Best comedy movie trivia of 1996

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Trivia: When Cruella gets angry after offering the couple £7000 for the puppies and they refuse the offer, she storms out of their house and heads for the car. She then hits one of the two stooges and as she goes to get in the car you can clearly hear her say the word "fu*k".

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Trivia: The evil man at the nursing home is played by Ben Stiller, then a rising star, in an uncredited role.

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Trivia: Throughout the entire movie, no one ever says the bass player's name. Even in the credits, he is listed as T.B. Player and The Bass Player.

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Trivia: The Japanese version of this film was originally two half-hour shows released on video. The first one called "Journey to Eggmanland," and the second being "Sonic Vs. Metal Sonic."

Yoshi

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Trivia: In the opening scene where at the bottom of the screen it says Ocelot, Iowa 1969. That gas station scene was actually shot in Mars, Pennsylvania.

Joe Campbell

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Trivia: When sending Bugs and Daffy to pick up his basketball gear, Michael tells them that he wore his UNC shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform in every game. He really did do this, as a good luck charm.

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Trivia: When Chris Farley is playing football with the kids and they're in the huddle, he says the play is "32 belly option on 2, on 2". In Tommy Boy when Chris and Rob Lowe go cow tipping, Chris gets down and says, "It's a 32 belly option on 2, on 2".

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Trivia: The cartoon sequence that's shown while Roy is hallucinating, is based on a Saturday morning cartoon called 'The Brady Kids' which ran from 1972 to 1974. The pandas were named Ping and Pong while the myna bird was named Marlon.

Jeff Swanson

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Trivia: The guy who starts to read when the satellite signal is lost at the end of the movie is Kyle Gass, the other half of the band Tenacious D, of which Jack Black is also a member.

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Trivia: When Jerry is at the copy place at the beginning getting his paper put together, the guy behind the counter is lead guitarist for the band Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell.

Vin15Nets

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Trivia: When Charlie and Fulton go to the amusement park, an arcade attendant jokes with them about playing hooky. The man who plays the arcade attendant in this movie also played an unnamed celebrity at Coach Bombay's party in D2, and the same man played a lawyer in the first movie. He also happens to be the movie's screenwriter, Steven Brill.

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Trivia: The look of the movie is based on a collection of Topps trading cards.

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Trivia: During the scene where everyone is sitting in a circle giving each other massages, we can see the band 'Tenatious D' (Jack Black's band) in the background.

Scrappy

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Trivia: In the final fight scene, 'Sultan' is greeting people in the arena. He stops a man who looks like John Travolta and says 'Vincent, how's Jules?' (or something similar). Vincent Vega was Travolta's character, and Jules was Samuel L Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction.

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Trivia: At the beginning of the film Lucy and Ray watch a videotape called 'Murders, Madmen and Psychopaths', with the news report of Johnny Charles Bartlett. The reporter is a genuine TV reporter in NZ (where the film was shot), cast presumably due to her real American accent. (00:11:10)

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Trivia: Ewen Bremner, who plays Spud, performed in the production of "Trainspotting" as Renton for a year before landing the role of Spud in the film.

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Trivia: Many characters from the movies parodied are in this film playing the same characters. Some examples are the Korean store owner from Menace II Society, the girl Ashtray was with when her mother came in from Boyz in the Hood, and Toothpick's thug who gets stomped over from Menace II Society.

T Poston

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