26 Outrageous Behind-the-Scenes Tidbits From Kids’ Shows
These children’s shows grow up too quickly
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If kids’ shows were actually made by kids, there’d be a whole different set of behind-the-scenes issues. Juice-box thievery or ill-timed nap schedules would be hot-button issues that’d lead to stern notes posted in the lunchroom (in crayon, we presume). Clearly, these kids’ shows were made by “adults,” because those “adults” brought their own “adult” issues to set.
![PELSWICK preferred to be known as 'permanently seated' CRACKED.COM Creator John Callahan was paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident. His dark, self-deprecating humor inspired Pelswick, the first kid show with a paraplegic lead character. (And a grouchy, funny one at that.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/5/1000825.jpg)
![THE ANGRY BEAVERS confronted mortality CRACKED.COM The scripted (but unaired) final episode would have shown the Beavers becoming aware that they were mere cartoons on the brink of cancellation. In TV terms, they realized they were about to die.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/3/1000823.jpg)
![Bikini Bottom's Krusty Krab. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS CRACKED.COM SpongeBob creators conveniently named the restaurant The Krusty Krab, which is located in Bikini Bottom. So... There are crabs, and crust, in your bikini. Got it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/4/1000824.jpg)
![The Addams Family living room set was decorated in pastel colors. A location photo recently surfaced showing that the famously dark and gothic show was actually filmed on a rose, seafoam, and buttercup set. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/2/1000822.jpg)
![The Full House TO THE FANS OF FULL HOUSE FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE WE LOVE YOUR BUT PLEASE RESPECT OUR NICE NEIGHBORS AND OUR QUIET STREET NO DOUBLE-PARKING NO LOITERING NO LOUD TALKING NO LITTERING NO BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS E QUICK AND COURTEOUS DON'T MAKE ANYONE CRACKED.COM SAY HOW RUDE! After a few years of peace and quiet, neighbors again clocked over 1,000 tourists a day right after Fuller House was announced. It's hard to imagine 1,000 people have even watched the reboot.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/1/1000821.jpg)
![H. John Benjamin doesn't read. CRACKED.COM Не can read, he's just too lazy (by his own admission): I am so poor at planning that I don't even read the scripts. Не says he thrives in animation because he's supremely lazy and makes many mistakes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/2/0/1000820.jpg)
![Matt Groening removed his name from one episode DEVELOPED By JAMES L. BROOKS Sam SURRE Groening was so upset with The Critic crossover inclusion in A Star is Burns that his name doesn't appear in the opening credits. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/9/1000819.jpg)
![Homer's signature D'oh comes from Laurel and Hardy's James Finlayson's D'oooooh The expression was shortened for time. Laurel and Hardy supposedly used it as a fill-in for d**n. In the script, it only reads as annoyed grunt. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/8/1000818.jpg)
![Jon Hamm voiced a sentient toilet. CRACKED COM In the episode O.T. The Outside Toilet, Gene discovers an advanced, talking toilet in the woods and VOWS to protect it from Max Flush, the toilet hunter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/6/1000816.jpg)
![Tina Belcher was a boy. CRACKED.COM Comedian Dan Mintz played Daniel Belcher in the pilot, but the brass at Fox said the kids were too similar - particularly, brothers Gene and Daniel. Nobody wanted to lose Mintz, though, so they changed his character's name and exactly nothing else.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/7/1000817.jpg)
![BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS ALL OF RICK'S BURPS ARE REAL. Rick Many Endult Justin Roiland can't burp on command so he has to sit in a recording booth with a drink and blow air into his stomach to produce the burps. Не calls the process disgusting and painful-which is why Rick doesn't burp as much after the first couple of episodes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/5/1000815.jpg)
![CRACKED THE VOICE OF SPONGBOB HAD SOME SPICY SKETCHES ON MR. SHOW. Tom Kenny is now famous for voicing SpongeBob SquarePants, but between his many other kids show voices, he played some really dark characters in TV, and was in 20 episodes of Mr. Show. In You're Fired, he says f*** you to Bob Odenkirk, so yeah.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/4/1000814.jpg)
