Trivia / Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf

The following Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf adaptations have their own pages:

• Pleasant Goat Fun Class
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Dunk for Future

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• Acting for Two: Quite a few of the original Chinese actors voice more than one character at a time:
  • Zu Liqing as Weslie, Night Wolf, and Jollie.
  • Gao Quanshang as Slowy, Darton, Master Paopao, and Brother Tai.
  • Liang Ying as Paddi and Wilie.
  • Deng Yuting as Tibbie, Jonie, and Fragrant Wolf.
  • Liu Hongyun as Sparky and Banana Wolf.
  • Zhang Lin as Wolffy and Yellow Wolf.
• Adaptation First: Disney only released the show in the Asia-Pacific, while they released the Where's My Water? crossover game worldwide. As such, a bunch of countries only got the game and not the show.
• Blooper:
  • The music is accidentally left out in the Previously on… segment of episode 3 of the Great War in the Bizarre World Story Arc. As a result, the segment feels very empty.
  • The English version of Joys of Seasons episode 6 has the spoken dialogue significantly delayed on the YouTube version and all of the audio delayed on the iflix version.
  • Episode 68 of Joys of Seasons has two brief instances where the animation is inadvertently replaced with a multilingual "Media offline" screen for a split-second. This only applies to the English version, which later got a second upload with the error corrected (though the original version with the error was kept as well).
  • The English version of Mighty Little Defenders episode 6 originally had the spoken dialogue, but completely lacked music and sound effects save for the theme song and end credits music. This episode was later reuploaded with the audio fixed.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: It's one of the most popular animated television series in China, so it not only has a lot of adaptations and merchandise (a film series, manhua, a Spin-Off Babies show, at least two Licensed Games including a crossover, a lot of toys...), but it makes a lot of money off of it.
• Channel Hop: This series has aired on a handful of channels throughout its run, among them CCTV-14, Hunan TV's Aniworld, and ZJTV.
• Completely Different Title: The Hindi title used to be Kya Bakra Hai!, which translates to What a Goat! in English. When the series started airing in India again in 2023, it reverted to Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.
• Content Leak: Due to briefly being unlisted and hidden, some episodes of the English dub of Mighty Little Defenders were found by fans a few days before their intended release date. Once these episodes were privated until they were intended to come out, fans made copies of them early.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The original Chinese dub features:
  • Female Zu Qing as males Weslie, Night Wolf, and Jollie.
  • Female Liang Ying as males Paddi and Wilie.
  • Female Liu Hongyun as males Sparky and Banana Wolf.
• Development Gag: Paddi has the main spotlight in a few seasons and story arcs, such as Paddi the Amazing Chef and Against the Dark Force. This is likely a throwback to how Paddi was meant to be the main character of the show as a whole in its early developmental stages.
• Fandom Life Cycle:
  • Stage 5 at its peak in China, due to having a lot of seasons and merchandise. It slowly cooled down to stage 3/4 when people grew tired of it, but it looks like it might reach stage 5 again as it's gaining back popularity.
  • It's always been in stage 0(a) in the West due to a complete lack of exposure to the show, though it's slowly inching towards stage 1 or possibly 2 due to fans spreading the word about the show and getting people interested.
• Fan-Work Ban: The official Bilibili page places a few restrictions on what posts can be made there, one of which is that no shipping between any Pleasant Goat characters besides Wolffy x Wolnie is allowed due to it being against the wishes of the producers.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The English dub of the first season's Great War in the Bizarre World Story Arc, which was on DramaFever before it shut down, hadn't resurfaced apart from a very small handful of episodes and clips (if you knew where to look) for a while. However, the official English YouTube channel for the series started uploading the dub in 2022.
  • The websites that hosted early manhua strips went down and CPE didn't put all of the manhua strips on their app, making some early strips hard to find.
  • Subverted; The official YouTube upload of HD Widescreen remastered version of Smart Dodging episode 34 were set private for currently no reasons.
• Kids' Meal Toy:
  • It's received Happy Meal toys in Chinese McDonald's restaurants at least once to promote the season Adventures in the Primitive World. The specific toys are Weslie riding a leaf with Super the penguin; a motorized one featuring Tibbie as a fairy dancing on a mushroom; a gorilla that throws Paddi when you place some plastic bananas in its mouth; a time machine that comes out with either Paddi or Wolffy depending on which "era" it's on; and a magnetized Wolffy using a slide to ride a wind-up mammoth that moves when the magnet's placed on it.
  • From 2009 to 2015, Chinese Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants had Pleasant Goat toys in their kids meals to tie into the movie series. They came back in 2023 with a collaboration called Pleasant Goat: Nightfall in Paris (喜羊羊夜幕巴黎), featuring books and cups with the Pleasant Goat characters on them.
