History Trivia / Airheads

*** It's also been reported that Music/{{Metallica}}, who were riding high off the success of their 1991 Black Album, also turned down the chance to appear in the Whiskey A Go Go scene. The Whiskey A Go Go was where Metallica played their second-ever gig, opening for British heavy metal band Music/{{Saxon}}.

** Similarly, Michael Richards, famous for playing {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kramer on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', as the highly neurotic station CPA Doug Beech.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This movie really captures the whole music scene of the 90s. This is especially notable when a reporter describes our main characters as having "MTV-soaked minds", referring to the time before Creator/{{MTV}}'s NetworkDecay when it was still primarily focused on music.
** In addition, we have see classic 90s toys like Stretch Armstrong, and someone prominently playing a Game Gear (with SFX from a real GG game, thus averting PacManFever).
** And of course, the simple fact that the Lone Rangers have no choice - in their own minds at least - but to take over a radio station and forcing the staff to play their demo tape seems even more absurd today in an era where they could easily just upload their music on line by way of various social media sites in order to promote themselves. And don't get started on how much cell phones or satellite radio would impact the plot.
** To say nothing of only a reel-to-reel and cassette copy of the demo existing...the entire plot would fall apart with a digital version.
* VindicatedByCable: ''Airheads'' bombed at the box office and was thrashed by critics. But due to the fact that it was played heavily on Creator/ComedyCentral during the late 1990s it has managed to achieve CultClassic status -- especially among fans of hard rock and HeavyMetal music, due to all the rock & roll in-jokes and the cameos by famous rock musicians.

** Alexandre Rockwell was originally slated to direct.

---> Brendan Fraser: ''"Michael Lehmann really wanted to make an edgier movie than the studio was allowing us to. They wanted us to look like Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. That is about as edgy as they were willing to come."''