Trivia / Space Goofs

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Iggy Pop was asked to write and perform the Expository Theme Tune by producer Marc Du Pontavice. He accepted because he loved the concept, after watching the pilot.
• Colbert Bump: A daisy-chain example, as the singing fugu fish, as well as Jerma985's rant regarding being sold incomplete multi-disc games (he was gifted the Dreamcast version which lacked a Disc 1) lead to Stupid Invaders gaining more traction online, which then resulted in the main Space Goofs show itself getting extra attention.
• Creator's Pest: Stereo was Put on a Bus because Xilam Animation considered him to be a weak character.
• Fake Brit: Canadian-American Maurice LaMarche as Etno.
• In Memoriam: Stupid Invaders was dedicated to Jean-Yves Raimbaud, the co-creator of the TV series, who died before the game was released.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Surprisingly, this counts for the original Gaumont prints of season 1, before Xilam held the distribution rights. The episodes themselves remain the same, with the differences mostly involving the credits. These include the intro sequence, in which the credits on the planet in the first shot read "Xilam Animation Presents" instead of "Gaumont Multimedia Presents". There's also a different end-credit sequence for the first half of season 1, while Michael Scioly voiced Gorgious. The entire English/Gaumont version of season 1 can be found on YouTube (alongside the official channel which has the Xilam prints), with the "Flora and Feast" episode even opening with the "Home to Rent" UK title at the end of the intro sequence. The French version of the Xilam intro can be found on the official French YouTube channel, while the Gaumont intro can be found on certain web releases, including this video here. There's also a rare variant of the French Gaumont intro with alternate animation and titles, which can be found here.
  • Additionally, the half-hour episodes are split into two parts. This is noticeable because while "Once Upon a Time" remains unchanged, the original Gaumont print of "Toon In, Drop Out" includes a scene in-between the two parts: after Etno breaks the fourth wall and and announces the episode's plot will continue next week, it cuts to the aliens watching the show's credits on their TV, before they each head to bed. As of now, only the English version has surfaced, while the existence of the French version currently remains unknown (or lost, if it does exist).
  • Even some of the show's foreign-language dubs, specifically German and Italian, were never released on DVD, and can be hard to find online, despite the show being relatively popular in those countries as well.
  • Stupid Invaders is also considered abandonware.
• Multi-Disc Work: Stupid Invaders was released on 4 CD-ROMs on the PC version, while the Dreamcast version cuts this down to 2 GD-ROMs.
• Rereleased for Free: Some episodes of the show are available to watch on its official YouTube channel for free.
• The Other Darrin: In the first half of season 1, Gorgious was voiced by Canadian actor Michael Sicoly. After that, Danny Mann took over the role for the rest of the series.
  • In season 2, Jeff Glen Bennett was replaced with Louis Garneau as the voice of Bud.
  • Same thing with Stereo, only with Danny Mann.
  • In the season 1 episode, "Mother From Another Planet", Candy's mom was voiced by an unidentified female actress. When she makes a cameo via a flashback in season 2's "Get Off My Couch!", she is clearly voiced by Charlie Adler.
  • The French version of season 2 had Etno, Bud and Candy's voice actors replaced. Specifically speaking...
    • For Etno, Peter Hudson was replaced by Bernard Alane.
    • For Bud, Marc Bretonnière was replaced by Éric Métayer.
    • For Candy, Éric Le Roch was also replaced by Métayer.
• Trans Character, Cis Actor: The Stupid Invaders version of Candy, who is a trans woman in this continuity, is still voiced by cis male Charlie Adler.
• Two Voices, One Character: There have been a few episodes in season 1 where Gorgious is mostly performed by Michael Scioly, but at least one or two lines of dialogue (or exclamations) have him voiced by Danny Mann before the latter took up voicing the character full-time. Examples include "Gnome Alone", "Flora and Feast", and the end of "Sweet Tooth Blues". (However, some of Scioly's exclamations can be heard in a few episodes that followed, including "We Robot", "2000 Feet Under Home to Rent", "Flashman vs. Zork", and "Toon In, Drop Out".) In fact, in "Flora and Feast", Gorgious has a full line of dialogue with both of his actors voicing him:
  Gorgious: (in Mann's voice) Candy, if you're done crying, I'd appreciate it if you'd sashay your little bottom into the kitchen and fix my dinner. (in Scioly's voice) I'm starving!
  • Similarly, three lines of dialogue have Bud voiced by Louis Garneau in the season 1 episode, "The Pro", before he fully replaced Jeff Bennett in season 2.
• Unspecified Role Credit: The show uses a combination of a list of names (season 1) and listing the main characters to their actor (season 2). Any and all one-off characters that appear are simply uncredited for their role.
  • The video game, Stupid Invaders, zig-zags around this trope, as the in-game credits is a simple list of names, but the credits in the instruction manual lists most of the main characters roles with their actor, with the exception of Stereo, who is strangely uncredited, despite Jeff Bennett being credited for Bud.
• What Could Have Been: There was going to be a CG-animated movie, set for release in the second quarter of 2009... but after one teaser trailer, nothing else has been heard about it. The studio that was producing it closed in 2013.
• Word of Gay: Series producer Marc du Pontavicr addressed Candy Carmella’s sexual orientation In 2022 in a French podcast on the website Konbini as shown here https://www.konbini.com/podcasts/on-vous-devoile-enfin-qui-est-marc-du-pontavice-le-producteur-historique-des-zinzins-de-lespace/%20On. In it, he said that Candy was intended to be a non-binary character but he couldn’t find the exact words to describe this at the time of the show due to the fact that it was made in the 90’s

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