Airheads - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[lynn]

Filmed at Fox Plaza 2121 Avenue of the Stars Century City, Los Angeles, California. The building shares a parking lot with the one used as Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard (1988).

[miriam]

Two Ghostbusters are in the film. Ernie Hudson (Winston) played the Police Sergeant. Harold Ramis (Egon) played the cop who posed as a Capitol Record executive.

[lonnie]

The line "Great, grand, wonderful" uttered by Chris Farley is the same one he uttered in Billy Madison (1995).

[bernice]

Rex (Steve Buscemi), who plays the bass player in The Lone Rangers, is a representation of bass player Rex Brown, from the band Pantera.

[beth]

Pip's "secret code" is 256001.

[duane]

The Lone Rangers' hit single "Degenerated" is actually a song by 1980s punk group Reagan Youth.

[kenzi]

When they release Yvonne (Michelle Hurst), Chazz (Brendan Fraser) says "go Yvonne, you'll be home in time for The Simpsons", Joe Mantegna (Ian) has played "Fat Tony" on The Simpsons (1989) since 1991.

[veronica]

Ernie Hudson and Reg E. Cathey played wardens on the HBO prison drama series, Oz (1997).

[steve]

Rex (Steve Buscemi) gives Ian (Joe Mantegna) a CD and tells him to play track two, which is I'm the One by Van Halen, performed by 4 Non Blondes. The same song is track two on the Airheads Original Soundtrack.

[stephanie]

When Chazz (Brendan Fraser) drags one of the employees of KPPX out of his office, you can see a poster of a white skeleton on a black background, which is identical to the cover of The Offspring's multi-platinum album "Smash", released four months before this movie arrived in theaters.

[sandra]

Alexandre Rockwell was originally slated to direct.

[scarlett]

Beavis and Butthead call the radio station while Chazz is giving away tickets.

[tamara]

There is a brief reference to Motley Crue's lead singer Vince Neil killing someone. In 1984, while the band Hanoi Rocks was taking a break from touring because their lead singer Michael Monroe had injured his ankle, some members of Hanoi Rocks ended up at Vince's home for a party. Vince and Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley went to get more liquor. Vince was driving, even though he was already drunk. On the return trip Vince was speeding and lost control of the car, resulting in a terrible collision with another vehicle. Razzle died instantly and the two people in the other car suffered severe injuries and were left with lifelong complications from these injuries. Vince walked away with a concussion, a 2.5 million dollar fine, and served fifteen days in county jail.

[nina]

Testament was one of the bands considered for the performance at The Whisky, but they had to bow out due to conflicting schedules. At the time of the film's release, John Tempesta was the drummer of Testament and later went on to replace Phil 'Philo' Buerstatte in White Zombie, staying in the band until their breakup in 1998.

[chad]

Ian (Joe Mantegna) mentions to Milo (Michael McKean) that if its too loud, you're too old. Michael previously played the lead singer of Spinal Tap in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), which was described as the loudest band in England.

[bernard]

This is the second film that Brendan Fraser (Chazz) and Amy Locane (Kayla) were love interests. The first being School Ties (1992).

[ivan]

Death metal band Cannibal Corpse was originally set to play in the movie. But when the producers found that they played in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) (they were Jim Carrey's favorite band at the time), the producers opted for White Zombie.

[kenneth]

Stickers of famous 80s & 90s Death Metal bands can be seen inside the band's van; Grave, Asphyx, Morgoth, Obituary and Deicide behind Pip, and Cancer above Chazz.

[camila]

Chazz (Brendan Fraser) was originally supposed to be played by John Cusack.