Gremlins/Trivia

Both Movies

 * Actor Allusion: The Puttermans are played by Dick Miller and Jackie Joseph, cast as a married couple specifically because of their frequent acting collaborations in Roger Corman movies.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Clamp Enterprises are run by Lionel Luthor and his assistant the Doctor (no, not that one).
 * Speaking of Doctor, Saruman/Count Dooku is the amoral scientist playing with genetics!
 * Raymond Cruz plays the delivery guy in Gremlins 2.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * The Brain Gremlin is Felix Unger.
 * Gizmo is voiced by Howie Mandel and Stripe by Frank Welker.
 * What Could Have Been: The entire concept of these movies was brought about from Spielberg's unproduced script loosely based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter. The idea was eventually seperated into three movie. This one being the third. The other two? ET the Extraterrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Gremlins 2

 * Actor Allusion: During the Bat Gremlin's transformation, stereotypical vampire music starts playing while the camera zooms in on Christopher Lee's reaction shot.
 * Adaptation Name Change: The Brain Gremlin is called "Mr. Glasses" in the novelization.
 * Doing It for the Art: Legendary Oscar-winning special effects artist Rick Baker was convinced to work on the sequel by letting him completely redesign the mogwai/gremlins, including making the new hybrids.
 * Playing Against Type: John Glover is best known for playing villains and changed Clamp to more friendly because he disliked being exclusively cast as bad guys.
 * Unintentional Period Piece: It shows how it's a 1990 film with references to Batman, The Phantom of the Opera, Donald Trump and Marla Maples' affair, colorization jokes and so on.
 * What Could Have Been: The original script of The New Batch featured Randall Peltzer making a Cameo at the end of the movie with his latest invention -- a wetsuit-type device to prevent Gizmo from ever getting wet again.
 * Also, the original script called for the Brain Gremlin to wear a black tuxedo and tie while singing "New York, New York" as a further homage to Frank Sinatra. it was scrapped.