Trivia / The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss

• Cross-Dressing Voices: Kathryn Mullen and Leslie Carrara as Morton the Elephant Bird for the two respective seasons. This also applies to Mullen performing Junior Kangaroo, but only in season 1.
• Dueling Shows: With Bear in the Big Blue House and possibly Blue's Clues in its second season.
• Executive Meddling: According to a Defunctland interview, elementary school-aged kids at a test screening of "The King's Beard" liked the show, but didn't say they would recommend it to a friend because they felt it was for much younger kids. Meanwhile, some viewers complained about the show being too dark in season 1. This resulted in the Retool for season 2.
• Fake Brit: Lady Fretibula speaks with a British accent. Her puppeteer, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, is American.
• Franchise Killer: Any further attempts at a Dr. Seuss TV show adaptation remained in doubt for the next thirteen years after the failure of this series.
• He Also Did: Will Ryan, voice of Grubby from Teddy Ruxpin, wrote several episodes of this show.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Rescued. Both seasons are available on Prime Video and the Roku Family Channel.
• Meaningful Release Date: Season 2 premiered on Martin P. Robinson's 44th birthday.
• Medium Blending: The show used a mix between live-action puppets and props and CGI settings, despite only coming out less than a year after Toy Story.
• The Merch: This series' merchandise included a series of reading and activity books, a series of plushes from Mattel, a See N' Say with different rhymes for many of the show's characters, a viewmaster and reels, and a series of Christmas ornaments by Enesco.
• The Other Darrin: Mostly for season 2, like Martin P. Robinson and Tim Lagasse replacing Bruce Lanoil respectively for the Cat in the Hat and Fox in Socks. In a similar vein, many of Kathryn Mullen's characters were split between Leslie Carrara Rudolph and Stephanie D'Abruzzo.
  • Speaking of which, while Mullen performed Junior Kangaroo in season 1, Lagasse performed him in season 2.
• The Other Marty: The pitch reel had this namesake (Marty Robinson) performing the Cat, a role that would be done in season 2.
• Prop Recycling: After the show ended, one of the Wickersham puppets from the show appeared in two sketches on Sesame Street; one from Episode 4153, where he appears as a member of Count Billy Bob Von Count Jr.'s greasemonkey work crew, and one from the direct-to-DVD release, Happy Healthy Monsters, where he (performed by David Rudman) jumps alongside India.Arie and other Muppet animals.
• Screwed by the Network: The show was initially treated fairly, and given a prime-time slot along with some promotion before it premiered in 1996, but ended up being limited to airing on the Nick Jr. block once the first season ended in 1997. Not only that, but Nickelodeon did many changes for the next season, which premiered on March 9, 1998, and made it a preschool show. Season 2 only ran for a few months; 60% of the entire season was burned off in March and April. By Nickeloden's 1998-1999 season, the show was left with only its Saturday morning timeslot. It left the channel for a period between late September and October 1999, but came back from November 1999 to February 2000, airing Sunday mornings at 6:00. Since then, the show has all but fallen off the face of the earth barely anyone remembers it, even Muppet and Dr. Seuss fans.
• What Could Have Been:
  • During production, the original plan was to do episode adaptations based on the original Seuss books as well as do original stories. However, the Seuss estate stated adapting the books were off-limits.
  • An early idea by executive producer David Steven Cohen was to have the Little Cats acting more as a Greek chorus, with their singing voices being provided by the Roches rather than the Muppet performers.

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