Whenever Belos possesses someone, he speaks in the voice of the body he's taken over, sometimes with Matthew Rhys's voice layered over top. When possessing Hunter he's voiced by Zeno Robinson, when possessing Raine he's voiced by Avi Roque.
Gus, who is Black, is voiced by Issac Ryan Brown, who is also Black.
Tati Gabrielle, who is part Black and part Korean, voices Willow. Willow's dads appear to be Black and Asian, and her last name, Park, is a very common Korean last name. Thus, it's very likely that Willow is Black and (the Boiling Isles' equivalent of) Korean.
Like many recent Disney shows, it was renewed for season 2 before the show even premiered. It's also gotten plenty of advertisement.
It was also renewed for a third season before season 2 premiered, similarly to Tangled: The Series, DuckTales (2017), Big Hero 6: The Series, and Amphibia. Unfortunately, as mentioned down below, it was announced as the final season at the same time and a very short one at that.
Ascended Fanon: Many fans pointed out that Luz has several signs of ADHD. Dana Terrace eventually responded that she didn't intend this, but now considers it canon.
Banned in China: The show has had some trouble properly getting onto Disney+ in Singapore due to its LGBTQ+ themes. The series has a noticeably higher rating of NC-16 on the Singaporean version of the service, and multiple episodes of the series are also missing as well.
Blooper: In "King's Tide", when Belos attacks Hunter and spots him holding Flapjack, his palisman, he screams "CALEB!?", though the subtitles mistakenly read "kill him". Dana Terrace later confirmed "Caleb" was the correct line and was shocked by how intense the subtitles were.
The version of "Understanding Willow" that airs on Disney Channel's Southeast Asia feed in countries like the Philippines and Thailand blurs the photo of Willow's two dads.
"Enchanted Grom Fright" is a zigzagged example, also from Southeast Asia. While they censor a scene of a gay couple dancing, they don't censor the scene of Luz and Amity dancing or the latter's letter to the former saying she likes her, both of which remain fully intact.
In the Taiwanese dub of "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", the scene where Amity kisses Luz on the cheek is entirely omitted, instead cutting straight to Edric and Emira glancing at them through the window and then the episode just ends.
"Adventure in the Elements" was leaked months in advance in Turkey.
"Really Small Problems", with Russian credits, was leaked hours before its intended airing.
The first two episodes of season two, "Separate Tides" and "Escaping Expulsion" were leaked onto YouTube following the early screening, a full week before the first one was supposed to air normally and two before the second was.
Days after "Hunting Palismen" aired, a Deleted Scene from that very episode was leaked online by a crew member.
The titles for "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", and "Any Sport in a Storm" were leaked online in June 2021, many, many months before their actual airdates.
The titles for the three Season 3 episodes (including "Thanks to Them") and some of its background drawings were leaked online well before their actual airdates.
About a week before "Thanks to Them" aired, several screenshots from the episode were leaked, including images of Belos-possessed Hunter, and Flapjack's sacrifice.
On January 5th, 2023, just over two weeks before it was meant to air, the entire duration of "For the Future" was accidentally made available on the Canadian iTunes store. By the time it was taken down, it had already been downloaded and shared widely.
On April 7th, 2023, an image of Willow's Time Skip design was leaked via YouTube TV, used as a thumbnail for "Watching and Dreaming". It was quickly replaced but, much like with the prior two episodes, the screenshot was quickly shared around the internet.
Creator's Favorite: Dana Terrace stated she became rather obsessed with Amity Blight as she began to delve into her character, even dyeing her hair the same color as Amity's.
Of the episodes Sage Cotugno directed, "Adventures In The Elements" is their favorite.
Sam Bosnam (a background layout artist for this show) and Catherine Harman (story artist) have stated that "Enchanting Grom Fright" is their favorite episode by far. Outside of them, much of the crew spent the week prior to its release hyping this episode way more than they did with any others.
Production Associate Rebecca Rose has mentioned that "Reaching Out", "Them's the Breaks, Kid", and "Hollow Mind" are her favorite episodes.
Credits Pushback: Sadly, this show suffered this since episode one by interspersing the credits with the last seconds of the show causing both the outro and credits music to be removed. First time viewers may be caught off guard by this. Check out an example from one of their broadcasts. If you're feeling adventurous, click here to join Luz on a 30-second tour of the Boiling Isles.
