Trivia / Baby Einstein

• Bad Export for You: A bit of an accidental case, but the German DVD release of Baby Neptune ends after the "Duck Synchronized Swimming" sequence, removing the end montage and credits, for both English and German versions. However, the full video is still present in the disc's VOB files; it somehow never loads under regular circumstances.
• Bonus Material: Most of the DVD releases, especially the ones initially distributed by Disney, have more content in bonus features than the actual video itself.
• Creator-Driven Successor: In the 2010s, Julie Aigner-Clark created one in the form of WeeSchool.
• Direct to Video: Was aired on BabyFirstTV for a very short period of time but was ultimately taken off the air.
• Doing It for the Art: According to founder Julie Aigner-Clark, when she ran the company, she operated everything out of her own heart.
• No Dub for You:
  • The original version of Baby Shakespeare released to VHS in Japan and Spain remains in English. When these videos were released on DVD a few years later, they were both dubbed.
  • The original Spain releases of the first eight videos and Baby Neptune on VHS contain no Spanish audio at all. The same likewise occurs with the first 13 Disney-distributed Japanese VHS tapes (but strangely not the DVDs).
  • The original 2003 UK DVD releases of Neighbourhood Animals, Baby Newton and Baby Beethoven didn't feature a British English dub, instead using the original American English audio for the feature and Discovery Cards (except for About Baby Einstein, which had the narration re-dubbed). Later releases in November of the same year for the aforementioned three videos replace the original American English audio with the British one, alongside adding an Italian option.
• No Export for You: The only two countries to get every single video were the United States and Canada. Internationally, all but Baby's First Sounds, all three sign language videos and the Discovery Kits saw a release in Spain. Most other countries weren't lucky to get videos past Baby MacDonald or Baby Noah.
• Referenced by...:
  • The Simpsons has two episodes that reference Baby Einstein:
    • "Hardly Kirk-ing" features a series of educational DVDs called Baby Poindexter that Marge wants to get Maggie to stop watching. The reason for this is that the DVDs were pulled for not boosting children's development by much, a reference to the real-life incident with the Baby Einstein DVDs being recalled for the same reason.
    • "Screenless" features a parody called Baby Ein-sign, which combines this show and Signing Time.
  • The Nostalgia Critic compares the rather saccarhine score of Christmas with the Kranks in his review of it to Baby Einstein, albeit calling it "Einstein for Babies".
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Has happened a few times:
  • Language Nursery originally released on VHS as Baby Einstein on February 1, 1997, yet the tape has a 1996 copyright date in the credits.
  • Baby Neptune was released on March 18, 2003, yet has an end credit copyright date of 2002.
  • Baby MacDonald was released on March 16, 2004, but has an end credit copyright date of 2003.
  • Inverted in regards to Baby Bach and Baby Shakespeare, which were both originally released one year before their end credit copyright dates (late-1998 for Bach in contrast to its 1999 end credit copyright, and late-1999 for Shakespeare in contrast to its 2000 end credit copyright).
• Unfinished Dub: Almost every foreign dub for the series, save for the European French and Latin American Spanish versions, suffers from this. Of the 33 videos that were created and released, 24 of them were dubbed in Castilian Spanish, 21 were dubbed in Catalan, 19 in European Portuguese, 17 in Mandarin (13 of those videos were also translated in Simplified Chinese) and Korean, 15 in British English, Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Hebrew, 14 in Brazilian Portuguese and Cantonese, 11 in Thai, eight in Canadian French, six in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic, and three in German, Greek, Czech, Turkish and Polish.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Einstein Pals was a Spin-Off series that was set to be released on DVD in between 2006 and 2009, with trailers being shown on Baby Einstein and Little Einsteins DVD releases. As a result of the refund scandal in the latter year, the series was never released, and Kids II has no plans to release it nowadays.
  • World of Colors was a Baby Van Gogh-like video set to be released alongside World Music and World Animal Adventure in 2009 but, probably due to the same reason as Einstein Pals, was never released. Despite this, a trailer was released to the public on the World Animal Adventure, Baby MacDonald and My First Signs 2009 DVDs, and several puppet shows presumably from the cancelled video are still up on Baby Einstein's Facebook account. The title was then recycled to apply to a Discovery Kit that is just a remixed and remastered version of Baby Van Gogh.
• Written for My Kids: Clark made the videos specifically for her own babies, Aspen and Sierra, both of whom appeared in her videos regularly until 2002.