Trivia / Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show

• Creator's Apathy: Semi-joked about by LittleKuriboh, who's admitted multiple times that this show was not his biggest priority.
• Refitted for Sequel: Gouzu and Meizu parody Scratch and Grounder from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. According to LK, this is because Steve Lumis and Steve Umbra from his other web series, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, were originally going to parody Scratch and Grounder rather than parody the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• Orphaned Series: The last episode was posted in 2014.
• Throw It In!:
  • A few of Naruto's flubbed line reads are intentionally left in for comedic effect.
  • In the movie commentary, LittleKuriboh mentions that he accidentally mispronounced "nuclear" as "nucular" while recording. Instead of redoing the line, he decided to put in a quick subtitle saying "Ninjas can't pronounce nuclear" as a joke.
• What Could Have Been: The Spoof Movie Commentary reveals that LittleKuriboh had many different scripts before settling on the final version. According to him, however, they're not quite as good.
  • Naruto's pitch to the Princess was initially twice the length, and it was meant to be foreshadowing as to how the movie would end.
  • Early drafts had the film crew be Team Four Star, and the villain was a self-deprecating exaggeration of Little Kuriboh. The plot was also going to be about abridgers making a movie.
  • Later drafts had Doto (the M. Night Shyamalan character in the final version) as a caricature of Tim Burton. LittleKuriboh ultimately decided against it since Burton had too many good movies on his record to be considered worse than Michael Bay and George Lucas.
  • The Princess was supposed to actually be important, and in one of the earlier drafts she was a Gender Flipped stand-in for Vic Mignogna. LK realized that she was ultimately a pointless character who ate up too much time, so her role was reduced to only saying "Whatever" as a Running Gag.
  • In most of the drafts, the film crew's slaughter was going to be played straight... until Mood Whiplash set in with a cut to Michael Bay being shown to have filmed everything.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: LK says that The Movie was written and created in a week, and his pre-production process was more or less him just sitting down and riffing on the original and collecting the ones he found to be the best. Even after going through a few drafts and finalizing the script, the second half was effectively being written during the editing process.

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