History Film / Superbad

-->--'''Seth''' (Jonah Hill)

-->--'''Seth''' (Johah Hill)

* TVTeen: Averted with a vengeance. The teenagers in the cast are quite realistic, and Seth in particular takes VulgarHumor.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The movie used to be aired on FX quite often, and all of the cussing was dubbed out, sometimes well, sometimes not that well. The entire scene where Seth describes the reason he hates Becca is cut out, though.

* TVTeen: Averted with a vengeance. The teenagers in the cast are quite realistic, and Seth in particular takes RefugeInVulgarity.

-->--'''Seth'''(Johah Hill)

-->'''Fogel''': Why would you park in the staff parking lot? (pause) I mean, 'cause you're not staff.
-->'''Seth''': I KNOW THAT, ''FAG''EL. I. KNOW. THAT.

* DawsonCasting: Played straight with Jonah Hill, avoided with EmmaStone, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Commentary for the film tells the story that Judd Apatow had to be convinced that Jonah could pull off the role age-wise. Originally the role was for Seth Rogen (who wrote it) but was deemed too old at 25; Jonah Hill ended up in the role despite being just a year younger than Rogen. Rogen admits freely that he's looked thirty since he was about fifteen. Because he was a minor, Christopher Mintz-Plasse's mother was required by law to be on the set when [[spoiler: Fogell loses his virginity.]]

* [[IAmNotSpock I Am Not McLovin]]: Poor Mintz-Plasse...

* ThrowItIn: A surprising amount of the jokes were purely ad-libbed by the cast, usually until something was funny enough to cause the actors to break down laughing, and thusly added to the script.

->"You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake!"

-->"You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake!"

-->"You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake!"
-->--'''Seth'''(Johah Hill)

-->" You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake!"

* BrandX: Goldshlick Vodka is an obvious nod to Goldschläger Schnapps.

''Superbad'' is a 2007 teen comedy written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who began working on it when they were in high school and named the main characters after themselves), directed by Greg Mottola and produced by JuddApatow.

* ButLiquorIsQuicker: The key to Seth's plot to more or less DateRape Jules.

* AboveTheInfluence: The movie uses this, although having sex is the point of the teenager's plan. It does have him getting together with the girl at the end. Also subverted somewhat, as [[spoiler: Jules is completely sober, and Seth is very much drunk.]] Happens at the climax, along with a more toned-down [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] variant.

-->'''Jules:''' [[ThisIsSparta What!? The!? Fuck!?]]

Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (MichaelCera) are best friends, seniors in high school who are going off to different colleges next year. [[AManIsNotAVirgin It's their life's ambition to get laid before they leave high school.]] To achieve this, they volunteer to bring the alcohol to an end-of-the-year party where both of their respective crushes will be. They are forced to enlist the help of an annoying friend, Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), and his fake ID, which identifies him [[OnlyOneName only as "McLOVIN"]]. Trying to buy the alcohol, he is caught up in the middle of a robbery, makes friends with the cops (Seth Rogen and Bill Hader), and spends the rest of the night being entertained by them. (That's not a euphemism. It looks like a great time.) Seth and Evan, assuming he's been arrested, strike out on their own to find some alcohol and make it to the party... which they eventually do, except the rest of the night isn't what they were expecting it to be.