![CRACKED DANNY TANNER BY DAY, FILTHY COMEDIAN BY NIGHT. Bob Saget was a comedian known for some of the crudest jokes imaginable. Не even told the dirtiest version of the dirtiest joke The Aristocrats in the 2005 doc. Не also somehow played the dorkiest dad on the most precious sitcom Full House.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/3/1000813.jpg)
![CRACKED GEORGE CARLIN PLAYED MR. CONDUCTOR ON SHINING TIME STATION. The foul-mouthed comedian told stories of Thomas the Tank Engine on 45 episodes between 1991 and 1993. Не also narrated 104 episodes of Thomas and Friends, and was featured in 19 one-off Thomas-related videos and films.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/2/1000812.jpg)
![The first sci-fi series 1949 CARTAIN VIDEO CRACKED.COM Captain Video and His Video Rangers was a kids' show with a $25 prop budget per episode.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/0/1000810.jpg)
![The first kids' show 1955 CRACKED.COM Captain Kangaroo was a show based on the warm relationship between grandparents and children and inspired all your favorite shows when you were a wee lad or lass.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/7/1000807.jpg)
![CHALKZONE was not inspired by Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings GRACKED.COM Despite the similarities, creator Bill Burnett claims he had never heard of the series. (Не does admit to Harold and the Purple Crayon giving him an idea or two.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/1/1/1000811.jpg)
![AS TOLD BY GINGER was influenced by Welcome to the Dollhouse CRACKED.COM The Sundance winner was a coming-of-age dark comedy about an upopular outcast. It inspired Emily Kapnek to create a Nick version, with storylines about absent parents, depression, and unrequited love.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/8/1000808.jpg)
![AAAHH! REAL MONSTERS took place in a noirish dystopia INC CRACKED.COM Animator Gábor Csupó based the look of the monster academy's city dump on Brazil and Blade Runner. A movie version was shut down because it was considered too dark for children.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/9/1000809.jpg)
![MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT was ruined by Catwoman CRACKED.COM XJ9 was a robot designed to defend Earth but all she wanted to do was live like a normal teenager. Enter Vexus, evil queen of a robot planet. The role was purr-fectly voiced by Batman's Eartha Kitt.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/6/1000806.jpg)
![DOUG started as a fruit salesman CRACKED.COM Before he starred in one of Nickelodeon's first cartoons, Doug shilled in a commercial for Florida Grapefruit. Не bounced on a pogostick to show that grapefruit juice puts a bounce in your step.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/5/1000805.jpg)
![HEY ARNOLD sounded funny for a reason 33 CRACKED.COM The problem with kid actors is puberty. Once the voice changes, Arnold starts sounding like a grown-ass man. In all, five different actors voiced Arnold - six if you count Arnold as a baby.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/4/1000804.jpg)
![KABLAM! pioneered chuckimation CRACKED.COM KaBlam! showcased Action League Now!, featuring toy figures animated by chucking them around the frame. One of the main heroes was The Flesh, who was super-strong and super-naked.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/3/1000803.jpg)
![Helga's mom was a boozehound. HEY, ARNOLD! CRACKED.COM Helga's mother on Hey, Arnold! routinely slurred her words, and could barely stay awake. Her many community service bids had adults thinking possible DUI's.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/2/1000802.jpg)
![iCarly referenced that BDSM movie. Shade Nifty Stade Shades of Beg of Beige CRACKED.COM A Season 5 episode shows Guppy (an 8 year old boy) staring wide eyed at the novel, Nifty Shades of Beige - a direct spoof of the BDSM laden Fifty Shades of Grey.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/1/1000801.jpg)
![Rugrats spoofed a highly sexualized psychological thriller. CRACKED COM In Season 3, Episode 25, Cradle Attraction, a new girl stalks Chuckie in the same manner as Alex (Glenn Close) with Dan (Michael Douglas) in Fatal Attraction. They even replicate a shot from the film.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/0/0/1000800.jpg)