Trivia / Littlest Pet Shop (2012)

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite generally positive reviews, the show suffered from low toy sales (a problem since the show first aired).
• Acting for Two:
  • Tabitha St. Germain as Pepper, Mona Autumn, and Nutmeg Dash.
  • Samuel Vincent as Russell, Fisher Bisket, and Josh Sharp.
  • Kira Tozer as Minka, Sue, and Aunt Cristie.
  • Shannon Chan-Kent as Youngmee, the Bisket Twins, Madison, and Eliza Bisket.
  • Only 4 voice actors voice Blythe and the seven main pets in the Russian dub. The cast is:
    • Elena Čebaturkina as Blythe, Minka and Penny Ling (replaced by Lina Ivanova in season 3)
    • Olga Golovanova as Zoe and Pepper
    • Denis Nekrasov as Russell
    • Yevgeniy Valts as Vinnie and Sunil (replaced by Vasiliy Zotov in season 3)
• Actor Allusion
  • In "Sweet Pepper", Pepper has a crush on another animal and tries to change herself to impress him. In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Simple Ways", Rarity does the same thing. Both Pepper and Rarity are voiced by Tabitha St. Germain and both episodes aired on the exact same day.
  • Russell is not the first character Samuel Vincent played who is either a hedgehog or a neat freak (though he only did Sonic's singing voice; the rest of the time it was Jaleel White)
  • In "Russell Up Some Fun" Russell utters, "Messy, messy, messy!" This was a line Samuel Vincent's character Edd said a lot in Ed, Edd n Eddy.
  • In "Topped with Buttercream", there is a man of few words named Earl, voiced by Peter New. Remind you of a certain sibling of a certain main character in a certain other show?
  • In "The Expo Factor", Emma remarks about she wishes to be a dog when complimenting Blythe's dog sweater. Her voice actress is Brooke Goldner, who voiced a puppy named Rebound on Pound Puppies (2010).
  • In "Littlest Pet Shop of Horrors", Blythe's Halloween costume in the Cold Open is a cowgirl riding a pony that closely resembles Applejack.
  • In the episode "Tiniest Animal Store", Zoe thinks she will played by Lola Falanagaga (the in show actress that played Blythe). Lola's voice actress is Nicole Oliver, who voices Zoe.
• Celebrity Voice Actor
  • "It's The Pet Fest" has a dog character named Heidi who's voiced by Heidi Klum. Shylo Sharity does her singing though.
  • Casey Wilson voices Felina Meow in "Littlest Pet Street".
• Cowboy Be Bop At His Computer: Virgin Media's summary for "What, Meme Worry?" claims "When a picture of Sunil becomes an internet meme, jealousy spreads amongst the pets, including Zoe." Zoe is the only pet to become jealous, while the others are completely supportive of Sunil's fame throughout the episode.
• Cross-Dressing Voices
  • Jasper Jones is voiced by Kathleen Barr.
  • Baa Baa Lou from "Secret Cupet" is voiced by Ashleigh Ball.
  • Parker the penguin from "Winter Wonder Wha" is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain.
  • Meow-Meow from "Room Enough" is voiced by Jocelyne Loewen.
  • The male gerbil from "Ivan the Terrific" is also voiced by Barr.
• The Danza:
  • "Terriers and Tiaras" features a dog named Sam U.L., voiced by Samuel Vincent. Also counts as a Punny Name.
  • Heidi Klum as Heidi.
• Fake American: Heidi Klum, who was born in Germany, voices Heidi in a New York accent.
• Fake Brit:
  • Delilah, Gail, and Mona Autumn are all voiced by Tabitha St. Germain.
  • Sam Vincent and Shannon Chan-Kent voice the Biskit Twins' parents.
  • In Mrs. Amster's case, this would be Fake Scot — she's voiced by Kathleen Barr.
• Follow the Leader: It's pretty clear this show is trying to follow in the footsteps of a certain other Hasbro reboot, and even shares some of the same cast and writers and airs alongside it.
• Missing Episode: With the show's cancellation, the final five shorts were left unreleased, except in Poland.
• No Dub for You: Only the first two seasons got dubbed in German, only the first season got dubbed in Korean, and the show never got dubbed in Japanese at all.
