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• "Armitan" (played by Ray Walston, the original Favorite Martian on TV) is an anagram for "martian."
  
  
• In one scene, Daryl Hannah wears an Incredible Hulk t-shirt while talking on the phone to Jeff Daniels. "The Incredible Hulk" (1978) starred the late Bill Bixby, who played Tim O'Hara in the original "My Favorite Martian" (1963) TV show.
  
  
• At the first crash site, Dr. Coli mentions the "Martian Incident of 1963". Armitan replies, "Not only is that incident classified, but it never happened!" This refers to the original "My Favorite Martian" (1963) TV show, which debuted in 1963, and Ray Walston playing Uncle Martin.
  
  

• After giving back Uncle Martin's antenna, Armitan/Neenert (Ray Walston) makes several comments relating to his role as the original Uncle Martin. He first says, "Everything's in black and white," in reference to black and white television. "The commercials are going 'Pop, pop' and 'Fizz, fizz!" is a reference to the classic Alka-Seltzer commercial. His third line, "That gum lost its flavor in '66," honors the year the original show ended; 1966.
  
  
• Lizzie is transformed into an updated computer-graphic version of the "monster of the id" animated by Disney artists in Forbidden Planet (1956).
  
  
• Patrick Stewart was considered for the role of Uncle Martin.
  
  
• Tim's car is a 1962 Plymouth Valient.
  
  

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