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Friday (1995)

• Directed by F. Gray Gray
  • Set It off
  • The Italian Job
  • The Negotiator
  • Straight out of Compton
  • Law Abidng Citizen
  • Men IN Black: International
• Starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Tiny Lister, John Witherspoon, and Nia Long
• Box office of 28 million on a 3.5 million dollar budget
• Trivia
  • Ice Cube and DJ Pooh felt that these films did not portray the full picture of living in the hood, missing a more lighthearted element, with Ice Cube later saying, “we had fun in the hood. We used to trip off the neighborhood.” Therefore, Cube and DJ Pooh decided to create a film that would portray that environment.
  • Smokey was based on DJ Pooh’s stint as a drug dealer.
  • The neighborhood in which Friday is set is the same South Central Los Angeles area in which F. Gary Gray spent his childhood. Principal houses that were used for filming were houses of old friends of Gray. The scene where Deebo (Tom Lister Jr.) punches Red (DJ Pooh) causing him to fly through the air is Gray’s childhood home.
  • In the flashback scene where Smokey (Chris Tucker) is sitting in the lowrider with Hector (Demetrius Navarro) and his friend, two men can be seen sitting on a block wall in the background. The men were residents of the neighborhood who proved to be uncooperative with the production staff’s requests knowing they couldn’t tell them what to do on their property. Despite being offered compensation or a walk-on role to move out of the shot, the two men refused to move.
  • The film was shot on 126th Street and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles, known territory of the Crips street gang. The Crips are known for wearing distinctive blue bandannas whereas their bitter rivals, the Bloods, wear equally distinctive red bandannas. As such, red clothing of any kind was banned from the set to prevent cast and crew from being assaulted for appearing to be a Bloods gang member.
  • Chris Tucker improvised many of his lines in the movie.
  • The clothes that Ice Cube wears at the beginning and end of this movie are the same clothes he wore at the end of Boyz n the Hood (1991).
  • Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson were considered for the role of Smokey.
  • In a deleted scene at the beginning of the credits, Ezal (Anthony Johnson) is seen running down the street carrying boxes. These are the boxes that Craig Jones (Ice Cube) gets falsely accused of stealing from his job and is subsequently fired on his day off.
  • The scene where Smokey walks up to Big Worm and says “What’s up Big Perm ? I mean Big Worm”, was actually a blooper that they kept in the film.
  • According to AJ Johnson, the character Ezal was initially going to be played by Tommy Davidson. However, after Davidson was unable to fulfill the role, AJ stepped in and played the neighborhood crackhead. He said that he based the character around his brother who was an addict and explained some of the craziest moments dealing with his brother. One story, in particular, AJ recounted was hitting his brother with a car and seeing his brother bounce right up as if nothing happened.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

• Directed by Judd Apatow
  • Knocked up
  • This is 40
  • Funny People
• Written by Judd Apatow and Steve Carell
• Starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Cahterine Kenner, Seth Rogan, Jane Lynch, and Romany Malco.
• Budget of 26 mil and 177 million
• Trivia
  • The entire “You Know How I Know You’re Gay” scene was improvised by Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen
  • The scene where Andy has his chest hair removed required five cameras set up for the shot. Steve Carell’s chest hair was actually ripped out in the scene. Carell had told director Judd Apatow just before shooting the scene, “It has to be real. It won’t be as funny if it’s mocked up, or if it’s special effect. You have to see that this is really happening.” For obvious reasons, the scene had to be done in one shot.
  • Steve Carell’s then eighty-year-old parents went to see the film, much to his embarrassment.
  • To prepare for his role as Andy, Steve Carell lost thirty pounds for the role. Judd Apatow was originally nervous about the transformation, stating that he didn’t think that “comedians wanting to look good is ever good for comedy.” However, he gradually realized that Carell being “ripped” was a good idea, as it helped establish that Andy was only a virgin because he’s shy and nervous, not because of his looks.
  • According to Seth Rogen, Steve Carell was so nervous that the film would be shut down by the studio that he had the writers prepare a back-up version of the script that didn’t contain a single word of profanity.
  • When Catherine Keener was cast, Steve Carell told Judd Apatow that her casting had legitimized the film’s credibility.
  • Judd Apatow had a part written for Jason Segel, with the character named Jason, but Apatow could not get the studio to approve his casting. Apatow advised Segel because of his unique brand of humor, to consider writing material for himself. Thus Segel wrote Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), which Apatow served as one of the producers.
  • The “We Sell Your Stuff on eBay” store was a real store. It was written into the script after the location was chosen.
  • Jonah Hill got heatstroke filming the final dance number.
  • In a deleted scene on the Unrated DVD, when Andy is on the phone trying to get help to get rid of his erection, the person on the other end is Judd Apatow impersonating an Indian accent.
  • During the waxing scene, the actress playing the waxer almost ripped Steve Carell’s nipple off (she didn’t realize you’re supposed to coat the nipples in Vaseline prior to waxing). Fortunately for the actor, director Judd Apatow realized what was happening and yelled “cut!” just in time.
  • During the “you know how I know you’re gay” scene, Paul Rudd is wearing a t-shirt that has a picture of himself on it.
  • Film debut of Mindy Kaling.
  • This represents the first time Steve Carell ever kissed anybody on-screen.