• No Export for You: Seems to be the case for the English versions of the last few shorts on YouTube. Only the Polish dub of the shorts have been released, and there is little chance of them being released in English due to the show being cancelled.
  • The Dutch dubs of seasons 3 and 4 were not released in the Netherlands, only in Belgium.
• Non-Singing Voice:
  • Zoe Trent and Penny Ling's singing voices are done by Kylee Epp and Laura Hastings.
  • Heidi's singing is done by Shylo Sharity. Seeing that Heidi Klum was based in Los Angeles, this makes sense.
• Out of Order: Season 2 and 3 aired out of order in the US. 2 winter themed season 3 episodes were held back to air closer to Christmas. While the episodes in season 2 with the Pet Jet's introduction and the trips to Paris, Shanghai and Brazil were aired separately between other season 2 episodes. The UK airs the episodes in the correct order.
• Post-Script Season: While the show never had much of a Myth Arc, season four was this for the series as the finale of season 3 ended on a big spectacle that involved the return of a lot characters implying that the writers felt that that was was going to be the last season before Hasbro gave them one more. The finale of S4 and the series as a whole felt like any other episode of the show with the only big thing to happen being Roger, Blythe's father, revealing he always knew that she (and her mother) could talk to animals. The creators of the show actually wanted a season 5 before they got word that the show was canceled due to low toy sales.
• Production Posse:
  • The show reunites many people who worked with Julie McNally Cahill & Tim Cahill on The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
  • From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, we have many of the same voice actors like Ashleigh Ball, Tabitha St. Germain, Nicole Oliver, Peter New, Brian Drummond, Kathleen Barr, Cathy Weseluck, Lee Tockar, and Sam Vincent, among others, with writers MA Larson (credited under his real name Mitch Larson), Corey Powell, Merriwether Williams, and Nick Confalone.
  • Writer Adam Beechen brought over some of his friends from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
• Promoted Fanboy: MLP fan musician MandoPony contributed a song to an episode.
• Real-Life Relative: Brian Goldner, a producer at Hasbro, has his daughter Brooke Goldner voicing two characters, Emma Hart and Peachie Fluffton.
• Screwed by the Merchandise: Despite the show's positive reception, it got cancelled after four seasons due to poor toy sales. This is largely due to the cartoon's art style, which didn't translate well into toys and was different enough from previous eras of the franchise to alienate fans. In addition to poor quality control and wonky paint jobs, word quickly spread that the tiny feet and large heads of the new toys made them top-heavy and prone to constantly falling over, causing toy sales to plummet and eventually dooming the cartoon.
• Screwed by the Network: The Dutch channel RTL Telekids mostly only aired the first season and rarely season 2. Seasons 3 and 4's Dutch dubs were exclusive to Belgium and were never released in the Netherlands.
• Similarly Named Works: BoJack Horseman, Family Guy, Futari wa Pretty Cure, and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh all also have an episode titled "Fish Out of Water".
• Tyop on the Cover:
  • The title of the episode "Eve of Destruction" had "Destruction" mispelled as "Destuction" on-screen.
  • On the Canadian Netflix in "Trading Places" the subtitles misspell Digby as Dibgy the second time Zoe says his name.
• What Could Have Been: Except for Sunil, most of the pets originally had different names. Zoe was Lady Ra Ra, Penny was Lolly, Pepper was Jasmine, Minka was Margo, Russell was Winston and Vinnie was Tony.
• Unfinished Dub: Most dubs are this trope. Only the Arabic, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin Spanish and Ukrainian dubs are complete. The Korean dub was cancelled after season 1, the German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish and Finnish dubs were cancelled after season 2, and the European Spanisn, European Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech and Romanian dubs were cancelled after season 3.
• Working Title: Blythe Loves the Littlest Pet Shop.
• Writer Revolt: "Topped With Buttercream" sure comes off this way. It's undoubtedly meant to promote the candy-themed LPS toys (which seem to be half the toyline), but it's not flattering to the concept at all. Characters mention off-hand the detrimental effects of a diet rich in sugar. The pets get high on sugar and turn into twitchy, paranoid, delusional savages. Buttercream seems to have been permanently damaged by sugar to the point where she has multiple verbal and physical tics. By the end of the episode, the pets run in fear from sugary snacks (although they get over it in future episodes).

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