History Trivia / HotelTransylvania

** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy]] [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Samberg]] as Jonathan the human

** [[Series/TheNanny Fran Drescher]] as [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein Eunice]]
** [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jon Lovitz]] as [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]]

** Jonathan was intended at one point to be the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, which would have created a even bigger conflict between him and Dracula. It is not known when this plot point was dropped.

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* Creator/GenndyTartakovsky is one of two veterans of WesternAnimation/CartoonCartoons to make his feature debut in 2012, the other being Creator/SethMacFarlane with ''Film/{{Ted}}''.[[note]][=MacFarlane=] had written a couple of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory.[[/note]]

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* TheOtherMarty: Music/MileyCyrus was originally cast to voice Mavis, but she left the project to concentrate on her music, and was replaced with Music/SelenaGomez.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jonathan was intended at one point to be the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, which would have created a even bigger conflict between him and Dracula. It is not known when this plot point was dropped.

* {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}:
** With Creator/{{Adam Sandler}} playing as the owner of Hotel Transylvania, {{Dracula}}. As Dracula bears more than a passing resemblance to Sandler himself, this overlaps with InkSuitActor.
** SelenaGomez as Dracula's daughter Mavis
** [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy]] [[TheLonelyIsland Samberg]] as Jonathan the human

* FanNickname: '''Dr. Orpheus: The Movie''' from those who noticed a comparison between Dracula and Mavis to Dr. Orpheus and his daughter Triana from WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers. Both are single dads with a LargeHam nature, Orpheus has been mistaken for Dracula, both daughters are a PerkyGoth with short hair, a short skirt, and striped stockings, and both girls have an Adorkable love interest.

* MoneyDearBoy: GenndyTartakovsky has made no secret that the only reason he took the job initially was because he needed work after ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' was canceled, although he has also said he's happy with the movie and was excited to do the sequel.

* TheOtherMarty: MileyCyrus was originally cast to voice Mavis, but she left the project to concentrate on her music, and was replaced with SelenaGomez.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was first pitched in 2002, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought, by which point so much had already been rendered that it was, as he put it, "like coming onto a live action set." He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. The DVD commentary mostly consists of Genndy explaining all the creative hurdles they had to do when recycling pre-existing set pieces for new scenes, since they had no time to create new models. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jonathan was intended at one point to be the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, which would have created a even bigger conflict between him and Dracula. It is not known when this plot point was dropped.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Music/Devo}} Mark]] [[Music/MarkMothersbaugh Mothersbaugh]] wrote the soundtrack.
* HeyItsThatVoice: See CelebrityVoiceActor above.
** In the Japanese version, [[Creator/KoichiYamadera Spike Spiegel]] is Dracula.
** So [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Randall]] [[Creator/SteveBuscemi Boggs]] is a werewolf now?

* ActorAllusion: Both [[Music/CeeLoGreen Murray]] and [[Music/SelenaGomez Mavis]] singing at the end.
** Don't forget about [[Creator/AdamSandler Dracula]] singing and [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Jonathan]] rapping.
** And Selena Gomez dealing with a [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace bunch of monsters]] before.
** Frankenstein saying [[DentedIron he's past the age for scaring people anymore,]] which was a complaint of Kevin James' character in ''Film/GrownUps''.
* {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}: With Creator/{{Adam Sandler}} playing as the owner of Hotel Transylvania, {{Dracula}}. As Dracula bears more than a passing resemblance to Sandler himself, this overlaps with InkSuitActor. Others include:

** CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[PassingTheTorch Very likely Miley recommended Selena herself, which if true]] [[FandomRivalry would debunk the idea of a rivalry between the two]].

* RealLifeRelative: Not only does Creator/AdamSandler voice {{Dracula}} but wife [[Film/BigDaddy Jacqueline]] [[Film/EightCrazyNights "Jackie Titone"]] [[Film/JustGoWithIt Sandler]] voices Martha, [[TheLostLenore Drac's wife]] and their daughter [[BedtimeStories Sadie]] voices not only Winnie (the werewolves' only daughter) but also young Mavis.

* EveryoneOwnsAMac: All the cell phones that appear in the movies are iPhones. This is averted with the computer stationed on the Hotel Transylvania check-in lobby desk in the sequel, which is a product-placed VAIO.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was first pitched in 2002, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought, by which point so much had already been rendered that it was, as he put it, "like coming onto a live action set." He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.

* EveryoneOwnsAMac: All the cell phones are iPhones. This is averted with the computers stationed on the Hotel Transylvania check-in lobby desk, which is a product-placed VAIO.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was first pitched in 2002, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought, by which point so much had already been rendered that it was "like coming onto a live action set." He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.

** [[Main/WetHotAmericanSummer Molly]] [[SaturdayNightLive Shannon]] as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wanda the Werewolf]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Music/Devo}} Mark]] [[MarkMothersbaugh Mothersbaugh]] wrote the soundtrack.

* RealLifeRelative: Not only does Creator/AdamSandler voice {{Dracula}} but wife [[BigDaddy Jacqueline]] [[EightCrazyNights "Jackie Titone"]] [[JustGoWithIt Sandler]] voices Martha, [[TheLostLenore Drac's wife]] and their daughter [[BedtimeStories Sadie]] voices not only Winnie (the werewolves' only daughter) but also young Mavis.

** Don't forget about [[Creator/AdamSandler Dracula]] singing (in the beginning of the film, and at one point at the end. The rapping, though, is something he HASN'T done before[[note]]Ok, technically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqONFv6PRig he did once]][[/note]].), as well as [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Jonathan]] rapping.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was first pitched in 2002, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought. He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.

** Don't forget about [[Creator/AdamSandler Dracula]] singing (in the beginning of the film, and at one point at the end. The rapping, though, is something he HASN'T done before[[note]]Ok, technically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqONFv6PRig he did once[[/note]].), as well as [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Jonathan]] rapping.

** Don't forget about [[Creator/AdamSandler Dracula]] singing (in the beginning of the film, and at one point at the end. The rapping, though, is something he HASN'T done before), as well as [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Jonathan]] rapping.

** So [[MonstersInc Randall]] [[Creator/SteveBuscemi Boggs]] is a werewolf now?

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Devo}} Mark]] [[MarkMothersbaugh Mothersbaugh]] wrote the soundtrack.

* {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}: With Creator/{{Adam Sandler}} playing as the owner of Hotel Transylvania, {{Dracula}}. Others include:

** SteveBuscemi as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wayne the Werewolf]]

** In the Japanese version, [[KoichiYamadera Spike Spiegel]] is Dracula.