History Trivia / Accepted

* DawsonCasting: Creator/JustinLong was 27 when he filmed the movie and he's playing a 17/18-year-old. Creator/MariaThayer, who played Rory, was 30 at the time of filming.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/JustinLong was 27 when he filmed the movie and he's playing a 17/18-year-old. Maria Thayer, who played Rory, was 30 at the time of filming.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Between the just-before-smartphones level of technology and the "Going to college will guarantee a good job and financial security!" reasoning that the protagonists never fully reject, it's an unintentional snapshot of the world right before the Great Recession. This is also present on a subtler level; none of the protagonists even consider trade school or community college to be acceptable alternatives to getting accepted at higher-levels schools; these institutions and the skilled-labor jobs they teach ended up being some of the stablest after the bottom fell out of the economy.
* VindicatedByCable: Did alright enough at the box office, but it got more fans thanks to re-airings on Creator/ComedyCentral.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/JustinLong was almost 30 when he filmed the movie and he's playing a 17/18-year-old.

* StockScream: A WilhelmScream can be overheard when a skateboarder wipes out offscreen (Shortly after the "Holiday" montage).

** Averted with Creator/BlakeLively who actually was 18 or 19 during production.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/JustinLong was almost 30 when he filmed the movie.

* StockScream: A WilhelmScream can be overheard when a skateboarder wipes out offscreen. (Shortly after the "Holiday" montage)

* DawsonCasting: Justin Long was almost 30 when he filmed the movie.

* DawsonCasting: Justin Long was almost 30 when he filmed the movie. Made a little icky by the fact Creator/BlakeLively had just turned 18

* HeyItsThatGuy: Justin Long (Bartleby) is perhaps best known as the Mac in the "I'm a Mac/I'm A PC" commercials.
** And as Hacker Sidekick Not Worth Remembering from ''Live Free or Film/DieHard''.
** And [[Series/GossipGirl Serena van der Woodsen]] is dating the rich douchebag from Harmon College who's trying to get SHIT shut down.
** And Tammy Littlefoot has left [[Series/StrangersWithCandy Flatpoint High]]!
** The "dean" of S.H.I.T. is played by the ever-irate Creator/LewisBlack.
** Schrader from wearing a Hot Dog costume yelling "Ask me about my weiner!" to being nominated for an Academy Award in Moneyball.
** One of the parents also played Pete Hornberger on Series/ThirtyRock.
** Hey, what's [[{{Series/Gotham}} Penguin]] doing at South Harmon?
** Schrader's father is [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Jerry Gergich]]!

** Schrader from wearing a Hot Dog costume yelling "Ask me about my weiner!" to being nominated for an Academy Award in [[MoneyBall Moneyball]].

** The "dean" of S.H.I.T. is played by the ever-irate LewisBlack.

** And [[GossipGirl Serena van der Woodsen]] is dating the rich douchebag from Harmon College who's trying to get SHIT shut down.

** And Tammy Littlefoot has left [[StrangersWithCandy Flatpoint High]]!

** One of the parents also played Pete Hornberger on Series/ThirtyRock.

** One of the parents also played Pete Hornberger on [[Series/ThirtyRock]].

** One of the parents also played Pete Hornberger on [[Series/{{30 Rock}}]].

** Schrader from wearing a Hot Dog costume yelling "Ask me about my weiner!" to being nominated for an Academy Award in [[MoneyBall Moneyball]].

** Schrader from wearing Hot Dog costume yelling "Ask me about my weiner!" to being nominated for an Academy Award in [[MoneyBall Moneyball]].