Trivia for
"Samurai Jack" (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• "Aku" is Japanese for "Evil".
  
  
• Tartakovsky has acknowledged taking some of his inspiration from the Frank Miller graphic novel Ronin, including the premise of a master-less samurai warrior thrown into a dystopic future ahead of our present.
  
  
• In Brazil, the name Aku was changed to Abu due to the original name's unfortunate similarity to a Portuguese swear word meaning anus.
  
  
• In Episode VIII, one of the bounty hunters in the woods that is riding a robotic elephant is a character from "Dial M for Monkey" from "Dexter's Laboratory." "Dexter's Laboratory" is also created by Genndy Tartakovsky.
  
  
• In the pilot movie, one of the dogs working in the mines is Big Dog from the shortly lived cartoon "2 Stupid Dogs" (1993), another show worked on by Genndy Tartakovsky.
  
  
• The mines the dogs are excavating in the pilot movie used to be the city of Townesville from the "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998). This is evident from a billboard which has a picture of the Talking Dog which appeared in an episode of the "Powerpuff Girls".
  
  

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