According to him, "the minute somebody puts in money, they think they have the right to say, 'You know, Barney is so successful, why don't you make that alligator purple instead of green?'

[3] Swamp Critter actor Charlie Rose (Billy Bob Possum and puppeteer), says "The pilot episode was produced in December 1995 at WEDU.

Our company, Peeler-Productions, had spent the early part of that year designing and building the character costumes, heads, puppets, providing set designs to actor Jim Demetrius (Ribbit E. Lee) who doubled as set builder for Effects International in Florida."

Each half-hour episode contains four to six songs, ranging from blues and Dixieland jazz to pop and classical and country music.

"[3] Each of the main characters' costume heads contains over $20,000 worth of animatronics, which are used to control their eye blinks, and mouth movements.