaces in the right hands.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: It's rather telling of how little faith Fox had in the show that they didn't just cancel it, they basically nuked it from orbit by completely removing the series from any website offering the episodes for sale. In other words, the series is more or less impossible to watch online outside illegal file-sharing and streaming sites, as even low-quality uploads on YouTube are prone to being deleted by Fox. The only legal way of viewing it is iTunes, but only if you live in the United Kingdom, where no one even remembers the show.
• Screwed by the Network: Fox practically had no faith in this show, as the network spent most of their adverts on promoting episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy, the shows Allen Gregory were sandwiched between, which also failed to get audiences interested in the show.

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