50 Fun Facts About Julie and the Phantoms

On which streaming service was Julie and the Phantoms released in September 2020?

Netflix released the whole season in one day, and its fans later voted the show Rotten Tomatoes' favourite series of 2020, ahead of hits like Bridgerton and The Queen's Gambit.

Julie and the Phantoms is an adaptation of a TV show from which country?

Brazil: Julie e os Fantasmas ran there in 2011 and 2012, and two of the people who made it, Fabio Danesi and Michel Tikhomiroff, stayed on as executive producers of the remake.

What was the name of the band Luke, Alex and Reggie played in before they died?

Sunset Curve was hours from its big break when the boys died; Julie summons them by accident when she plays the band's old demo CD, found while clearing out a garage studio.

How long have Julie's phantom bandmates been dead?

25 years, though the boys are sure it has only been about an hour, which leaves Alex asking how he can possibly have been crying for that long.

How did Luke, Alex and Reggie die in Julie and the Phantoms?

Food poisoning from street hot dogs: after soundcheck the three slipped out for 'street dogs' that turned out to be rancid, while the bandmate who stayed behind lived.

At which Los Angeles venue were the boys booked to play on the night they died?

The Orpheum bookends the season: the boys die hours before their big gig there, and Julie and the Phantoms finally get to play its stage in the finale.

Who plays Julie Molina in Julie and the Phantoms?

Madison Reyes was a 14-year-old freshman from Allentown, Pennsylvania, with no screen experience when her audition tape surfaced in a talent search of about a thousand high schools.

Which instrument does Reggie play in Julie and the Phantoms?

Bass: the makers wanted actors who could really perform, and Jeremy Shada already sang and played bass in Make Out Monday, the pop-punk band he formed with his brother.

In Julie and the Phantoms, where does Willie take the anxious Alex to help him loosen up?

A closed museum: Willie shows Alex that a ghost can yell as loudly as he likes among the exhibits, and the outing is where Alex's crush on him starts to show.

What is the name of Julie's best friend in Julie and the Phantoms?

Flynn is hurt when Julie lies about her new band and laughs off the truth about ghosts, until the boys materialise in front of her in the middle of a song.

Which group performs 'Wow' at the school rally, right before Julie's comeback?

Dirty Candy, the pop group fronted by Julie's former friend turned rival, performs 'Wow' at the rally, and then Julie follows them with three bandmates who appear out of thin air mid-song.

Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson plays which character in Julie and the Phantoms?

Caleb Covington is a showman ghost with a living audience: his guests have paid a lot for a preview of the afterlife, which he delivers with a full song-and-dance number.

What establishment does Caleb own?

The Hollywood Ghost Club is a lavish afterlife nightspot whose production numbers, such as 'The Other Side of Hollywood', dazzle the boys into losing all track of time.

In Julie and the Phantoms, Willie, the ghost who becomes Alex's love interest, loves doing what?

Skateboarding: the easy-going skater leads the boys into a powerful ghost's trap without meaning to, then comes clean and tells them how they might escape it.

Which Descendants actor plays Willie in Julie and the Phantoms?

Booboo Stewart played Jay in all three Descendants films; his Willie teaches Alex how a ghost can move objects, a trick Alex soon uses to hold a door shut while the boys haunt an old bandmate.

Julie's younger brother, who appoints himself a junior ghost hunter, is called what?

Carlos grows suspicious of the band nobody can see and spends the season hunting ghosts around the house, scattering salt while the boys stand unharmed right beside him.

Which Puerto Rican actor and singer plays Julie's father, Ray Molina?

Carlos Ponce plays Ray, whose plan to sell the family home is what sends Julie to clear out the old studio, where she finds the boys' CD.

The boys' surviving bandmate, now the rock star Trevor Wilson, went by what name in the band?

Bobby stayed behind at the venue to chat up a waitress, which is the only reason he lived to reinvent himself as Trevor Wilson.

Trevor Wilson is the father of which character?

Carrie, Julie's former friend turned school rival, is his daughter, a fact the boys learn just as they set off to haunt him over an old betrayal.

Rose, the waitress in the first scene of Julie and the Phantoms, turns out to be whom?

Julie's mother: the truth comes out when one of the band's old T-shirts turns up among her late mother's things, a gift from the boys on the night they died.

When the boys first appear on stage with Julie at the school rally, what does the crowd assume they are?

Julie tells the school the boys are holograms, a lie she keeps up for a while; it hurts her friendship with her best friend until she tells her the truth.

In Julie and the Phantoms, what do ghosts call the living?

Lifers: Willie teaches Alex the word moments after crashing into him, having assumed he was alive and that the two of them would pass straight through each other.

In Julie and the Phantoms, how does Willie free up the finale's opening slot?

He strands the booked band: the original opening act wakes up to find its bus 200 miles outside Las Vegas, leaving a frantic promoter with a slot to fill that same night.

Which director executive produced Julie and the Phantoms and directed its first episode?

Kenny Ortega, who made the High School Musical films, insisted on a cast that could really sing and play, and directed five of the nine episodes himself, including the first and the last.

How did Trevor Wilson become rich and famous?

Stealing his bandmates' songs: the boys hear Julie call one of Luke's tunes a Trevor Wilson classic, look him up, and recognise the old friend who took all the credit.

