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These facts and your brain would make a great duo!

34 Amicable Bits of Trivia About Your Favorite Buddy Comedies

June 24, 2025

Whether they start out as friends or an odd couple thrown together by dire circumstances, these facts and your brain are about to embark on quite the thrill ride.

Don’t worry if it’s not that funny. Your brain can be the straight man while these facts yuk it up in the passenger seat. They just learned a ton of jokes while researching these hilarious buddy comedies.

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Neil Patrick Harris

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS HAROLD&KUMAR CRACKED.COM Doogie Howser had wrapped a decade earlier, but everyone still called him Doogie. NPH's coke-snorting, stripper-hungry version of himself in Harold & Kumar erased his child-star image, and landed him How I Met Your Mother.

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The Hangover

FROM THE DIRECTOR_GF OLS SCHOOLS SUKE GAS US CAN HANDIE VEGAS HANGOVER ED HELMS - - - CAFE DOB are - BRE - - 12 MHLAN THE - LTE - CAST - ASSK - FEEL IT JUNE 5 - - removed his real dental implant FOR THE HANGOVER. CRACKED.COM

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Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi

CRACKED THE BLUES BROTHERS HAD A PRODUCTION BUDGET FOR COCAINE. It was included to help the cast and crew stay awake during night shoots. — Universal Pictures
Vanity Fair

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22 Jump Street

Meta Movies 22 Jump Street The awkward fight was unscripted. Jillian Bell just went and tried to kiss Jonah Hill during the fight, and Hill's shocked reaction was real. Не tried to get cues from the directors just out of frame, but they were just giggling and loving it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Film School Rejects

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Danny McBride

June on hulu June 1 Pineapple Express Danny McBride was forced to stay taped into his chair for a whole day, as it would take too long to free him between takes and then accurately tape him back in. CRACKED.COM — Source: Variety

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Pineapple Express

April on prime video Pineapple April 1 Express Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg rolled the roughly 100 cross joints (a T-shaped joint) featured in the movie themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source: Seth Rogen/Twitter

28

Wayne’s World

WAYNE'S WORLD wayne's World This is the second highest-rated of all movies based on SNL skits, just after Bob Roberts. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE The two actors were cast as the other role... but it wasn't cleared up until the costume fitting. Alex Winter said that Keanu Reeves was like, These clothes don't fit me! What is this half-shirt sweater thing, I can't fit in this! — Source: Express

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Kingpin

Bill Murray came up with pretty much all his lines in Kingpin. He'd just ask the directors what they wanted in the scene, and say whatever lines he felt would best achieve that, changing them on every take. CRACKED COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Krispy Kreme

Harold and Kumar were originally written to go to Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme didn't want to be associATED with the movie, but White Castle took the risk. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Chicago Tribune

24

The Blues Brothers

The first SNL sketch to be turned into a feature film: 1980 CRACKEDCO So far, they've squeezed 11 feature-length films out of 4-minute live sketches. The first of the bunch was The Blues Brothers.

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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

The fart sounds in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle's battle s**ts scene are real. Sound engineer Jeff Kushner couldn't find the right fake fart effect he wanted, so he recorded actual poop and fart noises in a truck stop bathroom. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: Uproxx

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Bill Murray

Bill Murray actually M bowled three strikes in a row in his Kingpin scene as Ernie McCracken. R L I A T The crowd's applause is completely genuine and — Source: Uproxx

21

The Hangover Part II

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Old School

BRAD PITT EDWIRD NORTON / DAVID FUNCHER FILM CLOB MIS CTU AVHI ME SOAP ERCEHIC ALL adidas KING ... ... PA ... - JUL LIST. PLA - - 40 DESIT e KA Old School is just a comedy take on Fight Club. Writer and director Todd Phillips says he was thinking of Fight Club throughout writing the whole screenplay, and it shows: a ton of scenes are ripped straight from Fight Club with a minor twist or two. CRACKED.COM — The 7 Most WTF Origins of Iconic Pop Culture Franchises

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Todd Phillips

Old School COURT CRANDALL & SCOT ARMSTRONG CRACKED.COM Old School writer/director Todd Phillips got the idea from his advertiser friend Court Crandall. Crandall loved Phillips' film Frat House and told him, You know what would be funny is a movie about older guys who start a fraternity of their own. — MentalFloss / Positivity Brand

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Frank the Tank

July on NETFLIX July 1 Old school If you recognize the church where Frank gets married, that's because it appears in another Vince Vaughn movie - Wedding Crashers. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Wedding Crashers

