Talk:National Lampoon's Van Wilder

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[edit] Trivia section

• Penn and Reynolds would reunite again in another college-themed movie Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. Penn had the starring role while Reynolds had a cameo as a nurse. During a famous scene in this movie, Reynolds, Penn and Teck Holmes's characters are in hospital scrubs and Penn dabs Reynolds forehead from sweat like a nurse. In Harold & Kumar, the roles are reversed between Penn and Reynolds, and the latter hits on the former.
• Though Ryan Reynolds played the title character, he was listed fourth among actors in the credits of film
• Johnny Lechner, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater who has been attending college since 1994 (13 consecutive years), has been dubbed "the real-life Van Wilder", however he has overstayed the real Van Wilder's college tenure.
• Tim Matheson, star of National Lampoon's original college classic Animal House, plays Van's father.
• Actors Erik Estrada (CHiPs), and Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) have cameos.
• NBA players Darius Miles, Quentin Richardson, Lamar Odom, and Michael Olowokandi all appear in cameos as Coolidge Chickadee varsity basketball players.
• The writers of the film make appearances as students auditioning to be Van's assistant(s) in one of the first scenes of the film. Also, the director, Walt Becker has a small part as a fireman after Taj's failed attempt to have sex with Naomi.
• Supporting actors Curtis Armstrong (Revenge of the Nerds) and Tom Everett Scott (Dead Man on Campus) have both appeared in previous hit "college comedies."
• The film/DVD menus use four songs performed by Sugarcult.
• A sequel, without Ryan Reynolds and starring Taj (Kal Penn), was released December 1, 2006. It is titled National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj.
• Richard Bagg is part of the fraternity Delta Iota Kappa, or as Van points out, 'DIK.' ("Richard...you never told me you were a DIK! [then, quietly, as taking drink] Not that you had to.")
• Features the first screen appearance by Sophia Bush, who plays Sally, a freshman who attempts (nearly successfully) to seduce Van after he gets drunk upon supposedly finding out Gwen and Richard were engaged. According to Van, "she reads at a sophomore level". She also has never heard of Air Supply.
• Many scenes of the movie were filmed at UCLA.
  • Some scenes look like Washington University of St. Louis, am I right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.54.175 (talk) 05:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
• During the movie, Van says that the word "mitzvah" is yiddish for good deed. However, the word is actually a Hebrew word.

Per the Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles guideline, I have moved this section here so that it can be sourced, then integrated into the article where and if appropriate. Yamaguchi先生 04:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] music 'inconsistency'

How is the "white Barry" quote an inconsistency? The way the quote's used in the article it seems more like the character is refering to Chris Norman as the white Barry White, not refering to the song as being a Barry White song. Th 2005 (talk) 10:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)