Duluth Classics

**Duluth Classics** is the second series created by Cartoon Network.

## History

While the production of Stewart and the Magic Harbor was going on, Cartoon Network decided to create another series to fill in the space of Duluth.

The show was initially created by Jeff Parker, who thought on the concept of flightless lake freighters. He later had help from Nathan Carlson and Phil Lollar, who previously worked with him on "Adventures in Odyssey".

After the success of the first episode, the series followed up five more episodes until 2013 when the production of Cartoon Network Studios moved from Lombard, Illinois to Franklin, Tennessee.

In 2016, after NBC agreed to air the original six episodes on Qubo, they also offered Cartoon Network to produce more episodes of the show.

In total, the show has 558 episodes.

The show can be watched on TBN's "Smile of a Child". The show can also be watched on NBC's streaming service, Peacock.

## Trivia

* This show was the first for several things:
	+ The first to mainly use arms and legs as a feature.
	+ The first that everyone in the main cast appear in every episode.
	+ The first to be featured in 16:9 when it was brought back (excluding Stewart and the Magic Harbor, as that series prior didn't become widescreen for the episodes until after the Calling All Freighters movie (yet there were some post-Magic Harbor episodes that were made in widescreen that never saw the light of day))
	+ The first Cartoon Network series to have its Hungarian dub outsourced to Minimax. Before this, Duluth's Hungarian dub was outsourced to RTL Klub.
* For the original episodes, it's rather ambiguous if the adventures the kids had were real or just dreams. What makes this confusing are the Comet Lounge segments, as they show that the adventures are in fact real. Since the show's revival, it states that they are real.
* Some of the original titles that was suggested were "Freighters in Classic Appearances" and “Tyler and the Freighter-nauts”.
* Some of the episode ideas that were never made included Sydney becoming envious of her baby sister, Tyler and the lake freighters visiting a city where everyone and everything is lazy, Tyler and the lake freighters visiting a city where everyone is able to jump very high except for Tyler due to him holding a grudge, and Sydney disobeying a rule which dooms an entire city. The episodes dealing with envy, laziness, and forgiveness became The Green One-Eyed Monster from Underwater, Lazy Daisy, and Oh, Dear!
* According to Rob Sorcher, the concept for the revival was different from the final draft. Originally, the twins were going to be stuck in the Tubby Blimp when the Atomic Clone Machine broke. Ace was also the main goal the crew were chasing after as he had the part to repair the Tubby Blimp, so every episode has them trying to get the part. Hence why the twins had a spare bedroom in the ship, and Sunda's appearances as the voice of reason, similar to Patti (Tyler remarked about this in the first episode). They decided to change it more akin to the original videos, as they still wanted Patti and the cottage to appear. Though the concepts were still kept in the first and last episodes of the series.
* The show received a TV-PG rating when it was on Hulu, despite the fact that it was a show that anyone can watch.