• Late Export for You:
  • In Hong Kong, TVB Jade aired the first series in Cantonese in 2009, four years after its debut in mainland China. The same also happened in Taiwan.
  • South Korea didn't get the fourth and fifth movies (released in China in 2012 and 2013 respectively) until 2020. The seventh film premiered earlier in 2019, but that's still nowhere near its Chinese release (2015).
• Licensed Game:
  • Quite a few games were released on Android. One particular game was released worldwide: Where's My Water? Featuring XYY.
  • A separate console game, titled 喜羊羊与灰太狼-决战咩星 (Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Comet Battle) in Chinese, was released for M&D's Monon Color (梦龙彩色掌机) handheld system.
• Long-Runners: It started around 2005, and it is so popular that it now spans 2,000+ episodes, with no signs of stopping. Along with other Chinese cartoons like Boonie Bears and GG Bond, it's to China what SpongeBob SquarePants is to America.
• Marathon Running: Some seasons air really quickly due to their popularity. For example, The Athletic Carousel aired 60 episodes in only 4 days.
• The Merch: There are over 1,000 different products aimed at different demographics, including fashion products, home goods, skin products, school items, and different toys and electronic items.
• Milestone Celebration: The seventh film, Amazing Pleasant Goat, was made to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary.
• No Dub for You:
  • This show aired outside of China on Nickelodeon Asia, but it was kept in the original Chinese.
  • This show was put on the dimsum.my streaming service in Malaysia, but it was kept in the original Chinese.
  • The Flying Island: The Sky Adventure season has been made available on the official English Pleasant Goat YouTube channel, but it's an English-subtitled version rather than the English dub. The English dub of episode 5 is available on the official Chinese channel, but hasn't been reuploaded on the official English channel. And a select 30 episodes of the season were put on Netflix, but only for Taiwan, Hong Kong and parts of Southeast Asia, but with the original Chinese dub instead. Brunei and Myanmar viewers got an English-subtitled version as well.
• No Export for You:
  • The franchise never saw release in European countries (except Disney's Licensed Game), but subverted as the season Dear Little Wish and as well as the first two Pleasant Goat Fun Class seasons only saw a limited release (and it was also dubbed in English) in North America and Southeast Asia (and possibly South Korea), but it was only on Miao Mi, an educational service for preschool and kindergarten-aged children, which teaches them Chinese.
  • The "Goat Olympics" season was only broadcasted in China and Taiwan.
  • The live-action movie only showed in China.
• The Other Darrin: The English dub. They keep changing the voices of the characters with each season they dub.
• Out of Holiday Episode: The season Joys of Seasons premiered in May 2010, meaning that its ninth episode, which has an April Fools' Plot, aired after the holiday had already passed.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Quite a few.
  • Rumors circulated that there would be a Japanese dub with an impressive cast. Creative Power Entertaining said that the news was false. (Though for what it's worth, they did release Dunk for Future at one point in Japan, but with subtitles instead of a dub.)
  • There have also been rumors that the franchise was banned in France. However, it also turned out to be a hoax; for the record, the show has never officially aired in France as of now.
• Recursive Adaptation: It began as an animated series, and it was later adapted into a comic series in a magazine, which then got adapted back into an animated series called Man Jing Tou.
• Recycled Script: One strip of the manhua has Weslie and Wolffy look fierce at first only to end up playing Rock–Paper–Scissors. This is the exact same joke as the Episode Title Card of episode 60.
• Referenced by...:
  • This show is referenced a bit in Happy Heroes. Given that the director of Happy Heroes was also one of the higher-ups on the team creating Pleasant Goat, it makes sense.
    • One of the monsters is sent flying by Happy S., and is later shown to have landed in a dark ominous place with Wolf Castle in the background.
      Big-head Monster: He hit me so hard I have no idea what cartoon I've ended up in!
    • When Big M. and Little M. are wolves in the fairy tale arc, Big M. remarks that he has suddenly developed a fear of frying pans... then he got hit with a frying pan.
    • When Mr. Lightbulb is trying to introduce television to the citizens of Planet Mystery, he mentions that one could see shows on it. Aqiang points out that he could do that too, and dresses up as a wolf and says "Dearest sheep, I've arrived!"... Mr. Lightbulb hits him with a frying pan.
    • Wolffy makes a cameo in the fourth Happy Heroes movie, Happy Heroes Multiverse Rescue.
  • The streaming service iQiyi has a search bar. Before you type something in, the search bar might have the placeholder text Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.
  • The Bernard/Backkom film Agent Backkom: Kings Bear has a promotional video where Bernard encounters Weslie and tries to shoot him with a water gun. Weslie dodges and retaliates with a water tank.