The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

• Directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly
  • There is something about Mary
  • Kingpin
  • Dumb and dumber
  • Me Myself and Irene
  • Fever Pitch
  • Osmosis Jones
  • Shallow Hal
  • Stuck on you
• Starring Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, and Carlos Mencia
• Budget of 30 million and Box office of 128 million
• Trivia
  • The film marks the twentieth anniversary of Ben Stiller and Jerry Stiller working in a film together. Their first appearance was in the John Cusack comedy-adventure Hot Pursuit (1987), in which they played father and son villains.
  • Jason Bateman and Amy Poehler were originally cast as the leads, when James Bobin was signed on to direct the film, replacing Barry Sonnenfeld.
  • Was a remake of a 1972 film of the same name written by legendary playwright Neil Simon.
  • Second Farrelly Brothers movie to feature Ben Stiller sharing a joint with a female lead character, while having a deep conversation. The other movie was There’s Something About Mary (1998).
  • In the drinking scene, where Eddie is introduced to Miranda’s family, the Progressive insurance spokeswoman “Flo” is sitting across from Polly Holiday, who played “Flo” on the television series Alice (1976).

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

• Directed by Nicholas Stoller
  • Get him to the Greek!
  • The 5-year engagement
  • Neighbors
• Starring Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Mila Kunis, Bill Hader, and Russell Brand.
• Budget of 30 million and Box office of 105 million
• Trivia
  • Hawaii’s state fish really is the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a. It is pronounced: “who-moo-who-moo-noo-koo-noo-koo-ah-pooah-ah”.
  • The role of Aldous Snow was written with Charlie Hunnam in mind.
  • The film is based on script-writer Jason Segel’s experience breaking up with Linda Cardellini, as well as three other breakups with unspecified women. Segel has said that the ‘naked breakup’ did not involve Cardellini, and that she was a great girlfriend.
  • During the montage of Peter and Sarah on the different red carpets, one photographer shouts “[Andre the Giant] out of the shot please!” In I Love You, Man (2009) Segel’s character quotes Andre’s line from The Princess Bride (1987),”Anybody want a peanut?” to Paul Rudd’s character. In Jason Segel/Florence and the Machine (2011), Segel imitates him in the segment ‘Andre the Giant Chooses An Ice Cream Flavor.’
  • Jason Segel and Paul Rudd also star together in Knocked Up (2007), I Love you Man (2009), This is 40 (2012), and This is the End (2013), although both only have brief roles in the latter and share no dialogue with each other.
  • Screenwriter and star Jason Segel told New York Times interviewer Dave Itzkoff that the naked breakup and Dracula puppet musical scenes were drawn from real-life experiences. Segel said that one girlfriend broke up with him while he was completely naked. Rather than being devastated, he thought to himself, “This is hilarious. I cannot wait for her to leave so I can write this down.” Before he was a successful actor, Segel tried to write a musical adaptation of “Dracula” for puppets
  • In a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19, 2013, Kristen Bell told the audience that she learned Veronica Mars (2004) was cancelled the day before she shot the scene in this film in which her character learns her show was canceled.

