Trivia / 12 oz. Mouse

• Acting for Two:
  • Matt Maiellaro provides the voices for Mouse and CJ Muff in the second season.
  • In the third season, Ned Hastings provides the voices for both Shark and the Clock, while Paul Painter provides the voices for Professor Wilx and Buzby.
• Amateur Cast: The "cast" is made up of the creator, the producers, some musicians, and people who worked for the animation studio.
• The Cast Showoff: Mouse is pretty damn good at shreddin’ an electric guitar, courtesy of Matt Maiellaro, who recorded the track he plays in the series, “F-OFF.”
• Children Voicing Children: One of Matt Maiellaro's kids, Wyatt Maiellaro, voices The Kid.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Originally, Wikipedia claimed that Melissa Warrenburg voiced Fitz's wife, but actually she was voiced by Liz Maiellaro, Matt Maiellaro's wife. Warrenburg voiced the Green-Sweatered Woman.
• Descended Creator: Matt Maiellaro, the show’s creator and writer/director/producer, also voices Mouse himself.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series is very hard to find on DVD (at least, in America), due to it being an Adult Swim Store exclusive, and said store shutting down. That being said, the series is easily available for purchase on various PVOD services, and it was also made available on HBO Max in January 2021.
  • As of March 2024, it's been removed from Max. However, the whole series is available on the Adult Swim website.
• Lying Creator: For whatever reason, episode descriptions on the Adult Swim website, iTunes, as well as on TV guides, are instead descriptions of random Good Times episodes with the names changed.
• Missing Episode: HBO Max inexplicably has the episodes "Bowtime", "Surgery Circus", and "Corndog Chronicles" missing.
• No Budget: Probably the most literal definition of this trope when it comes to animation.
• Prop Recycling: Up until “INVICTUS,” Shark is actually the Old Kentucky Shark from the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Kentucky Nightmare", who in turn was recycled from a random Sealab 2020 episode. The special keeps his design close to the original, but remasters it to fit in with the rest of the cast.
• Real-Life Relative: Liz Maiellaro, who voiced Fitz's wife, is the real wife of Matt Maiellaro, who voices the main protagonist.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Shark is voiced by Adam Reed in the first two seasons, and is later voiced by Ned Hastings in the third season.
  • CJ Muff's speaking debut in the second season had him voiced by Matt Maiellaro; later, when he speaks once more in the third season, he is voiced by George Lowe.
  • Buzby is voiced by Dana Snyder in the "Invictus" special, but is later voiced by Paul Painter in the third season.
• Throw It In!:
  • The character Rhoda was first sketched on the back of a Perfect Hair Forever script, and several lines of dialog could be seen inside him. The makers liked the look and kept it in the show.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Star Wars VII" was confirmed to be a rough sketch of Shark's car interior; it's unknown as to why it was added in, however (other than Maiellaro apparently finding it funny).
• What Could Have Been: Season 2 was originally supposed to have 20 episodes, but instead it was Cut Short to 13, possibly causing some slight production problems late in the season (such as some of the audio being unfinished, like Golden Joe's echo not being heard). Maiellaro himself knows why Lazzo cancelled it, but he's secretive about it.