35 Extracurricular Facts About School-Based Comedy Movies

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35 Extracurricular Facts About School-Based Comedy Movies
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Hope you got your parents to sign that permission slip, because the bus for the Cracked field trip leaves any minute now. We know that normally a field trip involves a trip away from a school, but we just loved school so much that our trip involves a tour of comedy movies that feature schools.

Comedy and school?! If that doesn't get you pumped right up, then we don't know what will. Let's go!!!

Billy Madison Dodgeball Scene

In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Tina Fey

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Sarah Silverman's role could have gone to TINAFEY CRACKED.COM The 30 Rock star auditioned for Patty Di Marco, the part that went to Silverman. Tina of course was/is wonderful, says casting director llene Starger, but her schedule on Saturday Night Live was complex and conflicted in part with our filming schedule.

McLovin

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS A phone-camera shot was all it took to find MCLOVIN CRACKED.COM Casting director Alison Jones was jazzed when she saw the shaky pic sent in by Christopher Mintz- Plasse. I found McLovin, she told director Greg Mottola. You could tell he was a kid who probably had seen the inside of a locker.

School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black gave all the kids their NICKNAMES GRACKED.COM Tinkerbell. Blondie. Brace Face. While the script was locked, Black improvised nicknames for each of the kids while assigning them band roles. Zach Attack, Spazzy McGee, Posh Spice, Mr. Cool, and Turkey Sub are just some of the other monikers.

Emma Stone

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS Superbad was the film debut of EMMA STONE CRACKED GOM It was Emma's first time seeing herself in a movie; it was very sweet, says Hader. We sat in the back of this theater in Westwood, and it blew the roof off the place. People were going crazy, and we were just like, 'Whoa.

Napoleon Dynamite Wardrobe

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS have Nearly all the wardrobe was found at THRIFT STORES VOTE CRACKED.COM With a crazy-low budget, wardrobe was largely DIY. Napoleon's signature moon boots were twenty years old and borrowed from Jerusha Hess's Uncle Wally. His glasses were a thrift-store find and the prescription played havoc with Heder's eyes.

Jack Black

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black scared the heck out of the PARENTS CRACKED.COM The moms were spooked by the rampaging wild man they knew from Orange County and Tenacious D. My mom was just terrified that he was going to be a terrible influence on me, says Jordan-Claire Green. But Black quickly won them over: He was just amazing.

School of Rock

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Once filming, they still had to WRITE THE SONGS - CRACKED.COM That was scary, because you're working on a time limit, says Black. And you know, I'm a songwriter. We put out an album with Tenacious D, but we had 10 years to f***in' put that thing together and only a few months to write all the songs in the movie!

Led Zeppelin

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Jack Black made a personal plea to LED ZEPPELIN CRACKED.COM Не videotaped an appeal, filmed in front of a huge crowd, asking Robert Plant and the boys for permission to use Immigrant Song in the film. It may seem corny but it worked, says Black about nailing the audish. The moral of the story is: Don't be too proud to beg.

Seth Rogen

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS Cowriters Rogen and Goldberg met in BAR MITZVAH CLASS CRACKED.COM They began writing Superbad while they were 13 years old -- mainly 'scenes of things that happened to us.' The characters started out 13 as well, aging as the writers got older. The script only took about ten years.

Superbad

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPERBAD FACTS McLovin had to do his sex scene in front of HIS MOM GRACKED.COM Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward. Afterwards we didn't talk about it; we still don't, says Mintz-Plasse. Now, I'm 19 SO my mom doesn't have to be in the room when I have sex, thank God.

Dan Heder

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPHOTS hill Heder shared dance moves with his TWIN BROTHER obe CRACKED.COM Napoleon Dynamite's signature steps can be traced to the days when Heder and his twin brother Dan would go to clubs and do syncronized dance routines. Once Hess saw Heder's swagger, he realized this is how we've got to end the film!

