Trivia / Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

• Acting for Two: For the cartoon series:
  • Kath Soucie voiced Tara Boumdeay and Mary Jo Nagamininashy.
  • Thom Bray voiced Wilbur Finletter and Floyd Bridgework.
  • S. Scott Bullock voiced F.T., the Censor Lady, and Sam Smith.
  • Maurice LaMarche voiced Tomato Guy, Zoltan, Ketchuck, Phantomato, and Link.
  • Cam Clarke voiced Igor Smith and Tomacho.
• Creator Backlash: George Clooney's star has risen a little bit since he got third billing in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Oddly, this trope is apparently averted in the case of Stephen "Rock" Peace. After making the first film, he got a serious job as a state senator in California. Despite this, he participated in the writing and production of the second film and animated series, even reprising his role (though not as a main character). Maybe it's true, you have to have no shame to get into politics. Apparently averted with Clooney, too. He supposedly still loves that movie, or at least holds it in higher regard than Batman & Robin.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: No official home releases of the animated series have appeared to date. This is likely because of the rights being split between Disney (which bought the Fox Kids library, including this show, in 2001), while the movies are largely owned by whoever owns the New World Pictures library (currently Vine Alternative Investments).
• No Budget: It even gets lampshaded in the second film, where they run out of money halfway through and have to resort to a long series of increasingly blatant Product Placements in order to get the funding needed to finish the movie. This was despite the fact that the second film had twenty times the budget of the first one, though this says more about how low budget the first movie was than anything else.
• Nonindicative Name: The Maneater Tomato really exists! Alas, it has nothing to do with this film, and it doesn't eat humans (but allegedly was used as a spice for cannibal meals - the grammatic ambiguity works better in German anyway).
• The Other Darrin:
  • Richardson, Sam Smith, and Greg Colburn are all played by different actors in the second film.
  • Parodied by Marc Price in the fourth film.
• Referenced by...: Has its own page.
• Role Reprise: The animated series has John Astin reprise his role from the films as Dr. Gangreen. It's one of his favorite roles.
• Throw It In!:
  • George Clooney didn't know the words to "Oh, Susanna" so he improvised new lyrics.
    Matt: I don't know the words to this song.
    I think I'll make them up.
    I'm going to into my place,
    And wake my best friend up.
  • The helicopter crash looks shockingly real because it was real. No one was seriously hurt, and the crash was written into the film. Paying for the helicopter took up more than half the film's budget.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: The first film's screenplay was constantly being rewritten and new scenes during filming, hence why it seems to have a Random Events Plot at times. The sequels all had lines and scenes altered during shooting as well, but the basic storyline was at least in place by the time filming started, unlike the first film.

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