Trivia / Eight Crazy Nights

• Acting for Two:
  • Adam Sandler plays Davey, Whitey, Elenore and the sounds of the deer. He also has an uncredited role as the fat, sweaty guy whose jockstrap is fed to the loser for the shirts vs. skins game.
  • Rob Schneider plays Mr Chang the Chinese restaurant owner and the Narrator
• Approval of God: Seth Kearsley gave The Nostalgia Critic a thank-you tweet to him for reviewing the film, and also sent a lengthy email showing all the hard work that he and all the cast and crew went through.
  • Seth similarly is very amused by all the edits of the movie poster that appeared in September 2023, frequently retweeting them.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $34 million. Box office, $23.8 million. It faired a bit better on DVD.
• Creator Backlash: Director Seth Kearsley hated the poop-eating reindeer scene and wanted to cut it out, but was forced to leave it in the film due to the positive reaction from the test audiences.
• Creator's Favorite: The writers loved the lyric about Mrs. Selman ("...with the one extra breast") from "The Annual All-Star Banquet" so much that the character was given more scenes and dialogue.
• Creator Killer:
  • Seth Kearsley's first feature film wound up being his last. He has since stuck to television.
  • It was the only film to be produced by Meatball Studios, the animation arm of Adam Sandler's production company. It was also Sandler's only involvement in animation until the Hotel Transylvania movies, which, though not produced by Happy Madison, were produced by its parent company Columbia Pictures and involved members of his Production Posse to varying degrees.
• Cut Song: While the final film already has a notorious amount of Product Placement, at one point Whitey sang a whole song about it, "At The Mall," describing his usual day hanging out in the mall. Seth Kearsley felt that too much of the movie was about the mall and had it cut, though it appears on the soundtrack as a demo and on the DVD as an animatic.
• Executive Meddling: Seth Kearsley originally pushed for a more lighthearted, family-friendly film and fought hard to remove much of the vulgar humor, but the studio insisted on something strictly for adults. He later revealed that, had he not been afraid of going over writer/star Adam Sandler's head, he would have wanted Whitey to be played by a different actor.
• Fake Nationality: The white Rob Schneider voices Mr. Chang the Chinese restaurant owner, complete with a stereotypical Chinese-American accent.
• Genre-Killer: The film is one of the many animated misfires in the early 2000s that sent theatrical 2D animation into a tailspin that could not even be saved by The Princess and the Frog.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Davey who bears a strong resemblance to Adam Sandler. Tom Baltezor is Jon Lovitz minus the hook hand.
• International Coproduction: Part of the animation and paint work were shipped over to Canada (Bardel Entertainment and Yowza! Animation), Denmark (A. Film), South Korea (Golden Bell and Y.R. Studio), Japan (Tama Productions) and Greece (Time Lapse Studios).
• Production Posse: Sandler's old Saturday Night Live co-stars Rob Schneider, Kevin Nealon, and Jon Lovitz (although Lovitz left SNL the year that Sandler was hired, they did work on the show when Lovitz would did some guest appearances such as when he played Sandler's Opera Man character's brother) have roles in the movie.
• Real-Life Relative: Davey's parents are played by Sandler's own mother & father and Jennifer by his then-fiancée (now wife) Jackie Titone.
• What Could Have Been: Eleanor's trombone was originally a French horn, on the grounds that it looked funny. However, it was too complicated to animate. Director Seth Kearsley spent the rest of the film jadedly mumbling "It could've been a French horn" whenever scenes of her playing trombone came up.
• Working Title: The film's original title Davey And Whitey was nixed when the marketing people at Columbia Pictures considered it "politically incorrect."

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