Trivia / Totally Spies!

• Acting for Two:
  • Sam's voice actress Jennifer Hale also voices several other characters including Mandy, leading to plenty of instances where she talks to herself.
  • Mandy's lackeys are voiced by the same women who voiced Clover and Alex as well.
  • In the French version, it's Alex and Mandy who share the same voice actress.
• Adored by the Network: It was one of Teletoon's biggest series during the 2000s, being highly promoted and frequently airing at available hours on both weekdays and weekends. Even after the series ended, reruns still appear on the channel to this day, thanks to its status as one of the network's longest-running original series making it a good way of fulfilling Canadian content quotas. However, only Season 3-5 are aired due to Teletoon no longer having the rights to Seasons 1, 2, and lacking the rights to 6.
• Channel Hop: Started off on ABC Family for its first season, then showed up out of the blue on Cartoon Network for the rest of the series; this may have been because Saban Entertainment co-produced season 1 before Disney bought them out. And to the surprise of many, after almost 10 years of not being seen on American television, it then started airing on Universal Kids on June 24, 2019.
• Completely Different Title: In the Chinese dubs, we have 间谍少女组 (lit. Spy Girl Group) for Seasons 1-2, and 少女特工组 (lit. Girl Agents) for Season 6.
• Dueling Shows: Started around the same time Kim Possible did.
• Executive Meddling: All three of the main characters' voices were changed for Season 7 due to the higher-ups not wanting to pay union rates.
• Fake American: Sam and Mandy's voice actress and Alex's second voice actress are both Canadian, though it's downplayed for the former this show came out when she already moved to the US.
• Fake Brit: Jerry's first voice actor.
• International Coproduction: Written and animated in France, but voiced in Canada. With further animation work done in South Korea.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only seasons 1-3 have been released on DVD in North America. On the plus side, the official Totally Spies YouTube channel has been uploading full episodes past season 3.
• Missing Episode: The late 90s pilot trailer is currently lost as of this writing.
• Missing Trailer Scene: Some very early promos contain scenes from the unaired pilot trailer.
• Newbie Boom: The fandom recieved a good kick in the trousers when the entire series started being uploaded for free on Youtube, letting old fans easily rediscover the show, and new fans stumble across it for the first time.
• No Export for You:
  • The first 3 seasons are on DVD and iTunes. Anything past that is anyone's guess as to if it'll be put on there.
  • Thankfully, the series (and The Movie) are being released for free on YouTube. The first six seasons are also on Prime Video.
  • The trio of DS games, Totally Spies 3: Secret Agents, Totally Spies 4: Around the World, and Totally Spies: My Secret Diary was never able to make it to the States... despite the fact that all three games do have the option to play them in English.
• The Other Darrin:
  • To put it simply, the English dub switched from American voice actors in the first two seasons to Canadian for the rest of the dub. Clover and Sam's original actresses were retained for the entire series, though, and Word of God has said that they wanted to retain Alex's voice as well but were forced to transition due to her original actress developing health troubles around the time they switched casts.
  • Also during the switch, Jess Harnell, the original voice of Jerry, was replaced with British-Canadian actor Adrian Truss.
  • Latin America replaced all the actors. The Latin Spanish dub changed countries from Mexico to Venezuela, while Brazilian Portuguese moved from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro.
  • As confirmed their Instagram, the actresses for the trio won't be returning for the upcoming 7th season. Later information from Jennifer Hale (the original voice of Sam) reveals that the replacements happened due to union struggles.
• Post-Script Season: Season 6 was clearly this since Season 5 tied up a lot of loose ends and gave the show a superb Grand Finale.
• Real Song Theme Tune: Moonbaby's "Here We Go"; however, the lyrics are altered drastically due to the original song's racy lyrics.
• Unspecified Role Credit: Outside of the first episode, the series only ever credits the voice actors, and not the roles they play. This turns to full-blown Uncredited Role for all guest roles from Season 2 onward.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early on, there apparently was an idea for an episode entitled "Baby Geniuses" (implying that there could've been a Baby Morph Episode), but it was scrapped.
  • In the lost pilot episode, Alex was Korean.
  • According to the shows wiki, Alex and Sam had each other's personality.
  • The series was originally planned to end after season 3.
  • "Totally Dunzo" was planned to be the final episode of the series, as Season 5 tied up many loose ends.
  • In concept art, Sam wore white, Clover wore black and Alex wore red.

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