Observe and Report (2009)

• Directed and Written by Jody Hill
  • East Bound and Down (16 series)
  • The Roadie
  • The Foot Fist Way
  • The Righeous Gemstones (11 episodes)
• Starring Seth Rogen, Anna Farris, Ray Liotta, and Michael Pena
• Box Office of 24 million and budget of 18 million
• Trivia
  • The filming of this movie convinced Seth Rogen he needed to lose weight, after it became hard for him to breathe in the harsh New Mexico air.
  • Warner Brothers was concerned about the dark subject matter and demanded the production team come up with a “lighter, softer” version of the film. It was not until test audiences gave the edited version poorer test scores than the original version that Warner Brothers let them release the film in its original form.
  • During the filming of a fight scene, Seth Rogen broke a stuntman’s nose by accidentally hitting him in the face.
  • Chris Evans had a panic attack while auditioning for the movie. He was brought back to audition a second time and had a second panic attack and still remembers the experience as one of his worst auditions.
  • The movie was filmed around the same time as Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009). Despite the comparisons, the cast and crew of both films kept in touch with each other during production to avoid making the movies too similar. In an interview with GQ, Seth Rogen claimed that the idea for Paul Blart: Mall Cop was stolen from Observe and Report.
  • Collette Wolfe is married to writer and director Jody Hill. They married the same year the film was released.
  • The main role was intended by writer/director Jody Hill to be played by Danny McBride, as a follow-up to their previous collaboration The Foot Fist Way (2006), but the studio wanted Rogen as he was a bigger name at the time. Once production began, Hill then wanted McBride to play Detective Harrison, but he ultimately could not commit to the time needed for the role because of other projects. Ray Liotta ended up playing Detective Harrison and McBride appeared in one scene as the Crackhead.

Step Brothers (2008)

• Director Adam McKay
  • Vice
  • The Big Short
  • The other guys
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Kathryn Hahn, and Adam Scott
• Budget of 65 million and box office of 128 million
• Trivia
  • Will Ferrell does his own singing. John C. Reilly does his own drumming.
  • Joaquin Phoenix claims to have seen this film more times than he has seen any other movie.
  • When Brennan and Dale are in their room, showing each other their night vision goggles and autographed sword, the camera pans around while the characters are walking, and a Hugalo’s Pizza car light is on top of the chest of drawers in the room. Will Ferrell’s character worked for Hugalo’s Pizza in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), after he lost his job as a race car driver.
  • Co-Writer and Director Adam McKay wanted to make this a drama, not a comedy
  • In the commentary, Adam McKay said that they originally went to Catalina Island for location shots, and discovered that he didn’t really like it. Instead, they shot on the coast. Catalina Island appears in several shots, and McKay chose not to have it digitally edited out, as a joke.
  • Mary Steenburgen played Will Ferrell’s stepmother in Elf (2003). In this film, Steenburgen plays Ferrell’s mother.
  • Jon Hamm and Thomas Lennon both auditioned for the role of Derek.
  • Years later (2022, in fact) director & good friend of Will Ferrel, Adam McKay is heavily involved & executive producer of an HBO mega-series about The Rise of The Los Angeles LAKERS dynasty of The 80’s, helmed by the legendary owner extrodinaire Dr. Gerry Buss Phd. in “Winning Time (2022, HBO) Will Ferrel believes that his good friend is grooming him for this iconic role. McKay decides that Step Brothers co-star, John C. Reilly is better suited to encompass that pivotal role. Ferrel takes umbrage and stops talking to McKay, as a result. This dissolution of a friendship & business relationship lasts until this very day, given the success of the series, and the critical reviews of Reilly’s potentially awards winning performance.

