Trivia / Eegah!

• Dawson Casting: Roxy was played by Hall Sr.'s thirty-something secretary, Marilyn Manning.
• Incestuous Casting: Writer/director Arch Hall Sr. cast himself as the father of his son's love interest. He used two pseudonyms to cover this - his director credit is "Nicholas Merriweather"^note A pseudonym Jr. would use for his novels. and his acting credit as Robert Miller is "William Watters."
• Looping Lines:
  • An infamous goof was a result of the botching of one of these: at one point, while the main characters are walking, one of them suddenly "shouts" "Watch out for snakes!" despite the fact that the character obviously isn't speaking and the quality of the line's audio not matching the rest of the movie.^note The actors actually do show some movement and reactions that seem to match with that dialogue, but it comes a full three or four seconds after the lines in question, with nary a sound from them that time. As such, "Watch out for snakes!" has become a Running Gag on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (where Eegah was shown), and went through a bit of Memetic Mutation as well.
  • Eegah himself was portrayed by Richard Kiel but voiced by Arch Hall Sr. going uncredited unlike his other roles in the film.
• Parody Retcon: The film would tour Southern California, with the main cast dressed in costume as their characters (including Kiel), coming out on stage to intro the film - the crowd would hoot and holler, and even talk back to the characters on the screen. Sound familiar?
• Real-Life Relative: Hall, Sr. and Hall, Jr., of course. Marilyn Manning was Hall Sr.'s secretary at the time.
• Troubled Production: Oh, boy. For starters, the sound technician accidentally pressed Play instead of Record at one point, forcing Hall, Sr. to re-dub and foley a bunch of scenes himself. This led to him doing all of Eegah's lines in the film.

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