Office Space

Trivia: Director Mike Judge wanted the story to be able to take place anywhere, so the state is never specified. Even the license plates on the cars are stateless.

Krista

Trivia: The Mexican waiter at the end of the movie tells Milton 'Lo siento mucho, pinche gringo.' This translates as 'I'm very sorry, you f***ing gringo.'

Trivia: Red staplers like Milton's weren't made in real life, so the prop department had one specially made for the film. After the film's release, however, so many people wanted red staplers the office supply company started producing them.

Krista

Trivia: To date, at least 5 different companies named Initech have been founded since the film's release.

Trivia: Director Mike Judge has a cameo in this movie. He is Stan, Joanna's boss at Chotchkie's. In the end credits, he is listed as "William King."

Trivia: Although the movie is written in a way that the story could take place anywhere in the US, the perceptive Dallasite can pickup on some local landmarks as well as the writers tossed in one indicator with the line by Diedrich Bader "I've got to haul my ass up to Las Colinas every day this week, I'm doing the drywall at the new McDonald's." Las Colinas is a suburb of Dallas where many films have been shot over the years.

Continuity mistake: In the scene near the end of the movie where Peter apologizes to Joanna, Joanna is shown either in her red shirt and holding her blue jacket, or wearing her blue jacket. For instance, as Joanna is moving in to kiss Peter, she is holding the jacket, but as they embrace, she is wearing it. In the blue jacket cuts, it is much less windy, and Joanna's hair is styled differently than it is in the red shirt cuts, where her hair is blowing due to the wind. (01:16:20)

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Question: What song is playing at the way beginning, you notice it first when Milton says something about how he's going to be late again, and everybody is just starting to arrive while Milton is still waiting at the bus stop. It's kind of jazzy- swing-ish sounding.

Answer: Mambo 8 by Perez Prado.

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