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• The Cast Show Off: This was one of the first movies to show off Snipes' martial arts skills. Much like Bruce Lee, he would have to slow down his moves so they would actually show up on camera.
• Doing It for the Art: Nigel Hawthorne, inexperienced in cinema, took his role to prove that he had screen presence for the producers of The Madness of King George. Hawthorne wanted to reprise the stage role for the movie version. As it transpired this was unnecessary as Hawthorne was the producers' automatic choice for the lead.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Denis Leary is Edgar Friendly. He even keeps the rapid-fire bit from his "Asshole" song in his speeches.
  • Otho has somehow gotten even gayer.
    • Actually, not quite. Bob's a eunuch.
  • Sir Humphrey Appleby finally got rid of politicians and turned the West Coast into an utopia?
  • Warden Norton still working for the police after all these years?
  • Apparently someone shipped Detective Curtis across the country.
  • Jack Black had a small part as one of the Scraps, appearing alongside Edgar Friendly.
• Shout Out: This film features references to Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World: Lenina Huxley was named after Lenina Crowne (a major character in the novel) and Aldous Huxley, John Spartan is named after John the Savage (on a side note, Chief Earle and later Huxley, called Spartan a savage), and Simon said during the fight at the Museum (before firing his AcMag gun):
  Simon Phoenix: It's a brave new world! Sorry you gotta go!
  • And possibly the character "Alfredo Garcia."
  • "Use the Force, Luke."
  • "Say hello to my little friend!"
  • "Sorry, Rambo, I'm gonna need these."
  • "I know who you remind me of, now! An evil Mr Rogers!"
• What Could Have Been: Lenina Huxley was originally revealed to be John Spartan's daughter.
  • That bit was set up so obviously that this troper was quite surprised that it didn't turn out to be that way actually.
    • Another draft of the script had John Spartan's daughter be a resident of the underground city.
  • The part of John Spartan was written with Jean-Claude Van Damme in mind, while Simon Phoenix was written for Steven Seagal.
  • When Stallone got on board, he tried to convince Jackie Chan to take the part of Phoenix.
    • That would have made Huxley's Saw It In A Movie Once moment above a whole lot funnier.