Coneheads - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[eli]

The football game scene was filmed at Paramus High School, New Jersey. In the animated The Coneheads (1983), the couple is ordered to relocate to within twenty miles of the U.N. in New York City. Paramus is indeed well within twenty miles of the U.N.

[jesse]

Michael Richards, Chris Farley and Michael McKean appeared in both "Coneheads" and "Airheads" (both 1993).

[jim]

The French representatives of UIP took great exception to the Coneheads disguising their extra-terrestrial origins by passing themselves off as being French, and insisted that all such mentions be removed from the dialogue. This demand was declined.

[manuel]

When Beldar and Phymatt are sleeping side up on a old mattress . Beldar sleeps with cotton in his mouth and spitt it out which was also the same type of cotton that Bill Murray had in his mouth when he was in Little Shopp of Horrors .

[ivan]

Among the cast are sixteen alumni of Saturday Night Live (1975), but only one each of SNL rivals Fridays (1980) ( Michael Richards ). and SCTV (1976), ( Dave Thomas ).

[willard]

The movie's dialogue has the full names of Beldar and Prymaat as, "You will survey Underlord Beldar Corhon and Marlax Zanthstram from Frodoit-fuel Administration," although the script has it as, "Fuel Survey Underlord Beldar Florhone, and Marlax Zehemsto, from Protoid Fuel Administration."

[tammy]

Toward the end when Beldar asks Ronnie if he could have fifty-five words with him, he does, in fact, say fifty-five words.

[carl]

Dan Aykroyd took his daughter (Danielle) to see the film being made, and she was so fascinated by the conehead costumes she asked for one of her own. She was cast as Connie age three, so she could get her own cone.

[albert]

Dan Aykroyd, Chris Farley, and David Spade all later appeared in "Tommy Boy" (1995).

[wallace]

Whip Hubley, who is credited only as "F-16 pilot," is better know to audiences as "Hollywood," one of the F-14 Tomcat pilots from Top Gun (1986).

[ronnie]

The house number of the rancher that the family lived in was "793." The release date for the movie was July, 1993.

[jim]

The French dub of the film actually still has the Coneheads speak French when Seedling tries to catch them out on their claim of being French, but rather than ask if the Coneheads still speak French, Seedling instead asks if they have contact with other French people there. The rest of the dialogue is then largely equivalent to the original English audio track, but with slightly more natural French dialogue.

[sylvia]

Laraine Newman, who portrayed Laarta, was the original Connie Conehead on Saturday Night Live (1975).

[chris]

Scenes featuring Colleen Camp, Ellen Cleghorne, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Conan O'Brien were filmed but cut.

[alyssa]

Jan Hooks portrays "Gladys," a human infatuated with Beldar, an alien. Hooks portrayed "Vicki Dubcek," a woman infatuated with Harry Solomon, an alien, in 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996), which also featured Jane Curtin.

[jeffrey]

When Beldar asks in the motel office, "Where can I obtain a helium grafting device operable at eight fathoms?," it is a reference to Prymat's frequent discouragements that he crashed their spaceship below water in the Jersey sound and is repairing the ship.

[christina]

Otto tells Beldar that the key to success is to look good, be your own boss, never work at a desk, and take cash only. Later in the movie Beldar fulfills all of these by wearing a nice suit as the owner of his driving school, and he takes his payment in cash.

[bernard]

In the very first Coneheads sketch, Bill Murray plays Connie's date named Ronnie, who drives a tow truck. In The Coneheads movie, Chris Farley plays Connie's boyfriend named Ronnie, a mechanic.

[cameron]

Film debut of Ellen DeGeneres.