Trivia / The World According to Jeff Goldblum

• Channel Hop: Originally announced for the National Geographic Channel in 2018, by the time it began filming in April 2019 the Disney-Fox merger went through and it was decided to move to Disney+. In the process, it became the Day One flagship of the NatGeo brand on the service.
• Deleted Scene: The Disney+ synopsis for "Cosmetics" mentions a segment about "the spiritual meaning behind Native American face designs", and a promotional photo from it exists (with Goldblum's face painted), but the actual segment does not appear. Combined with this episode being noticeably shorter than others at 22 minutes ("Jewelry" is just 23 minutes but all the others are at least 25 each) it appears to have been cut at the last moment for reasons unknown.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Disappeared from Disney+ in May 2023, without any official physical or digital download release.
• Marathon Running: A variation. While Disney+ traditionally releases episodes of original shows weekly, the first five episodes of Season Two — making up the first half of the season — were released at once on "Disney+ Day".
• Meaningful Release Date: Season Two premiered on November 12, 2021, aka "Disney+ Day", the second anniversary of the service's launch and this show's debut.
• Missing Trailer Scene: There are a few clips in the D23 trailer that don't appear in the finished Season One episodes, such as Goldblum performing an impromptu Spanish song-and-dance in "Sneakers" and trying to guess the flavors the visitors to the Las Vegas ice cream truck are going to buy.
• Sleeper Hit: On the one hand, this was the most-hyped of the nonfiction charter Disney+ productions because of the presence of the eccentric actor, who became the "face" of the National Geographic brand on the service and did plenty of morning/talk show appearances to promote it. Still, it saw far less advertising (especially offline) than Killer App The Mandalorian and the extensive back catalogs of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars movies and shows or virtually the entire run of The Simpsons, all of which had more obvious appeal to kids/families. While reviews were mostly favorable, even positive notices warned that it wouldn't appeal to viewers who weren't Goldblum fans...but by the time the first season ended it quietly became the service's third original production to be renewed for a second season (after The Mandalorian and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series).
• Troubled Production: Filming for Season Two began in Winter 2020 for the announced "Fireworks" episode, only for Coronavirus Pandemic lockdowns to shut production down. Over the summer and fall, Goldblum shot Jurassic World: Dominion in Europe and was set to resume filming for this show that November, only for the pandemic to have worsened in the U.S. Things eventually improved enough to start again, with Season Two premiering two years to the day from Season One's debut, though COVID-19 restrictions resulted in Goldblum only traveling to locations in California and Georgia for all episodes besides "Fireworks".

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