Trivia / Steve D'Monster

• Banned Episode: “You Can Be Fat Houndstooth” (S2) featured a Running Gag of curses cut short, which was ultimately met with negative reaction, which prompted the entry to be taken down from YouTube altogether.
  • As of February 2015, "April Fools!" has been banned in the U.S. because YouTube and Sony Music Entertainment has recently blocked the Rickroll in the U.S. and surrounding territories.
• Channel Hop: While it never actually happened, during the hiatus that took place between the fourth and fifth season, the series was in the process of migrating from YouTube to MySpace's video sharing format (at the time called MySpace TV).
• Edited for Syndication: When the series went into reruns on Upload Society, all entries from the first two seasons, and a number from the third were slightly sped up.
  • The episode "Holiday Message" (S3) omits the actual message itself, in which Steve says to viewers:
  Steve: This holiday message has been brought you today by your friends from The Joseph Scarbrough Universe. All two of us.
  • When on ZippCast and Upload Society, the episode retained original title cards; the new complete collection compilation on YouTube omit the title cards from the first four seasons, while five through seven retain them.
• Missing Episode: When Joseph Scarbrough re-launched the series on his new official YouTube channel in 2011, the first five seasons (that had already been released) were presented in five “Greatest Hits” compilation volumes, however, each volume omitted an episode, or two, due to the 15-minute time limit that was still in place (these entries were later cobbled together in a separate compilation entitled “Steve’s Lost Videos”).
  • The six-part entry “Steve’s Inefficient Christmas” (S6) and “A Day at the Gym” (S7) were never completely finished, due to a number of different technical and artistic difficulties.
  • An episode, originally to be included season two, in which Steve gives a pre-review of the upcoming Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, was written, performed, and taped, but then never officially released for unknown reasons. It was later included, however, in the "Lost Videos" compilation.
  • All of Season Four was never officially released because of technical difficulties that had arisen in converting the original master tapes to digital media. They were later released for the new YouTube channel in 2011 as volume four in the "Greatest Hits" compilations.
• Prop Recycling: Justified.
• Rerun: Started a run in reruns on ZippCast and Upload Society in the summer of 2013, until ZippCast was abruptly shut down by its owner, and Upload Society continued to experience server-side trouble for weeks on in.
• Screwed by the Network: Well, YouTube, in this case... but considering the inefficient new homepage the site implemented earlier in 2013, YouTubers' subscription feeds have not worked properly, and as such, the last few episodes of Season Seven have seen a drastic drop in views and attention from subscribers.
• Unfinished Episode: It has a few of these, and most were the result of a number of artistic and/or technical difficulties.
  • "Steveazoid," which was being written for the third season, was different, in that it was going to be an animated episode that was both a tribute to and a parody of Freakazoid!, however, all of the original source material was somehow wiped out from the external drive they were stored on.
  • One episode intended for Season Six was to parody pine beetle PSAs that say to burn firewood where you buy, by having Steve accidentally set fire to a grocery store because that's where he bought his firewood and that's where he had to burn it. It was ultimately never produced because of then-unsuitable editing programs that weren't able to properly chromakey blue or green screen.
  • Both the six-part "Steve Inefficient Christmas" (from Season Six) and "A Day at the Gym" (Season Seven) were ultimately shelved in the end; the former because the computer used for post-production edited had its sound destroyed by a virus, the latter because it required extensive on-location filming and property owners were not generous with time. While "Steve's Inefficient Christmas" never made it beyond pre-production, some of "A Day at the Gym" had been filmed and is available for viewing.
  • One unproduced episode that was intended to be one of the final episodes had Steve find what he believes to be a $50 bill, and trying to haggle with a diner into letting him have $50 worth of desserts, only to find out that the $50 bill was actually a brochure for an insurance company.
  • Towards the end of Season Six, an Easter Episode was written where Steve goes on an easter egg hunt, by going to the library and hunting down Easter Egg; creator Joseph Scarbrough scrapped the idea on the grounds that it somewhat defeated the purpose of Easter Egg as a character, and figuring that any local library would probably not give him permission to film the entry.