Trivia / Time Squad

• The series is the very first Cartoon Network original series entirely produced by Cartoon Network Studios, no longer a division of Hanna-Barbera following the death of William Hanna in 2001.^note Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, and The Powerpuff Girls were produced in part by Hanna-Barbera; Ed, Edd n Eddy was produced by a.k.a. Cartoon; Courage the Cowardly Dog was produced by Stretch Films; and Mike, Lu & Og was produced by Kinofilm in LA and Studio Pilot in Russia
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Otto is voiced by Pamela Adlon, who often voices little boys (i.e. Bobby Hill, Milo Oblong — in fact, Otto's voice is closer to Milo Oblong's than Bobby Hill's) or, in the case of Recess and Pepper Ann, girls who look or act like boys (Spinelli and Margaret Rose "Moose" Pearson).
• Descended Creator:
  • Some episodes have the show's creator Dave Wasson doing some voice work, including random civilians and animals like Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, Billy^note the kid who got crushed by the piano in "The Clownfather", and a pterodactyl.
  • Carlos Ramos, one of the main writers, ^note the same one who created The X's for Nickelodeon, voiced Napoleon in the episode "Napoleon the Conquered" and the Spelling Bee Champ in "Orphan Substitute".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most fans today gain access to the show through websites including kisscartoon, and watchcartoononline, or through illegal downloading from torrents. Time Squad has only received one official DVD release in the United Kingdom (containing the first three episodes). It also isn’t available for streaming like most of the other Cartoon Network shows (past and present). If copyright strikes haven't taken them down yet, one might be lucky to find the entire series on YouTube or dailymotion every so often. The show did appear on Cartoon Network's website as part of its 20th anniversary in 2012, but only in clips, not full episodes. Dave Wasson's website had a Time Squad episode up ("Billy the Baby" — possibly because Wasson considers that episode his magnum opus), but no other full episodes (as of 2020, that website is no longer active).
  • The episode "Dishonest Abe" did appear as an extra on the Powerpuff Girls VHS "Meet the Beat-Alls".
  • In April 2020, Cartoon Network briefly added the first episode ("Eli Whitney's Flesh-Eating Mistake" and "Never Look a Trojan in the Gift Horse") to their app for viewing. Soon after the same episode was released on a wide range of other streaming sites, including Apple TV, Hulu, and Sling TV. This, however, was only temporary, and fans are waiting to see if Warner Media will include the entire series on HBO Max.
• Missing Episode:
  • For reasons unknown, "White House Weirdness" was supposed to air after "Repeat Offender" but was replaced with "Ladies and Gentlemen, Monty Zuma". It has been speculated that because of the stringent censorship about mocking the U.S. government that was prevalent after the September 11th attacks, depicting The White House as a haunted house would have been in bad taste.
  • "Floral Patton" and "Orphan Substitute" (the final two episodes) were also held back because Cartoon Network was concerned over complaints about "Orphan Substitute"'s depiction of George W. Bush. However, Cartoon Network aired "Floral Patton" and "Orphan Substitute" as part of a Thanksgiving weekend block in 2003 and some overseas Cartoon Network channels do air "Floral Patton" and "Orphan Substitute" in reruns with no censorship done to it.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Dave Wasson himself was originally going to be the voice of Officer Buck Tuddrussel.
  • According to show writer, Carlos Ramos, an episode centered on the Time Squad going back to the Garden of Eden to get Adam and Eve to partake of the forbidden fruit from The Tree of Knowledge was written, but never made (the main reason isn't known, but it can be speculated that the content would have pushed things a bit too far such as showing two naked people and the religious reference). Also: Tommy Chong (from the stoner comedy duo, Cheech and Chong) was going to be the voice of Adam, but Dave Wasson rejected the choice for being too obvious.
  • The series was originally ordered as a single season of 26 episodes, before being split into two separate 13 episode seasons.
  • According to Dave Wasson, had the show got a 3rd season, he would've wanted a crossover with Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
• Word of Gay: On the Talkin' Toons podcast, Mark Hamill and Rob Paulsen crack jokes about how "there was no ambiguity with regard to [Larry's] sexual preference." In fact, Rob Paulsen has made references to Larry's behavior in other episodes of his podcast.

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