At the preliminaries, Stan asks of Miss Rhode Island, "Describe your perfect date" and Cheryl answers oddly, "April 25th." Marc Lawrence the screenwriter says in the DVD commentary that it's an actual answer given by a contestant in a pageant, that he found in research for the film.
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Just before playing the water glasses, Gracie plays a couple notes, one of which is very high. She drinks some water out of the glass to lower the pitch. The problem is that the pitch goes up when you remove water from the glass, not down. Drinking out of the glass would've made the note sound higher. Some people and websites will make you believe that the pitch is going down due to an increase in the size of the resonant chamber but singing glasses have nothing to do with cavity resonance. Glass singing is caused by the molecules in the glass vibrating in resonance with each other. More water dampens the motion, slowing it down and lowering the pitch. Some of the confusion comes from schools not teaching children that liquids and gasses are both fluids. In the case of water in glasses, the water is not changing the cavity as much as one thinks, just damping it. And finally, if you don't believe me, don't Google it, try it. See more...
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At the preliminaries, Stan asks of Miss Rhode Island, "Describe your perfect date" and Cheryl answers oddly, "April 25th." Marc Lawrence the screenwriter says in the DVD commentary that it's an actual answer given by a contestant in a pageant, that he found in research for the film.
Gracie's and Vic's hotel room in the movie are both marked 103 for some reason. The crew did it on purpose, for reasons unknown.
Ken Thomas and John DiResta who play FBI Agents Harris and Clonsky, are both ex-cops turned actors.
Ever wonder where they got the beautiful Miss Ohio? The woman who plays her part is the real Miss Texas, a subtle tribute to the state the movie was shot in.
Whenever they show the director and equipment room of the pageant you can see a Canadian flag behind them and it has a circle around it with a cross through the maple leaf. You may need to zoom in on the DVD but it is there. It's rumored to be an inside joke because of how many movies are now being made in Canada, due to lower production costs there.
The book young Gracie is reading at the start is 'The Invisible Intruder,' featuring the famous and oh-so-perfect Nancy Drew, teen detective.
Gracie Hart has a birthmark in the shape of a pistol on her scalp.
On the commentary, the director and screenwriter both say that not only are Vic's and Gracie's rooms numbered 103, but the agents' surveillance room is also numbered 103. Yet when Gracie unlocks the door to the surveillance room, after beer and pizza at the club, we see that the room number is 106, not 103, as claimed on the commentary.
Scott Grossman, the choreographer, plays himself in the film. He does the choreography in many pageants, including Miss America and Miss Teen USA.
Gracie Hart is determined to be a top notch FBI agent in order to follow in the footsteps of her mother Emily, who was a respected FBI agent, who died while in the line of duty. After the briefing, she is seen passing the photo of her mother on the memorial wall, when she speaks with McDonald about following orders and the Citizen case. Also seen in the deleted scenes.
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