The Collector has a male-aligned gender identity (Word of God has confirmed them to go by both he/him and they/them pronouns), yet is voiced by female voice actress Fryda Wolff. She also voices the child-version of Belos in "Hollow Mind".
Dana stated during a livestream that she refers to Eberwolf with he/him pronouns (while saying that she doesn't mind people also using they/them), but he's voiced by Kari Wahlgren (although he doesn't really talk but instead make noises).
Luz, Amity, and Willow are all 14, and they are voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles (30), Mae Whitman (33), and Tati Gabrielle (26) respectively.
Dana Terrace said in an AMA that Eda is in her 40s and later episodes revealing she's actually younger than her sister Lilith, though Dana says it's only by about 2 years, her voice actress, Wendie Malick, is almost 70.
A lighter example: Augustus "Gus" Porter is 12, while his voice actor Issac Ryan Brown is 15.
The Golden Guard is 16 years old but his voice actor Zeno Robinson is 27.
"Echoes of the Past" confirms King is 8 years old, while Alex Hirsch is 36.
Dear Negative Reader: Dana Terrace has liked Twitter posts accusing the show of promoting witchcraft and demonic worship as well as posts decrying the show for confirming that Luz and Amity have a budding romance going on in order to troll them, which she readily admits in her Reddit AMA.
The redheaded conspiracy theorist Tiny Nose is voiced by - and modeled after - Dana Terrace herself. She also did King's "squeak of rage" and voiced his younger self in "Echoes of the Past". She also voices Severine, the coven scout who eventually quits to join the Tiny Cat Coven in "Labyrinth Runners."
Editor Kevin Locarro voices Braxas as well as Kevin the bartender in "Eda's Requiem".
Supervising producer Stephen Sandoval voices Luz's English teacher, Mr. Sandoval, in "Thanks to Them".
In a picture at the Noceda home shown in "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", Camila is wearing a similar shirt to the one Luz sports in the pilot.
Also from the pilot, Luz slaps the Golden Guard awake after leaning in like she's going to kiss him, similarly to the sleeping prince scene.
When Luz confronts Vee in "Yesterday's Lie", Vee had just picked out a striped shirt similar to Luz's pilot outfit, and she later picks up a baseball bat resembling the one Luz wields in "beta" concept art.
Early-Bird Release: The first two episodes of Season 2 were screened at The Paley Center on June 5th; a week before the official Season 2 premiere on television. The Paley Center begged fans not to leak or spoil anything, but a lot of the fans didn't listen and posted spoilers anyways.
The photos of Willow's dads in "Understanding Willow" were censored in Southeast Asia so that they're blurred over.
"Enchanted Grom Fright" is a zigzagged example, also from Southeast Asia. While they censor a scene of a gay couple dancing, they don't censor the scene of Luz and Amity dancing or the latter's letter to the former saying she likes her. That part is kept intact.
Executive Meddling: The third season was cut down from the usual order of 10-20 22-min episodes to three 44-min specials, all because one executive felt the show didn't fit the Disney "brand", resulting in a lot of content having to be scrapped so that they could use the remaining time they had to complete the main story. It was later revealed to be because the executives were trying to phase out seralized cartoons from the Disney Channel in favor of more episodic shows, and didn't think to move the show to Disney+ where it would be more suited because it was first produced before the service's launch.
God Never Said That: Dana Terrace is often misattributed as saying that she hates happy endings. What she actually said, paraphrased from a since-deleted tweet, is that she hates the phrase "Happily Ever After" as it implies nothing bad ever happens to characters afterwards.
Creator Dana Terrace first worked on Gravity Falls as a storyboard artist and revisionist, before working as a director on DuckTales (2017), as well as having a brief storyboard gig on the Tangled: The Series episode "Challenge of the Brave".
Alongside Dana's history at Disney, there are various Disney veteran voice actors on the show:
Lying Creator: An unusual variant - during an AMA, Dana told "Two lies and a truth" about what would happen in the second season (Gus getting a growth spurt, Hooty leaving the Owl House, and Camila beating someone up). However, all three of them turned out to be true.
The show's French title is Luz à Osville. In French, "os" means "bone" and "ville" means "city", so the show is literally called Luz in Bone City in French (referring to Bonesborough, the town the characters live in).