  • Happy Family: Snowball the Memory Gobbler has a character mention they want to see I Love Wolffy, the most recent Pleasant Goat film when the Happy Family film debuted in theaters (2012). Both are Creative Power Entertaining franchises.
  • One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes 2 features the Pleasant Goat characters at the beginning, being given the Star Map needed to travel to different dimensions, which is then promptly stolen by Wolffy or more specifically, someone pretending to be Wolffy.
  • Cardcaptor Sakura: Key of Memories (魔卡少女樱：回忆钥匙), a Chinese app game based on Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card, added a Chinese New Year-themed event in 2024 where Sakura finds herself in Goats' Village and works with the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf characters.
• Release Date Change: The season Mighty Little Defenders was originally slated to premiere in the summer of 2018, but the production team was forced to change the episodes so that they were less violent. This caused the season to be delayed to January 2019.
• Rereleased for Free: Quite a few movies/shows originally costed money to watch before they were put up for free on Youku, iQiyi, and other sites. However, this didn't last because they eventually made you pay to watch some seasons.
  • Outside of China, some seasons were available on YouTube for free, and also includes the Bowdlerized version of Great War in the Bizarre World and episodes 341-380. The only episode missing from the seasons having been uploaded is Smart Dodging episode 34, which is privatized for some unknown reason.
  • When the season Dunk for Victories was put on iQiyi, originally all of it beyond episode 6 was restricted to VIP access, but this was later reversed and the entire season became free to watch for a while. But due to dwelling popularity of the season, later the VIP restriction was put up again as Creative Power Entertaining's strategy to Win Back the Crowd and presumably to make more money.
• Schedule Slip: Mighty Little Defenders was due to air in summer 2018, but they had to edit the show to make it more suitable for children and families. Because of this, it was delayed to winter 2019.
• Troubled Production: Mighty Little Defenders had a troubled development for half a year. The National Radio and Television Administration forced Creative Power Entertaining to edit the fighting scenes to make them more suitable for kids. They also forced CPE to change the weapons. This caused the season to come out much later than expected.
• Tyop on the Cover:
  • The picture book Good for Travel: Taiwan, China had its English title spelled as "Taiwai" before it was fixed in a later printing.
  • One poster calls the show Pleasant Goat and Big Big Walf.
  • The official English title for episode 26 of Joys of Seasons is "Good Deeds Goes Unpunished", which should be "Good Deeds Go Unpunished".
• Uncredited Role:
  • Many official YouTube uploads completely remove the credits.
  • The English dub doesn't credit the English voice actors. It only credits the original Chinese cast.
• Unfinished Dub:
  • The myriad English dubs only cover select seasons, not the entire show.
  • Of the movies, I Love Wolffy and its sequel are the only ones to have no English subtitles.
• Voiced Differently in the Dub: The Khmer dub gives Paddi a deep voice, while other dubs give him a higher-pitched one.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In its early stages, the show was called Lazy Goat and Big Big Wolf and Paddi was the main character. Production decided that Paddi wasn't a good role model and put Weslie in his role instead, making Paddi a side character.
  • There were plans to make this show into a huge international hit. Never happened.
  • There's speculation that there was going to be an I Love Wolffy 3, but it was cancelled due to the first two doing poorly at the box office.
  • In 2017, they registered a trademark in the United States that would've allowed them to release lots of merchandise, but they never used the trademark and they let it expire.
  • The series was originally planned to have 40 episodes. Given that the series became immensely popular and now totals 2,500+ episodes, that's certainly very odd to think about.
  • There was supposed to be another Monon Color game called 喜羊羊与灰太狼-羊咩英雄传 (something along the lines of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - The Legend of the Sheep Heroes"), but the Monon Color stopped producing games before it could be released.
  • Creative Power Entertaining had plans to make movies to represent all the Eastern Zodiac animals, but they stopped short after the seventh movie. By the time they made it to the eighth movie, Dunk for Future, they would have to begin the cycle again and featured tigers as opponents once more (the second movie has one as an antagonist) to hearken back to the original theming.
  • Poyong Dawang from The Season Towns was called the Monster King before having his name changed due to it being unapproved.
  • The four Marching to the New Wonderland seasons were supposed to take place in a plant world where the goats are shrunken, a sea world, a space world, and the Earth's core. Those final two became Flying Island: The Sky Adventure and Rescue Across Time, which take place in the sky and across different time periods, respectively.
• Working Title:
  • The show was originally titled Lazy Goat and Big Big Wolf when it was still initially in development, and Paddi was the main character instead of Weslie.
  • When the 2023 movie was first announced, it had the title Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf Movie 8. Dunk for Future later placated it as the eighth movie.