The show did well, attracting many viewers during its initial run, but Warner Brothers tried to sell commercial slots on this show, on the basis that kids were its main audience. However, it soon turned out that most regular viewers were fourteen years or older. It was considered to move the show to primetime, but in the end, it was cancelled after twenty-four episodes.
In season two, episode two The Freakazoid (1996) Freakazoid gets into an argument with Wakko Warner from Animaniacs (1993) and the Brain from Pinky and the Brain (1995) about which of their shows is the favorite of Steven Spielberg. During this argument, Freakazoid claims that he is Steven's favorite, because he got a memo. This joke is based on a real memo that Paul Rugg, writer and voice of Freakazoid, received from Spielberg while working as a writer on Animaniacs.
Paul Rugg, who had originally been hired as a writer for the show, was brought in to demonstrate what he thought Freakazoid should sound like when a suitable voice actor couldn't be found. The recording of his interpretation was submitted to executive producer Steven Spielberg for approval, and Rugg ended up being cast in the title role.
The sequence of keystrokes that triggered the bug in the Pinnacle chip, responsible for turning Dexter Douglas into Freakazoid, is "@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg", followed by DELETE. Also, on Dexter's keyboard, DELETE is in BACKSPACE's usual position, and marked in a slanted lower-case font, which is typical of an Apple Computer keyboard for a later Apple II or a Macintosh.
The bug that Dexter's computer exhibits is a parody of the FDIV bug that plagued the first run of the Intel Pentium CPUs in the early 1990s, which made headlines when technical users complained about it (and eventually got their CPUs replaced under warranty).