In German, the show is titled Willkommen im Haus der Eulen ("Welcome to the House of Owls") — the more direct translation of the English title, Das Eulenhaus, was used for the translation of Agatha Christie's novel The Hollow, so it was probably an attempt to avoid confusion with a more established work. Additionally, it references the german name of Gravity Falls (Willkommen in Gravity Falls), possibly in an attempt to attract fans of the former.
While Abigail Zoe Lewis initially voiced the child version of Lilith in "Young Blood, Old Souls", Lilith's usual VA Cissy Jones would take her place in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door". Lewis returned in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" for pre-teen Lilith, having gotten older and a little deeper since the last season.
Steve the Coven Scout was voiced by Alex Hirsch in Season 1, but in Season 2 he's voiced by Matt Chapman.
With Isaac Ryan Brown gone through puberty, Gus' younger self in the opening flashback of "Labyrinth Runners" is voiced by Carter Jones.
In the original animation test for the show, Willow was voiced by Eden Riegel. In the series proper, she would be replaced by Tati Gabrielle.
Out of Order: After "Lost in Language", the majority of Season 1 is aired out of order compared to its production order. Though this MAY be intentional as the first letter of each episode in broadcast order spells out "A WITCH LOSES A TRUE WAY" akin to Gravity Falls secret codes. It's only really noticeable with the episode about Luz's first day at Hexside coming after a few others of her already going there. The season 2 episode order gives a similar message (see the analysis page for details).
Permanent Placeholder: Hooty's voice was originally a scratch recording made by Alex Hirsch for the show's pilot, performing his worst impression of Mickey Mouse. Dana Terrace liked the voice and kept it for Hooty in the main series.
Wendie Malick usually plays vain, shallow socialites, and Eda is much more down to earth in comparison, although you could joke this isn't the first time she's played a witch... just literally this time. This also isn't the first time she's played an owl character.
Dee Bradley Baker, who voices bizarre and cartoony animals most of the time, provides the vocals for Eda's monstrous Owl Beast form.
Parvesh Chena voices the evil Tibbles in contrast to his usual nice guy roles like Blades and Bodhi. Even Deany and Raj, who are minions to villains, are actually quite nice. Here, his demeanor is the opposite.
When it comes to Disney roles, Eden Riegel voices characters who help the heroes, like Yuna and Kiara. In this series, she voices Boscha, who is, put simply, not a nice person.
Gus' voice actor, Isaac Ryan Brown, had a voice change between Season 1 and Season 2's production. As a result, his character had been visually aged up, and it's hand waved as witch puberty.
Downplayed, but in "O Titan Where Art Thou" Luz states that they don't have time for 20 more adventures when Eda asks her if she wants to spend the day doing something other than stealing back the Owl House's confiscated stuff. This directly references the fact that Disney only greenlit a third season of three specials rather than 10-20 episodes like Dana hoped.
Release Date Change: In Hungary, the show was supposed to air on January 2nd, 2021. However, it was removed from the schedules and released on Disney+ the following January.
Much like Amphibia, the show was removed from Disney Channel's schedule after November 2020 with reruns only airing on Disney XD. Eventually, it would return to Disney Channel's schedule by June 11, 2021 just one day before season 2 premiered and even has more timeslots for reruns compared to Amphibia when it returned to the schedule briefly from March to May (one of which even being in a Friday primetime slot alongside the channel's live-action sitcoms) until said reruns were removed after August 15th of that year.
Season 3 was announced to be the show's last season. However, going by what creator Dana Terrace has stated on her Twitter, while it may have been her choice to end the show after its third season, she expected 10-20 episodes. Instead, Disney greenlit Season 3 for just three 44-minute specials, which is only the length of six normal episodes (for comparison, its sister show Amphibia got a full season 3 and its final episodes are 47 and 30 minutes respectively). Dana later mentioned on her Twitter and Reddit that the reason the show is being cut short was because it "didn't fit the Disney brand", not because of its LGBT representation or even the dark themes, but because it was serialized and the target audience skewed older than what the Disney Channel intended, which focused more on episodic comedies for 6-11 year olds. The first two seasons were also in development before the older-oriented Disney+ launched. Dana also confirmed in September 2022 that she got no pushback whatsoever on LGBT content beyond the show's initial greenlighting (for reasons only related to the show's international profits), and horror elements were the only pushback she got in the show's run. According to the showrunners, the executives dismissed The Owl House repeatedly trending on Twitter — mainly due to fans protesting the truncation of Season 3 and demanding a Season 4 — as meaningless, and it wasn't until the first episode of Season 3 was posted on YouTube and became one of the most-viewed videos that they truly realized how popular the show was and that they'd made a mistake cancelling it. Oops.
