Wissenswertes

All of Andrew's jokes as he regales the family were unscripted. Robin Williams ad-libbed all of the jokes, and the other actors' reactions to them are completely real.

Adam Bryant, who appears as the android head, has been Robin Williams' stand-in for more than a dozen films.

Robin Williams shaved off his considerable body hair to play the robotic Andrew.

The aria that Andrew is listening to when he first uses the record player is from Dvorak's opera "Rusalka." The opera is concerned with the fairy-tale story of a water nymph who wants to become mortal for love.

The female robot, Galatea, is named after the statue brought to life by the gods in the Pygmalion myth.