Trivia / Backstroke of the West

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Reaching The West Of Reaches' powerful line "do not want" became a popular meme, but he was actually quoting The Plum Of's last words to him, after he called her a "lier" [sic].
  • Similarly, his reply to The D, "You say what?!" is a quote of the The Plum Of's previous query to Allah Gold.
• Revenge of the Sith didn't pass The Bechdel Test, but due to Blow the Skin's adaptational gender swap (as revealed by Senator's offhand mention that Blow the Skin "is [his] wife"), Backstroke of the West contains dialogue between her and The Gets The Rice that qualifies.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Blow The Skin. She has a voice similar to Anthony Daniels' original voice of C-3PO, but the dialogue implies that the character is actually female. (Protocol droids look mostly the same, regardless of gender.)
• Descended Creator: Tim Morgan (aka TheThirdGathers), the organizer of the dub, lent his voice to Allah Gold as well as Ray Gun.
• Dueling Works: Not long after the Backstroke bootleg DVD became available, a bootleg DVD of War of the Worlds (2005) showed up, with Translation Trainwreck subtitles that shared an astonishing number of phrases with Backstroke ("A day after the fair", "not want", "academic assocation", and The Good Elephant even gets a Shout-Out).
• Tyop on the Cover: The setup menu◊ on the DVD suggests that instead of a Translation Trainwreck, the "languange" [sic] of the subtitles is "Englsih", not English.
• What Could Have Been: According to Word of God, there was a documentary filmed during the 2011 premiere of the Backstroke of the West dub, featuring interviews with the cast and crew as well as members of the audience. However, it was never finished and the filmed footage is unaccounted for, which left the identities of the people involved with the dub a mystery among fans, until recently.
  • Shortly after the release of the The Counterattack Collection trailer in 2020, Benjamin Norman Pierce, who voiced Speaker D in Backstroke and was given a Role Reprise for Counterattack, came forward with his involvement in the dub. Shortly afterward, an audio interview with Pierce was recorded, which sheds some more light on the dub's origin centering around a group of residents at a housing co-op in Wisconsin.
  • Later, the same interviewer also interviewed Jeremy Winterson, the blogger who found the original bootleg DVD in Shanghai, China. The interview covers Jeremy's life in Asia, his finding of the DVD and surprise of the hits on his blog after he posted the pictures.
  • Eventually, Tim Morgan would come forward and reveal the identities of all the cast members on November 2022.