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#001

The scuffed basketball used in the film is a treasured souvenir owned by director Joe Pytka. When held by Michael Jordan it is real, but whenever it is in flight or controlled by the cartoon characters it is animated.
#002

When flying towards "Moron Mountain", the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) can be seen at the very right edge of the frame floating in space.
#003

In order to fill up the audience from a limited selection of characters, one section was made from actual Loony Toons. The rest were simply replicated over and over and then "seated" next to each other to create the illusion of a full audience.
#004

The gym where the Looney Tunes practice is called "Leon Schlesinger Gym" after Leon Schlesinger, the man who produced the first Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
#005

Noel Blanc (Mel Blanc's son) was originally booked to provide all of the regular Warner Brothers male cartoon characters' voices. But he and Warner Brothers couldn't agree on a contract, so the studio replaced Blanc with four other people to do the 12 male voices, instead of Blanc doing them all.
#006

While praying in church for the return of his basketball skills, Charles Barkley says, "I'm never gonna go out with Madonna again." This refers to his own fling with Madonna (not Dennis Rodman's fling, as previously reported).
#007

Michael Jordan actually wore his college basketball shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform every game as a good luck charm.
#008

A picture of Bosko, Warner Bros. first cartoon star, can be seen hanging on the wall of the meeting hall, in the scene where Yosemite Sam confronts the aliens.
#009

The concept for this movie originated from a series of highly popular Nike ads where Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan faced off against Marvin Martian and his alien henchmen in basketball.
#010

The hat that Bill Murray is wearing at the Bulls game at the end of the movie is the Saint Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team of which Murray was a part owner in at the time
#011

This film marks the debut of Lola Bunny, Bugs' love interest.
#012

When Larry Johnson says that his grandmother can play better than him, it is a reference to the Converse commercial where Johnson plays his Grandmama.
#013

The Monstars/Nerdlucks' names are Pound (orange one), Bang (green), Nawt (magenta), Bupkus (purple) and Blanko (blue). None of their names are mentioned in the film, and neither is the word "Nerdluck."
#014

To keep Michael Jordan happy while filming, Warner Bros. built him his own basketball court.
#015

In the first scene when the aliens steal the talent of Barkley and Ewing, the couple sitting next to them are Patricia Heaton from "Everybody Loves Raymond" and Dan Castellaneta the voice of Homer on "The Simpsons".
#016

CASTLE THUNDER: First heard during a "film-within-a-film" for one second when Michael's kids are flipping through the TV channels and lightning appears on the screen. It's then briefly heard again for one second when the little aliens begin to transform.
#017

Bill Murray's least favorite film of his own.
#018

Simona Ventura is Italian voice of Lola Bunny.
#019

After Daffy suggests naming the team "The Ducks," Bugs asks "what kind of Mickey Mouse organization would name their team The Ducks." This actually happened in 1993, when the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League were established by The Walt Disney Company.