Honey, I Shrunk the Kids/Trivia


 * You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever: In Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Mitch suffers from a potassium deficiency, and later on in the movie, when he can't find his medication, has an attack. The other kids revive him by force-feeding banana slices down his throat, which works as an almost-instant miracle cure. While bananas are a great source of potassium, there's a reason people have potassium prescriptions: they're almost essentially just the vitamin. The potassium in a banana, like a vitamin in any other food, would have to be digested and separated before it is distributed into the blood stream, a process that takes hours. Not to mention, shoving a soft, lumpy food into an unconscious person's mouth will cut off their oxygen, putting them in that much more danger.
 * Well, to be fair, Mitch was only semi-conscious at the time...
 * The Danza: Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski.
 * He Also Did: The story was developed by Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna and Ed Naha. Gordon and Yuzna are known for the Re-Animator series of horror movies, and Naha, who cowrote the screenplay, also worked heavily in the horror genre, writing, among other films, Dolls and Troll.
 * Hey It's That Guy: The non Rick Moranis parents are Julie Kotter, Max Headroom and Joyce Summers.
 * The baddie in Blew Up The Kid is Lex Luthor, and his boss picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
 * And Wayne in the TV Show is the other guy from Bosom Buddies.
 * Also in the TV Show, Kaylee is Tiara VanHorn.
 * In Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Rick Moranis' niece is played by Chloe Sullivan, while his brother is played by Earl Sinclair
 * Nick's love interest in the second movie is Felicity.
 * And Seymour Krelborne is Wayne.
 * Nick on the TV series is played by John Connor.
 * What Could Have Been: Honey, I Blew Up The Kid was originally written as a separate movie Big Baby. It was rewritten as a sequel.
 * Stuart Gordon was originally intended to direct the first film and either Chevy Chase or John Candy would have starred. Candy was the one who recommended Rick Moranis for the part.
 * Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves was originally slated for a $40 million budget which got cut down to $7 million when Disney decided to try it as its first live-action direct-to-video release. Thankfully the fact that VFX technology was ten years ahead of the first film by that point, it still looks pretty good. The shrink machine effects are actually way more elaborate.