Rewatchables Reference

• The first Stuart Mackenzie family scene – 'Look at the size of that boy's heed!'
• Phil Hartman as Vicky the Alcatraz tour guide – 'the funniest minute of the '90s.'
• The Arkin/LaPaglia 'guys upstairs' scene.
• Charles Grodin's car-commandeering moment.

• Early '90s San Francisco as a movie location, pre-Silicon Valley.
• Early '90s coffee house culture – pre-Friends, post-Singles.
• The Scottish Wall of Fame (Sir Harry Lauder, Sheena Easton, Alexander Graham Bell, Sean Connery, Jackie Stewart).
• The supporting cast – all wanting to work with Mike Myers.
• The Myers/LaPaglia friendship chemistry.

The opening credits shot through the cappuccino cup with the Boo Radleys playing.

• Big Audio Dynamite song during the butcher shop flirting montage.
• 'There She Goes' – plays 4 times in the movie, two different versions.
• Spin Doctors 'Two Princes' on the soundtrack.

• The last 15 minutes – the chase/ending shifts to slapsticky tone that doesn't match the rest of the movie.
• The rooftop chase with the antenna between fingers – very different tone.

• The Pentavrite – because it led to the terrible Netflix show.
• '90s green screen technology.
• The birth of Mike Myers as a diva – difficult on-set reputation started here.
• Myers's 'Hello' bits – hacky, didn't work.
• Split screen technology for dual roles.

• Chris: Harriet and Charlie don't have real chemistry – all their getting-along scenes are montages.
• Sean: Charlie is one of the 10 worst movie characters in history – no job, no discernible life beyond being a beat poet.
• Bill: Nancy Travis has the worst taste in men of any actress in the last 35 years.

• Garry Shandling was the studio's choice.
• Chevy Chase was attached – 'this feels like a Chevy movie.'
• Woody Allen was allegedly on board for 3 weeks.
• Sharon Stone was supposed to play Harriet AND Rose (twin roles).
• Gary Busey was supposed to be Vicky but did Rookie of the Year instead – led to Phil Hartman getting it.
• John Candy was first choice for the police captain.

• Amanda Plummer – 'Don't you call me lady!'
• Mike Myers himself for the 'Hello' bits.

Luenell – plays the cop; also in 'A Star Is Born' and Borat.

Phil Hartman as Vicky the Alcatraz tour guide – one of the great single-scene performances.

• Get Amanda Plummer out – Debbie Mazar as Rose.
• Sandra Bullock discussed as a Harriet option (wasn't famous enough yet in 1993).

• Budget $20 million, grossed $11.5 million – bombed.
• Myers had to put 3-4 hours of prosthetic makeup on to play Stuart.
• Writers Guild gave credit to original writer Robbie Fox despite Myers's extensive rewrites.
• Nancy Travis married the producer Robert Fried after filming.
• The beat poem scene took ~14 hours to shoot because Myers kept flubbing takes.
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights came out the same weekend.

• Nancy Travis – this plus 'The Vanishing', same era.
• Scotland – 1991 Teenage Fanclub, 1993 Axe Murderer, 1995 Braveheart, 1996 'Trainspotting'.
• Early '90s pre-Silicon Valley San Francisco.
• Weekly World News – 'never seen it used better in a movie.'

• Charlie has no job – what does he do all day?
• The dad says 'soccer' instead of 'football' – a Scottish person would say football.
• Harriet is weirdly dark on first date talking about murder.
• Nobody at the wedding mentions Harriet's previous dead husbands.

Untouchable for sequel/prequel. All-black cast version discussed: Eddie Murphy playing multiple roles.

• Why is Meats of the World completely empty one day and completely packed the next?
• Is the Machine Gun Kelly / Alcatraz 'bitch' story true?
• What is haggis? (Actually answered: sheep organs in sheep stomach.)

Myers for Best Supporting Actor as Stuart Mackenzie.

• The giant coffee cup from the opening.
• The Scottish Wall of Fame.
• Mike Myers's Karmann Ghia convertible.

Get your marriage annulled if you find out on your honeymoon that your spouse is brutally widowed multiple times.

• 'The Vanishing' – four hours of Nancy Travis.
• Or Vertigo – another San Francisco movie.

Mike Myers won the movie.