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• The fraternity on Trip McNealy's polo shirt is Delta Iota Kappa ("DIK").
  
  
• The scrolling credentials listed in William Lichter's profile include: Valedictorian, National Merit Scholar, Captain - State Physics Bowl Team, Captain - State Math Olympics Team, State Math Champion, State Spelling Bee Champion, National Human Spirit Award, State Science Fair First Prize, Honor Roll Recipient, Perpetual Motion Award (Space Camp), Soap Box Derby Champion, Eagle Scout, Rotary Club, French Club, Spanish Club, Mandarin Chinese Club, German Club, Dead Romance Languages Club, Large Wooden Club, Math Club, Spelling Bee Club, Debate Team, Computer Club, Brighter Minds Society, Inventors Club, Anti-Athletic Club, Klingon Language Club, Kite Club, WWW.COM Club, Bill Gates Society, Classical Music Club, Stone Cutters, Dungeons and Dragons Club (Founder), Magic The Gathering Club (Founder), Secret Society, Junior Harvard Club (Founder), Megabyte Club, Physics Club, Latin Club, Math Olympics, Academic Decathlon, and Chess Club. The list repeats several times.
  
  
• In one of the last scenes, a young man who is stoned says, "She was a hip, hip lady." The same line is spoken by Rory Cochrane in Dazed and Confused (1993).
  
  

• William Lichter was suppose to take a shot of tequila, but to maintain the PG-13 rating they had to replace the tequila glass with a lemon digitally in post-production.
  
  
• Many of the lines spoken during the opening credits ("There's a huge party tonight" "Cool, we crash it" etc.) are delivered by directors/screenwriters Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
  
  
• Ethan Embry's character, Preston Meyers, confesses to be a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. at the end of the movie. His yearbook quote, "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" by Thoreau, is also featured in Vonnegut's book "Welcome to the Monkey House."
  
  
• Ethan Embry's character is in a scene during the song "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits. Ethan Embry's character in Empire Records (1995) is also in a scene with "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits.
  
  
• The movie is based loosely on Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and the high school community within it, where one of the directors grew up.
  
  
• The Klepto Kid, played by Chris Owen, appears in multiple scenes stealing something: - Some random items from the convenience store when Kenny Fisher makes his introduction. - A small statue that belongs to Molly (the girl hosting the party). - A Loveburger T-shirt when the band is fighting amongst themselves. - A police car when the party is being broken up. - And finally, a gumball machine at the restaurant the morning after the party.
  
  
• Two characters that had their parts cut can be seen in at least two scenes that survived the cutting room floor. Crying Drunk Girl (Jennifer Elise Cox can be seen crowd surfing during the "Paradise City" scene and Stoned Girl ('Amber Benson') can be seen staring at a banana in the kitchen early on in the movie.
  
  
• The drummer of the band at the party says to the lead singer: "You look like Lestat!" (because of his clothes). This is a reference to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994).
  
  
• The two UFO nerds wear shirts that say: "Trust no one" and "The truth is out there." These are catchphrases from the TV show "The X Files" (1993).
  
  
• The film takes place on Wednesday, 17 June 1998: Barry Manilow's 55th birthday.
  
  
• One couple is seen several times throughout the movie, and every time we see them they are making out.
  
  
• This was Charlie Korsmo's first (and last) on-screen appearance since Hook (1991). He was attending MIT when he was offered the role.
  
  
• Amanda's original name was going to be Wendy but the producers weren't able to find a song for Preston's 3rd sign. There is a song called "Wendy" but it's about a drug dealer.
  
  
• Filming the final scenes of the party meant a chaotic destruction of the house. Directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont gave the go-ahead to completely trash the place. This involved the cast and crew pulling out drawers, dropping food all over the floor, messing up the carpets, and someone spray painting "This Party Sucked" on the front door. This all happened in one hour. The yearbook that Melissa Joan Hart uses in the movie is from a Philadelphia-area high school named Plymouth-Whitemarsh. The students' pages shown in the movie are really the teachers' pages in the actual yearbook.
  
  
• There were characters in the movie called the Crying Drunk Girl (Jennifer Elise Cox) - who has subtitles for everything she says because she is so drunk that none of her speech is understandable - and the Stoned Girl ('Amber Benson') - who is so spaced out on dope that she wanders in and out of a number of scenes - but both were cut in order to secure a PG-13 rating.
  
  
• Melissa Joan Hart's name doesn't appear in the end credits.
  
  

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