Disney put out a promo for Season 2 without Terrace's permission, containing information she didn't want people to know before watching the episodes. Some fans even accused this of being retaliation for her attacking the network over how badly they screwed up the Amphibia Season 2 finale.
The series entered a four month hiatus after the tenth episode, with no new ones until July. This is because of Disney Channel's new "binge-watching" strategy where the crew has to finish producing about ten episodes instead of one or two at a time before airing them, which could take 3-5 months or longer.
The show would go into another major one following the season 1 finale on August 29th, 2020 lasting nearly ten months, with the reason for such a long hiatus being due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the crew to work from home, which made it take longer to churn out new episodes, as well as the fact that the show's shortening forced them to rework the plot of the show from "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" onward.
Short Run in Peru: The 12th episode ("Adventures in the Elements") aired as the show's 11th episode in Turkey several months before its US premiere.
Spoiler Cover: On a website known as Gracenote, a few images of yet-to-be released episodes were leaked on July 7th 2021, especially one showing The Golden Guard's mask-less face.
Throw It In!: According to Alex Hirsch, the voice for Hooty was his impression of Mickey Mouse's voice, made for the purpose of trying to make Dana laugh. She decided to incorporate it into the show after hearing it.
Eda is voiced by Wendie Malick, while Cissy Jones voices her sister Lilith. The season 1 finale has a flashback of them as children, Eda voiced by Natalie Palamaides and Lilith voiced by Abigail Zoe Lewis (though "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" averts this for Lilith with Cissy Jones voicing her younger self).
King is voiced by Alex Hirsch, but Dana Terrace voices his younger self shown in flashbacks in "Echoes of the Past".
Alex Lawther originally voices Philip Wittebane as a teenager. In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", after a decade has passed and Wittebane has aged into his late 20's/early 30's, he's voiced by Matthew Rhys, with the episode confirming that he will become Emperor Belos one day.
Blu del Barrio plays young Raine.
Trans Character, Cis Actor: While the show's most prominent trans character (Raine) is voiced by two non-binary voice actors (the aformentioned Avi Roque and Blu del Barrio), there are a few portrayed by cis actors.
Masha is voiced by Grey DeLisle. It's likely that they either weren't intended to be non-binary at the time of their introduction (given that the writers had to make massive changes to the show's plot when Disney cut season 3 short) or it was an attempt to hide their true gender as it's implied that they transitioned in between their first and second appearances.
Similarly, the bigender Papa Titan was portrayed by Egoraptor.
Tribute to Fido: Amity's cat palisman is named Ghost after Dana Terrace's pet cat.
While possessing Hunter, some of Belos' voice work is done by Zeno Robinson and later Matthew Rhys' voice is added for a Voice of the Legion effect.
Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: At first, Dana was very interactive with the fanbase, answering many questions and occasionally retweeting fanart of the show. However, in late 2020, she deactivated her Twitter profile and lessened her interactions with fans on her other social media outlets due to some of the show's "fans" bullying her on Twitter. Fortunately, she did eventually return to Twitter in 2021.
After "Enchanting Grom Fright" aired, Word of Godconfirmed Luz to be bisexual. However, it wasn't until "Thanks to Them" that Luz being bisexual was explicitly stated in-universe.
According to Avi Roque, Raine's favorite Disney movie would be Hercules, they're transmasculine in addition to being nonbinary, and their love language is physical touch.
According to Eden Reigel, Boscha has low self-esteem, a need for external validation, and a feeling of otherness that makes her a bully because it's the only way she can feel like she belongs.
Dana Terrace based Luz on her friend and former college roommate by the same name, who works on the show as a story artist and consultant.
Dana stated that she made Luz bisexual because she herself is bisexual and wanted to write a bi character.
Dana Terrace: I'm bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit! Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am VERY supported by current Disney leadership.
Dana states she based Eda off of her mother and aunt.
Disney shows, it was renewed for season 2 before the show even premiered. It's also gotten plenty of advertisement.