Trivia / Fudêncio e Seus Amigos

• Acting for Two: Most of the characters are voiced either by Thiago Martins or Marco Pavão, meaning that this trope happens a lot. The other voice actors also voice multiple other characters.
• Amateur Cast: Almost all of the cast is formed by people from the production team, with their only other acting roles being in other shows from the same creators.
• Cast Full of Writers: All of the three creators of the show have both written episodes and voiced characters. Two of them also animated for all episodes, though Flávia Boggio never worked on the visuals, only scripts and voices.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Conrado's second voice actor Felipe Solari was also a VJ at MTV.
  • Almost happened in early production, where Popoto was originally going to be the MTV presenter João Gordo playing As Himself, but due to a couple of reasons, the character was reworked into a generic Fat Idiot and instead was voiced by Thiago Martins.
• Copiously Credited Creator: Thiago Martins and Marco Pavão, who are artists, voice actors, directors, and writers (in Season 6)
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • Some character descriptions say that Neguinho had never said a swear word in the series. While this was eventually contradicted later on the series, it was never true: his very first line was "I'm fucked, my god".
  • For some reason, the MTV programation director said that Safeno and Zé Maria are more evil than Fudêncio, when they are actually some of the nicer characters.
• Creator Backlash:
  • After finishing the first episode, the creators watched it and didn't like the result. A few years later, however, they came to get used to it and liked the episodes more than they did at first.
  • In a 2022 podcast, Thiago Martins and Marco Pavão seemed to be embarrassed of the series because of its incorrect undertones, and were thankful there is several content missing of it, and that it's now more obscure.
• Creator's Favorite: The showrunners loved Funérea just as much as the fans do.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: The favorite episodes of one of the show's creators, Marco Pavão, are: "Aparecilds", "Animação Animada", "Fudêncio Mutante", "Champa Avonts", "Gangue do Patrão" and "E.T. - O Contrabandista".
• Dawson Casting: All the kids are voiced by adults, most of who were already in their late 20s when the show started and early 30s when it ended. Although the children are supposed to be nine, most of them sound like adults or teens at youngest.
• Edited for Syndication: When the first season was released for DVD on 2008, all real-life songs in the episodes were replaced by original ones. The episode "Tutti-Fruta" was absent from the DVD release for this reason, as there was no way to remove the songs due to them being too important for the episode.
• Executive Meddling: Zé Maria was originally named Diego, but the name was censored by the chief of MTV, because Diego was also his son's name and he didn't want a trans character with the same name of his child.
• Fake Nationality: All of the American, Japanese, Chinese, Argentinian, etc. characters are still voiced by Brazilians.
• He Also Did: This show has become this for Thiago Martins and Marco Pavão, after they released a kids' cartoon called Gigablaster for the network Gloob.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: After MTV Brasil ended in 2013, the show can only be watched in the internet; even the creators themselves watch it on YouTube, since they no longer possess the physical copies of the episodes, and the show had its copyright expired. The first season can easily be found in any website that hosts episodes of the series, but you'd have to look HARD to find episodes from any other season outside of YouTube.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Almost all the characters are voiced by the show creators.
• Missing Episode: While most episodes are available on the internet, some episodes from almost all seasons (except 1 and 6) are completely lost. There are at least 20 of them, although there may be more episodes which lost all traces and evidences of existence. The episodes "Planeta Sustentável" and "Rodando Bolsinha" don't even have known synopsis, with the only evidence of the former's existence being the fact it once was on MTV Overdrive, while the latter only currently exists in episode guides. The episodes "Terrorismio" and "Zoofilia" may not have been posted on the internet due to inappropriateness of their titles.
  • And there used to be more; in late 2017 and early 2018, the non official channel "Fudêncio e Seus Amigos", managed to find several episodes on a now-deleted Dropbox folder. Before he found them, out of the thirty-nine Season 3 episodes, THIRTY-ONE used to be lost (twelve still are as of now), not counting small clips.
  • In almost any website that has the series episodes, there will only be 19 from the first season; "Tutti-Fruta" is replaced by "Código Popoto", while "Código Popoto" is replaced by a duplicate of "Baltazar é um Barato".
• Non-Singing Voice: In "Cabecedário", when the Carecas do ABC first appear at the classroom, they sing their chant in deeper voices, without their accents.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: In March 2007, a blog post in MTV Overdrive asked people to submit videos of persimmons being destroyed in the weirdest ways possible. The best ones were put into the episode "Concurso Destrua o Caqui", two months later.
• One-Book Author: With the exception of Paulo Ivo (who voiced the Narrator and Kevin Costa), all other voice actors for the show were producers and thus haven't done any other voice acting aside from other MTV Brazil cartoons, most notably Rockstar Ghost and The Jorges, which have mostly the same cast from Fudêncio. Felipe Solari, Conrado's second voice actor, is also an regular actor.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends:
  • In many episode guides for the show found across the internet, there are two Season 5 episodes titled "Rodando Bolsinha" and "O Regime do Popoto". For a while, these two were believed to be some of the lost episodes of the show, but later it was found out that they never existed at all, being actually just made-up names added on the show's episode list on Wikipedia in 2010 as vandalism among some other false titles which were actually removed.
  • Some newcomers fans believe that Funérea is Fudêncio's sister, which is obviously not true at all, especially because they are shown to have different families.
• Series Hiatus: The show divided seasons by year. Each season only started in May, June or August, with the previous months being when all the episodes were produced.
  • Season 1 aired from August to early October 2005, three episodes per week. Afterwards, the show went on hiatus until May 2006.
  • In late May 2006, Season 2 premiered, now airing two episodes per week until September 2006. The series went on a hiatus until May 2007.
