Trivia / Raw Toonage

• Acting for Two: Jim Cummings (1952) as Bonkers in the bobcat's shorts and Norman in the Marsupilami shorts. He'd also provide Maurice's grunts in the latter, as well as reprised Don Karnage in the second episode's host segments.
• Banned Episode: Raw Toonage episode 6 was banned from airing on The Disney Channel and Toon Disney, because of the risque content on the Marsupilami short "Romancing the Clone".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The show last aired on Toon Disney in 2000. A lawsuit from Marsupilami‘s creator led to Disney essentially abandoning this show and the successor Marsupilami TV series. The “He’s Bonkers” shorts are currently the only segments from Raw Toonage that have seen a modern rerelease (digitally on Disney+) due to them being recompiled into episodes of Bonkers. With no home media or streaming releases, your only bet to see anything else from this show is to hold on to those CBS and Toon Disney broadcasts if you recorded them or try to find other people’s VHS rips uploaded somewhere else.
• Role Reprise: All the guest host characters from other Disney projects were reprised by their voice actors at the time: Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake, Bill Farmer as Goofy, Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck, Terry McGovern as Launchpad, Christine Cavanaugh as Gosalyn Mallard, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian, René Auberjonois as Chef Louie, and the aforementioned Jim Cummings as Don Karnage.
• What Could Have Been: The Wonderful World of Disney Television: A Complete History mentions several segments that were never completed for the series:
  • Two sets of host segments were conceived, but never produced - one featuring Baloo's show being overtaken by Bucky Bug, and another starring Flounder as he tries escaping from a shark.
  • Two Bonkers shorts - "Indiana Bonkers and the Temple of Fawn" and "Pla-Toon"
  • A TTV segment - "Frog Prince of Bel Air"
  • It's long been rumored that one unproduced episode of the show would have featured Gadget hosting the show from Rescue Ranger Headquarters.

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