Trading Places (1983)

• Directed by John Landis
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Schlock
  • Coming to America
  • Animal House
  • Three Amigos
  • American Werewolf in London
• Starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Akryoyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, and Don Ameche
• Budget of 15 million and Box office of 90 million
• Trivia
  • In 2010, as part of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, which was to regulate financial markets, a rule was included which barred anyone from using secret inside information to corner markets, similar to what the Duke brothers tried to do in the movie. Since the movie inspired this rule, it has since become known as the Eddie Murphy Rule.
  • Eddie Murphy later admitted that on the floor of the commodities exchange in the final scene, he only followed the script; he had no idea what was going on, as he found commodities trading incredibly confusing.
  • This was Ralph Bellamy’s ninety-ninth film, and Don Ameche’s forty-ninth. This was Eddie Murphy’s second film, and he joked: “Between the three of us, we’ve made one hundred fifty movies!”
  • Several funny moments in the film came about by accident. Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche) having trouble catching the money clip wasn’t supposed to happen that way, but the actors kept going with it and not breaking character, so it was kept in the movie. Ophelia’s “Swedish” disguise came about because Jamie Lee Curtis couldn’t do the correct Austrian accent.
  • Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche “cheerfully admitted” they were unfamiliar with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd’s work. The two also said that Murphy and Aykroyd acknowledged that they were unfamiliar with Bellamy and Ameche.
  • According to John Landis, Jamie Lee Curtis was a hard sell to Paramount, because she had only done horror films and wasn’t known for comedy.
  • Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche) always wear matching suits and tie patterns, only Randolph wears a bow tie and Mortimer a necktie.
  • This movie was filmed immediately after the Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) accident, where Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed when a helicopter crashed during production. John Landis was later tried and acquitted of manslaughter, the first time in history that a Hollywood director was charged for a death which had occurred on-set.
  • (at around 1h 6 mins) R&B legend Bo Diddley appears as the pawnbroker who buys Louis’s watch.
  • The number given to Dan Aykroyd (Louis Winthorpe III) in his mug shot, 74745058, is the same number given to John Belushi (Jake Blues0 in The Blues Brothers (1980). Aykroyd did this as a tribute to Belushi who had died the year previous.
  • The original title was “Black and White”, but John Landis hated it, and offered $100 to anyone who came up with a better title, which became Trading Places.
  • After Richard Pryor dropped out of the project early on, Gene Wilder pulled out soon after when he heard that Eddie Murphy said he would do the film but not with Wilder, as he didn’t want to be seen as copying Pryor’s style. However, the script still was being written at that point with Pryor and Wilder in mind, so some of the dialogue written for Pryor was instead given to Murphy. This is particularly noticeable in the street begging scenes near the beginning of the film (as Murphy was far too young to be a Vietnam veteran).
  • This movie is infamous for hitman/spy Paul Gleason getting raped by a gorilla.

Coming to America (1988)

