* CaliforniaDoubling: The movie is set in Phoenix, Arizona, but was filmed in California.
* CastIncest: Jamie and Janie, two relatively minor characters who are dating, are played by first cousins Ahmet Zappa and Lala Stoatman.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/SamanthaMathis dyed her blonde hair black for her character.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: This 1990 movie title with M|A|R|R|S 1987 hit "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cak1xly8oUM Pump up the Volume]]". There is no connection between the two - the song does not appear in the movie.
** Likewise the [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847411/ series]] ''Pump Up The Volume'', about the origins of house music.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/SamanthaMathis.
* WagTheDirector: Creator/ChristianSlater disagreed with Allan Moyle who wanted to bring in a tap dance instructor to help orchestrate a scene that begins with "Hard Harry" faking masturbation on the air and ends with him breaking into a manic dance by himself. Slater wanted to do something more spontaneous based on his instincts.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Allan Moyle initially wanted to cast Creator/JohnCusack as Mark Hunter, but Cusack turned down the role, as he didn't want to play another high school student following his role in ''Film/SayAnything''.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: The school in the film, Hubert Humphrey High, was based on a Montreal high school where Allan Moyle's sister used to teach that, according to Moyle, had a principal "who had a pact with the staff to enhance the credibility of the school scholastically at the expense of the students who were immigrants or culturally disabled in some way or another."
----