Trivia / Turner and Hooch

• Colbert Bump: The movie has gained something of a modern audience due to the "Don't eat the car!" line famously being used in test footage of Toy Story and being a very popular line to use in student CGI animation tests as a result.
• Creative Differences: Henry Winkler was originally hired as the director. But, two weeks into filming, he was fired by Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg who was dissatisfied with Winkler's work.
• Dueling Works: With K-9, another cop movie with a dog.
• Enforced Method Acting: The scene where Hooch dies, was the final scene filmed between Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog, Hanks did a great deal of bonding with Beasley and used the fact that he'll never see him again to get himself to cry.
• Hostility on the Set: Henry Winkler and Ron Howard (a mutual friend of both Hanks and Winkler) have both stated that Winkler and Hanks did not get along which is what most likely lead to Winkler being replaced as director.
• Stillborn Franchise: Decades before an actual Distant Sequel series would come to fruition on Disney+, there were were apparently plans for an earlier Turner & Hooch television series. Tim Allen has said he was approached to star in it, but he turned it down, preferring to do something original, which led to Home Improvement. Curiously enough, Allen and the film's star, Hanks, would both star in a certain 1995 animated film.
  • A pilot was made, but never went to series. Thomas F. Wilson replaced Hanks as Turner. The pilot aired on The Magical World of Disney in 1990.
• Typecasting: Double Subverted with Reginald VelJohnson as David Sutton, who is a police investigator rather than a standard cop.
• What Could Have Been: Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Bill Murray and Jack Nicholson were considered for Turner.

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