It's been 20 years since Warner Bros. released the film, a documentary chronicling the time Michael Jordan spent his first NBA retirement teaming up with Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes to defeat a group of super-powered aliens in a high-stakes game of basketball. Because a-doy!
To celebrate that anniversary, and to fill the wait until the long-awaited remake finally materializes, here are 11 interesting facts you might not know about this '90s classic.
2. Early in the film, there's a shot of Moron Mountain in outer space with a strange, black rectangle in the corner of the screen. That rectangle is the alien monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
5. Perhaps the biggest winner in the whole "Space Jam" enterprise was singer R. Kelly. He wrote the Grammy-winning "I Believe I Can Fly" specifically for the film's soundtrack. To date, it remains his biggest hit single.
7. While Jordan played himself in the movie, his wife, Juanita, and their three children were portrayed by actors. Apparently, not everyone in the Jordan family is eager to be on camera.
9. "Space Jam" actually served as a reunion for His Airness and Mr. Bunny. The two appeared in a series of Nike commercials, where they joined forces against Marvin the Martian and his basketball-playing alien allies.
11. Warners had some ambitious franchise plans for the film. At one point, Jackie Chan was slated to star in "Spy Jam" (with that project eventually morphing into 2003's "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"), and NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon was rumored for "Race Jam."