Trivia / Stay Tuned

• Awesome, Dear Boy:
  • Peter Hyams directed the film because he loved the script so much that he lobbied at Morgan Creek to let him direct it.
  • According to an issue of Starlog Magazine, this is also why John Ritter and Pam Dawber ^note who normally doesn't do feature films, as her filmography mainly consists of made-for-TV fare agreed to do the film.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $15-20 million. Box Office: $12 million.
• California Doubling: The scenes that take place in Seattle were filmed in Vancouver.
• Channel Hop: Warner Bros. Pictures^note who was Morgan Creek's distributor from 1991 to 2005 distributed the film for its theatrical release as well as home video releases until The New '10s. As a result of Morgan Creek selling off the rights to their library throughout the decade^note Most notably, Revolution Studios ended up owning the rights to their library in international markets, the home video rights are now owned by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. As such, the WB logo is edited out in 2019 home video releases.
• Creator Backlash: Bruce Broughton, who scored the film, called both the soundtrack album and the movie terrible. Indeed, the rap music that takes up eight of the ten cuts on the album don't really fit the movie (even though they're mostly relegated to the end credits).
• Creator Cameo: Chuck Jones appears on a stamp in the animated sequence.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: According to an issue of Starlog Magazine, Pam Dawber was around four-and-half months pregnant at the time of filming, though she wasn't aware of it when she signed onto the film. This understandably took director, Peter Hyams, by surprise when he found out, considering all the big falls and stunts she did. This also prompted the wardrobe department to design her outfits that would hide her baby bump. As Dawber recalled:
  Pam Dawber: I didn't know I was pregnant when I agreed to do this movie. When I found out, I just started counted the days out and thought, "Well, maybe I can just get through this". Here I am, very pregnant, and very finished with the movie.
• Inspiration for the Work: Tom S. Parker and Jim Jennewein, who wrote the original story for the film, described the film as "The Evil Dead (1981) meets Monty Python."
• Missing Trailer Scene: The trailer for the film had a close-up shot of Janet and Chrissy look-alikes asking "Where have you been?" In the finished film, there is no close-up shot.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: For years, it was widely believed that the film was based on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. In reality, it was based on a segment from the first episode of the series, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories. ^note More specifically, the segment, The Legend of Kate Morgan
• Production Lead Time: The animated segment directed by Chuck Jones had already been in production for six months by the time filming had officially commenced in October of 1991.
• Similarly Named Works: Eugene Levy starred in a 70's TV series called Stay Tuned.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Mike Myers and Dana Carvey were almost cast as Wayne and Garth IN HELL!, but since they were shooting Wayne's World, a parody was made instead.
  • Tim Burton was offered to direct this film, but he turned it down to direct Batman Returns. Given his style of filmmaking, imagine how much different this film could have been had Burton accepted.
  • Dan Aykroyd was considered for the role of Roy Knable.
  • The studio wanted Richard Dreyfuss and Tracey Ullman to play Roy and Helen, respectively. This was nixed due to budget concerns.
• Working Title: The story for the film was written under the working title, Terrorvision (No connection and not to be confused with the 1986 film TerrorVision).

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