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  • Bonus Material: UK edition of Results May Vary has the bonus track "Let It Go". The Japan edition has this track and one more in the form of "Armpit".
  • Breakaway Pop Hit: The album's cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" was recorded for the Gothika soundtrack. Despite the music video going out of it's way to tie to the two together, the song far overshadowed the film.
  • Colbert Bump: The band's cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" helped a few millennials get into The Who.
  • Creator Backlash: Wes Borland initially disparaged Results May Vary as "Fred's solo album" after leaving the band a second time. He later warmed up to some of the songs and has since performed "Eat You Alive" in concerts.
  • Mid-Development Genre Shift: A contributing factor in the album's Troubled Production was the inability for anyone to agree on what sort of album it should be, not helped by the many, many contributors who floated in an out of it's creation: first, it was a Concept Album called The Search for Teddy Swoes. Midway through it's production and after Mike Smith joined, the direction was changed to an aggressive, heavy, raw Nu Metal album called Bipolar ("Eat You Alive" and "Gimme the Mic," as well as the b-sides "Shot" and "Just Drop Dead," are leftovers from this project). After Smith's departure, an album's worth of material they'd recorded with him was scrapped, and the bang shifted direction yet again to an introspective Alternative Rock album called Panty Sniffer. The disparate state of the final album is the result of it being compiled from bobs of whatever was left of each of these stages of development.
  • Throw It In!: While working on their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes," Fred heard DJ Lethal messing around with a Speak-N-Spell, and for whatever reason, had him use it in the song's bridge, spelling out the word "limp."
  • Troubled Production: One of the reasons why it became one of the worst reviewed albums can be traced back to its rocky production. After losing Wes Borland, the band brought in several guitarists for jam sessions, including Brian "Head" Welch, Page Hamilton, Rivers Cuomo and a string of session guitarists. Terry Balsamo, the band's original guitarist from 1995, also briefly rejoined; Fred Durst learned to play a little guitar himself just so the band could work on new material. Then, after recording an album's worth of material with Mike Smith, Smith quit acrimoniously and the band started from scratch. Al Jourgensen of Ministry was hired to produce three songs, including the single "Crack Addict", all of which were left off the album. During the recording, Jourgensen decided to troll Durst by convincing Fred to strip naked and wear a cowboy hat while singing. This revolving door of creative input, the many Creative Differences that came with it and frustrations over having nothing to show for all their hard work resulted in the final album being cobbled together from the best of whatever was left over just so the band could release something.
  • What Could Have Been: The band was going to record a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" for the Zoolander soundtrack, which would have later been included on this album. After Wes Borland left, the recording was abandoned. Powerman 5000 and Danny Boy instead recorded their own cover in Limp Bizkit's style (humorously enough, Fred makes a voiceless cameo in the film As Himself).
  • Working Title: Several, including Bipolar, Panty Sniffer, Less Is More, Fetus More and Surrender.

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