  • In mid-May 2007, Season 3 premiered and aired two episodes per day until the last day of the month. Then, new episodes started airing only in December, also two per day.
  • Season 4 then premiered five months later, in May 2008. They also aired one episode per day until late May, then resumed in August after a two-month hiatus, before doing another two-month hiatus and airing the remaining episodes in November. In late November until early December, the spin-off Fudêncio 2000 aired afterwards.
  • Season 5 premiered in May 2009 and also aired one episode per day, then also did a hiatus until August.
  • 2010 did not have a new season, just four World Cup specials from May 17 from June 7.
  • Season 6 premiered in early June 2011, after almost one year without new episodes. It aired one episode per week until August 25, in which the season and the show permanently ended.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In season 4, Conrado started being voiced by Felipe Solari instead of Fernando Cintra. In Season 5, he gets voiced by Geninho Simonetti, Safeno's voice actor. After Geninho also left, he's voiced by Cauê Zunchini for the remainder of the series. In "O Barato Que Dá", he's voiced by Thiago Martins.
  • In Season 4, Delcídio's voice actor changes from Ivan Von Simson to Thiago Martins. In Season 5, Ivan comes back, except for two episodes where Thiago voices the character. After Season 5, Thiago again voices Delcídio for the remainder of the series.
  • Neguinho's was originally voiced by Thiago Martins in Season 1, using a low-pitched voice at first then switching to a deep voice. In Seasons 2 and 3, he's voiced by Fernando Peque (who also voiced Conrado) with a consistent, deep voice that was carried to the following voices as well. In Seasons 4 and 5, he's voiced by André Aguiar, until he had to leave Brazil; therefore, in 2010 and 2011, he goes back to being voiced by Thiago Martins, albeit with a different deep voice.
  • In 2010, several cast members left, resulting in many voice changes:
    • Since the third world cup special, Zé Maria's voice actor changes from Cacá Marcondes to Ieié Marcondes. Strangely, her original voice actor only left after voicing the second special.
    • Safeno's voice actor changes from Geninho Simonetti to Ieié Marcondes as well.
    • Dráuzio Varíola goes from being voiced by Fon Jimenez to Thiago Martins. Fon's other character, the bus driver, just outright disappeared from the show.
  • By 2011, the only voice actors left from Season 1 were Thiago Martins, Marco Pavão, Flávia Boggio and Marta Ferreira. It helped that, at least, the former two already voiced a bunch of characters.
  • Almost all background characters would change voices in every episode they spoke. In "Futibas Church", even the estabilished characters Juca Esfirra Aberta and Fritz have different voices (and the same one, at that), probably because their lines in the script were written for a random guy, but the animators used their character models instead.
• Production Lead Time: The episodes didn't take much to be produced. The episode "Rei do Pop", which is about the death of Michael Jackson, aired only 48 days after his death.
• Schedule Slip: The show was originally set to premiere on August 9, 2005, but it was moved to the 23rd instead.
• Screwed by the Network: After the spinoff show "Infortúnio com a Funérea" became a standalone series in 2010, the main show started getting much less focus in favor of this series. There were only four episodes in 2010 (all just as World Cup specials), and only 13 episodes in 2011 (compared to the 20-30 of the previous seasons), and being cancelled afterwards. "Infortúnio", on the other hand, lasted until the end of the network in 2013, with Funérea herself even making a cameo in another talk show in 2015, even though both of her shows no longer aired.
• Technology Marches On: In seasons 2-4 (2006 to 2008), Conrado's television was an old small model, but it was the one reason the other kids visited him; his television was better than theirs. In Season 5 in 2009, it was changed to a HD flat screen, much like the show switched from SD to HD in the previous year.
• Uncredited Role: Sometimes, the opening credits would not include some people. The background designers, for example, were only credited in Season 4 (although there was a "drawings" section in the credits, which probably includes the backgrounds too). Some voice actors were also excluded, such as Ivan Von Simson (Delcídio, the gay cop's voice actor) in Season 5. This was the reason Conrado's original voice actor, Fernando Peque, ended up leaving, as he was tired of not being credited for voicing the main character.
• Unfinished Episode: There was a scrapped episode (presumably from Season 6) that involved cocaine. Also, the season 2 finale shows there were 38 episodes in the season, but only 35 are known (and 31 are currently watchable), implying the other three were either scrapped or are lost to the point not even their titles are known.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The opening credits don't say which actor plays which character, making it even more confusing because some of them play several characters.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Zé Maria's name was originally "Diego", and the opening was even recorded with this name, but some sort of Executive Meddling forced the creators to change it. The final opening had a voice saying "Zé Maria", superimposing the original one saying "Diego", although the original opening was played in two episodes.
  • During the series premiere, it was announced that the first season would have eight half-hour episodes (since all episodes are around 10-minutes long, that equals 24 episodes). However, only 20 episodes were aired, with 6 half-hour airings and one 20-minute airing.
  • Episodes often had scenes cut off them for time or for being too difficult to draw/animate. For example, "A Marcha do Caqui" lasts 12 minutes, while its original script has 15 pages and features several scenes that were removed; including a scene where Fudêncio gives the hallucinogenous gum to Conrado, who puts it on his pocket and gets arrested after the police finds it (in the final version, he's arrested just because everyone else was mad at him). Also, the last scene would feature Conrado in prison, meeting a criminal who sells pornography and drugs "to help people".
  • During production, the crew wasn't sure of how many swear words the show would have. At one point, it had no swearing, which would make it extremely different from the final version.
  • The script for the pilot episode "Quiprocó na Lama" was originally Lighter and Softer, but it was requested to have raunchier jokes and scenes.

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