Trivia / Atomic Puppet

• Acting for Two: Many examples.
  • Asides from Joey and AP, Eric Bauza also voices a number of secondary characters in various episodes, such as Megalo-Don in "Surf n' Turf", the gym teacher in "Private Proton", the mole king in "Mole Men", Master Sensei in "Master of Disaster", and any of the main duo's Evil Knockoffs.
  • Peter Oldring does the voice of Mookie, as well as a large number of secondary characters, including the usher from "Sold Out", Absorbo Lad in the episode of the same name, Mr. Inkwood in "Quick Draw", and Bubbles (mainly his meowing, but also when he speaks in "AP vs. Disastro II").
  • Carlos Díaz voices Mr. Felt and Principal Thorpe (the latter using a similar voice to the one he uses for Mr. Sparks in Hero Elementary)
  • Kristina Nicoll voices Mrs. Felt, Princess War Tickle, and Ms. Erlenmeyer.
  • Katie Griffin voices Joey's sister Abbie and Mintenberg's AI Sneeri.
  • Rick Miller voices Professor Tite-Gripp, as well as Dr. Momus.
  • Robert Tinkler voices Commander Cavalier, Zorp, and Mudman, among others.
  • Tony Daniels voices Dirtbag and Manatee-Man.
  • Juan Chioran voices the Wicked Toymaker in "Ultimate Collection" and Von Follicle.
  • Jamie Watson voices Dyna-Moe and Marty the Tick.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • When Atomic Puppet was nominated for an Annie in 2017 for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Design", Princess War Tickle and Pauline are misnamed as "Principal Wartickle" and "Paulina" in the description.
  • Disney XD erroneously promoted the second half of Season 1 as the second season.
  • Promotional materials state Joey as having superhero title Nuclear Boy, with the Atomic Puppet title only referring to AP himself. However, he's never referred to this in the series proper, and he and AP are treated as a singular Atomic Puppet. Instead, Mookie is the holder of the Nuclear Boy name, part of his full title Sergeant Subatomic, the Nuclear Boy (a leftover from his early development when his name was "Nukey").
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: Los Angeles-based voice actor Eric Bauza voices the main duo of Joey and AP, while the rest of the cast is entirely Toronto-based.
• Development Gag: A minor one, but in the Atomic Puppet costume that Mookie wears to try fool the Justice Alliance in their debut episode, the sock puppet he uses is an early design for AP.
• International Coproduction: Between Canada’s Mercury Filmworks and France’s Alphanim, with Disney XD in the United States and Teletoon in Canada funding production.
• Invisible Advertising: Disney XD did not care for the show in the slightest, giving it literally no advertising and not even a single mention on their website (unless one counts the weekly schedule). Most people discovered the show during its airtime by sheer accident as a result.
• Out of Order: Most of the show has been aired this way. For example, the second production episode ("Atomic Detention" and "Big Pickle") was the first broadcast episode, while the Christmas Episode was aired around with the last five episodes of Season 1 despite being produced around the middle.
• Playing Against Type: Canadian comedian Rick Miller, who is also known as the voice of the squeaky-voiced and goofy but heroic Sparky in Atomic Betty, voices the thoroughly villainous and menacingly-voiced Professor Tite-Gripp in this series.
• Prop Recycling: An old woman with shades and a cane who appears as a background character in several episodes had previously appeared in the pilot of Fangbone!, which was also animated by Mercury Filmworks. See here.
• Screwed by the Network: Disney XD showed no kindness to this series, which they pretty much only used to randomly replace Fangbone! after its first 13 episodes (and after that show had been used the same way to Counterfeit Cat). They threw it into a single mid-afternoon weekday slot where new episodes were aired as quickly as possible with zero promotion (the series wasn't even mentioned at all on Disney XD's official website) and often Out of Order. In August 2016, the show was removed from the lineup despite still having 13 more episodes to air and did not return until February 2017 after Disney XD suddenly brought back Counterfeit Cat to burn off the remainder of the series. These final 13 episodes were treated the exact same as before, and once the final episode of Season 1 aired, it was quickly pulled off the channel with no indication of reruns or a second season, to be replaced with Fangbone!, which suffered the same miserable fate.
• Short Run in Peru: Debuted in USA and Latin America during July 2016, in France on March 2016, and in Canada in September 2016.
• What Could Have Been: The concept art from the show's website shows some interesting examples.
  • Joey's original superhero costume consisted of a masked hoodie making him look a bit like a ninja with a utility belt, a gadget-filled backpack, and a glove on his left hand. Outside the costume, he wore goggles over his forehead and had a different face shape (being rather animesque instead). Other concepts for Joey depict him as much younger or chubby, while concepts closer to the final gave him a red coat and blue pants instead.
  • The oldest concept for AP looked much more like a conventional sock puppet and was red and white instead of blue. See here, along with the earliest version of Joey and an early version of the series title (also seen in the pilot and early promotional material). Another AP prototype design was red and yellow instead, looking more like a muppet.
  • Captain Atomic went through a variety of designs, with the oldest one being yellow and blue with shades and a pointy nose.
  • Mookie was originally named "Nukey" (short for "Nuclear Boy") with a slender appearance, a pointy nose, and lacked his utility belt in favour of a jetpack. Some of his later designs are fatter with the utility belt looking like "a giant metal diaper" or as a mobile spider-legged seat. He also wore blue instead of purple in concepts closer to the final.
    • Mookie was to originally have a robot drone constantly orbiting around his head, with its sole purpose being to flatter and toady up to him with endless compliments on his greatness as a superhero.
  • Pauline originally had blue hair, a neckerchief, a miniskirt, and a baseball cap with a skull decoration. The hat and neckerchief are switched out for a hoodie in some concepts.
  • Naughty Kitty originally had white hair with a cats' ears-headband.
  • Older versions of Warren portrayed a gloomy older-looking boy in black accompanied by a pet rat before going for a nerdier-looking kid.
  • Mega City was originally named Model City.
  • Rex Bordeaux and Mookie had different voice actors, as heard in the pilot (possibly Eric Bauza).
  • The power up sequence (as seen in the pilot) had less lightning and one of the more notable features was that after the transformation, Joey would say "Awesome!".
  • In "Tick'd Off", the script had originally called for Marty to parasitize AP's back rather than Joey's neck as seen in the show. However, the original idea is still used as the episode synopsis in some regions. Also worth noting is that Marty's appearance was to be much less anthropomorphic and more like a real (for the show's artstyle) tick.
  • The creators have said that if the series had gotten another season, there would have been greater focus on world-building, development, and the like. While elements of this did appear as the first season progressed, this direction was not the initial one, with the writers deciding to throw out most of their old ideas and start fresh about halfway through production.

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