History Trivia / TomSka

* DyeingForYourArt: Tom has stated he's allergic to the materials used for the horse mask he wears for several sketches, which causes him to break out in rashes.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: ''Horse'', which Tom stated that it was because it was note-for-note from conception to final product, with no changes in between.

** He claims to have a fun fact about ''Beard'', but that he is legally forbidden from publicly revealing what it is. The only people who know besides him are the other production members and one man who brought him a drink once.

* Many are explored in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqQuDLFYpiY "Fun Facts and F**k-Ups"]]:
** ''MEANWHILE'' was originally supposed to be a recurring ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}'' gag, but Tom refitted it into its own sketch after he came up with ten different parallel universes while writing its script.
** ''Christmas Demolition'' was supposed to be the first part of a trilogy, but Tom gained too much weight and didn't better his mental health in time, and the parts never got made. Tom's ideas for the missing parts eventually made it into ''Sam Kills Christmas''.
** ''Guitar Warfare'' has Tom learn the song on guitar but all of Tom's close-up shots were lost, and so were never used. There was also meant to be a SpecialGuest, but the studio involved screwed up.
** "The Fallen" is a ShotForShotRemake of a cut sketch called "Colonial Morons", which was meant to be a tie-in for VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines. Said tie-in got cancelled, and left the original sketch shelved due to the PortingDisaster of the game.
** ''Literal Drinks'' is ''also'' a ShotForShotRemake, but contained [[IncrediblyLamePun too many puns]] that it adversly affected the script, so it was cut down, and re-filmed the following day.
** There is a song made by [=RoomieOfficial=] called "Muffin Time" privated on Tom's channel that was made to cross-promote with asdfmovie 8 that has yet to be released because of voice rights issues with Sam Levigno (the child actor of Muffin) and "not wanting to pay an obscenely high fee" for their use in a song.
** ''WebAnimation/CrashZoom - Fingered'' was originally a sponsored video for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'', but it was changed mid-development to feature wholly unique characters.
** ''Shoot All Your Problems Away'', depicts several cases of AxesAtSchool and GoingPostal as some CrossesTheLineTwice DarkHumor, and was was planned to release '''way''' earlier than it actually did. However, every single time it was scheduled to be released, real life would surprise him and a mass shooting would take place that correlated to the lyrics they wrote, or in Tom's words "America happened". After too many instances of such shootings taking place, Tom eventually gave up, retooled it into a satire, and added a new punchline that made it into a TakeThat against America's lack of gun safety.
** For ''The Confession 3'', a CPR Dummy of a baby was obtained as a prop, as a contingency just in case their baby actor couldn't make it to set.
** ''Robot Wars'' was subject to ExecutiveMeddling by Creator/TheBBC, where Sir Killalot was made to be mute mere moments before filming, and the dialog was rewritten on-set to compensate for this change.
** ''First Contact'' was originally a brand deal with intended ProductPlacement, but the deal fell through. While those parts were left of the editing room floor, the sketch itself was created in such a way that the product placement was superfluous to the sketch itself, and so was uploaded largely unchanged.
** ''Imaginary Friend'' originally ended with Mr. Tibbles holding a bomb at school.
** ''Big Fat Monster'' was originally envisioned as a kitschy BMovie, but was re-edited to be in color to better appeal to Tom's viewers.
** ''Bible Time'' has many of its ideas RefittedForSequel from ''Time Trouble'', which had the crew redo the entire sketch in one drunken night.

** In the now unavailable comedy sketch ''Takeout Robbery'' (more on that below and in [[https://youtu.be/_he4mxC1epM this video]]), the original script had the villain holding a knife, but the marketing campaign that was doing the brand deal with Tom for that video deemed it too violent and suggested replacing it with ''a glass of water''. They finally settled on a pizza cutter.

** In 2014, he made a comedy sketch called ''Takeout Robbery'' as part of a brand deal with Oreo, unfortunately, a few months after its release, Tom legally had to take the video down after a lawsuit claiming Oreo's sponsorship campaign and the content creators involved haven't made it clear enough to their audiences that they were doing a [[ProductPlacement paid advertisement]]; he later made a ''[[https://youtu.be/_he4mxC1epM Scrap'd Week]]'' about it, and the video in question has since been [[https://youtu.be/pNaeO1yJeBk reuploaded]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes on another channel however]].

** ''Russian Roulette'' was [[https://twitter.com/thetomska/status/1284101506506137601 originally intended to be a live-action [=80s=]-horror-style sketch with practical effects]], but was finally turned into a cartoon due to the lockdown from the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic preventing any [[{{Pun}} shooting]] from taking place. It also had a [[https://twitter.com/thetomska/status/1284104434537160709 different ending]] where Tom would've paid his debt to an obscure figure that would've been revealed to be Death itself, who would have then let Tom die.

