Trivia / The Wuzzles

• Actor Allusion: Well, it's not the first time Bill Scott voiced something moose-y (but sadly, it would be his last).
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Aside from the bootleg complete series DVD collection and the whole series floating around YouTube, there has been no official (U.S.) home video release, nor any release on Disney+. A few internationally-released VHS tapes exist, but those are long out of print.
• The Merch: The show's merchandise included a series of children's books, a board game by Milton Bradley, a series of plushes by Hasbro Softies, and a series of puzzles by Milton Bradley.
• Referenced by...:
  • DuckTales (2017): Rhinokey and Butterbear appear in "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!" as gigantic, powerful monsters fused together from other animals by the Stone of What Was. Bumblelion also makes a cameo as a carving of a lion-insect hybrid on the Stone.
  • The Nostalgia Critic: In "Return of the Nostalgic Commercials", one of the commercials the Critic reviews is for Wuzzles plushes by Hasbro Softies.
  • Robot Chicken:
    • A sketch from "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford!" features Bumblelion and Eleroo contemplating how they came to be. What follows are cutaways of a lion having sex with a bee and an elephant having sex with a kangaroo.
    • A sketch from "Musya Shakhtyorov in: Honeyboogers" has Dr. Seth Brundle from The Fly (1986) attending Eleroo's birthday party because he is half-man and half-fly, which makes him a Wuzzle by default. Brundle attempts to eat Bumblelion and Eleroo until he is shot in the head by Butterbear.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Sort of. You may note the series carries a copyright that credits both Walt Disney Productions (as it was still known) and Hasbro. This was because Disney came up with the idea for the show, then found out Hasbro had a similar idea in development; rather than go to court over it, they instead decided to work together: Disney handled the TV show, while Hasbro did the toys. This split in ownership was a factor as to why the show only lasted 13 episodes in spite of the franchise's popularity.
• Short-Lived, Big Impact: Only lasted thirteen episodes and has now all but fallen off the face of the Earth. However, it was ultimately a successful trial run for Disney to get into TV animation, convincing Michael Eisner to give the green light to Adventures of the Gummi Bears. If not for this show, Disney Television Animation as we know it wouldn't exist.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to Mark Evanier, he had suggested Daws Butler for a leading part in the cartoon, but he was turned down by Disney since they did not want a character sounding like a Hanna-Barbera character.
  • There were several other Wuzzles who would've appeared in the show if it had continued: Piggypine (pig/porcupine), Koalakeet (koala/parakeet), Pandeaver (panda/beaver), Woolrus (sheep/walrus) and Skowl (skunk/owl).
• Working Title: Jumble Isle.