Trivia / SPARKLE ON RAVEN

• Christmas Rushed: Episode 3 was rushed out to get it finished in time for Christmas. The editing was done in an all-nighter session, and it was still being worked on an hour before it was released.
• Creator's Pest: During the development of episode 5, the entire crew got distracted by the idea of a new character called the Walking Talking Man, and got upset whenever Robby (the "creative fellow") tried to get them back on track. He eventually relented, and created a post-credits scene for episode 5 where Strawberry loses the talent show to the Walking Talking Man. However, the ending rendered incorrectly, causing the audio to cut out. After the fact, Robby facetiously declared that the Walking Talking Man is his least favorite character, blaming him for nearly destroying the show and saying that he will never appear again because he died off-screen.
• Doing It for the Art: The creators of the series have mentioned that it started largely as a joke, but they began to put in more "serious" art and story elements over time, until they stepped back and realized that they'd made a real show. They've also expressed a desire not to monetize the series, leaving any merchandise up to the personal choice of the artists involved.
• He Also Did: Many of the series' cast members are also involved in SnapCube's Real-Time Fandub. Dollip voices Raven, and Jet in RTFD; Mar Katoto voices Strawberry, and Tails and Vector in RTFD; Scout voices Slash, and Mephiles and The Devil in RTFD; Penny voices Dawn, and Sonic and Blaze in RTFD.
• In Memoriam: Episode 3 is dedicated to Cooters Restaurant & Bar, a bar in Clearwater, Florida that was open from 1993 to 2022. The characters spend the episode attempting to save the restaurant, but their efforts were ultimately fruitless until a crowd of people gathers to eat at Cooters and provide enough funding to keep the restaurant up for another month.
• Reality Subtext: The real-life closure of Cooters Restaurant & Bar is the primary focus of episode 3.
• Real Song Theme Tune: The opening theme for the series is "Omoide in my Head" by Number Girl, and the background music and credits themes are also preexisting songs. The channel features a playlist showing all the songs used in the series.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Episode 4's ending song ("Relight My Fire") received a copyright claim, and thus the video currently has no music during its credits sequence; the unedited version is currently hosted on a Google Drive.
• Throw It In!: The crew sometimes decide on random aspects of the series on a whim. For example, at 5:30 AM on a Sunday, after talking about how much they hated breakfast menus at fast food places ending so early in the morning, they decided to name the guy who donates money to help Raven save Cooters in episode 3 "The Cooters Christmas Crustomer".
• Wag the Director: Char, one of the animators, kept tormenting the "creative fellow", Robby, during the development of episode 5 by coming up with a character named "Lesbian Roronoa Zoro" and continuing to put her in shots even after Robby refused to use her. Originally, Lesbian Zoro was literally just a jpeg of Zoro's key art with a lesbian flag pasted on top of her shirt; eventually she became a cameo character in the Afterschool Blades Club, and then made cameos in other parts of the episode, with Char's response to every rejection being "but it would be funny though".
• What Could Have Been:
  • When the crew was deciding how to handle the credits in episode 2, they initially considered reusing the animation from the first episode, but Meeks (one of the animators) wanted to have Raven and Slash sing "ChuChu Lovely" by Maximum the Hormone. The crew decided against this, but liked the idea of having different songs and characters in each episode. They thought about using "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit, but eventually settled on the ending theme from Space Channel 5 Part 2. They were eventually able to use "ChuChu Lovely" as the credits song of episode 5.
  • The Extracurricular Cryptid Club in episode 4 was supposed to include two other students besides Wolf Girl, namely a jackalope and The Jersey Devil. They were cut to streamline the fight scene. The Jersey Devil student eventually made an appearance in episode 5.
  • One of the students designed for the fight montage in episode 4 was cut, and their spot was replaced by Paul Phoenix.
  • The credits song for episode 4 was debated among the crew for a while; "Ring My Bell" was the initial candidate, but they eventually decided upon "Relight My Fire". They considered "Ring My Bell" again for episode 5, since the episode is about Berrycream's bell, but they decided not to because they didn't want two disco songs in a row.
• Word of God:
  • Mar, one of the voice actors and artists, explained some details about episode 3 in a now-deleted Twitch stream. In particular, he gave names to Strawberry's family (her brother 'Quat and their non-binary single parent Mango).
  • Robby, the series' "creative fellow", provided some insight about the design process of episode 4 in an also-deleted watch-along stream. Some of the more specific details include:
    • Every named character is a student unless explicitly stated otherwise, like if they're a teacher or other authority figure. This includes Paul Phoenix and Locke.
    • While their exact ages aren't defined, all of the students are at least 18. Raven is the only character with a specific age beyond this (her 17th birthday was last year, so she's 18 exactly).
    • Lord Albert Tensai's "star" system of ranking students is entirely arbitrary and only used by him. All of the students introduced in the episode are one-star students except for Locke, who's a two-star.

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