Trivia / Drawn Together

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Godzilla is portrayed as Green when he appears in "Super Nanny", but he wasn't green in the live-action films. However, the animated series (released at the time) featuring the (Japanese) Godzilla, the The Godzilla Power Hour (1978-1981) and Godzilland (1993-1996), both had Godzilla as green.
• Acting for Two: Tara Strong does the voices of both Toot and Clara.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Cree Summer voices a Team Mom Third-Person Person Sassy Black Woman who wears a red cap. Sound familiar?
  • One episode had a future version of Wooldoor that dressed and sounded like Marty McFly. James Arnold Taylor has served as a voice double for many celebrities (usually in edited-for-TV movies who need sound-alikes to record alternate lines used to cover up any line that's considered offensive), including Michael J. Fox (Marty's actor).
• The Cameo: In "Toot Goes Bollywood", the woman being robbed by the Bill Cosby Expy (Otis Day) is Ling-Ling's voice actress, Abbey McBride.
• Channel Hop: A production company example. The series was animated by Rough Draft Studios, but the movie was animated by the Mondo Media-owned 6 Point Harness due to budgetary issues.
• Completely Different Title: in Latin America and Spain (both aired the Latin-American dub) the show is named "La Casa de los Dibujos" (which could translate as "The House of the Cartoons").
• Conclusion in Another Medium: The series finale was a network-mandated on-the-cheap clip show that both the fans and the show people were dissatisfied with. The series' proper resolution came in the form of a direct-to-DVD movie.
• Contest Winner Cameo: In "Spelling Applebee's", the waiter that Captain Hero makes out with on his date with Clara was played by the winner of a contest held during production.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • Xandir's whole "Never ending quest to save his girlfriend until he realized he was gay and switched to a never ending quest to save his boyfriend" thing was really only important for the first three episodes of the first season. Most media outlets that described the show acted like it was an important part of his character (can also be They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character).
  • It's the same deal with Clara's Octopussoir. It's mentioned in only two episodes ("Clara's Dirty Little Secret" and "Alzheimer's That Ends Well"), yet articles on the show speak of it like it's a vital part of her character.
• Creator Backlash:
  • The creators themselves aren't fond of the much-maligned Season 3 or the movie.
  • Somewhat averted with Wooldoor's voice actor James Arnold Taylor. He agreed to the show before becoming aware of its adult humor and did some of his best work there but discourages most people from watching due to its content. He said "It makes South Park look like Mister Rogers."
  • Played with when it comes to Abbey McBride. She loved working with the other cast and crew members, and still likes the show, especially enough to show up in an interview with the rest of the cast and crew 17 years later. However, if you watch the interview, she admits to being embarrassed about Ling-Ling, even going so far as to cough when she says his name and saying she's "not as obsessed with my character anymore". What probably doesn't help is how she, a white woman, made up fake Japanese words for his lines.
  • Arturo Mercado doesn't think fondly of his role as Wooldor in the Latin American version, mostly because he felt he Playing Against Type considering his background in kids' works (such as Shaggy, Scrooge McDuck, Yoda, adult Simba, Master Korin, Babidi, Hamm, and the Beast.) He accepted the task due to being a professional, and even if he's still ashamed of his role in this show, he did do a bit with Gerardo Reyero to do his Wooldor voice.
• Creator's Favorite:
  • Tara Strong has often mentioned Toot as one of the best characters she's voiced in her entire career.
  • Gerardo Reyero, the voice of Captain Hero in the Latin American dub, has claimed it was his favorite role since it allowed him to say many things he normally wouldn't say.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The male Ling-Ling is voiced by the female Abbey McBride. Also, whenever a young boy shows up, he's generally voiced by Tara Strong. And finally, in The Movie, Seth MacFarlane of all people voices I.S.R.A.E.L. (Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady), and he doesn't even try sounding feminine, which just adds an extra layer of strangeness to her character.
