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Hubie Halloween
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29 Interesting Facts About Hubie Halloween
Interesting Facts (26)
- #001
Cameron Boyce was due to appear in the film before his death on July 6, 2019, which would have reunited him with Peyton List and Karan Brar from Disney Channel's Jessie (2011) and the "Descendants" films, as well as co-stars from Grown Ups (2010) and Grown Ups 2 (2013). The film is dedicated to him.
- #002
Ben Stiller reprises Hal from Happy Gilmore (1996).
- #003
On October 15, 2020, Boston TV station WHDH announced it had fired reporter Alaina Pinto for breaching her contract by playing a news reporter in this film.
- #004
The Mayor's loud jacket in this film is meant to recall the Mayor's jacket in Jaws (1975); both mayors refuse to call off the festivities despite the danger.
- #005
Hubie's mother's closing declaration that she wants revenge on everyone who mocks her son is a tribute to Jason Voorhees's mother in "Friday the 13th."
- #006
It's the second time Adam Sandler and Julie Bowen have acted together, after Happy Gilmore (1996), and they reunited again in Netflix's "Happy Gilmore 2."
- #007
Ray Liotta and his daughter Karsen Liotta both have small supporting roles.
- #008
The cook at the Black Cat Diner is named Tayback, a tribute to Vic Tayback, who played Mel Sharples, owner and cook of Mel's Diner in Alice (1976).
- #009
Hubie's Swiss Army-style thermos works as, among other things, a vacuum cleaner, telescope, trowel, umbrella, electric screwdriver, flashlight, inhaler, megaphone, hook, blender, pepper spray, thermos, flare gun and hair dryer.
- #010
It's Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller's third film together, after Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).
- #011
Plenty of the cast were also in the Grown Ups films: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Shaquille O'Neal, Jackie Sandler, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, China Anne McClain, Colin Quinn, Blake Clark, Dan Patrick and Allen Covert.
- #012
It's the fourth film for Adam Sandler and Shaquille O'Neal together, after Jack and Jill (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013) and Blended (2014).
- #013
Richard Hartman puts on a mask discarded on Halloween night and disappears into the crowd of trick-or-treaters, just as Michael Myers did in "Halloween" (1978).
- #014
The film is set in Salem, Massachusetts, but was mostly shot in nearby Marblehead, including Hubie's bike rides through town; the Salem Witch Museum scene, naturally, was filmed in Salem.
- #015
The film is full of "SNL" alumni, including Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Kenan Thompson, Ben Stiller, Colin Quinn, Mikey Day, Melissa Villasenor and Martin Herlihy.
- #016
Filming wrapped over Labor Day weekend 2019.
- #017
It's Kenan Thompson's first Adam Sandler film.
- #018
It brings back the bedsheet gag from Waterboy.
- #019
Several POV shots through the eyeholes of Richard Hartman's mask closely echo young Michael Myers's POV in the opening of "Halloween" (1978).
- #020
The gas can Hubie's mother uses to light the firewood in the last act is the same one Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) uses in "Reservoir Dogs" (1992).
- #021
It's Peyton List and Karan Brar's third film together, after Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012). They also co-starred on Disney Channel's Jessie (2011) and its spin-off Bunk'd (2015), where Kevin Quinn joined them too.
- #022
Like another Halloween film, Hocus Pocus (1993), it's set in Salem, Massachusetts, famous for its witch trials, which ran from February 1692 to May 1693.
- #023
Noah Schnapp's Tommy is dressed as Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie's second persona; in "Mr. Deeds," Sandler's Longfellow Deeds sings Bowie's "Space Oddity" in a helicopter.
- #024
Hubie Dubois calls the hanging mannequin "Dangling Dave," but on the real Salem Witch Museum tour it's George Burroughs, a non-ordained Puritan minister and the only minister executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.
- #025
The figure Hubie Dubois points out as his ancestor at the Salem Witch Museum is, historically, Rebecca Nurse, accused of witchcraft by Edward and John Putnam. Because she was known as deeply religious, on good terms with her neighbors and kind-hearted, the accusations against her caused a public outcry. According to oral tradition, her family secretly took her body and buried it on the family farm in what is now Danvers, Massachusetts (formerly Salem Village).
- #026
Maya Rudolph is dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein.
Easter Eggs & References (2)
- #027
It's the fifth Adam Sandler film in which his love interest has the initials V. V., after "Billy Madison" (Veronica Vaughn), "Happy Gilmore" (Virginia Venit), "The Waterboy" (Vicki Vallencourt) and "Little Nicky" (Valerie Veran).
- #028
Around the 6:30 mark, after Hubie gets hit by a bike, bullies show up shouting "O'Doyle rules!", the same line used by the O'Doyle bullies in "Billy Madison."
Career & Awards (1)
- #029
There's a lot of speculation that the film was Sandler's payback for not getting an Oscar nomination for "Uncut Gems" (2019).
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