Trivia / Kappa Mikey

• Adored by the Network: You would've been hard-pressed to not find this show on Nicktoons Network in the mid-2000s. Promos for the show would air nearly every commercial break, even during those of the program itself. The show got a lot of airtime too. Nickelodeon on the other hand...
• Channel Hop: Kappa Mikey was produced solely for Nicktoons Network, but because it was controlled by their larger parent network Nickelodeon, new episodes sometimes premiered there first. When episodes stopped airing on Nick but continued on Nicktoons, some took this to mean it was canceled.
• Contest Winner Cameo: The winner of an online fan contest arranged by the studio appeared, and voiced herself, in the second season finale.
• The Danza: Michael Sinterniklaas as Mikey Simon.
• He Also Did: Beat Crusaders, the band that plays the theme song, are a real J-POP band and have also done the opening to BECK Mongolian Squad and the fourth opening to Bleach.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: In the United States, Kappa Mikey only got 3 episodes released on DVD, sold only through one online store. iTunes used to have all the episodes but it was taken down on 2015, probably because no one was buying them anymore and the show wasn't produced in HD (because Nicktoons Network wasn't broadcast in HD). Good luck searching for taped episodes that aren't illegally uploaded on Dailymotion!
• Non-Singing Voice: Mitsuki was the only character whose talking voice actor had to be replaced when singing.
• Screwed by the Network: When the show aired on Nickelodeon, it was treated very poorly. They gave it almost no advertising which is in sharp contrast to how Nicktoons treated it as mentioned above. It also only aired on Sunday mornings and instead of starting with the first episode, they began with an episode from the middle of the first season. It didn't take long for the show to be dropped from Nick's lineup.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The credits list the main voice cast along with their respective characters, but only list the names of guest voice actors and not whoever they played.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The 2003 pitch trailer made for interested networks, which is family friendly enough to actually premiere on Nicktoons Network itself pre-dating the series, was even more crudely animated with badly-drawn character designs that go on-and off model occasionally, limited and recycled animation and using little to no music except for action sequences, looking vaguely similar to Perfect Hair Forever. Some of the characters even have heavy accents and speak in gibberish sounding similar to Japanese with incoherent subtitles. According to Larry Schwarz, the trailer was made for networks interested in picking the show up, which led to MTV Networks (the company that owned Nickelodeon, Noggin, and MTV) ordering the pilot.
  • The animation for the longer 2004 pitch pilot was an improvement from the trailer but still held-back and not on par from the final series and the humor was aimed at slightly older viewers. It was tweaked into the show we know now under Nickelodeon.
    • What is particularly interesting is that the pilot has more focus on Mitsuki and Gonard is a father with two daughters.
    • On both iterations, Ozu and Yes Man were more older and were identified as the "producers". While Yes Man spoke and was practically a carbon clone of Ozu in the 2003 trailer, he had a different character design similar to his final one and was silent in the 2004 pilot.
    • When the show was first announced here, Sunbow Entertainment was co-producing and Noggin's teen block "The N" had signed on to co-produce and air the show. However, it was eventually moved to Nicktoons Network (a sister channel to Noggin - both were owned by MTV Networks).
  • The crew was considering animating an actual LilyMu episode for the entire 24-minute runtime for the series finale, but they went with "Live LilyMu" instead.
  • An early draft for "The Clip Show" had the cast on their way to attend an awards ceremony, but they all got stuck on a broken elevator on the way there and they recalled montages to pass the time waiting for the repairman to come.
  • Gonard's favorite food was going to be chocolate. Nicktoons declared the advertising of unhealthy foods to children, and it was changed to sandwiches.

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