Trivia / Making Fiends

• Acting for Two: The voice cast for the TV series consists of just nine people, including the director and the soundtrack composer. Only three of these nine people voice main and recurring characters. The web series has even fewer voice actors. Seriously!
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • Mrs. Minty is voiced by Peter Merryman, the same guy who voices Mr. Milk and various others.
  • Hilariously, the April Fools' version of the sixth webisode replaces all the spoken dialogue with a text-to-speech computer voice. All of the voices used are male.
• Development Hell: The TV series has been through this. Six episodes were produced before being abruptly cancelled during production, with seven additional half-hour scripts that have never been shown to the public. It doesn't help that Nickelodeon originally ordered 20 episodes.
• God Never Said That: Several have claimed that Amy Winfrey said that there are seven ready to air episodes locked away at Nickelodeon, but she never said that; she did, however, say that there were seven scripts for episodes Nickelodeon never did anything with.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The web animations used to come in available DVDs with many alternate versions and character commentaries. Since Making Fiends is licensed by Nickelodeon, the creators can't sell any of its merchandise, even what they made independently. All of the DVDs were uploaded by someone on YouTube at one time... but he has since deleted his account.
• No Export for You: Outside of the theme song of the original web shorts being sung in Bulgarian for an April Fools' joke and the TV version being subtitled in Dutch, there are no records of this series in any language other than English.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends:
  • Charlotte's parents are dead, and her grandmother lied to her about them being on the moon. It fits the grim theme of the show and it is implied in "Parents", but it's never been outright confirmed.
  • Several Season 2 episodes were produced that Nickelodeon refused to air for whatever reason. This one is very unlikely. There have been scripts for unproduced episodes, not actual finished episodes that were never released.
  • Similarly, another rumour is that Amy Winfrey was no longer allowed to make her own Making Fiends Shorts after the Nickelodeon series. This is untrue, as Amy made occasional April Fools' Day Specials like Making Friends and Baking Beans after the end of the Nickelodeon series.
• Production Posse: Peter Merryman, who is in this series, is the voice of Amy Winfrey's Big Bunny.
• Saved from Development Hell: The show had been in the planning stages for years and there were promos made for it ages before it actually aired on TV, only for it to get a shaky under-promoted start and then tossed back into development hell.
• Screwed by the Network: Despite very good critical praise, a decent-sized fanbase and being the highest-rated Nicktoon during its run, the TV version only lasted six episodes. Amy Winfrey said that scripts for seven more episodes were made, but nothing came out of them. What's stranger is that despite the series being cancelled, Nicktoons still occasionally aired and marathoned the six episodes that aired up to 2016's Halloween.

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