1 | * ActorSharedBackground: James mentions living in Englewood. Creator/JohnTravolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey. Like James, Travolta is also an avid pilot, having earned a private pilot license at age 22. |
2 | * CaliforniaDoubling: The story takes place in New York, but the movie was mostly filmed in Vancouver, Canada. |
3 | * CareerResurrection: John Travolta. While ''Film/PulpFiction'' would provide the full-blown resurrection, ''Talking'' was a big enough hit to revive him from his flagging 80's run. |
4 | * ChannelHop: Amy Heckerling first pitched the movie to Creator/{{Disney}}. Michael Eisner felt that it was too sexual for them even for their Touchstone Pictures banner. Creator/ParamountPictures, Creator/WarnerBros, Creator/OrionPictures, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and Creator/UniversalStudios also passed on it. Ultimately it was Creator/TriStarPictures who liked the script and greenlit the film with a $7 million budget. |
5 | * CreatorCouple: All three films were written by husband-and-wife teams, with the first two being co-written by Amy Heckerling and Neal Israel (albeit the latter went uncredited on the first film), and the third by Tom Ropelewski and Leslie Dixon. |
6 | * FranchiseKiller: The failure of the third film ensured that there wouldn't be a fourquel. |
7 | * HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: All of Mikey's dialogue was Creator/BruceWillis ad-libbing over the finished footage. |
8 | * InspirationForTheWork: Amy Heckerling was inspired to write the film after her husband and writer Neal Israel started playfully talking in a different voice to pretend what their new baby would say (The baby's eventual name? Mollie). Her husband also has a cameo as Mollie's boss. |
9 | * TheOtherDarrin: Creator/JoanRivers was asked to reprise her cameo as Julie to a full appearance in ''Look Who's Talking Too'', but she had to drop out, with Creator/RoseanneBarr taking her place. |
10 | * PostScriptSeason: Amy Heckerling felt the story ended in the first movie, but she was forced to do a sequel for legal reasons. She had no involvement with the third movie. |
11 | * RealLifeRelative: Amy Heckerling's father Louis Heckerling plays Mollie's father. Like his character in the film, he was also an accountant. |
12 | * RecycledTheSeries: A short-run TV series of LWT aired between 1991-1992 under the title '''Baby Talk'' starring Scott Biao and Creator/TonyDanza as the voice of "Mickey". Creator/GeorgeClooney also had a small role on the series and [[OldShame has mentioned it was the quickest exit he ever took filming anything]]. |
13 | * RomanceOnTheSet: According to Creator/KirstieAlley in her memoir, she fell in love with Creator/JohnTravolta during filming, but she stayed faithful to her husband. |
14 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
15 | ** The original film was set to have much filthier, R-rated dialogue, especially for Mikey which Creator/BruceWillis recorded a bit of. They eventually decided to clean it up a bit due to some poor test reactions. |
16 | ** Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/ChevyChase, Creator/SteveMartin and Creator/BillMurray were considered for the voice of Mikey, but all of them were busy. Chase was busy doing ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', Murray and Aykroyd were doing ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Martin was busy shooting ''Film/{{Parenthood}}'' and Candy was doing ''Film/UncleBuck''. |
17 | ** Creator/JohnStamos was asked to play James, but the producers of ''Series/FullHouse'' wouldn't allow him to appear due to contractual reasons. Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/MelGibson and Creator/MichaelKeaton were also considered. |
18 | ** Creator/GeenaDavis was asked to play Mollie, but she declined as she didn't want to do a movie involving a birth sequence, especially with her birth sequence in ''Film/TheFly1986''. |
19 | ** Creator/RichardPryor was going to voice Eddie in ''Too'', and even recorded lines, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VwydUKoqM some of which can be heard in the first trailer]]. He was replaced with Creator/DamonWayans due to having to drop out from illness. |
20 | ** The role of Mollie's accountant date Harry was originally intended as a cameo role for Amy Heckerling's friend/fellow director Creator/JohnLandis. But he declined as he didn't really like working on movies involving with kids, especially after what happened with him during the making of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. |
21 | * WorkingTitle: ''Big Talk'', ''Daddy's Home'' and ''Daddy Wanted''. |
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