Collection: Bubsy

When asked about Bubsy's height and weight for an episode of the Death Battle-esque YouTube series Limit Break featuring him fighting Gex, creator Michael Berlyn said that Bubsy is 3'6'' (42 inches) and 80 lbs, making his height closest to the length (or height if they were to be bipedal like Bubsy) of an Eastern or Mexican bobcat, but significantly heavier than any real-world species of bobcat.

The name "Bubsy" originated from series creator Michael Berlyn's brother-in-law, who would refer to "rounded, bouncy, happy things" such as Volkswagen Beetles with the nonsense adjective "bubsy".

While Bubsy 3D is often considered to have killed the Bubsy franchise until its revival in the late 2010s, the franchise was not killed by Accolade as one may expect. Accolade wanted a new installment titled Bubsy 4 (Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales not being considered part of the franchise's official numbering) after Bubsy 3D's release, but series creator Michael Berlyn was the one who pulled the plug on the franchise, believing that Bubsy 2 and Bubsy 3D had dealt too much damage to it:

In 2018, the Bubsy series fandom Amino was visited by a user named "Beelzebubsy" alleging to have unreleased concept art drawn by Ken Macklin for Bubsy's design in Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind. Bubsy fans immediately noticed that one design - a female Bubsy that was scrapped for being "too sexualized" - bore a close resemblance to "Modern Bubsy", a fan-made interpretation of the character as a depressed transgender prostitute created by SqrlyJack, an artist who hates Bubsy and gained notoriety for being malicious towards Bubsy fans. This connection was further drawn by the presence of another alleged prototypical design inspired by Michael Jackson, who SqrlyJack is known to be a fan of, and his jacket used in the music video to Jackson's song "Beat It", as well as a later post by the same user showing a screenshot of a Bubsy parody from one of her RPG Maker games. The third concept art does have a strong resemblance to a real piece of Bubsy concept art shown in a 1990s magazine, suggesting it may have been traced.

If one observes the hoax concept art closely, they can see that the attempt at replicating Macklin's signature does not completely match up with his real signature, such as having a lowercase a with a double-edged side instead of one, and a lowercase k without a sloped bottom, adding to the already strong suspicion that the concept art was faked.

Another Bubsy fandom member, Xindictive, who was on a Bubsy Discord server with late Bubsy creator Michael Berlyn, has said on occasion that both Berlyn and a former friend of SqrlyJack have confirmed the images to be faked for a fact. However, since the Discord server where these communications presumably took place has been closed as a result of hacking, it is hard to access these direct confirmations.

Accolade's marketing department attempted, and failed, to get Bubsy to wear pants.

Bubsy's catchphrase, "what could possibly go wrong?", originated as a self-deprecating catchphrase from the Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind development team when the game ran into issues. Another phrase in consideration was "Whatever blows your hair back!", which Bubsy would say in the opening to Chapter 4: Fair Conditioning in the final game.

There is a rumor that claims that Rob Paulsen, the voice actor who provided the voice for Bubsy in Bubsy 2, Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales, and the 1993 Bubsy cartoon pilot hated the character and regretted taking the gig. However, Paulsen has stated that he does not regret his role in the Bubsy franchise and would do the voice again for future Bubsy projects if paid to.