Trivia / The Gentleman Pirate

• Acting for Two: There's too many examples to list since the voice acting team is limited to single digits (the exact number is unclear since there's many Uncredited Roles). For example, SumitoMedia voices Ignatius Pell, Blackbeard, Mary Allamby, and the pirate who robs the bank.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Blue certainly isn't a common color for a pirate. It's safe to assume the obvious blue color-coding of Stede Bonnet is inspired by the obvious blue color-coding of the Ordinary Things channel, as one can see with a quick look at the channel layout.
• Corpsing: The quartermaster ends up corpsing in his "The Reason You Suck" Speech before the Battle of Cape Fear River.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The only speaking woman (not including text-to-speech) in the video, Mary Allamby, is voiced by SumitoMedia, a man (with no voice changer!).
• Cut Song: Although its instrumental made it into the final video, the lyrics of the Captain Montage were cut. It includes Word Salad Lyrics told from the vague perspective of Stede Bonnet. It can be found here.
• Production Foreshadowing: The model for Stede Bonnet appears 5 months prior in Incognito Mode video "monsters." as the boat captain Internet Historian and Ordinary Things speak to before they embark on their journey to kill all the whales.
• Production Posse: Sumito has been a close associate of Internet Historian for a while, mostly appearing in his In The Field videos. He appeared in two Sundance Rejects before his role as Pell. As for Ordinary Things, he appeared in one In The Field video, "monsters.", leading up to the release of The Gentleman Pirate. Since then, Ordinary Things has appeared and cameoed in more Internet Historian videos.
• Schedule Slip: The trailer stated the video would be released in October, but it ended up being released in late November.
• Uncredited Role: All characters other than Bonnet, Pell, Quartermaster, Governor Johnson, Blackbeard, Mary Allamby, and Colonel Rhett are uncredited. The intro vaguely says “People from the office as bunch of other characters”. Most notably, the person who voices David Herriot and the bank teller’s son (along with others) isn’t credited, despite them appearing in other Internet Historian videos.
• What Could Have Been: The song which plays over Stede Bonnet’s Training Montage, simply titled “The Captain Montage”, originally had vocals and was substantially longer. Benjamin Symons, producer of many songs featured in The Gentleman Pirate, originally did a demo. Then he had Ordinary Things sing his version, and then Internet Historian, then eventually winding back to Symons doing the vocals, and finally it was scrapped. The only vocal version which is out has Benjamin Symons singing, leaving the Ordinary Things and Internet Historian versions unpublished. The reasoning, Symons described, was that it was “probably embarrassing for them.”
  • In a reply to a comment on this video, Symons describes the Ordinary Things version as “auto tuned so much it sounds insane!”