History Trivia / PeggySueGotMarried

** Debra Winger was offered the role of Peggy Sue and was actually cast but a back injury from a bicycle accident forced her to withdraw from the film.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/KathleenTurner plays her high school self at the age of 32.

** Creator/DennisQuaid turned down the role of Charlie Bodell in order to appear in ''Film/TheBigEasy''. Steve Guttenberg was also considered.

* LostInCharacter: Creator/KathleenTurner usually feels the role she's playing intensely. In this movie she had terrible nightmares about her dead grandmother calling her on the phone, similar to what Peggy Sue feels in the phone scene.

* DawsonCasting: Kathleen Turner plays her high school self at the age of 32.
* LostInCharacter: Kathleen Turner usually feels the role she's playing intensely. In this movie she had terrible nightmares about her dead grandmother calling her on the phone, similar to what Peggy Sue feels in the phone scene.

** Dennis Quaid turned down the role of Charlie Bodell in order to appear in ''Film/TheBigEasy''. Steve Guttenberg was also considered.

** PlayingGertrude: Turner plays a divorcee in her 40's in the present.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: To 21st-century eyes, the 1986 scenes can seem as weird and gaudy as the 1960 scenes.
** Two of the then-and-now gags are now themselves dated:
*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the decade-long period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. (Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question.) For the audience of 1986, it was the presence of red M&M's which was dated, but now it's the concern over red M&M's which seems dated.
*** "For some reason everything else gets tiny, but portable radios get enormous." Of course, she's referring to boomboxes, which are now seen as a fad of TheEighties.

* DawsonCasting: Turner plays her high school self at the age of 32.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** JimCarrey can be seen as Walter Getz, one of the singers Charlie's band. It's one of his earliest film roles, eight years before his [[StarMakingRole breakout]] as AceVentura in 1994.
** Helen Hunt plays Peggy Sue's daughter, Beth.
** A 14-year-old Sophia Coppola plays Peggy's sister Nancy.
** JohnCarradine is the leader of lodge.
** Michael, the bohemian poet, went on to play Beni in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''
** Peggy's grandfather was Wilbur's neighbor Gordon on MrEd. This was his final role.

*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the decade-long period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. (Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question, but it was thought that ConsumersAreMorons.) For the audience of 1986, it was the presence of red M&M's which was dated, but now it's the concern over red M&M's which seems dated.
*** "For some reason everything else gets tiny, but portable radios get enormous." Of course, she's referring to boomboxes, which are now seen as a fad of TheEighties.

** Michael, the bohemian poet, went on to play Beni in TheMummyTrilogy

*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the decade-long period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question, but it was thought that ConsumersAreMorons. For the audience of 1986, it was the presence of red M&M's which was dated, but now it's the concern over red M&M's which seems dated.

*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the decade-long period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. (Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question, but it was thought that ConsumersAreMorons.)

*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the decade-long period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. (Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question, but it was thought that ConsumersAreMorons.)

*** Peggy Sue warns her little sister not to eat the red red M&M's or she'll get sick. The movie was released during the period when red M&M's were discontinued due to a health scare involving red dye. (Red M&M's didn't actually use the dye in question, but it was thought that ConsumersAreMorons.)

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: To 21st-century eyes, the 1986 scenes can seem as weird and gaudy as the 1960 scenes.

** Averted in that Turner plays a divorcee in her 40's in the present.

** Peggy's grandfather was Wilbur's neighbor Gordon on MrEd. This was his final role.

** John Carradine is the leader of lodge.

** JimCarrey can be seen as Walter Getz, one of the singers Charlie's band. It's one of his earliest film roles, eight years before his breakout as AceVentura in 1994.

** Michael, the bohemian poet went on to play Beni in TheMummyTrilogy

** Sophia Coppola plays Nancy - [[SarcasmMode guess who the director is?]]

** JimCarrey can be seen as Walter Getz, one of the singers Charlie's band. It's one of his earliest film roles.

** HelenHunt plays Peggy Sue's daughter, Beth.

** Michael, the bohemian poet went on to play Beni from TheMummyTrilogy

** Michael, the bohemian poet is Beni from TheMummyTrilogy

** Helen Hunt plays Peggy Sue's daughter Beth.

** Peggy's grandfather was Wilbur's neighbor Gordon on MrEd. This was his last role.

* HeyItsThatGuy: JimCarrey can be seen as Walter, one of the singers Charlie's band. It's one of his earliest film roles.

** John Carradine is the leader of lodge.