Written by Steve Viksten
Storyboard Direction by Tuck Tucker
Animation Direction by Frank Weiss
Storyboard Artists: Miyuki Hoshikawa, Ted Seko, Diane Kredensor
Cast:
Arnold - Spencer Klein
Dino Spumoni - Rick Corso
Rhonda - Olivia Hack
Grandpa, guard at theater - Dan Castellaneta
Ernie - Dom Irrera
Oskar - Stephen Viksten
Mr. Hyunh - Baoan Coleman
News reporter - Laraine Newman
Don Reynolds - Harvey Korman
Candy - Chloe Webb
Jimmy (Candy's son), Bunny - E.G. Daily
Lawyer, "DinoMania" TV announcer, President Johnson - Billy West
Ray Doppel (Dino impersonator) - Michael Levin
Cab driver - (uncredited)
* For a network that goes to great pains to keep people from using the word "dead", everybody at Nickelodeon must have been asleep when this episode was made; the word "dead" is used three times in the first three minutes
* Dino's first album is named "Smashed"; on the Best of Nicktoons CD, the song he sings in "The Old Building" is titled "Smashed", although the sheet music Arnold found in that episode was titled "You Broke My Heart"
* At the funeral: Sheena, Arnold, Grandpa, Harold, Nadine, Phoebe's mother, Curly and his mother, Helga, Gerald, Mrs. Vitello, Eugene and his father, Iggy, Stinky, Sid, Rhonda, and Lila - and I think Joy from "Arnold's Thanksgiving"
* How old was Dino when Grandpa first saw him at the Circle Theater? Dino is 67, which means he's 14 years younger than Grandpa
* Speaking of the Circle, it's still just as rundown as it was when they were about to demolish it
* Dino told the cab driver to go to the Palace, but Dinomania was at the Roxy
* Phoebe's parents are at one of the tables at Dinomania
* Dino's son had blonde hair at the funeral, but dark hair at DinoMania
* When Dino climbs into the window, the box he's standing on is labelled "CHAM" - didn't they get rid of it all in 1944?
* When Dino falls into the theater, two of the people there look a lot like The Jolly Olly Ice Cream Man (in uniform) and Lana
Song Lyrics
"You Better Not Touch My Gal" (second verse - the first verse is in "Partners")
You better not touch my chick
Or I'll beat you with a big fat stick;
You better not nose around
Or I'll bop you like a pop-up clown
So get this straight, you ___________
I'll give you 'til the count of ten
(that's as far as can be understood over the background music)
"Don't Count Me Out"
Round One - I was strong
This right, never wrong
Oh, I was a number one contender;
Round Five - in a crunch
Slip a jab, took a punch
But I never bowed to those pretenders!
Don't count me out
'Cause when the dust clears,
It won't be me they're draggin' out - POW!
I took my share of lumps
From all those lousy two-bit chumps,
But I'm still standin'...
Don't count me out
