1. The archetypal sanction of the movie was Such a Clatter.

2. Other actors considered for the relation of Scott Calvin/Santa Claus were large stars similar Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson, according to an interrogation first-time movie director John Pasquin gave on the Grunt Work podcast. And it was Bill Murray who was reportedly the apical candidate. But aft starring successful the Christmas classical comedy Scrooged, Murray "had nary involvement successful pursuing different holiday-themed project," shared Pasquin.

3. But producers weren't wholly sold connected Tim Allen contempt Home Improvement's chaotic popularity. In a 2011 occurrence of Biography screenwriters Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti shared that producers claimed Allen "can't unfastened a movie, he's a TV star."

4. Allen's Home Improvement woman Patricia Richardson and Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton were considered for the relation of Laura, but Wendy Crewson yet landed the relation of Scott's ex-wife.

4. Judge Reinhold nabbed the portion of Laura's spouse (and Scott's nemesis) Neal Miller, though Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, and Bradley Whitford were considered. He would spell connected to look successful each 3 films.

6. The hardest relation to formed was Charlie, Scott's son, arsenic they were looking for a kid histrion betwixt the ages of 6 and 9, "who had sensitivity" casting manager Renee Rousselot shared and was "able to truly entree those emotions, but person a existent innocence astir him." The production squad launched unfastened auditions successful 13 antithetic cities earlier uncovering Eric Lloyd.

7. During filming of the archetypal movie, Lloyd had to deterioration dentures after knocking retired his beforehand teeth erstwhile helium went to a shot crippled with his family. Oh, and that poster representation of Scott and Charlie? It wasn't really Lloyd's body, with the histrion revealing connected Reddit successful 2014, "It's immoderate different kid lasting down a cutout of Tim Allen. And they conscionable enactment my look connected it. So they didn't person to wage maine for different day."

8. The archetypal publication was overmuch darker, with Scott really shooting Santa Claus arsenic helium believed helium was a robber. However, Allen revealed on The Tonight Show successful 2018 that DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg  "was adamant, 'We can't commencement a movie similar that.'"

9. Peter Boyle plays Scott's brag successful the archetypal movie but would spell connected to prima successful the adjacent 2 movies arsenic a antithetic character: Father Time. 

10. Allen's Home Improvement co-star Jimmy Labriola (Benny) makes a little quality successful the movie arsenic a motortruck operator Scott and Charlie inquire a question from portion they are successful the sleigh.

11. Allen underwent 4 to 5 hours of constitution and prosthetic applications to alteration successful Santa (and that doesn't number the 2 hours it took to instrumentality it each off) and had to deterioration aggregate abdominous suits during filming, which took spot successful the mediate of summer. "You can't picture however maddening the process is," Allen said of getting into quality arsenic Kris Kringle, calling it "terrible." Because of the latex, Allen experienced vigor rashes, scars, scratches and infections. 

12. There was a clip bounds connected however agelong Allen could beryllium successful the suit portion filming, maxing retired astatine six hours due to the fact that of the mediocre ventilation. "They got amended and amended astatine air-conditioning me, conscionable keeping maine calm," Allen told ABC News of the aboriginal films. 

13. Casting existent children arsenic the North Pole's elves proved a spot challenging for Allen, who was known to improvise connected set. "You didn't privation the kids astir erstwhile Tim got going," histrion Crewson said connected Biography. "He would spell connected these hilarious rants, streaked done with obscenity." This pb to accumulation pulling their prima distant for the occasional "time out" erstwhile helium seemed adjacent to cursing. 

14. Allen had to spell backmost and re-record galore of his lines due to the fact that of the sounds the bells connected the Santa suit made. He aboriginal explained helium had to usage Automatic Dialog Replacement for most of that movie due to the fact that radical [said], 'What's each that ringing?' And it was maine walking."

15. While filming, Allen was besides penning his archetypal book, truthful "any interruption I had, I had a feline successful my trailer, like, 'So tin we get started with work?'" helium shared connected ABC News. "And I had conscionable benignant of near a job...that was a truly anserine happening connected my part."

16. But each the hard enactment paid off: Allen had the No. 1 movie astatine the container office, the No. 1 amusement connected TV with Home Improvement and was astatine the apical of The New York Times Best-Sellers database with Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man. 

17. The archetypal publication focused much connected Charlie extracurricular of his narration with his dada (meaning scenes without Allen successful them), but the moving clip was deemed excessively agelong for children truthful the scenes were cut. The scenes included Charlie struggling with his dad's modulation into Santa Claus and dealing with bullying astatine school. Overall, much than 30 minutes of footage was cut. 

18. Old DVD releases of the movie see a enactment that was aboriginal removed, with Scott making a gag astir calling "1-800-SPANK-ME," which the filmmakers did not recognize was a existent telephone fig for a enactment line. Disney received complaints astir children calling the fig and decided to chopped the enactment from the movie moving forward.

19. In its opening play successful aboriginal November 1994, The Santa Clause debuted astatine No. 2 down Interview With a Vampire, making $19 million, astir the aforesaid magnitude arsenic the film's full budget. But past thing unusual happened: It kept performing, yet landing astatine No. 1 astatine the container bureau astir 1 period aft its premiere. By Christmas, it had made good implicit $100 cardinal successful the U.S. alone. 

20. Given the astonishment occurrence of the archetypal film, Disney was keen connected doing a sequel, but Allen wanted to hold and marque definite it would beryllium a worthy follow-up. At 1 point, 16 antithetic contributors had been progressive successful The Santa Clause 2, which yet deed theaters successful 2002, with Allen astir walking distant astatine a definite point. "We gave up. We got to the constituent wherever we each got frustrated," helium told One Guy's Opinion. "They greenlit the script, and I said I don't privation to bash this. But we pushed through."

21. Despite continuing to enactment unneurotic connected Home Improvement, Pasquin did not instrumentality to nonstop the follow-up films and Allen credited caller director Michael Lembeck for helping marque the sequel possible. "The workplace and I were truly disagreeing connected which absorption to instrumentality it if we were going to instrumentality it astatine all," the prima explained to One Guy's Opinion. "We truly didn't deliberation they were going to bash this. We were truthful acold apart. And past Michael came in...and made the thing. He came to the acceptable each time with an cognition that was great."

22. David Krumholtz (a.k.a. Bernard the Elf) revealed 2 astonishing fans of the film: Khloe and Kim Kardashian. "They came up to maine and said, 'We've seen The Santa Clause a 100 times!'" In fact, it's a contented for the Kardashian household to ticker the movie each Christmas Eve.

23. Krumholtz could not reprise the fan-favorite relation of Bernard successful the 3rd and last movie owed to scheduling conflicts with his deed CBS procedural Numbers. 

24. Kelly Preston, Jennifer Connelly and Brooke Shields were each reportedly considered for the relation of Carol (aka the aboriginal Mrs. Claus) for The Santa Clause 2, with Lost prima Elizabeth Mitchell yet being cast. 

25. For the 3rd film, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, Martin Short joined the formed arsenic Jack Frost, Santa's rival. Allen and Short had antecedently worked unneurotic connected 1997's Jungle 2 Jungle.