Trivia: When the Grinch takes the table cloth from the table, everything on the table was supposed to fall off. When Jim Carrey yanked out the cloth however, everything stayed in place. Jim immediately walked back to the table and improvised knocking everything off and then knocking the table over.
Suggested correction: There is no evidence this was a mistake.
There's an apparent scan of an original script on scriptslug.com that indicates the scene, as written, had him pulling the cloth without disturbing anything, then kicking the table over.
Direct link to the page of the script referenced: https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-2000.pdf?v=1729114926#page=81.
Trivia: This the first Disney animated feature to show a pregnant woman.
Trivia: In the scene where Nicky goes to heaven and meets his mother, a man walks in and she introduces the man as Chubbs. Chubbs was Adam Sandler's golf instructor in Happy Gilmore.
Trivia: Nicolas Cage actually owned the Ferrari 550 Maranello that he drives in this movie.
Trivia: The filmmakers originally had an ending in which Alex grabs the cable that lies on Clear's car, Alex catches fire and dies. Then Clear gets her baby and Carter survives. The test audience didn't like this, so the filmmakers shot another ending in which Alex is decapitated by a crashing police helicopter. But again, the test audience didn't like the fact that Alex dies, so they shot the finish with the billboard, which took 6 days to film and cost nearly $2,000,000.
Trivia: The vampire's last name was Sackville-Bagg - Bilbo Baggins' relations in The Lord of the Rings were the Sackville-Bagginses.
Trivia: In the original Japanese trailer, most of the scenes were fully animated, yet not used in the final cut. Some of the shots were Ash standing on top of a crystal pillar, as the camera pans around him and he is searching for something, a bunch of random wild Pokémon running away from the crystallization, and a shot of Mewtwo standing at the entrance of a cave with lightning cracking behind it. Supposedly, the 3rd and 4th movies were to inter-connect, with Mewtwo being the one who connects them. Perhaps the anime producers decided to throw that away and instead advertise the then-new Pokémon Crystal game? After all, several elements from the game (the Unown, Suicune, Celebi) appeared in both movies.
Trivia: When Elliot is on the beach, as the devil walks by with two dogs she refers to them as Dudley and Peter, which is a reference to Dudley Moore and Peter Cook - the stars of the original Bedazzled.
Trivia: The fictional childhood of Nick, growing up in a burlesque club surrounded by beautiful, nearly naked women who adored him, is bizarrely similar to the actual childhood of Alan Alda, who plays the boss character. Alan Alda's father ran a burlesque club, and apparently the strippers and dancers treated the young Alda as a mascot, even keeping him in the changing room as they got dressed. However, as an adult Alda became an activist for feminist causes, rather than the chauvinist effect it had on the fictional Nick.
Trivia: Daniel von Bargen plays Bruce Willis' father in the movie, even though in real life he's only five years older than Willis.
