Trivia / The Weekenders

• All-Star Cast: While still being a complete aversion of Celebrity Voice Actor, no less! Jason Marsden, Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr and Kath Soucie play Tino, Lor, Carver and Tish respectively, as well as many other background characters. Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulsen, Tara Strong and Cree Summer are among the recurring voice talents.
• As Herself: Jennifer Love Hewitt in "My Punky Valentine".
• Channel Hop: The show started out on ABC. Episode premieres moved to UPN for Season 3. Then One Saturday Morning (and its UPN companion Disney's One Too) went defunct thanks to the slow, agonizing death of Saturday morning cartoon blocks and the remaining episodes aired on Toon Disney in 2003.
• Creator's Oddball: Ironically, despite being Doug Langdale's longest-running series at 39 half-hours, it's the most divorced from the slapstick-filled, off-the-wall humor that permeates his other productions.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Until March 5, 2013, when Disney released the entire series through the Disney Movie Club. It is not available on Disney+ however, still playing this straight.
• Permanent Placeholder: When he pitched the show, creator Doug Langdale did it on the spot at the end of a failing pitch meeting and didn't actually give the cartoon a name. When he got the call from Disney that they were greenlighting it, he learned that someone (no one knows who) decided to call it "The Weekenders" as a placeholder title. He even recalls that Michael Eisner loved everything about the show other than the name, so he promised to give it a better one, only to never get around to doing so.
• Screwed by the Network: Disney put this show on at the same time slot as Pokémon, while the big Pokémon boom was happening. Despite some major publications reporting that The Weekenders actually managed to beat Pokemon in the ratings race, after the latter had spent 54 weeks in the top spot, networks were ditching their Saturday morning cartoon blocks and, sadly, this show and the entire One Saturday Morning block were on the chopping block.

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