Beakman's World/Trivia

Actor Allusion:
- One of Beakman's occasional exclamations was "Zaloom!"
- A last-season segment on sound frequency had a Blues Brothers motif. Senta Moses (aka Phoebe) got her start in movies as a dancing extra in The Blues Brothers.
Dawson Casting: Averted with Josie (Alanna Ubach was 16) and Liza (Eliza Schneider was 17), and played straight with Phoebe (Senta Moses was 23).
Hey, It's That Sound:
- Apparently, the crew were avid Scrabble fans (producer Marijane Miller was a contestant on Scrabble).
- You might note the similarities some of the background music has to that of Rugrats. Denis Hannigan and Rusty Andrews composed background music for both shows.
Hey, It's That Voice!: Don Penguin's voiced by Alan Barzman, who also did the Energizer Bunny commercials ("They keep going and going and...").
I Am Not Spock: Paul Zaloom's other main job is as a political puppeteer... and those shows are very much not safe for kids...
Keep Circulating the Tapes: Unlike most examples, it's been played enough times that there are plenty of tapes to be circulated, plus Netflix now offers the (almost) entire series.
Missing Episode:
- Downplayed with a missing segment. In the Beakmania segment in the "Camels / Density" episode, depending on the version, you either get a "Doctor & Meekman" segment on strep throat, or a "Wide Beak-World of Sports" segment explaining how Michael Jordan can look like he's defying gravity. Syndicated reruns give the former; the Netflix version has the latter.
- Five episodes haven't been uploaded there on Netflix for whatever reason. They include two Josie episodes (Refraction-Magnets and Bees-Earthquakes), two Liza episodes (Bats-Energy and Snakes-Seasons), and one Phoebe episode (Sweat-Weighing a Car).
No Budget: Three actors (and rarely some extras) and a bunch of simple props. Of course, that means the do-at-home experiments fit right in.
Science Marches On: While the science in the shows is still completely accurate, some facts have been revised(for example, Pluto's not a planet anymore). The last episode of the first season is also Hilarious in Hindsight for this reason: in it, Beakman establishes an empirical process for the kids to answer any science question they have. The steps involved are:
- 1)Formulate a Precise Question,
- 2)Home Resources (dictionaries and encyclopedias in print),
- 3)Phone Tips (calling a related expert on the topic) and
- 4)Field Research (going to a library or other institution of learning).
  Step 1 pretty much stays the same, but it's mindblowing how the Internet has rendered the three other steps, if not obsolete, at least inconvenient.
- In their second segment on optical illusions (focusing on 3-D pictures), they repeatedly make mention of recording the show so you can have more time to see the picture...via VCR. Now, you can just pause your Netflix playback.