History Trivia / ThatThingYouDo

** "That Thing You Do!" is [[https://www.billboard.com/music/the-wonders literally a one hit wonder]] by The Wonders. Unlike the film, however, they never cracked the top 40.

* NamesTheSame: There is a real life musician named Jimmy Mattingly, a fiddle player who tours with country music star Music/GarthBrooks.

* AcclaimedFlop: Although it barely made back its $26 million budget (only grossing $25.9 million domestically), critics liked the film, as evidenced by its 93% rating on “Rotten Tomatoes” and 71% rating [[note]]which translate to “generally favorable reviews”[[/note]] on “Metacritic”.

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/TomEverettScott, Jonathon Schaech, and Creator/SteveZahn. It also solidified Creator/LivTyler after her breakthrough role in ''Film/StealingBeauty''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BryanCranston makes a cameo as astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, also a guest on ''The Hollywood Television Showcase''. He would later play [[UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin another Apollo astronaut]] in [[Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon another Tom Hanks production]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BryanCranston makes a cameo as astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, another guest on ''The Hollywood Television Showcase''. He would later play [[UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin another Apollo astronaut]] in [[Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon another Tom Hanks production]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Tina, Guy’s vain girlfriend, is played by Creator/CharlizeTheron in one of her earliest screen roles.
** Creator/BryanCranston plays Gus Grissom.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/TomEverettScott, Jonathon Schaech, and Creator/SteveZahn. It also solidified Creator/LivTyler after her breakthrough role in ''Film/StealingBeauty''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Tina, Guy’s vain girlfriend, is played by Creator/CharlizeTheron in one of her earliest screen roles.

* DescendedCreator: Creator/TomHanks, who plays the band's manager, is also the film's director.

** Tom Hanks named his production company [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtone Playtone]] after the fictional "Play-Tone Records" in the film.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Tina, Guy’s vain girlfriend, is played by Charlize Theron in one of her earliest screen roles.
* RealLifeRelative: Tom Hanks' wife plays the waitress at the jazz club. His son Colin plays an usher.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Tina, the bored girl who Guy brings to the talent contest where the One-ders debut "That Thing You Do!", is played by Charlize Theron in one of her earliest screen roles.

** As part of the promo tie-in, many radio stations at the time placed the title track on regular rotation, crediting the song just as they would for an actual band. Some stations are ''still'' doing this more than a decade later.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Series/{{Newhart}} Peter Scolari]], who co-starred with Tom Hanks in ''Series/BosomBuddies,'' as the host of the nationally broadcast television show (a [[{{Expy}} stand-in]] for ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'').
** [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Kevin Pollak]] as Pittsburgh DJ 'Boss' Vic Koss.
** Creator/ClintHoward as a jazz radio DJ (his claims to fame include cameos in films by his brother Creator/RonHoward, the alien Balok from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", and many roles as MissionControl - including ''Apollo 13'').
** Chris Isaak as Guy's Uncle Bob, who makes their recording.
** Charlize Theron, in only her third film role, as Guy's hometown girlfriend Tina.
** [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]], the famed astronaut. Which is even funnier when he later played Buzz Aldrin in Tom Hanks' series ''FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.
* RealLifeRelative: Tom Hanks' wife plays the waitress at the jazz club. His son Colin plays an usher.

** [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]], the famed astronaut.
*** Which is even funnier when he later played Buzz Aldrin in Tom Hanks' series ''FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.

*** Which is even funnier when he later played Buzz Aldrin in Tom Hanks' series ''FromTheEarthToTheMoon''.

** [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]], the famed astronaut.

** [[TheUsualSuspects Kevin Pollak]] as Pittsburgh DJ 'Boss' Vic Koss.
** Creator/ClintHoward as a jazz radio DJ (his claims to fame include cameos in films by his brother RonHoward, the alien Balok from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", and many roles as MissionControl - including ''Apollo 13'').

** [[{{Newhart}} Peter Scolari]], who co-starred with Tom Hanks in ''BosomBuddies,'' as the host of the nationally broadcast television show (a [[{{Expy}} stand-in]] for ''TheEdSullivanShow'').

** [[BreakingBad Walter White]], the famed astronaut.

** Clint Howard as a jazz radio DJ (his claims to fame include cameos in films by his brother RonHoward, the alien Balok from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", and many roles as MissionControl - including ''Apollo 13'').

** Clint Howard as a jazz radio DJ (his claims to fame include cameos in films by his brother RonHoward, the alien Balok from the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", and many roles as MissionControl - including ''Apollo 13'').

** Clint Howard, the alien Balok from the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", as a jazz radio DJ (and frequent cast member of his brother, Ron Howard's, movies).