- He and Mark S. Fordham are members of the 501st Legion, a Star Wars costuming club.
- His favorite television show is The Incredible Hulk (1978).
- Has had a passion for photography since he was 13, while on a trip to North Dakota, when his father introduced him to the concept of SLR photography. For his high school graduation, he was going to ask his parents, Wayne and Marie Johnsen, to rent a video camera from Captain Video at 1023 State Street in Santa Barbara (the first video rental business in the United States as a result of winning a legal battle. The location is a Subway© restaurant as of 2017) in order to videotape (eg, "film") his Grad Nite at Disneyland, interviewing graduates from other schools and just filming while walking around the park. Mike decided against it, because he didn't feel like carrying around such a heavy piece of equipment, a decision that he regrets to this day.
- Frequently says to female friends (and sometimes even to his mother) "don't act so surprised, your highness", if it's relevant. They rarely catch the reference, and he never explains it.
- Went to high school with Cynthia Ireland (younger sister of Kathy Ireland), Clare Carey, Bentley Mitchum (grandson of Robert Mitchum) and Heidi Epper.
- The following television shows and films were aired/released on his birthday:
- Log 141: The Color TV Bandit (1968)(#1.2) aired on the day he & Naomi Watts were born
- The Code (1969)
- Gossip (1974)
- The Price of Liberty (1975)
- Mork Runs Away (1978)(#1.3)
- Fonzie Loves Pinky: Part 3 (1976)
- Time After Time (1979)
- The Leap Home: Part 1 - November 25, 1969 (1990)
- Darmok (1991)
- The Principal and the Pauper (1997)
- Toy Story (1997)
- Trust Metric (2007)
- Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes (2008)
- Dead Wrongs (2010)
- Was born on the anniversary of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Billy Gray (who played Bobby Benson) was two days younger than Mike's father, Wayne Johnsen.
- Saw The Matrix (1999) in Denver, Colorado and noticed that the apartment number in the opening scene was 303; one of the the area codes for Denver, & also Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) in Denver, Colorado, not knowing at the time that Jake Lloyd was from Colorado.
- His mother (born on the same day as Lynn Loring and one day after Robyn Hilton) had a morbid fear of flying to the extent that when she immigrated from French Morocco she was screaming and white knuckles in terror. So, to conquer her fear, she earned her pilot license in 1978.
- Refers to a bathroom/restroom as a "loo", which is British slang. He picked this up when he heard the term while watching The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990). That film starred Vernon Wells who also appeared in Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween (2015) with Mike although they had no scenes together.
- Disneyland Park in California opened on his maternal grandmother's 42nd birthday.
- For his high school graduation, he was going to ask his parents, Wayne and Marie Johnsen, to rent a video camera from Captain Video at 1023 State Street in Santa Barbara (the first video rental business in the United States as a result of winning a legal battle. in order to videotape (eg, "film") his Grad Nite at Disneyland, interviewing graduates from other schools and just filming while walking around the park. Mike decided against it, because he didn't feel like carrying around such a heavy piece of equipment, a decision that he regrets to this day.
- His text message/app alert tone is the sound of the Disneyland (California) Monorail's horn.
- Had a friend named Tim Rush who wanted to be a filmmaker, but passed away on Friday, February 13, 1998; Two years to the day before the airing of Alone Again, Natura-Diddly (2000), which centers around the death of a main character.
- Born at 2:12AM PDT (9:12AM UTC).
- Father passed away on November 25, 2015 (one day before Thanksgiving). Mother on May 28, 2021 (The start of Memorial Day Weekend).
- Legally changed his name to Michael Wayne Edgar Johansen on August 29, 1997. He filed on July 17, 1997, the 42 year anniversary of the opening of Disneyland and also what would have been his (maternal) grandmother's 84th birthday.
- In Caesar and Otto's Deadly Xmas (2012) & Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween (2015) he played a homicide victim. In Maneater (2015)(#2.6) he played a homicide detective.
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