Adored by the Network: Even though it only aired on Cartoon Network for two months, they aired to their hearts content. When the series first aired on the channel, it wasn't long until the network aired the show beyond its weekday slot at 5p, it later expanded to 7a, 1:30p and 2p and had frequent reruns on weekends, that was until August 2013, when the series was suddenly and completely pulled from the channel with zero explanation.
Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Contrary to what the theme music would suggest, Corey does not steal words from Trina's diary, but rather he takes inspiration from them. This is actually a plot point in the episode "Space Jammin'"
Lyon Smith, who provides the voice for Corey, does all his own singing.
Bryn McAuley also gets to show off her singing voice whenever Laney gets the lead role in a song, like "Please Come Back" and "You're So Untrue".
Channel Hop: In America. The first 13 episodes premiered on Cartoon Network and the next 13 premiered on their app. The aforementioned 13 episodes eventually aired on Boomerang.
Both Todd Kauffman and Mark Thornton place Trina as their favorite character. As for Grojband's members, Todd Kauffman has stated that his favorite to be Kon while Mark Thornton's is Laney.
Todd Kauffman has stated his favorite songs to be "Your Card" (also known as "Love, It's in My Heart") from "It's in the Card" and "Yesterday" from "Rockersize".
Creator's Oddball: Compared to Fresh TV’s previous animated series (6teen, Total Drama, and Stōked), Grojband stands out as unusual in that its main characters are younger, its tone is more surreal and self-aware, its writing contains less PG elements, and it’s a Two Shorts show. This is attributable to the fact that the series is created by a different pair of people than the other shows.
Cross-Dressing Voices: Grojband's opposite sex counterparts the Newmans share their respective voice actors.
Dawson Casting: With the notable exception of the Groupies, all of Grojband's teen and child characters are voiced by adults at least in their 20s. For instance, Bryn McAuley was only about 10 years older than 13-year-old Laney when she started voicing her.
Descended Creator: Nick Mallory's voice actor, Graeme Cornies, is one of the show's main composers and the guy the writers put all the show's song lyrics though first as a test run. He also performs the voice heard in the Wicked Cool Transitions.
Diagnosis of God: Corey's bio on the production blog describes him as having both OCD and ADHD, but the creators have conversely denied he has the latter condition, stating he is instead "just weird".
Flip-Flop of God: The series constantly flip-flops on whether The Newmans' male version of Laney is called Larry or Lenny. Word of God would later confirm that his name was originally Larry (hence why he's referred to as such during the series' run), but it was retconned to Lenny later as to better fit the idea of him being a gender-flipped Laney. Funny enough, "Lenny" was the character's name in the Latin American dub before the retcon.
Invisible Advertising: The show's fate once August 2013 rolled around, thanks to CN shoving the series to their online app, having apparently decided the show existed solely to be early summertime filler while kids were busy playing outdoors and the original productions they had set for debut later in 2013 (like Uncle Grandpa and Steven Universe) were being getting ready for launch.
Missing Episode: "No Strings Attached", albeit in certain states mainly due to some of its dialogue being deemed a little too edgy by kid show standards.
Up until 2015, the remaining episodes of season 1 could only be seen on television in France, Italy, Australia, Latin America, Poland, and the UK. This was later subverted however, as Boomerang aired all the remaining 13 episodes of season 1 in the late Winter and early Spring of 2015.
The DVDs for Season 1 can only be brought from Mexico, almost all of South America, and Australia.
Only So Many Canadian Actors: As a CanCon series, Grojband is required to only use Canadian actors, with many recognizable names from a variety of places popping up, like the renowned Alyson Court, former child voice actress Bryn McAuley, prominent anime dub actor Lyon Smith, and Sergio Di Zio of Flashpoint fame. In fact, of all the main characters, only Tim Beresford (voice of Kon) doesn't really qualify for the trope.
In the Polish dub, Mina Beff was initially voiced by Krystyna Kozanecka. After her abrupt passing on November 20, 2013, Joanna Pach resumed Kozanecka's role for the rest of the series.
In the Spanish dub, Trina Riffin's voice actress was Cynthia Chong for the first 18 episodes, but Alondra Hidalgo took over the role for the remainder of the series afterwards.
Many episodes from the first half of the series were broadcasted completely out of order on Cartoon Network. "Smash Up Terby"/"Queen Bee" is the 1st episode but is aired as the 8th episode; "Monster of Rock"/"One-Plant Band" is the 2nd episode but is aired as the 6th episode; and "Creepaway Camp"/"Zoohouse Rock" is the 3rd episode but is aired as the 7th episode.
Teletoon also aired the first half of the series out of order, although in a different manner than Cartoon Network. For instance, "Monster of Rock"/"One-Plant Band" was the first episode to debut in Canada rather than the sixth.
Schedule Slip: See Series Hiatus below. The slip was so bad that the single 26-episode season ended up being stretched out into a 2-year airtime.
Series Hiatus: The series went on a very long mid-season hiatus on both Cartoon Network and Teletoon, and it was possibly even longer thanks to Uncle Grandpa premiering. CN had decided to essentially shelve the series after "Six Strings of Evil" due to a lack of interest in it from them until they decided to finally put the rest of the show on their app (and later Boomerang), while Teletoon was simply copying their actions and waiting to see what CN did with the show.
When the series first aired in the United States on Cartoon Network in June 2013, they would air a new half-hour episode (later changed to just one 15-minute segment, with the remaining half being a re-run of one of the previously-aired 15-minute segments) every weekday for an entire month. After the first 13 half-hour episodes were shown on CN, new episodes were put on hold. It was supposed to return to CN the following Spring, and it did, but NOT on the actual channel. Instead, the remaining 13 episodes of Season 1 were released on CN's mobile app on March 31, 2014. They eventually aired on television in the United States nearly a year later... on CN's sister station, Boomerang. Boomerang continued airing re-runs of the series until that July, when it left American TV airwaves altogether. And it wasn't until THAT happened when the series was officially announced to have been cancelled.
Grojband's fate on Teletoon is an unusual case. Due to Canadian Content laws, Teletoon aired reruns of the show fairly regularly, but since they were pretty much deciding to just imitate whatever Cartoon Network did with the show, they too delayed the second half of the series until 2015. And unlike CN, they didn't have any app to shove the series onto during the time inbetween, so Teletoon pretty much only reran the first 13 episodes.
Short Run in Peru: Despite being created in Canada, the series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network first in June 2013, and only came to Teletoon on a few months later in September (by that time, CN had already finished the first half of the series and had put the show on hiatus). However, like CN, Teletoon also delayed the second half of the season for nearly 2 years, debuting it in March 2015 - a month after it had already begun on Boomerang - in response to CN finally broadcasting the rest of the series.
Trolling Creator: When asked where Peaceville was located, co-creator Todd Kauffman said it was in the same state as Springfield. However, it's generally agreed the show is probably set somewhere in Ontario.
on the production blog describes him as having both OCD and ADHD, but the creators have conversely denied