Trivia / The Santa Clause

• Actor-Shared Background: The girl in the park who asks Scott for ballet shoes (listed as "Ballet Girl" in the credits) is actual ballerina Tabitha Lupien.
• Adored by the Network:
  • Freeform loves to run this movie and 3, usually one right after the other, during 25 Days of Christmas. Like Hocus Pocus, its omnipresence has even been lampshaded in ads on the network.
  • After Freeform dropped the second film, AMC quickly picked it up. It later moved to FX before moving back to AMC in 2018. Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas ads lampshade this by promising to show "all the Santa Clause movies. [Beat] That we're allowed to show." All three movies are shown on-screen during the former sentence, but 2 literally drops off the screen during the latter.
  • Freeform lost access to the third film for a while, during which it was adored by the Starz networks, before it was regained by Freeform in 2018.
  • For 2019, Freeform has picked up all three of the movies, airing them together for the first time since 2010.
• California Doubling: Most of the film was shot in Ontario. In one scene, a Swiss Chalet restaurant stands in for a Denny's.
• Colbert Bump: This movie perhaps kept the Mystery Date board game from fading into obscurity.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Bob Bergen takes over from Frank Welker as Comet in 2 and 3.
  • In the European French dub, Michel Papineschi replaced Nagui as Scott Calvin starting with The Santa Clause 2.
  • Ditto with Véronique Augereau replacing Caroline Chantolleau as Laura Calvin Miller in the sequels.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Spencer Breslin and his sister Abigail both appear in The Escape Clause.
  • Tim Allen's daughter, Elizabeth Allen-Dick, has been announced as playing Scott/Santa's daughter Sandra in The Santa Clauses.
• Sequel Gap: The second movie was released eight years after the first. While the third film was released four years after that, the limited series The Santa Clauses didn't come out until 2022, sixteen years afterward.
• What Could Have Been: Mary Gibbs, who voiced Boo in Monsters, Inc. was originally cast in the role of Scott's niece Lucy, before they decided to hire an older actress. Gibbs permanently quit acting afterwards.
• Working Title: In its earliest stages, the script was called Rose Suchak Ladder, making the eponymous ladder's appearance in the film a Mythology Gag.
• You Look Familiar: Peter Boyle plays Scott's boss in the first movie, and Father Time in the second and third.

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