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Feb 15, 2017 · 15 years after its release, Matt Goldberg looks at why Broken Lizard's Super Troopers has endured and what makes it such an unusual comedy.
Mar 21, 2023 · Comedy troupe Broken Lizard reunited to talk soap, syrup, liters of cola, and the perks of having made a modern cult classic.
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- More Than 20 Drafts Were written.
- One Studio Wanted Ben Affleck in it.
- The Film Was Financed by One Investor.
- Brian Cox Asked to Be in The Movie.
- Marisa Coughlan Got The Job Because of Herthe Exorcist Impression.
- Most of The Extras Went to The Same School.
- The Opening Scene Was Based in Reality.
- The Actors Broke The Law.
- The Syrup Was Real.
- Heffernan Didn’T Want Jim Gaffigan in The Movie.
Heffernan estimated that the group wrote more than 20 drafts of the script, with more jokes added every time. "We try to do one joke every six seconds," he said.
Broken Lizard was looking to raise $5.5 million to make the movie, with the stipulation that the group's virtual unknowns would star and that Chandrasekhar would direct. Studios declined the opportunity after the group wouldn’t budge on their requirements. “They asked us if they could put Ben Affleck in one part, and they asked if someone else coul...
Ultimately, the budget ended up being $1.25 million, which was funded by a single investor. “This one guy who had just retired from Wall Street and really wanted to get into film production saw the script and saw Puddle Cruiser and asked us if he could do our movie, and so he gave us the cash," Steve Lemme explained. "He put up the million and a qu...
When asked how they convinced Brian Cox, who is widely known for his work with The Royal Shakespeare Company, to appear in the film, Chandrasekhar told The A.V. Clubthat, "He actually called us. He's always playing parts like pedophiles and Nazi generals and nasty people, and he's a big Jerry Lewis fan, and thinks he's got that bone in him. He's be...
Marisa Coughlan was sought out specifically for the role of Ursula in the film because of a scene in Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), in which she imitated The Exorcist (1973). Chandrasekhar called it“flat out genius.”
Like the members of Broken Lizard, a majority of the background actorsattended Colgate University, too.
The college kid (Geoffrey Arend) who was forced to eat drugs to get rid of evidence came straight out of the lives of some friends of the Broken Lizard guys. Border guards at the U.S.-Canada border found a joint in their Winnebago. When they were all asked to step out of the vehicle, one friend ate a stash of mushrooms meant for 10 guys. He tripped...
On Chandrasekhar’s orders, Heffernan once impersonated a police officerto stop traffic for a scene, after production assistants failed to do so. Stolhanske got caught using his rollers while driving 100 miles per hour, but pleaded he didn’t know they were running. Lemme drove around in his police car, and in uniform, and flashed his rollers at one ...
The prop woman replaced the syrup in the bottles with iced tea, but Stolhanske claimed the iced tea didn’t give it “that glug, glug, glug thick look”when they chugged in. Chandrasekhar insisted that real syrup had to be used. 12. FARVA’S MUSTACHE WAS FAKE. YouTube “I had a stunt mustache,” Heffernan tweeted during an airing of Super Troopers.
Jim Gaffigan ended up playing Larry Johnson, the man who innocently got himself involved in “the meow game." But Heffernan didn’t want Gaffigan involved because he always beat him out at auditions. Heffernan must have forgiven Gaffigan, as the comedian played a role in another Broken Lizard movie, 2009's The Slammin’ Salmon.
Apr 20, 2018 · Today, on 4/20, Super Troopers 2 is released, a sequel the group funded themselves on Indiegogo. The movie’s tagline is “The time is meow,” a testament to the Cat Game’s enduring and unexpected place in pop culture. Here, Broken Lizard looks back on how five stoned friends riffing in a motel room created comedy gold.
Feb 15, 2002 · Augustine J Super Troopers is a hilariously raunchy comedy that will go down in history as one of the funniest 2000s comedies. Broken Lizard truly made a fricken hilarious movie.
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Apr 18, 2014 · Altered State Police: An Oral History of ‘Super Troopers’. The Broken Lizard gang remembers the high times and shenanigans involved in making a stoner-comedy classic. By Scott Neumyer. April ...
Parents need to know that Super Troopers is a 2002 comedy in which misfit state troopers must bust a drug smuggling ring to avoid losing their jobs due to budget cuts and their own incompetence. There's nonstop iffy humor (in terms of both content and, well, actual humor).
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