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Trivia: One of the bad guys is playing the video game "Doom", which was released two years prior to the film for MS-DOS.

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Trivia: The hotel chase and horse in the elevator scenes were actually filmed in two hotels in Los Angeles as opposed to Washington D.C. where the film was set. The building with the elevators is the Westin hotel near downtown, and the lobby chase was filmed at the now-demolished Ambassador on Wilshire.

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Trivia: When one of the Comanche warriors is fighting the predator, he gets thrown over a large log. He lets out a Wilhelm scream. (00:51:33)

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The Big Question / The Big Answer - S3-E11

Trivia: At one point in this episode, Hefer says "please put me down Mr. Crabs." Most of the crew from this show went on to make SpongeBob SquarePants a few years after Rocko ended, which has a character named Mr. Crabs.

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Trivia: Most of the intro was shot in Dallas, Texas, while the remainder was filmed in Austin.

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Trivia: Recycled footage from the first film is used in the intro, specifically when the spaceship arrives.

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Trivia: Members of the band Guns N Roses appear in this film. They're visible in the funeral scene, and they are working on the boat when the director fires the man. Slash, the band's guitarist, is the one who fires the harpoon through the window.

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Trivia: Nolan North, who does motion capture in the games for Nathan Drake, is on the beach at the resort. He asks Nate and Chloe what happened, and they say they fell out of a plane. He says that happened to him once. He's referring to the third game in the Uncharted series where similar events happen.

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Trivia: The license plate of the vehicle with hydraulics is "Dufus." The license plate of the truck that gets hit by the plane in the cornfield is "Uh Oh."

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Trivia: Laura Linney's police radio is tuned to channel 37. She would've been the 37th victim of the bridge collapse had she not been saved.

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Trivia: Composer Phillip Glass reworked some of his compositions from an earlier film he worked on, Candyman, to fit this film.

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Trivia: The way Donna attempts to get the bus stopped is a direct nod to the 1994 movie Speed. The bus driver is even named Sam, the same as the driver in that film.

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Trivia: The same advertisement for Stay-Puft Marshmallows in the original movie is visible on the side of one of the buildings in the town. It's in roughly the same shape as the billboard in the 1984 film.

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Trivia: A majority of the film was shot in and around Salt Lake City, Utah and a few locations in Colorado. Harry and Lloyd's apartment is in downtown Salt Lake City.

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Trivia: Subtle detail, the cans of soda at TVA always have the label facing the camera. What are they? Josta, an energy drink that actually existed in the 90s but is now defunct. It was made by Pepsi. Why is it in the show? Showrunner Michael Waldron says Mobius has it because he "can go anywhere," and likely ran into a timeline where it existed. Waldron, however didn't say for sure there was a foolproof reason Mobius drinks it, but he's pleased fans noticed it.

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Trivia: The Tappet Brothers, Ray and Thomas Magliozzi, famous for their NPR show "Car Talk", provided their voices for the film. They reprised their roles as the owners of Rust-eze. Thomas passed away in 2014. His lines were pieced together from the first film. Ray came out of retirement to voice the role. They even use their signature line from the show "don't drive like my brother."

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The Leap Home (1) - November 25, 1969 - S3-E1

Trivia: Sam's childhood home is Ray and Annie's farmhouse from the movie Field of Dreams, complete with the front porch swing. In another shot showing morning on the farm, the baseball field from the film is visible. Both the television show and film were distributed by Universal Pictures, so it's likely the show had access to unused footage from the film.

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The Leap Home (2) - April 7, 1970 - S3-E2

Trivia: Patrick Warburton's first major role and his second acting credit. Warburton plays "Blaster."

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M.I.A. - April 1, 1969 - S2-E22

Trivia: According to the script, Beth really does feel Al dance with her briefly before he leaps, even though he is a hologram. She says his name after he leaps out as an acknowledgement that she knew he was there. This is one of the few episodes we see Al leap instead of Sam.

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Trivia: Welles worked 16 to 18 hour days on the film, as it took nearly four hours to apply his makeup to make him look older. Welles also shot the film quickly, with very few takes as he wanted to be like John Ford. Some of the film's more significant scenes were shot before production actually began as Welles had claimed he was doing "camera tests" and RKO believed him.

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