- Acting for Two: Tress MacNeille voices many different characters, including the turkey.
- Creator Backlash:
- Rodney Dangerfield was apparently unhappy with the film and was said to have quietly excused himself from the premiere halfway through.
- Bone creator Jeff Smith worked on the film as an animator and later called it "a really bad movie."
- Descended Creator: In addition to playing the lead, Rodney Dangerfield co-wrote and produced the film, and even wrote the lyrics to the songs.
- Executive Meddling: According to animation historian Jerry Beck, Rover Dangerfield was originally conceived as an R-rated comedy which more accurately captured Dangerfield's standup routine, but was retooled as a kid-friendly version to compete against Disney.
- Follow the Leader: Attempted to one-up Disney when the executives got involved, even with many aspects of the original material still present in the final cut.
- Real-Life Relative: In the Latin American Spanish dub, VĂctor Ugarte voiced Danny, while his uncle Eduardo Fonseca voiced many roles in the film, mainly Mugsy, Lem and the wolves.
- Referenced by...: One episode of Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production has a stuffed animal of Rover in the background of a carnival game.
- The Family Guy episode The Woof of Wall Street has Rover make a cameo in a cut away gag.
- What Could Have Been: Again, this was originally conceived as an R-rated animated film that would have more faithfully captured Rodney's raunchier stand-up material. Considering that this was a few years before South Park would define what counted as animation specifically made for adults, one wonders what kind of impact a film like that could have had.
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