Jon Heder

BEHINO-THE-SCENES SFACTS Hess and Heder were college CLASSMATES CRACKED.COM Heder didn't consider himself an actor when fellow BYU film student Jared Hess approached him about appearing in his short, Peluca. But Jon definitely understood what it meant to be like a mouth breather in high school, says Hess. And a star was born.

Napoleon Dynamite

BEHIND-THE-SOENESPACTS The dance finale was IMPROVISED VOTE FOR PZD CRACKED.COM There was no choreography. It wasn't structured, says the film's editor and producer Jeremy Coon. It was just kind of like, 'Jon, here's two Michael Jackson songs and this Jamiroquai song,' and Jon's gonna dance, and we'll figure it out.

Modern Shakespeare

'90s Teen Rom-Coms This isn't Julia Stiles only modern Shakespeare. It is well-known that the movie is based on The Taming of the Shrew, but Stiles also appeared in two other modernized versions of the Bard: 2000's Hamlet and 2001's Othello. 10 Things I Hate About You CRACKED.COM

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

'90s Teen Rom-Coms Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually knows French. 10 Things I Hate About You Gordon-Levitt's Cameron James (a name inspired by the mind behind beloved classic Avatar) learns French just to tutor Larisa Oleynik's Bianca. Funnily enough, Gordon-Levitt actually does speak fluent French. CRACKED.COM

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10 Things I Hate About You

'90s Teen Rom-Coms 10 Things I Hate About You The title came from the writer's high school diaries. When Karen McCullah went through old diaries to pump up the teenage angst, she found a list of grievances against a boyfriend. When I told ... she was like, 'that's our title. CRACKED.COM

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21 Jump Street

21UMP JUMP STREET CRACKED COM Upon sampling the HFS drug, Jenko notes that it tastes libe Cool Ranch. Later, we see Coach Walters snacking on a bag

American Pie

CRACKED.COM Eugene Levy's 15 year old son Dan had a hard time in high school when American Pie came out. AMERICAN PIE Eugene plays the dad of a teenager who is on a mission to lose his virginity. Dan's schoolmates thought that the movie was about him and would regularly joke 'Ooh. Is that a story about your life?'

Janis Ian in Mean Girls

Mean Girls The JANIS IS NAMED At AFTER IAN INDRICH A by the real SINGER. song Seventeen Janis lan (which plays during the movie) is about the struggles of a social outcast in high school, like the fictional Janis lan. CRACKED.COM

Rapping in Mean Girls

CRACKED.GOM warz FCK Mean Girls Amy Poehler taught Kevin Gnapoor how to rap. According to director Mark Waters, Poehler coached actor Rajiv Surendra on how to rap for the talent show scene, even contributing to the choreography.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

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The ‘Zit Bit’ in Animal House

CRACKED BLUTO'S ZIT BIT ANIMAL HOUSE Apparently John Belushi improvised that zit bit on the spot, and we can't help but feel for the actors who had mashed potatoes (or whatever it was) spit all over them. It's the one time we kinda wanted the preps to kick his ass.

Animal House and Charles Manson

CRACKED.COM COLLEGE ANIMAL HOUSE THE STORY WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT CHARLES MANSON. The first draft of the screenplay focused on the cult leader, the sex, and the murders involved. It was immediately rejected.

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Stan Gable

VILLAIN: Stan Gable MOVIE: Revenge of the Nerds VILLAINY: Doesn't want the nerds to form a fraternity, or live a wedgie-free life. BUT WAIT! Those same nerds break into his girlfriend's sorority to take nude photos of her, and trick her into having sex. CRACKED.COM

Revenge of the Nerds

Booger's winning belch in Revenge of the Nerds came from an animal - specifically, a camel. They took the sound of a camel having an orgasm and mixed it with a human belch to get the truly amazing seven-second sound in the movie. CRACKED.COM

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Old School

Will Ferrell got drunk before filming a nude scene, but not because he was shy. Не kept waiting for Snoop Dogg to come out of his trailer on the Old School set, so he just started drinking because he was bored to tears. CRACKED.COM

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