Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: The first 32 minutes are unassailable – the opening phone call, Home EC monologue, dick drawings confession, McLovin ID reveal, and the liquor store sequence.
• Sean: The 15-minute stretch of McLovin buying booze, the robbery, Officers Michaels and Slater arriving, and the Seth/Evan fight outside about the condom and lube, leading to Joe Lo Truglio hitting Seth with the car.
• Chris: The coke party scene with Kevin Corrigan ('my brother came all the way here from Scottsdale, AZ') and Michael Cera singing 'These Eyes' – says it's better than 'Boogie Nights'.
• Sean: Seth's dream sequence of buying vodka ('that would be lovely').
• Bill agrees with Sean's 15-minute stretch as the best, which also includes the Carrie Hutchins breast reduction bit ('I got to catch a glimpse of these warlocks').

• Bill: The opening title sequence/theme song – a 1976 funk song called 'Too Hot To Stop' by The Bar-Kays.
• Sean: The 70s funk/disco soundtrack and how the movie's title and music reflect 90s kids trying to be 70s cool.
• Bill: Seth Rogen tweeted that this movie invented the phrase 'DTF' (down to fuck), later co-opted by Jersey Shore.
• Bill: The 'you shouldn't take advantage of drunk women' theme was ahead of its time for 2007 – Michael Cera's character had a decent moral compass.
• Bill and Chris: Rogen and Hader as Officers Michaels and Slater are essentially filming their own buddy cop movie within the movie.

• Bill: The language obviously wouldn't fly today.
• Bill: MySpace references date the film.
• Bill and Chris: Rogue/comedic cops as a theme doesn't age great given real-world police brutality concerns.
• Sean: Questions whether fake IDs to buy booze is still a relevant premise – Euphoria's high schoolers are on ketamine instead.

• Seth Rogen was always supposed to play Seth but became too old; Apatow noticed Jonah Hill on the set of 'Knocked Up' and cast him within an hour.
• Shia LaBeouf was circled for Seth but was 'offer only' (wouldn't audition). Sean notes he did Transformers in 2007 instead.
• Jennifer Lawrence was reportedly considered for Jules (the Emma Stone part).
• The role of Officer Michaels was originally offered to Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.

• Bill: Jonah Hill dials it up but it feels like the character.
• Sean: Carla Gallo – 'If Carla Gallo shows up in a movie, she's going to go for it.'
• Chris: Kevin Corrigan is 'legitimately scary' in his intensity.

• Bill: Joe Nunez as the 'Fuck My Life' liquor store guy who later shows up at the party.
• Chris: Kevin Bresnahan as Patrick, the coke party guy who cries when Michael Cera sings.
• Sean: Jody Hill and Ben Best (creators of Eastbound and Down) as the two guys on the couch.
• Bill declares a tie between Joe Nunez and Kevin Bresnahan.

• Bill gives it to Carla Gallo as the period blood girl – 'She comes in red hot, hits a couple threes, completely off the rails.'
• Other nominees: Joe Lo Truglio, Kevin Corrigan, McLovin's girl, Dave Franco.

• Sean: Surprised Martha MacIsaac (Becca) didn't have a bigger career, finds her charming.
• Bill: Suggests Carla Gugino for Michael Cera's mom.
• Chris: The movie is too perfectly cast to revise anything.

• Filming locations: El Segundo High School for exterior, Fox Hills Mall for mall scenes, Culver City for the convenience store, Glendale for the liquor store, CSU Northridge for the donut scene.
• Fogell's '13th and Granville' address was Rogen and Goldberg's favorite all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant in Vancouver.
• Evan Goldberg's brother David drew close to 1,000 penis drawings; only a handful made the movie; the MPAA objected to some.
• Michael Cera and Martha MacIsaac actually got drunk for their aborted sex scene.
• The word 'fuck' is used 176 times (Chris guessed 200+, Sean guessed 130, Craig guessed 280).
• The cocaine party scene was based on a real incident when Rogen and Goldberg were 14 – a party at a house 'owned by a midget and a bodybuilder who were a couple' and 'there was a pig.'

• Jonah Hill: Bill says it's 21 Jump Street; Sean argues 'Moneyball' changed everyone's opinion of him.
• Michael Cera: Bill says this is definitely Apex Mountain; Sean notes he also did Juno the same year.
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse: All agree this is Apex Mountain.
• Emma Stone: Bill says no – her career went much bigger.
• Martha MacIsaac: Bill says yes.
• Bill Hader: No – went on to Barry, SNL, etc.
• Seth Rogen: Bill says it's probably 'Neighbors'; Chris notes the incredible 2007 with both 'Knocked Up' and 'Superbad'.
• Hawaiian driver's license / McLovin ID: All agree this is the peak – became a cultural phenomenon.

• Bill: Why does Jules (Emma Stone) like Seth? He's getting spit on by bullies and his friends include 'a potential sociopath.'
• Bill: Confusing geography – unclear where it's set, everything seems close together.
• Bill: Seth headbutting Jules at the party – there were better ways to accomplish the plot point and she forgave it too easily.
• Sean: No one in the entire high school has an older brother to buy beer. Chris points out there are no siblings at all.
• Craig: Seth doesn't bring enough alcohol for everyone to be so excited – he shows up with two detergent jugs of gross beer.

• Chris: 'Obviously, please don't.'
• Sean: The Michaels and Slater buddy cop spin-off could work as a TV series.

• Sean: Are Michaels and Slater still cops? Bill says they've probably moved to private neighborhood security without guns.
• Bill: What are Seth and Evan doing now at age 32? Sean jokes Seth is the GM of Brazzers; Chris jokes he's the assistant GM of the A's.
• Chris: Do Jules and Becca ever talk to those guys again?
• Bill: Did Michael Cera create the 'new age sensitive male' archetype? Sean says he didn't create it but 'platformed it.'

Chris: The McLovin ID – 'a one of one from an iconic movie.'

• Unanimous: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – two best friends writing together since age 13, 7-year odyssey to get it made, launched Rogen's career and their production company. The peak of the Apatow era.
• Sean: Notes the incredible 10-week stretch in 2007 where 'Knocked Up' (June 1) and 'Superbad' (August 17) both came out.
• Craig: They 'basically made every single kid who went to high school think they could write a script about their experience.'