• Directed by John Landis
• Starring Eddie Murphy, Victoria Dillard, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, and Eriq La Salle
• Budget of 30 million and Box office of 288 million
• Trivia
  • After the make-up and clothing was applied for the Jewish character Saul, Eddie Murphy wanted to test the make-up and costume out. He got a golf cart and drove from one studio department to another in Paramount Studios. He would get out of the cart and say in his regular voice, “Hi. I’m Eddie Murphy.” No one believed him.
  • This was the first time Eddie Murphy played multiple characters in the same film, inspired by Peter Sellers who did the same in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). This would become a trademark of Murphy.
  • The homeless men that receive the money from Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) are the Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) from Trading Places (1983) (also directed by John Landis). In that movie, Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) was responsible for The Dukes losing their fortune. The Dukes theme from the movie can be heard in the background. Apparently, Landis didn’t like the idea because it would be too self-referential, even though he is known for breaking the fourth wall in his movies. It led to a conflict with producer George Folsey Jr., until star Eddie Murphy decided that it was a great idea.
  • John Landis and Eddie Murphy did not get along, and Murphy vowed to never work with Landis again. The two later reconciled, and Murphy personally asked Landis to direct Beverly Hills Cop III (1994).
  • The name of the fictional African country the main characters are from is called “Zamunda”. This name was taken from a Richard Pryor routine where he referred to a fictional African tribe of the same name. The writers had originally named it “Zmuda”, but director John Landis had it changed to Zamunda.
  • There were five lawsuits over the movie after its release. The only one that actually went to court was when humorist and columnist Art Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures, alleging that Paramount took an option on his story, but then took his script idea and turned it into this movie. Buchwald won, and was awarded damages. Paramount settled for $150,000. Writers David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein have claimed that they took most of the blame for this, since they wrote the script on their own, not knowing that the idea was stolen; yet afterwards, they were falsely accused of stealing the screenplay, which they think may have cost them a membership of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
  • Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall revealed during their March 2021 visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) that Louie Anderson was cast in Coming to America as McDowell’s employee Maurice only because the studio mandated a white comedian appear in the 1988 comedy. According to the actors, Paramount went so far as to give them a list of three white actors to choose from. They chose Anderson because Murphy and Hall were fans of his stand-up comedy. They didn’t reveal who the other two options were.
  • John Amos, whose character Cleo McDowell shamelessly copies McDonalds, had a long history with McDonalds in real life. At one point Amos worked at the first-ever McDonalds restaurant in Canada, and he also starred in a famous song-and-dance McDonalds commercial in 1971 (“Grab a Bucket and Mop”). The scene when Cleo stares strangely at Akeem trying to use a bucket and mop is an in-joke reference to this commercial.
  • John Landis had a bad reputation, due to a string of flops, and manslaughter charges for an accident during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) that killed 3, including 2 children. In an interview with Playboy, Eddie Murphy said: “Yes. He’d done four fucked up movies in a row and I knew he’d spent a lot of money on his trial. I went to Paramount and said I wanted to use Landis. But they had reservations, His career was fucked up. But I said, “I’m gonna use Landis.” I liked the guy. I used to always say that the one fun experience I had with a director–and I’ve worked with directors I really liked: Martin Brest, Walter Hill, Tony Scott – was with Landis, because he plays around a lot on the set. I made Paramount hire him.”
  • Eddie Murphy’s demands included $1,500 a week for his personal trainer, round-the-clock chauffeur service, a valet, and $1,000 a week for his brother to appear as his stand-in.
  • When King Jaffe Joffer ( James Earl Jones ) comes looking for his son Akeem at McDowell’s restaurant, his line “No. Do not alert him to my presence. I shall deal with him myself” is a homage to Darth Vader (who is voiced by Jones) who in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) has a similar line, “No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself”. In Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Vader (Jones) kills an admiral for an error, saying, “They have been alerted to your presence.”
  • Paula Abdul choreographed the African dance sequence on this film. It had to be filmed on only a drumbeat since composer Nile Rodgers hadn’t finished his score yet. Because the dancers were slipping all the time, the floor was sprayed with adhesive, and shooting the dance took an entire day.
  • Paul Gleason was asked to reprise his role as Clarence Beeks from Trading Places (1983), but had to turn it down, as he was committed to Die Hard (1988).
  • Sidney Poitier was originally considered for the role of King Jaffe Joffer.
  • Vanessa Williams was originally considered for the role of Lisa McDowell.
  • John Amos actually tripped running up the stairs to answer the door, and it was kept it as it was too funny.
  • Gary Gray: in the front row of the Black Awareness Program, seated in front of Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and Clint Smith.
  • Tobe Hooper: to the right of Reverend Brown and Lisa, listening to Brown’s non-stop preaching during the McDowell party.
  • When King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones) visits New York City to bring Akeem back home, he wears a lion skin sash. Jones portrayed the voice of the lion King Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King (1994). Madge Sinclair (Queen Aoleon) also starred alongside Jones in The Lion King, as Mufasa’s wife, Queen Sarabi.
  • After king Jaffe Joffer insults his daughter, John Amos’s character was originally supposed to respond with “I don’t give a damn who you are. I’ll drop you like a bad habit!” Amos didn’t think the line was strong enough, so he improvised the line “I’m gonna break my foot off in your royal a*s!”. Eddie Murphy thought it was hilarious, so the line was kept in the movie.