Roles Almost Played by Nicolas Cage The Wedding Crashers Will Ferrell's brief cameo is memorable-but it might have been even more memorable with Nic Cage instead. CRACKED.COM — Source: /Film

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Isla Fisher

Isla Fisher won't simulate a handjob. WEDDING CRASHERS CRACKED COM Fisher had an entire Frankenstein's monster of body doubles for this movie -one for

15

Possible Remakes of Planes, Trains and Automobiles

CRACKED Planes, Trains and Automobiles In 2020, Drew Barrymore expressed desire to remake it with Cameron Diaz, but found out a remake with Will Smith and Kevin Hart was already in the works. Rekindling the lack of chemistry between Steve Martin and John Candy would be near-impossible. — MovieWeb / Roger Ebert

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was supposed to be over 3 hours long. That was John Hughes' original cut, but it was lost, and his guess was that it was rotting away in a vault somewhere. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Boy

BILLY BOY CRACKED COM Before landing on Tommy Boy, tentative titles were 'Rocky Road', 'Fat Chance, 'XL', and the strongest possibility, Billy The Third: A Midwestern. Since Sandler's 'Billy Madison' was in production, they didn't want two SNL films with Billy in the title. — Source: screenrant

12

Toronto

TOMMY BOY B CRACKED.COM For the film's big finale, Tommy Boy confronts Ray Zalinsky (Dan Akroyd) in Downtown Chicago but the Toronto streetcars (famously known as 'The Red Rocket') are dead giveaways! — Source: torontoist.com

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Tommy Boy

Tommy Boy plays like an explosion down at the screenplay factory. # rt n WE aa nerte Roger Ebert called it an assembly of cliches, cobbled together by a bewildered office boy, his face smudged with soot, wandering through the ruins and rescuing pages at random. — Source: Roger Ebert

10

Dumb and Dumber To

'Dumb & Dumber To' was funded using money stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund. CRACKED.COM Corrupt officials and finan- ciers stole $4.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Ber- had between 2009 and 2015, laundering the money through a series of shell companies with bank ac- counts in the US and abroad. — CNN

9

Jim Carrey

ACE VENTURA GOT CARREY A MASSIVE RAISE CRACKED.COM Jim Carrey was initially offered $350k (some sources say $700k) to appear in Dumb & Dumber, but the recently successful Ace Ventura: Pet Detective helped raise that to $7 million (of D&D's $16 million total budget). — Source: audacy

8

Dumb and Dumber

DUMB AND DUMBER Don't worry, we'll catch our break, too. Producers wanted Harry and Lloyd to get on the bus with the bikini babes at the end, but Ji

7

O.J. Simpson’s House

The house party from SUPERBAD was filmed half a block from the OJ Simpson murder house. 4 90 to is - DEL - RUSA ON and . - — Source

6

Superbad

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS SUPERBAD Seth Rogen's real pop played the MAD DAD CRACKED.COM In his first- and last-ever screen role, Seth played the dad who chases SotWerding Evan through the suburban backyard. Nice throw, Mark Rogen. — ScreenRant

5

Talladega Nights

BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACTS THE IDEA WAS BORN ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR OF TALLADEGA NIGHTS. NATIVE USA STEP BROTHERS While editing Talladega Nights, Will Ferrell, John c. Reilly, and Adam McKay were trying to brainstorm ideas for their next project. One of them said, You know what would be really funny? Bunk beds. That ended up being the spark that led to Step Brothers. CRACKED.COM — The Ringer

4

Will Ferrell

13 Little Things You Didn’t Know About Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects - Step Brothers showcases Will Ferrell's and John C. Reilly's — Source: Maxim

3

Step Brothers

CRACKEDC STEP BROTHERS almost had a crazy fake intruder scene that ended up at Sea World. The original script had a scene where Dale freaks Brennan ou

2

Hot Fuzz

CRACKED.COM ANDFOR HOT FUZZ POLICE Danny throws a DVD into a supermarket basket. For a brief second, we see a cut-price DVD of the director's previous film, Shaun of the Dead, now renamed Zombies Party - which was the release title in certain countries. AN INSTANT CURT CLASSIC THIS IS THE IBRID CIMICY FOR ARS' SHAUN OF THE £4.99 ZOMBIES DE I SARTY - adidas m DVG — Source: 28 Sneaky Jokes Tucked Into Movies And Shows

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Peter Jackson

The stabby Santa in Hot Fuzz is a famous director. You might remember Simon Pegg getting knifed by an angry Kris Kringle at the beginning of Hot Fuzz.

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