Trivia / Honest Trailers

• Approval of God:
  • Joe Russo, the co-director of Captain America: The Winter Soldier claims that the movie was Fridge Logic-tested by making sure that there would be little reason for an Honest Trailer to be made of the movie. Didn't stop Honest Trailers, in the end, though they do spend a good amount of time in the trailer praising the movie.
  • The god of the nerds himself, Joss Whedon, is a fan.
  • Brett Dalton tweeted "Dry White Toast? I've always considered myself a cheese bagel. Oh well." in reference to being credited as "Dry White Toast" in the Honest Trailer for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
  • After the Honest Trailer for The Flash pointed out Barry Allen's "bobblehead," Grant Gustin tweeted "Whoops."^note The link is no longer functional as Gustin deleted his Twitter account. The hyperlink is only maintained for archival purposes.
  • Scott Cawthon, the creator of the Five Nights at Freddy's games, actually enjoys the Honest Trailers of his games (even though the Trailers of the sequels are largely negative).
  • Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island went a step further and actually helped write the episode lampooning his movie, being very honest and forthcoming about it's flaws (although he frantically objects to the notion that "there are too many helicopters").
  • Mortal Engines cast member Menik Gooneratne was delighted to twice be highlighted as part of the film's 'extremely attactive people', and Screen Junkies' response led her to add '“Really really ridiculously good looking” - Screen Junkies' to her bio.
• Colbert Bump: The Honest Trailers often use an obscure soundtrack called Great Ambitions by Chappell Music, which they nickname the "Stare Flare Song" as it's usually used to accompany their staring / lens flare montages. Pretty much every single comment in that song's video is referencing Honest Trailers and/or Screen Junkies.
• Corpsing: In the Honest Trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home the joke credit for Alfred Molina is a play on "If I Were A Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof (which Molina starred in after Spider-Man 2). Jon Bailey can be heard laughing to himself as he finishes the line just before it cuts to the next credit.
• Dueling Works: Cinema Sins, Honest Trailers and How It Should Have Ended all released their respective entries for Back to the Future Part II in the same day (October 21, 2015), because it was a Meaningful Release Date.
• In Memoriam: The Honest Game Trailer for Godfall started with a dedication to voice actor Brad Venable, who was the regular narrator of the Honest Game Trailers at the time of his death.
• Meaningful Release Date: As described above, the Honest Trailer of the Back to the Future trilogy was released on October 21, 2015; the day when Marty McFly arrived to the future in Back to the Future Part II.
  • The Reefer Madness \ The Big Lebowski trailer came out on April 20, fitting of the marijuana theme.
• Promoted Fanboy: Almost happened. One of the pitches for the end credits of Deadpool was to have an Honest Trailer play within the actual movie, complete with having the same narrator to do it.
• Role Reprise:
  • Will Sasso reprises his role as Randy Newman from MADtv (1995) and Family Guy in the Toy Story trailer.
  • Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as Deadpool for the Deadpool trailer and again in Logan and Deadpool 2.
  • Elias Toufexis turns up in the 'Read your comments' part of the Deus Ex trailer to read the comments as Adam Jensen.
  • Zack Ward appears as a grown-up Scut Farkus in the trailer for A Christmas Story.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Creator Andy Signore was fired after sexual harassment accusations came against him in the wake of the #MeToo movement.^note Signore would later challenge the accusations. The rest of the crew enacted a hiatus to re-structure with his absence, enact new sexual harassment policies within the company, and made their best efforts to be transparent with their fans going forward.
• Throw It In!: The reference to Jordan Vogt-Roberts' feud with CinemaSins was not in the initial plans for Kong's trailer. They also deny that the feud was staged to lead up to the trailer, either.
• Un-Cancelled: As a result of Smosh Games' parent company Defy Media abruptly closing without warning, there weren't any new Honest Game Trailers from November 2018-May 2019, until Fandom took over sponsorship.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Screen Junkies was hoping to have Smash Mouth sing for the Shrek Honest Trailer but the band didn't want to do it, possibly because they got tired of being associated with the movie.
  • When Avengers: Endgame was about to be released in theaters, the team were thinking on doing an Honest Trailer for The Avengers (1998) as clickbait, but decided to go with Howard the Duck instead just to poke fun at Marvel before they got on track with their films.
  • In the Honest Trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the alternate universe narrator Australian Voice Guy was going to be Silent Movie Guy, who would only talk through captions, but the writers felt that it would be too much text to read with Epic Telenovela Woman's subtitles.
  • Bruce Campbell was supposed to cameo in the trailer for The Evil Dead (1981), but due to scheduling conflicts it ultimately fell through.

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