Trivia / Moville Mysteries

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Frankie Muniz as Mosley Moville.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: While everyone else was based in Toronto, Frankie Muniz recorded Mo's lines from Los Angeles.
• Development Gag: The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "The Boy Who Cried Alien!" (also created by Guy Vasilovich) was more or less a prototypical version of Moville Mysteries; both the short and the show use the same school principal character, who is shown being beamed up by a flying saucer in the Moville Mysteries intro.
• He Also Did: Series creator Guy Vasilovich would later create another obscure Canadian cartoon, Iggy Arbuckle. He also wrote several children's books and comics, and was a director for many other cartoons, including ChalkZone, Growing Up Creepie, the Geronimo Stilton animated series, and The VeggieTales Show.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The only home video release was a single DVD that contained only three episodes - "The Tell Tale Recliner", "The Good Old Days" and "How Now Meowing Cow."
• No Export for You: Fox Kids was given the broadcasting rights for the show in the United States, but they never bothered airing it. As a result, the show has never actually appeared on US television, although it did air on international broadcasts of Fox Kids, including during its Jetix era.
• Only So Many Canadian Actors: Notably averted by Mo himself being voiced by Frankie Muniz, but otherwise played straight with the other characters, with Mimi and Hitch's voice actors being better known on Canadian television for their roles in Corner Gas and Total Drama respectively.
• Screwed by the Network: YTV condemned the series to late-night graveyard timeslots, where the only promotions it received for some reason chose to present the show as a grossout comedy rather than a horror-mystery series.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Guy Vasilovich originally imagined the show as a kids' book series, even creating a book version of what would eventually become the script for the pilot episode "Raiders of the Lost Jock-Strap". This version had several elements seen in the pilot for the TV show too, such as Moville being the name of the setting instead of the protagonist's surname. See here.
  • As explained in the pilot, Moville was the name of the town instead of Mo's surname, which was Muldoon. He also had a different, albeit unidentified, voice actor. Another notable difference between the pilot and the final product is that it was animated in Adobe Flash instead of being traditionally animated like in the series proper.
  • Season 2 was originally intended to be much longer than 13 episodes, but its poor treatment in both Canada and the States led to the show being shelved, along with many ideas for continuations of established stories and plans to go Darker and Edgier than before.

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