Trivia / Kevin Spencer

• Acting for Two: Mike Wetmore voices Allen and Charlie, and "Dreamland" has a scene where the two talk to one another.
• Banned Episode: "The New Mr. Franklin", the eighth episode from the first season, was pulled after it garnered complaints over content, specifically Kevin and Percy robbing a church and hurling snowballs at the congregation.
• Descended Creator: Creator Greg Lawrence was the head writer and lead voice actor all at once. He voiced the Narrator, Percy and most of the other male Spencers, including Kevin in the Grand Finale. Writers Rick Kaulbars and David Elver also voiced various minor characters, in part because the show had No Budget.
• DVD Commentary: The "Straightening Things Out" DVD contains commentary for the season 2 episodes "Dreamland", "Good Will Spencer", and "The Tomb".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The show as a whole fell into this for a number of years, as Hulu and Netflix pulled the series in 2013, and the made-on-demand DVDs went out of stock when the site hosting them went under (there was only one other official DVD release outside of the made-on-demand sets). It wouldn't be until 2020 when the show was made available legally.
  • The original Mondo Media versions of the shorts were lost until 2022, when all of them were uploaded to YouTube by Kevin Spencer Archive. The Burly Bear/CTV versions of the shorts had a majority of them uploaded to YouTube in 2021, but the rest remain lost.
• Missing Episode:
  • "Fire Starter", an episode from the first season, was banned alongside the aforementioned "The New Mr. Franklin" due to its violent content. Prior to the Spanish version's finding in 2023, the only traces of the episode's existence were a report filed by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and a clip appearing in the first season intro.
  • "Pat-riot-ism" is absent from the third season on Upstream Flix's YouTube uploads. The episode does appear properly on digital services (Amazon Prime, Roku Channel, Tubi, et al.)
• No Budget: The series was made on a budget of $29,000 per episode, and it shows through its Cast Full of Writers and extremely-limited Flash animation, both of which are in huge effect. Greg Lawrence even admitted in an interview that he hired his animators fresh out of school and pretty much destroyed their training with the crude animation they had to do.
• Production Posse: Several of the show's voice actors also appeared in the live-action show Butch Patterson: Private Dick, another show Greg Lawrence had running at the same time as Kevin Spencer.
• Same Voice Their Entire Life: Greg Lawrence voices the younger Percy as shown in the flashbacks in "Bruno Gerussi Must Die Again" and "Uncle Lester". In both cases, younger Percy notably has a high-pitched version of adult Percy's voice. It's especially noticeable in the latter episode, specifically the scene where Percy yells at his dad after receiving a concussion from a baseball thrown by his brother Lester.
• Technology Marches On:
  • The series is largely full of outdated technology, namely the fact that the Spencers own a CRT TV with an antenna connection, most of the phones are the rotary-dial type, and most computers are depicted as the big "box" ones. In the later seasons, most of the phones were updated to then-modern cordless phones.
  • "The Stripper Strikes Back" falls in this trope due to Percy and most of the other characters owning the aforementioned rotary-dial phones, which Percy uses to convince them to stop protesting liquor so he can resume drinking beer. The episode hinges on the fact that Percy gave his name away to his victims via his rampant phone calls; nowadays, modern smartphones have caller ID and the ability to track down the location of the original caller, rendering the episode's ending, where Percy exposes himself at the Camel Toe Inn, moot.
  • "Good Will Spencer", aside from having the aforementioned "big box" computers appearing in the computer room, has Timmy commenting that his VCR has more memory than "these junked-up calculators", largely dating the episode to a time when computers didn't have that much memory as they do now.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The series doesn't credit the voices for which characters they played, only featuring a single group of credited "Voices", which changes depending on the episode.
• Written by Cast Member: Greg Lawrence wrote roughly half of all the episodes produced, while also voicing multiple characters. Rick Kaulbars wrote about half of the other episodes, and also voiced various secondary characters. Voice actor David Elver is credited for writing one episode, "That Thing You Can Only Say in French".

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