Best comedy movie trivia of 2011

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Trivia: The driver that Jerry kills after the man's car hits Charley's car is portrayed by original Fright Night Actor Chris Sarandon. The ending credits have him listed as "Jay Dee", the initials for Chris Sarandon's character Jerry Dandridge.

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Trivia: HIDDEN MICKEY: At the end, fireworks go and 3 go into the shape of Micky Mouse.

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Trivia: The Pizza Planet truck is visible cheering on the right side of the track at the World Grand Prix in Radiator Springs at the end of the movie. (01:37:45)

AJ Aneres

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Trivia: During the scene when Daniel and Katherine and Devlin and Ian are having dinner together at Oceano's, the band playing on stage is called Hapa. They're not actors - they're a real Hawaiian band from Maui. They also appeared on an April 2011 episode of Hawaii 5-0.

Cal K.

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Trivia: The music being played at the bar that Graeme, Clive and Ruth go to is the same song being played in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

THGhost

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Trivia: Rowan Atkinson explained on Top Gear that the 9 litre V16 in the Rolls Royce was developed by BMW (who own Rolls Royce) but never put into production. The prototypes that had been made were still in a warehouse somewhere, and put into the car for this movie.

Friso94

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Trivia: Johnny Depp's character Rango says "interesting" a few times throughout the movie and while that isn't trivia in itself, the fact that Johnny Depp says it in "his way" in a lot of his movies at some point or another.

Poisonsparrow

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Trivia: Considered by many to be one of the worst films made, it "won" a Golden Raspberry for all 12 categories, including worst rip-off/remake. It's considered a rip-off "Glen or Glenda" (1953). "Glen or Glenda" (written and directed by and starring Ed Wood) was also considered one of the worst films made. In Michael and Harry Medved's 1980 book "The Golden Turkey Awards", Ed Wood "won" Worst Director.

Bishop73

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Trivia: In the end credits, it is confirmed that while no penguins were harmed during the making of the movie, Jim Carrey was not so fortunate.

bronacho

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Trivia: Masters Storming Ox and Ferocious Croc, and the wolves that are Shen's henchmen all make a brief appearance in the opening of the first Kung Fu Panda.

Friso94

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Trivia: A poster for the film Jamie and Dylan are watching in her flat the night they agree on being friends with benefits can be seen on Dylan's screen in the first scene of the movie.

Liam D

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Trivia: When all of the Smurfs are being thrown around by Gargamel's magic, one of them yells a Wilhelm scream.

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Trivia: When Matt King visits the house of his ancestors the camera pans over the furniture. There is a picture of the Union Jack, but it is upside down. (It's a common misconception that the Union Jack is the same either way up - the wider diagonal white stripe should be at the top left, or on top on the side of the flag nearest the flagpole).

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Trivia: This was the first Academy Award Best Picture winner produced by a non-speaking English country.

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