Cedar Rapids (2011)

• Directed by Miguel Arteta
  • Youth in Revolt
  • The Good Girl
  • Duck Butter
• Starring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Stephen Root, Kurtwood Smith, and Isiah Whitlock Junior.
• Budget of 10 million and box office of 7 million
  • Isiah Whitlock Jr.’s character Ronald Wilke references the character Omar from the TV show The Wire (2002). He played the character State Sen. R. Clayton ‘Clay’ Davis on the TV series. According to Whitlock, the ‘Wire’ references were in the script before he was cast, and they decided to keep them in place as an in-joke for fans of both Whitlock and his former show.
  • The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2009 Blacklist; a list of the “most liked” unmade scripts of the year.
  • The name of the young call girl, “Bree,” is an allusion to the movie “Klute,” where Jane Fonda plays a call girl named Bree Daniels, and becomes romantically involved with a square private eye, played by Donald Sutherland. In Cedar Rapids, Bree and square insurance salesman, Tim Lippe, almost get to that point, too.

Superbad (2007)

• Directed Greg Mottola
  • Adventureland
  • The Daytrippers
  • Paul
  • Confess Fletch
• Starring Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Stone, Marth Macissac, Bill Hader, and Seth Rogen.
• Box office
• Trivia
  • Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started this script when they were just thirteen years old, because “we just wanted to see if we could write a movie.”
  • Michael Cera’s mother actually read the script before he did, and she was the one who convinced him to try out for the part.
  • Film debut of Emma Stone (Jules).
  • The penis drawings featured in the film are done by David Goldberg, Evan Goldberg’s brother. There were close to one thousand produced, but only a handful were featured in the movie and closing credits.
  • During filming, Christopher Mintz-Plasse was the youngest at seventeen, Michael Cera was eighteen, and Jonah Hill was the oldest at twenty-three.
  • The DVD/Blu Ray menu featuring a silhouette of Evan ( Michael Cera ) dancing was filmed continuously for an hour with Micheal Cera dancing nonstop for the entire time as to give the menu the feeling of not having a looped scene.
  • Because Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen are such great friends, they were quoted as saying that when casting Evan, they weren’t so much looking for a good actor, as they were “casting for a new best friend.”
  • Seth’s (Jonah Hill’s) comment about Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) looking “like a future pedophile” after being shown the I.D. was ad-libbed.
  • Bill Hader (Officer Slater) has stated that he was offered many roles as a cop after this film due to the popularity of his character.
  • Jonah Hill’s first leading role.
  • The pivotal penis drawings were a point of contention with the MPAA, particularly the scene with young Becca holding an image of one of them. Producer Judd Apatow said it was the subject of much legal wrangling, including how erect they could be, if veins could be shown, et cetera. However, the actress playing young Becca, Laura Marano, had a different picture to hold before they cut to the actual drawing. You can even see from the reverse that the drawing she holds appears completely different.
  • Seth Rogen credits Jay Baruchel for first suggesting Michael Cera to them.
  • Jennifer Lawrence was considered for the role of Jules.
  • When the two police officers (Seth Rogen and Bill Hader) ask McLovin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) where the party is, he says, “13th and Granville”. Granville Street is a busy street in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Rogen and Goldberg grew up.
  • When Dave Franco first appeared on set they didn’t know he was James Franco’s brother. “We were just staring at him, what’s wrong with this guy?”
  • The role of Officer Michaels was originally offered to Kyle Gass.
  • Advanced buzz was so strong that Judd Apatow was billed as “the producer of Superbad” in trailers for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Drillbit Taylor (2008), which were released before and/or attached to the film itself.
  • Michael Cera, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jonah Hill all had something to do with superheroes. Emma Stone was Spider-Man’s girlfriend, Hill is the voice of The Green Lantern in the Lego Movies, Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays the Enemy Red Mist in the Kick Ass Movies and Michael Cera is the voice of Robin in Lego Batman.
  • The liquor store robber is played by the film’s stunt coordinator, Tim Trella, who also played Evil Ash in Army of Darkness (1992).