Trivia / Summer Memories

• Acting for Two: Jonathan Langdon voices both Tim and Tall Girl's dad, Mr. Tightknit.
• Blooper: The show's animation (done in Toon Boom Harmony) is generally pretty good, but there are times where the animators goof up.
  • In "Truth or Dare", when the kids are getting ice cream, the cone Ronnie carries in his hands fails to move with his arm, resulting in it floating in midair while Ronnie's hand grips onto nothing.
  • In "Soccer is Life", when Ronnie is talking to Jason at the start of the episode, the background changes for a split second from the field where the kids play soccer to the swimming pool before changing back again.
  • In "Heat Wave", Jason tells his gut and brain to shut up and go away before a concert, and while the former disappears after he pulls his shirt back down, the latter remains awkwardly floating above Jason as he moves his head.
• Creator's Favorite: In an interview with the webseries Directing Animation Livecast, Adam Yaniv called Joanna his favorite character.
• Crossdressing Voices: Protagonist Jason is voiced by Tricia Black.
• Dawson Casting: All the child characters are voiced by adults at least in their 20s. Word of God says this was intentional, as in fitting with the show's theme of memories, he wanted to portray the idea that we do not envision ourselves in our memories as speaking with the voices we actually have.This is confirmed by the Distant Finale revealing that the adult versions of the characters sound identical to their child selves and further supported by the twist in "Summer Forgettory" that the "real" Child!Tim sounds like a regular kid rather than a grown man..
• Descended Creator: Adam Yaniv voices Ronnie, as well as several extras.
• International Co Production: Between Yeti Farm in Canada and A&N Productions (Adam Yaniv's own studio) in Israel.
  Adam Yaniv: “In Israel we had our background design, ink and paint at The Hive Studio in Jerusalem. Design, animation and our board director Mike West were in Kelowna at Yeti Farm Creative, while the writers and actors were based in Toronto, and I was showrunning and recording voices and music from my closet! [...] The lion’s share of character animation was produced in Kelowna at Yeti Farm Creative, while additional animation, ink and paint were done in Israel, where we also edited our initial animatics.”
• Only So Many Canadian Actors: While the show does not feature any of the voice actors commonly seen in Canadian cartoons, the series' cast is drawn from a wide variety of well-known and popular Canadian primetime sitcoms and sketch comedies like Schitt's Creek, The Kids in the Hall, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
• Shrug of God: Adam Yaniv has confirmed that Jason and Ronnie are based on him and his best friend, but he has remained intentionally vague about who was based on who (apparently, this was because when Yaniv told his friend that he admired him as a kid, his friend admitted Yaniv was his hero as a kid; they looked up to each other and neither realized it at the time). This is actually lampshaded in the episode "Summer Forgettory".
• Studio To The Rescue: Like Ollie's Pack, the series was originally pitched to Nickelodeon, but ultimately turned down. However, Adam Yaniv successfully repurchased the rights to his short back from Nickeodeon and began production of the show at his own studio A&N Productions before eventually finding production partners in Aircraft Pictures, Yeti Farm, and WildBrain, the last of which debuted the series on Family Channel in Canada.
• What Could Have Been: The original Nickelodeon pilot short shows several significant differences from the actual show:
  • Firstly and perhaps most noticeably, the characters have realistic skin tones; no Amazing Technicolor Population here. Additionally, the general color palette of the show is more earthy and darker, giving it a more realistic style, while the show's animation is done in the traditional style instead of a rigged style.
  • Jason's opening dialogue is "I remember three weeks ago like it was yesterday." In the show proper, it would be simplified to "I remember weeks ago like it was yesterday."
  • Due to the original pilot not being produced in Canada, all of the characters have completely different voices and voice actors. In particular, many of them sound much more like actual children, most notably Tim.
  • Tim is characterized as more of a Bratty Half-Pint rather than the overly mature character seen in the final product. And while his jerkass personality and implied neuroses are intact, he noticeably does not display his passion for nature and the environment, which would become a major element of his character in the series proper.
  • Jason and Ronnie's friends are present, but there are some differences. While Mack and Cool Louis almost exactly resemble how they do in the show (although Mack isn't green like in the series), Joanna is entirely absent. Tall Girl, on the other hand, looks absolutely nothing like how she does in the final product, instead wearing a long flowery dress and having her head always off-screen instead of being hidden by clouds. She also speaks with an unidentifiable accent, and Jason is hinted to have a crush on her (something that is only briefly mentioned in the episode "Tall Girl, Tall Boy", but implied to be little more than Jason not thinking straight when he said it).
  • Linda also has a completely different hairstyle compared to how she looks in the show, on top of also having less exaggerated proportions. Additionally, the fridge covered in photos shown at the end of every episode has a completely different design (as does the kitchen it's in).
• Write What You Know: Series creator Adam Yaniv drew inspiration from his own childhood growing up in Raanana, Israel with his best friend (he's the is the "N" in the name of Yaniv's own studio A&N Productions; a childhood photo of the two forms the studio's logo). Among other things, Jason's neighborhood was heavily based on the one he grew up in, Linda was a tribute to his own mother, and many of the show's surreal elements were derived from his childhood musings.