• Denied Parody: Wooldoor's incredibly elaborate masturbation ritual was thought by many fans to be a parody of SpongeBob SquarePants' technique for producing bubbles underwater. However, the show's executive producer denied any reference to SpongeBob, stating that Wooldoor's masturbation was done the way it was in order to appease network censors; it couldn't in any way resemble real masturbation.
• Distanced from Current Events: "Terms of Endearment" was shelved for over a year following the death of Christopher Reeve, whose paralyzing horse riding accident was parodied in the episode, which only appeared in the DVD version and not the TV broadcast.
• Executive Meddling: It's been implied more than once and is the general opinion of the creators that the show was canceled due to executive meddling. In fact, the movie can be seen as a feature-length middle finger to Comedy Central. The creators firmly believe that despite South Park being just as crude and vulgar as Drawn Together, and at one point providing heated competition in ratings, the latter was canceled solely for Comedy Central's pet.
• Jews Playing Nazis: The anti-Semitic princess Clara is voiced by the Jewish Tara Strong.
• No Budget: The direct-to-DVD movie was made on a shoestring $350,000 budget, as Comedy Central refused extra funding for the animation.
• One-Book Author: This series is the only thing of note that creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein have ever done (aside from co-writing the David O. Russell flop Accidental Love).
• The Other Darrin: Paget Brewster voiced the Child Services agent in "Captain Girl" while Tara Strong performed her later.
• Playing Against Type: Jess Harnell, Tara Strong, Cree Summer and James Arnold Taylor are better known for their roles in more kid- and/or family-oriented cartoons. Drawn Together, however, is the exact opposite of family-friendly and far more adult in nature. In fact, Strong has stated that she loved working on the show because of how much of a departure it was from the lighthearted kids shows she's known for. Her only complaints were the jokes at the expense of Anne Frank, what with Strong being Jewish herself. This was probably deliberate as the creators are Jewish as well.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Nat Faxon, who is straight, was initially cast as Xandir, but was replaced after the first table read because the network felt his portrayal of the character was too stereotypically gay. His replacement, Jack Plotnick, actually is gay and was able play Xandir without resorting to stereotypical mannerisms such as the gay lisp. On the other hand, this is averted in most foreign dubs.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: "Dirty Pranking No. 2" was apparently inspired by an incident involving Texan cheerleaders pooping on a pizza and then getting arrested trying to give it back to a Domino's Pizza delivery man.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • Comedy Central's broadcast schedule was erratic, to say the least. When new episodes were not being screened, the show would often be off the schedule for months. Many viewers assumed the show was cancelled long before it actually was. It also had a gap of over a year between the first and second seasons and one almost as long between the two halves of season 3.
  • This likewise was the case for Direct to Video Movie. The showrunners wanted to give the series a proper send-off, but Comedy Central refused to fund them, forcing the creator to use Adobe Flash instead of digital paint-and-ink to do the movie. This ordeal is lampshaded in the plot of the direct-to-DVD movie.
• Short Run in Peru: The second half of Season Three, delayed by Comedy Central for almost a year, was broadcast in Latin America two weeks before it aired in the US.
• Torch the Franchise and Run: This is ultimately how the show ended in its Direct to Video movie. After everything was said and done, Spanky accidentally steps on the last Eraser Bomb; killing the entire cast and destroying the Drawn Together house. This is in addition to the other housemates being Killed Off for Real, ensuring that the series is truly over and there won't be any revivals of it anytime soon.
• The Walrus Was Paul: Word of God says nothing in the show happens for any reason other than to be funny. There's very little that can be called Canon and you would go nuts trying to comprehend it.
• What Could Have Been: According to a Tenth Anniversary reunion podcast, the show was really close to being made for Showtime instead of Comedy Central, but one of the producers suggested going to Comedy Central instead since it would attract more of a viewership. In the long run, this most likely helped the show, since the other adult animated series that came out around the same time for Showtime, Free for All, lasted only one season and is more or less forgotten about while Drawn Together is still considered a cult favorite.

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