Problem Child - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[carl]

In the theater and video version of the movie you see Junior get dropped off at the rich woman's house as a baby, he pees on her, and then she takes him to a new home. Because of TV censorship they could not show him peeing on her so on the TV version it looks like he gets dropped off and taken away for no reason

[carla]

Big Ben mentions the "Hirohito Corporaton" as the company he is selling his store to. Interestingly, the closing credits have numerous listings for Hirohito Family characters, which implies that at one point, they may have been intended to play a larger role in the film.

[kylie]

Colby Kline is the daughter of Richard Kline, who provided additional voice for this film and co-starred with John Ritter in Three's Company (1976).

[liam]

Roy's car is a 1983 Jeep Wagoneer Limited [SJ].

[claude]

The Healys car is a 1988 Ford LTD Crown Victoria Wagon LX, they also have a 1990 Daihatsu Charade GLS [G100].

[ruby]

Universal originally wanted John Landis to direct this film. But Landis turned it down as he had no interest in making kids movies. They then approached Joe Dante to direct after directing The 'Burbs (1989) for them. Dante read the script and liked it. But he turned it down as he was about to work on Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).

[janice]

When the campers are 'attacked by a bear', the music, was taken from "Real Men" (1987).

[jamie]

Little Ben peeks his head through a hole in Junior's room saying "Here's Daddy", which is a reference to the scene in The Shining (1980) where Jack Nicholson said the iconic phrase, "Here's Johnny.", John Ritter was in the Stephen King TVmovie It (1990) the same year that he did this film. Coincidentally, he plays a character named "Ben" in both productions.

[harry]

Big Ben's "new car" was a 1988 Chrysler New Yorker.

[richard]

Film debut of Michael Oliver.

[ava]

During production, both John Ritter and Gilbert Gottfried were allowed to ad lib, making Universal complain at Dennis Dugan for shooting too much footage for Gottfried's scenes

[elmer]

The only actor to appear in all three films and the short-lived cartoon series was Gilbert Gottfried. Jack Warden appeared in all three films, but not the cartoon.

[lena]

Richard Donner was considered to direct this film. But he turned it down as he was busy directing Lethal Weapon 2 (1989).

[lynn]

Steve Martin was considered for the role of Little Ben, but he turned it down to work on My Blue Heaven (1990) instead. Martin did actually appear in Parenthood (1989), of which the poster was spoofed for this movie.

[marc]

Only film appearance of Jessica Zucha.

[sophie]

An ad campaign for this film included "reviews" from a number of famous movie villains:"Four-star fun for the whole gang!" - Al Capone"Two thumbs up!" - Captain Hook"10 out of 10! Junior had me in stitches!" - Frankenstein"This kid gives ME nightmares!" - Freddy Krueger"Junior is a real cut-up!" - Leatherface"I wish he were MY son!" - Darth Vader"Don't have a cow! Just see this movie, dude!" --Bart Simpson

[liam]

After the disastrous baseball game, Ben takes Jr to church, jus before the family appears, the camera is focused on a window in the church; the design on the window is of Robin Williams.

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[linda]

When Ben and the Bow Tie Killer do their money exchange, the killer refers to Ben insultingly as "Big Daddy." Director Dennis Dugan would go on to direct a film called Big Daddy in 1999.