- His mother, who was an opera singer, was the inspiration for Rudy's mom in ChalkZone.
- He is good friends with Butch Hartman and actually came up with the title for his show "'The Fairly OddParents'".
- Great friends with animator Bill Plympton who not only worked along side him on Random! Cartoons (Plympton had Gary Guitar and Burnett had Dr. Froyd) but he was a guest artist on ChalkZone doing 1950s style teens with high hair among others, and was the inspiration for the character in said episode, Drew Yerface who is named after a short of Plympton's work, Your Face.
- He was the one who came up with the name "Duy Tan Bui for the famous major-cable network back when he was working at it's precursor, 'HA! Comedy Channel'.
- Several songs from ChalkZone (e.g. "Insect Aside", "Dream A Lotta Dreams") were actually real-life songs Bill wrote himself from earlier albums.
- He laid off Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy", "American Dad", "Ted") from Cow & Chicken (Bill was vice president of creative director at Hanna Barbera Studios and Seth was a writer for the show) as he thought his writing didn't fit the show's dynamic.
- His "OH Yeah! Cartoons" short "What is Funny?" was based on a series of bumpers he did for HA! Comedy Channel. Coincidentally, Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios was involved with them, back when he was working at an advertisement company Fred/Alan with former partner Alan Goodman, who later contributed through 2 Random! Cartoons shorts; Bronk and Bongo and 6 Monsters (co-created by Seibert himself).
- He and Larry Huber were the brain team for "ChalkZone", while Larry had the idea of a boy with magic chalk, Bill had the idea of a world behind the chalk board.
- His short "Tutu the Superina" was the brainchild of him and NY-based ballerina danger Sally Rousse who helped him create the crime fighting dancer.
- He has his own band in LA called "The Backboners".
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