History Trivia / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

** Eve Gordon was ''35'' when she appeared as Diane in ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves''. She is nine years younger than Marcia Strassman (who was 40 when she appeared in the original film), and just 11 years older than Amy O'Neill, who played her character's oldest child. (Luckily for her, both Amy and Nick are absent from ''Ourselves'' and a 35-year-old woman is perfectly plausible as the mother of a tweenage son.)

** Though less extreme than Gordon as the series is set earlier than ''Ourselves'', Barbara Alyn Woods, who played Diane in the series, was also 35 during filming of the first season. She is only sixteen years older than Hilary Tuck, who played Amy. (Marcia Strassman was 40 during filming of the original film.

* UnderageCasting: Matt Frewer was only 31 when he played Russ Thompson in the first movie. The character had two teenage sons, and was most likely in his mid-40s.

* MarciaStrassman:

** Creator/RaulJulia was originally cast as Nigel Channing, but his declining health lead him to pull out at the last minute, with Eric Idle stepping in after a chance meeting with Marcia Strassman at her hotel.

** In the original film, Matt Frewer plays a JerkJock father when his typical roles are more like Wayne.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You would have been hard pressed to find a time in the early 2000s when this show ''wasn't'' being re-ran on Creator/DisneyChannel.

** ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' was originally slated for a $40 million budget which got cut down to $7 million when Disney decided to try it as its first live-action direct-to-video release.

* PlayingAgainstType: In the series, George Buza played police chief [=McKenna=], instead of his usual "scary biker-thug" role.

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* UnderageCasting: Creator/MattFrewer was only 31 when he played Russ Thompson in the first movie. The character had two teenage sons, and was most likely in his mid-40s.

** ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' was originally slated for a $40 million budget which got cut down to $7 million when Disney decided to try it as its first live-action direct-to-video release. Thankfully the fact that VFX technology was ten years ahead of the first film by that point, it still looks pretty good. The shrink machine effects are actually way more elaborate.

* ActorAllusion: One episode of the series had as a Running Gag references to "the guy from Series/BosomBuddies" - "Creator/TomHanks?" - "No, the other guy." — i.e., Peter Scolari, who plays Wayne in the show.

** Stuart Gordon was originally intended to direct the first film (then known as ''Teeny Weenies'') and either Creator/ChevyChase or Creator/JohnCandy would have starred. Candy was the one who recommended Creator/RickMoranis for the part.
** ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' was originally slated for a $40 million budget which got cut down to $7 million when Disney decided to try it as its first live-action direct-to-video release. Thankfully the fact that VFX technology was ten years ahead of the first film by that point, it still looks pretty good. The shrink machine effects are actually way more elaborate.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The first movie was set in Fresno, but was shot in Mexico. The second one takes place in Vista del Mar, Nevada, but was shot in Florida.

* DolledUpInstallment: ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'' was originally written as a separate movie, ''Big Baby''. It was rewritten as a sequel.

* SleeperHit: ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' was a surprise hit when it opened at Walt Disney World's Epcot park in 1994, running until 2010 there. It was so popular that the Imagination pavilion was re-themed to its "Imagination Institute" setting in 1999, though (thanks to Disney's penny-pinching at the time) it led to a case of TheyChangedItNowItSucks with regards to the Journey Into Imagination dark ride.

** Stuart Gordon was originally intended to direct the first film (then known as "Teeny Weenies") and either Chevy Chase or John Candy would have starred. Candy was the one who recommended Rick Moranis for the part.
** ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'' was originally written as a separate movie, ''Big Baby''. It was [[DolledUpInstallment rewritten as a sequel]].

** The first movie was going to actually end with Wayne eating Nick.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You would have been hard pressed to find a time in the early 2000s when this show ''wan't'' being re-ran on Creator/DisneyChannel.

** ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' was originally slated for a $40 million budget which got cut down to $7 million when Disney decided to try it as its first live-action direct-to-video release. Thankfully the fact that VFX technology was ten years ahead of the first film by that point, it still looks pretty good. The shrink machine effects are actually way more elaborate.
* YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever: In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', Mitch suffers from a potassium deficiency, and later on in the movie, when he can't find his medication, has an attack. The other kids revive him by force-feeding banana slices down his throat, which works as an almost-instant miracle cure. While bananas are a great source of potassium, there's a ''reason'' people have potassium prescriptions: they're almost essentially ''just the vitamin.'' The potassium in a banana, like a vitamin in any other food, would have to be digested and separated before it is distributed into the blood stream, a process that takes hours. Not to mention, [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs shoving a soft, lumpy food into an unconscious person's mouth will cut off their oxygen, putting them in that much more danger.]]

* YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever: In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', Mitch suffers from a potassium deficiency, and later on in the movie, when he can't find his medication, has an attack. The other kids revive him by force-feeding banana slices down his throat, which works as an almost-instant miracle cure. While bananas are a great source of potassium, there's a ''reason'' people have potassium prescriptions: they're almost essentially ''just the vitamin.'' The potassium in a banana, like a vitamin in any other food, would have to be digested and separated before it is distributed into the blood stream, a process that takes hours. Not to mention, [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs shoving a soft, lumpy food into an unconscious person's mouth will cut off their oxygen, putting them in that much more danger.]]
** Well, to be fair, Mitch was only ''semi-conscious'' at the time...

* HeAlsoDid: The story was developed by Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna and Ed Naha. Gordon and Yuzna are known for the ''Film/ReAnimator'' series of horror movies, and Naha, who cowrote the screenplay, also worked heavily in the horror genre, writing, among other films, ''Film/{{Dolls}}'' and ''Film/{{Troll}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Joyce Summers]] as the Thomson matriarch.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The other parents are [[Series/WelcomeBackKotter Julie Kotter]], Series/MaxHeadroom and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Joyce Summers.]]
** Wayne's hostile co-worker in ''Blew Up The Kid'' is [[Series/LoisAndClark Lex Luthor]], while his boss is [[Film/{{Airplane}} Steven McCrosky]].
** And Wayne in the TV Show is the ''[[{{Garfunkel}} other]]'' guy from ''Series/BosomBuddies''.
*** Also in the TV Show, [[Series/{{Firefly}} Kaylee]] is [[AlphaBitch Tiara VanHorn]].
** In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', Wayne's niece is played by [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe Sullivan]], while his brother is played by [[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} Earl Sinclair]].
** Nick's love interest in the second movie is {{Felicity}}.
** And [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Seymour Krelborne]] is Wayne.
** Nick on the TV series is played by [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles John Connor]].
** In ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'', Dr. Nigel Channing is [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Brave Sir Robin]].
** A behind the scenes example: ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' was the directorial debut of noted cinematographer DeanCundey ([[OneBookAuthor as of 2014, his only foray into directing]]) and co-written by none other than [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel Hodgson]].
** [[Film/IceCreamMan Tuna Cassera]] is a JerkJock in ''We Shrunk Ourselves.''
** From the same movie, [[Film/TheStupids Buster Stupid]] has a crush on a young [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: From the TV series, Ar'nox the alien is [[HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Mentok the Mind Taker]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: The other parents are [[Series/WelcomeBackKotter Julie Kotter]], Series/MaxHeadroom and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Joyce Summers.]]

** In ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', Rick Moranis' niece is played by [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe Sullivan]], while his brother is played by [[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} Earl Sinclair]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Honey, I Blew Up The Kid'' was originally written as a separate movie, ''Big Baby''. It was [[DolledUpInstallment rewritten as a sequel]].

** The first movie was gonna actually end with Wayne eating Nick.

* ActorAllusion: One episode of the series had as a Running Gag references to "the guy from BosomBuddies" - "Creator/TomHanks?" - "No, the other guy." — i.e., Peter Scolari, who plays Wayne in the show.