Trivia / The Pest

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $8,000,000; Gross: $3,600,016.
• Colbert Bump: The movie got a decent sized bump after a few threads on 4chan were linked the opening scene back in 2016.
• Creator Killer: Director Paul Miller was primarily a television series and award show director before this film, and he was relegated back to it after the commercial and critical failure of the film.
• Direct to Video: Was released on VHS in the UK in March 1998.
• Star-Derailing Role: Its failure severely tarnished any opportunity John Leguizamo had of becoming an A-list actor, relegating him back to supporting roles for the rest of his career, save his one-man show Latin History For Morons.