Trivia / Hamster & Gretel

• Actor Allusion: Jenny Lorenzo's character Abuelita Gomez has the same voice and mannerisms of her Abuela character from her YouTube channel (who also happens to have a grandson named Kevin).
• Adored by the Network: Like many other Disney shows over the past several years, this series was renewed for a second season ahead of the premiere.
  • On August 17th, 2022, the first two episodes of the series were joined on Disney+ by the early release of an additional three episodes ahead of their premieres, making it the third show after The Ghost and Molly McGee and Big City Greens to do so.
• The Danza:
  • Carolina Ravassa voices Carolina Grant-Gomez (Kevin and Gretel's mother).
  • Romi Dames (whose full name is Hiromi) voices Kevin's love interest, Hiromi.
• Dawson Casting: Meli Povenmire, who voices 9-year-old Gretel, is 14 years old as of the series premiere.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Word of God confirms Gretel has ADHD like her voice actress Meli Povenmire. This makes Gretel the third Disney TVA character to be canonically neurodivergent and the second lead character with ADHD (following Luz Noceda from The Owl House and Marcy Wu from Amphibia).
• Permanent Placeholder: Meli Povenmire as Gretel was initially used for the presentation piece due to her father, creator Dan Povenmire needing a girl's voice and her living with him. They opted to keep her for the series as none of the auditioners outperformed her.
• Playing Against Type: Alyson Stoner, who usually plays friendly and cheerful characters (like her other roles Isabella and Lydia), plays one of the villains, the Destructress.
• Production Posse: Many staff and crew from Dan Povenmire's previous shows Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law work on this show as well as voice actors Brock Powell (Alien Pilot and Vlorkel), Alyson Stoner (Isabella Garcia-Shapiro and Lydia), Dee Bradley Baker (Perry the Platypus and Diogee), Weird Al Yankovic (Milo Murphy), Jeff Swampy Marsh (Major Monogram and Cavendish), Pamela Adlon (Melanie and Bridgette Murphy), Diedrich Bader (Albert, Martin Murphy), Kate Micucci (Sara Murphy), and Phil LaMarr (Marcus Underwood).
• Short Run in Peru: "Flake It Til You Make It/Game Changer" aired on November 19, 2023 in Canada, nearly two weeks ahead of the American airdate.
• Role Reprise: Corey Burton and Jennifer Hughes return to voice the farmer and his wife from Phineas and Ferb.
• Trailers Always Lie: The promos for the show when it shows clips of "A Mammoth Problem", which depict Nordle as an evil Child Prodigy villain that is using the mammoth to wreck havoc in the city. In the actual episode, the mammoth was brought to life accidentally by Nortle during the Science fair and he and Gretel ended up working together to bring to capture the mammoth.
• What Could Have Been: In the early development, Gretel's headband in superhero gear was pink to match her suit, but in the actual show, her headband is blue.
• Write Who You Know: Povenmire based much of the main family on his own family. Carolina is based on his ex-wife Clarissa, who is also Venezuelan.

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