Dawson Casting: Aside from Tiffany, who was voiced by a teenager, none of the child characters were voiced by actual children.
Executive Meddling: Originally, Todd and Riley only got their parents replaced, then an executive suggested that they should have the ability to replace other adults too.
Follow the Leader: Coincidentally or not, The Replacements feels like Disney's attempt at creating an equivalent of The Fairly OddParents!, with its child protagonists who get their wishes granted in every episode and have it go horribly wrong at the end leading them to undo the wish and have everything go back to normal. As noted under Production Posse, however, many people who worked on that show were actually involved with this one.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: Like most animated Disney shows produced in the 21st century, the show never received any DVD releases, meaning that for eight years after reruns of the series were taken off the air in 2011 (when ABC discontinued its Saturday morning children's block in favor of programs produced by Litton Entertainment), fans had to rely on recordings of the show from Canadian broadcasts on Family in order to watch it.
This was finally averted when the series was released in its entirety on iTunes on October 25, 2019. The series also became a launch title for Disney+ approximately three weeks later, on November 12, 2019, though a severe Missing Episode situation plagues the show there.
Missing Episode: Only season 1 is available to stream on Disney+. Unless if Disney adds them to the service later down the line, you'll have to purchase the iTunes collections in order to legally watch the show's remaining 31 episodes.
Celebrity Starr was voiced by Miley Cyrus in "The Frog Prince" and by Jessica DiCicco in "Hollywoodn't".
Abbie was voiced by Erica Hubbard in season 1 and Tempsett Blesdoe in season 2.
Out of Order: By all indication, the second season aired out of order in the United States. For example, Tasumi appears without her helmet in "Canadian Fakin'" before she takes it off for good in "Tasumi Unmasked".
Production Posse: The show is pretty much a The Fairly OddParents! reunion. Story editor Jack Thomas is the executive producer for this series, while actors Grey DeLisle and Daran Norris voice series regulars Riley and Dick Daring. Tara Strong, Susanne Blakeslee, Carlos Alazraqui, Jim Ward, Rob Paulsen, Jason Marsden, Dee Bradley Baker, and Jeff Bennett (though he wouldn't become a recurring cast member on Fairly OddParents until the eighth season which premiered years after this show wrapped up) do recurring voice work in this series.
Technology Marches On: The Fleemco phone is a flip phone. The year after the series debuted, Apple debuted the iPhone; Fleemco's service would nowadays be better served as a smartphone app.
What Could Have Been: Before being pitched to Disney as a TV series, creator Dan Santat was going to make a children's book about a kid fed up with his parents' rules that comes across the same ad and replaces his parents with a Mexican wrestler and a cowgirl; only to return them after realizing why his original parents had those rules in the first place.
Creator Backlash: Shockingly, Westerberg considers "Unsatisfied" to be one of these, claiming that it was "just the drugs wearing off". Many Replacements fans cite the song as the greatest ever committed to record.
"Merry Go Round" is not the same as the Mötley Crüe song (though the band did cover the latter during concerts on several occasions).
Trolling Creator: The Replacements were known for trolling holier-than-thou punks by performing cover versions of songs that were considered "uncool" by punks, such as "Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat" by The DeFranco Family.
Writer Revolt: The Replacements hated making music videos, but Sire Records insisted they make some anyway. The band decided to make very simplistic, modest videos where nothing happens in them: "Bastards of Young", "Hold My Life" and "Left of the Dial" all feature similar-looking footage of the Tim album being played on a living room stereo system. "Alex Chilton" and "The Ledge" feature the band hanging out and eating food while lounging on some couches. Sire Records got the hint, and later videos like "I'll Be You" and "Merry-Go-Round" are simple Performance Video affairs.
, Tommy Stinson stated that his favorite Replacements album is their last album, All Shook Down.