- Acting for Two: Jim Cummings voiced both Bonkers and his partner Lucky.
- Banned Episode: A rather tragic example of one too. "New Partner on the Block" was banned following The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and was never allowed again, not even in the six years preceding 9/11. This episode bridges the gap between the Piquel and Miranda episodes too, leaving a rather notable Plot Hole in its place too. On the lesser known side of things, "Fall Apart Bomb Squad" was also banned due to portraying similar bomb terrorist acts, though that one isn't quite as important due to being a typical episode of the show. Neither episode would see the light of day again until the entire series was put on Disney+ more than 20 years later.
- The Danza: Chick Vennera voices the villain Chick in "Comeback Kid".
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only six total episodes were released on VHS (and all were Lucky episodes); the rest are unaccounted for on home media. Fortunately, the entire series was eventually released (digitally) on Disney+.
- Kids' Meal Toy: In 1993, Burger King released a set of five figures that could be put in "crash-apart" cars. The characters featured were Bonkers, Fall-Apart Rabbit, Lucky, Jitters, and Toots.
- No Export for You: This is one of the few animated TV series Disney didn't bring to Japan. This is especially odd, because the Super NES game based on the show not only was programmed in Japan by Capcom, but it also had a Japanese version, despite the fact that the show wasn't shown there. It also had animation production over there as well.
- Referenced by...:
- Aladdin: The Series: In "Snowman is an Island", Genie does an impression of Bonkers.
- Animaniacs (1993) had several take thats to Bonkers since one of the working names for Animaniacs was Bonkers until Disney beat Warner Bros. to copyrighting it. Both shows also shared the same time slot;
- In "Slappy Goes Walnuts", after tasting her nephew Skippy's ACME Snax, Slappy remarks "Eh, no wonder you like that Bonkers show. That junk's rotting out your brain there!"
- In "Deduces Wild", one of the items on the Warners' scavenger hunt is "A funny episode of Bonkers".
- In "Rest in Pieces" (which is a sister episode to "Deduces Wild"), when Skippy asks Slappy how she knew that Walter Wolf was faking his death, Slappy tells him that cartoon characters never actually die, but she considers Bonkers an exception.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022):
- Bonkers can be seen as a bootlegged toon after being rescued by the Rescue Rangers.
- During the closing credits, Bonkers can be seen alongside other Disney Afternoon cartoon characters on a billboard for a Fictional Video Game called Disney Afternoon Fight Fest.
- The Nostalgia Critic has covered the show in his review of The Disney Afternoon.
- The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: Subverted. The Lucky Piquel episodes got proper closure due to "New Partner on the Block", but the Miranda Wright episodes did not. As such, the final Miranda episode ("Cartoon Cornered") plays out just like any other episode in the series.
- Screwed by the Network: Not only was Bonkers suffering from production issues, it aired during a time when Disney was aggressively imposing a 65-episode limit that capped off every show they did regardless of whether or not it had a real conclusion. Bonkers was one of these victimized shows.
- Troubled Production: As described on the main page.
- Word of God: According to Greg Weisman, co-creator of Gargoyles who helped developed Bonkers, contrary to popular belief, the show was not conceived as a replacement for a Roger Rabbit cartoon that never came to be. In fact, there were never any plans for a Roger Rabbit cartoon.note Instead, they took inspiration from their favorite toon rabbit and channeled it into their original creation.
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