Which song did the actors playing Julie and Luke co-write for Julie and the Phantoms?

Perfect Harmony was written by the two leads with the show's vocal producer, and it plays as Julie, in the middle of a routine with her dance-class partner, imagines she is dancing with Luke.

Which song won Julie and the Phantoms a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Original Song in 2021?

Unsaid Emily beat two other songs from the show to the award; in the story, Julie delivers its lyrics to Luke's mother, so that she can finally read what her son never got to say.

The cast of Julie and the Phantoms won MTV's Best Musical Moment award in 2021 for which song?

Edge of Great is the song the band plays at the garage party Julie's father throws for them, his way of making up for dragging her away from a talent scout.

In the finale of Julie and the Phantoms, the band lands a slot opening for which real band?

Panic! at the Disco: Willie wangles the support slot at the very theatre the boys never got to play, and Julie starts the set alone before they join her one by one.

In Julie and the Phantoms, what does Caleb give the boys that later causes them painful jolts?

A stamp: it marks each boy as his, and Willie later admits the jolts will destroy them unless they complete their unfinished business and cross over in time.

What is the title of the first episode of Julie and the Phantoms?

Wake Up is also the song at its heart: a piece Julie's late mother wrote, which she finally sits down and plays at the piano after a year of being unable to make music.

What is the title of the season finale of Julie and the Phantoms?

Stand Tall is named for the closing number, which Julie starts alone and finishes with the boys beside her.

Jeremy Shada, who plays Reggie, is best known as the voice of which animated hero?

Finn the Human in Adventure Time was voiced in the pilot by his older brother Zack; Jeremy won the series role by studying that pilot and matching his brother's voice.

Owen Joyner, who plays Alex, earlier starred as Arc in which Nickelodeon series?

Knight Squad, a comedy set at a school for knights, was created by Sean Cunningham and Marc Dworkin, who went on to write two episodes of Julie and the Phantoms for their former star.

Cheyenne Jackson spent four seasons in the cast of which Ryan Murphy series?

American Horror Story came later: in 2007 he took over the lead in Broadway's Xanadu during previews, after the original star hurt his foot roller-skating in rehearsal.

Which song are the boys rehearsing in the opening scene of Julie and the Phantoms?

Now or Never turns out to be the last song the band ever plays alive, at a soundcheck only hours before the gig that was meant to be its big break.

In the final scene of Julie and the Phantoms, which character is taken over by a vengeful ghost?

Nick rings Julie's doorbell in the closing moments, and the season's villain steps into his body just before she opens the door and greets him, none the wiser.

In the original series that Julie and the Phantoms remakes, Julie frees the ghosts from what object?

A vinyl record: in the 2011 original the three ghosts are a forgotten 1980s band trapped inside an old disc that Julie finds in her new house; the remake swapped it for a demo CD.

How does Julie and the Phantoms' garage-party set reach a wider audience?

Julie's father posts a video: Ray films the garage show he organised for the band, and by the finale the clip is trending and even Julie's rival is watching it.

What do the ghosts in Julie and the Phantoms call vanishing from one place and reappearing in another?

Poofing: the boys use it to cross Los Angeles in an instant, and Alex accuses Luke of having 'poofed' them out of a tearful moment because he can't handle people crying.

What does Julie lose at the start of Julie and the Phantoms?

Her place in the music program: after a year in which she cannot bring herself to play, the school gives her spot to a new student, and it takes a show-stopping rally set to win it back.

Which song is Julie singing when the band appears to prove to a doubting friend that ghosts are real?

Flying Solo is Julie's plea to a friend who has just laughed off her story about ghosts; midway through, the three boys appear out of thin air and the argument is over.

Nick and Julie pair up after a coach forces which sport's players into her dance class?

Lacrosse: after a defeat, the coach signs his whole team up for Julie's dance class to sharpen their footwork, and Nick ends up as her partner.

What does Julie do when her father grounds her before a gig?

Sneaks out anyway: grounded for missing classes and a calculus test, she slips out of her bedroom, plays the set, and is caught by her father just as a talent scout comes over.

Where do Alex and Reggie take Julie to prove that Luke is not selfish?

His parents' house: Luke ran away from home over the band and died before making peace, and he has been slipping back to watch his mother and father ever since.

Which song is Julie performing at the school rally when the boys first appear beside her?

Bright was written by Luke; as the boys join in, the whole school can suddenly see them, and they vanish again the moment the song ends.

Why are the boys missing when Julie's set begins in the finale of Julie and the Phantoms?

Forced to perform elsewhere: the villain has snatched them for his own stage show and dressed them up as his house band, and they have to slip away one at a time.

What became of Julie and the Phantoms in December 2021?

Cancelled after one season: the director broke the news to fans himself in an Instagram post, thanking them for the outpouring of love and support since the premiere.

In Julie and the Phantoms, why does Julie quit the band midway through the season?

The boys miss a gig: dazzled by a ghostly floor show, they lose all track of time, Julie has to cancel the band's set at the school dance, and she walks out on them that night.

In the Julie and the Phantoms finale, what finally frees the boys from their curse?

A hug from Julie: playing their dream venue changes nothing, but when she throws her arms around Luke he starts to glow, the other two pile in, and the jolts stop for good.