Trivia / Taz-Mania

• Acting for Two:
  • Jim Cummings voices Taz, Wendal T. Wolf, Bushwhacker Bob and Buddy Boar
  • Maurice LaMarche as Hugh, Drew, Daniel Platypus and Willie Wombat
  • Rob Paulsen as Dog the Turtle, Digeri Dingo, Francis X. Bushlad, Axl and Timothy Platypus
  • Rosalyn Landor as Mum and Constance Koala
• Creator Backlash: Animator Greg Duffell didn't like working on the series and felt it was a ruination of the Tasmanian devil character. He also had a dislike for Taz's family and the other side characters.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Debi Derryberry as Jake.
• Fake Brit: Rob Paulsen voiced Francis X. Bushlad with an upper class accent and speech pattern in his normal tone, then pitched up slightly during post-production.
• Fake Australian: Jim Cummings (known to do an Aussie accent as Monterey Jack) as Bushwhacker Bob, The Simpsons star Dan Castellaneta as Mr. Thickly, and British actress Rosalyn Landor as Mum and Constance Koala.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For a long time, with the show only having been rerun on TBS for a short time in the mid-90s (after the Time Warner/Turner merger, but shortly before TBS phased out their cartoons). Warner Bros. eventually released the entire series digitally, and released seasons 1-3 (excluding "Devil with the Violet Dress On/Kidnapped Koala") on DVD, with season 3 being a Warner Archive MOD release.
• Kids' Meal Toy: Burger King had a set of four toys in the UK in 1993. There was the Fast Forward Frenzied Taz Pull-back (which came with punch-out figures of Axl and Bull Gator, Digeri Dingo, Francis X. Bushlad, and the Bushrats), the Wild Wind-up Wheelie Taz Cycle, the Tornado Taz Spinner, and the Tree Tote Taz Carry Case.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Jim Cummings takes over as Taz in this series, remaining as his primary voice actor for the next 30 years.
  • Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche replace Joe Alaskey and Jeff Bergman as Marvin the Martian and Daffy respectively.
• Referenced by...:
  • Animaniacs (1993): When Taz appears in "Draculee, Draculaa" and "Cutie and the Beast", he is accompanied by an instrumental of the Taz-Mania theme song.
  • Console Wars: In one episode, as Dan prepares Greg for a veggie dog eating contest, the two try to see whether the SNES or the Sega Genesis had the better licensed game based on Taz-Mania.
  • Duck Dodgers: Axl Gator makes a brief cameo appearance in "M.M.O.R.P.D." as one of Dodgers' transformations in a digital role-playing game.
  • The Looney Tunes Show: In "Ridiculous Journey", after Taz escapes from the river, he says "Taz hate water."
  • The Nostalgia Critic has reviewed the show as part of his Fox Kids review.
  • Tiny Toons Looniversity: Molly makes cameo appearances as a student of ACME Looniversity in two episodes; "Skulls and Sillybones" and "Twin-Con".

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