Trivia / The Adventures of Duane & BrandO

• Approval of God: SiIvaGunner released a "rip" of "Intro (OST Version) - Mega Man 2", which is in fact a cover of the duo's "Mega Man 2" rap using MIDI instrumentals and deadpan spoken-word vocals in place of rapping. The duo's official channel left a one-word comment: "PERFECT".
• Author's Saving Throw: Partially in response to the heat they received for their misogynistic lyrics in past songs (and partially because they only had two bars to cover it), the duo's take on "Mario 3" has this couplet to dance around the confrontation against Wendy O. Koopa and avoid similar controversy:
  Hey there, Wendy, save those hoops for your mama
  I'mma warp past the castle to avoid the drama, bitch!
• Banned in Germany: The Amazing Brando's "Magical Mustache" video.
• Development Hell: Earthbound remained here since 2009, but with their 2012 reunion and the release of Happy Happy Village, it looks to be climbing back to the land of mortals.
  • Final Fantasy VII: A full-length LP with a number of guest artists, intended as a solo album from BrandO. Only a small snippet of One Winged Angel has been released at this time.
  • Mega Proto Man 9: Originally announced as a sequel to 2, the song has been released in bits and pieces over the years, with alternate Mega Man vocals by Mega Ran recorded during their breakup, but the final product has yet to see the light of day.
  • Zelda 3 has apparently been discontinued after episode 5 due to BrandO getting fed up with Zelda fans nitpicking his choices when it comes to adjusting the canon.
• Reclusive Artist: Following the breakup of the duo, while BrandO retains a fair internet presence with Adventuria and still maintaining the Duane & BrandO YouTube account (reading and responding to comments and the like), Duane has all but vanished. During BrandO's Kickstarter post explaining their disbandment, he mentions that Duane had become a father (a huge reason for why BrandO was hesitant to take legal action against him for mishandling the Kickstarter funds), and had likely retreated to a private life following the fiasco.
• Troubled Production: While it wasn't obvious until BrandO went into more detail years later, the band experienced a lot of behind-the-scenes problems following their 2012 reunion and up to their final disbandment. After their successful Kickstarter campaign to cover the production of future content (including not just music, but merch and personal living expenses), they hit a major snag circa 2013 as they discovered a vast majority of the funds — whose responsibility fell directly on Duane; BrandO didn't even have a bank account at the time — went straight-up missing with little to no explanation (BrandO suspects it might've gone to Duane's personal family expenses, but chose not to pursue legal action out of concern for Duane's children, as well as it being around the time Duane's brother tragically passed away). While they ended up still releasing new music and videos, and Kickstarter fans did end up receiving their initial merch rewards between 2014-15, this was because BrandO had been producing and shipping the content directly out of pocket, proving to be an increasingly uphill battle to keep up with. In the end, this resulted in the stillbirth of future promised content, with BrandO coming clean with his 2018 Kickstarter post, explaining that the previous few years had been spent in burnout, depression, and getting his finances and life back on track following the band's quiet demise.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Their album based on EarthBound was originally meant to be a 19-track follow-up to the LP of Devastation, but it only ended up seeing release in 2014 as "Earthbound (2010)" with only 10 tracks (the missing tracks were "Dalaam", "Dungeon Man", "Dusty Dunes Desert", "Enjoy Your Stay", "Fourside/Moonside", "Giygas", "Master Belch", "Happy Happy Village", "Runaway 5 @ Chaos Theater", "Summers/Scaraba", "Threed 2", and "Twoson"). This was in large part the result of the album being made before and during the duo's first breakup in 2010, with Brando planning to re-record Duane's vocals as Ness and finish the rest of the album himself, getting as far as completing "Enjoy Your Stay". When the two later reunited, they got back to working on the project and released "Happy Happy Village" and "Runaway Five", but that's as far as they got before breaking up again.
  • Mike Christensen, the voice of Spud in "Final Fantasy", was to be Hornet Man in the upcoming "Mega Man 9" song by BrandO. Due to differences in between the two, this was supposedly to be axed.
  • And episode 2 of the actual cartoon. Probably from the fans' denial that it was made in Windows Movie Maker and MS Paint.
  • A part for the stairs was written for Castlevania III by BrandO, to be voiced by a forum member of the Duane and BrandO forums. The part was highly received by the fans of whom heard it, but axed right before the very end due to differences between the forum member and BrandO.
  • With the falling out from the Kickstarter, all the projects mentioned in Development Hell will likely be this.