* Many are explored in [[https://youtu.be/MqQuDLFYpiY "Fun Facts and F**k-Ups"]]:

** There is a song made by [=RoomieOfficial=] called "Muffin Time" privated on Tom's channel that was made to cross-promote with [=asdfmovie 8=] that has yet to be released because of voice rights issues with Sam Levigno (the child actor of Muffin) and "not wanting to pay an obscenely high fee" for their use in a song.

** ''Crash Zoom - Fingered'' was originally a sponsored video for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderman2'', but it was changed mid-development to feature wholly unique characters.

* OldShame: In ''[[https://youtu.be/mcrsyXyd34A I Am Not An Animator]]'', Tom stated he would rather forget that he made ''2 Canadians On A Plane''.

* CreatorBreakdown: He has ''not'' had a good number of years since 2012 thanks to one big reason: Losing his best friend and muse [[WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}} Edd Gould]] to leukaemia. In the years following his death, Tom had struggled with balancing the ''Eddsworld: Legacy'' campaign witj his own content, resulting in him gaining weight, losing friendships (in particular Chris "Bing" Bingham) and having a depressive spieal. Despite finishing up the campaign in 2016 and even leaving the show and giving it back to Gould's family, Ridgewell still struggles with Gould's passing, his own parents's divorce, [[DrowningMySorrows excessive alcoholism]], and the death of his dog (to the point of ''leaving'' the ''Eddsworld'' fandom due to entitled fans giving him hell). One has to wonder how he even ''still'' is able to make funny content despite being the epitome of SadClown. Thankfully, he's been steadily recovering from around 2018 onward, having (mostly) cut alcohol out of his life and beginning to attend therapy.

* CreatorBreakdown: He has ''not'' had a good number of years since 2012 and with one big reason: Losing his best friend and muse [[WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}} Edd Gould]]. Since, Tom had struggled with running the show following the start of the ''Eddsworld: Legacy'' campaign and his own content, being a factor in his heavy weight gain, losing friendships (in particular Chris "Bing" Bingham) and the excessive usage of suicidal/dark humor jokes. Despite finishing up the campaign in 2016 and even leaving the show and giving it back to Gould's family, Ridgewell still struggles with Gould's passing, his own parents's divorce, excessive alcoholism, and the death of his dog (even at some point ''leaving'' the ''Eddsworld'' fandom due to unpleasable fans giving him hell before coming back). One has to wonder how he even ''still'' is able to make funny content despite being the epitome of SadClown. Thankfully, he's been steadily recovering from around 2018 onward.

* CreatorBreakdown: He has ''not'' had a good number of years since 2012 and with one big reason: Losing his best friend and muse [[WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}} Edd Gould]]. Since, Tom had struggled with running the show following the start of the ''Eddsworld: Legacy'' campaign and his own content, being a factor in his heavy weight gain, losing friendships (in particular Chris "Bing" Bingham) and the excessive usage of suicidal/dark humor jokes. Despite finishing up the campaign in 2016 and even leaving the show and giving it back to Gould's family, Ridgewell still struggles with Gould's passing, his own parents's divorce, excessive alcoholism, and the death of his dog (even at some point ''leaving'' the ''Eddsworld'' fandom due to unpleasable fans giving him hell before coming back). One has to wonder how he even ''still'' is able to make funny content despite being the epitome of SadClown.

** His original script for ''Time Trouble'' was rejected and pretty much everything that was planned for it was changed the evening ''before'' the shooting was set to take place, forcing Tom and Eddie to rewrite the skit on the go.

* His original script for ''Time Trouble'' was rejected and pretty much everything that was planned for it was changed the evening ''before'' the shooting was set to take place, forcing Tom and Eddie to rewrite the skit on the go.

* SurprisinglyLenientCensor: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32JcVrowndw Tom was astonished by how lenient Surfshark's ad agency was]], especially in comparison to other brands he'd worked with, and ''actively tried to get fired''. In fact. the only Surfshark ad to be removed was not done on the request of the ad agency, but by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority.

* SurprisinglyLenientCensor: Tom was astonished by how lenient Surfshark's ad agency was, especially in comparison to other brands he'd worked with.

* TheOtherDarrin: Tom's girlfriend in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjoDOnzr5s HOLY SHIT CATS]] is played by Jenny Bingham in the original, but by Paula Kay in the sequel, due to a falling out between Tom and Jenny. The two don't look remotely alike.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The studio that developped the mobile game ''[=KatataK=]'' went bankrupt, and the game was subsequently removed from stores, making it [[IncrediblyLamePun virtually]] impossible to be played today, unless you own a phone that still has the game installed.