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Seth Rogen Dropped A Bunch Of 'Superbad' Trivia For The Film's 10th Anniversary
Wanna feel old? Superbad came out ten years ago Thursday. Time really is the fire in which we burn!
In honor of the anniversary, Superbad writer/actor Seth Rogen dropped a whole bunch of trivia about the 2007 film on Twitter, a popular microblogging platform that is also often used for setting American foreign policy. According to Rogen, almost all of the names used in the film are those of actual people that he and co-writer Evan Goldberg attended high school with, and "lots of the stuff in the movie really happened to us." The film took "like 7 years" to write, Rogen drove himself to set, and the cast of Jersey Shore once confirmed to him that their DTF catchphrase came from the movie.
Superbad turns 10 today, which makes Mclovin 35 I think.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
I'll answer some Superbad questions if anyone has any.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
More than five thousand people responded to this tweet, and a fair number of the questions Rogen answered came from former Good Wife (RIP) star Josh Charles:
Scale plus 10
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Double
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
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Shot in LA
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
The period blood scene was Rogen's favorite, and it was based on a true story.
Period blood
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
The period blood on the leg scene in Superbad actually happened to my friend at a high school dance and we discovered it after the dance.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
And here's the origin story for the "These Eyes" scene (as asked by none other than former VQR editor Ted Genoways!):
We once went to a party with coked out comics I knew and it was similar
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
And a little more about the making of the movie, starting with this shocking reveal:
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No
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Like 7 years
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
My mother came up with the joke that Mclovin gets arrested for statutory rape at the end of Superbad.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Evan goldbergs brother
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Danny Mcbride is an extra in the background of the first party scene in Superbad.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Also, for anyone wondering, the movie takes place in "a Clark County we made up."
I think it's Clark county which we made up
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
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Just like in Superbad, Mike Snider actually was the first guy to get a fake ID and it was awesome.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Like all great things, the film's title emerged while smoking weed at the infamous Oakwood apartment complex:
My good friend @mrDaveKrumholtz came up with the title Superbad while we were smoking weed at the oakwood
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Huge if true:
During the MPAA screenings of Superbad they said we were the first movie to say "fingerfuck"
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Little-known fact: every single thing to ever happen in L.A. since June 1994 can be connected to O.J. Simpson by no more than two degrees of separation.
The end house party in Superbad was filmed about half a block from the OJ murder house.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
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Also huge if true:
The cast of Jersey Shore confirmed to me that the phrase "D.T.F" or "Down To Fuck" is from Superbad.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
Awww.
Anyway, if you dig Superbad, thanks for digging it. I wrote it with my best friend in high school and we still write together. It's lovely.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) August 18, 2017
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