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** The Line-O-Rama feature on the DVD had an alternate take on the last "you don't want none of this" scene: rather than [[spoiler:medication for erectile dysfunction]], Sam was going to be smoking a blunt and saying that he was "going back to his first love".
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** Jake Kasdan mentions in the DVD commentary that he had written a few scenes to show that Dewey's addictions would've eventually led to him getting hooked on heroin: he mentioned one scene where Dewey performed with a needle stuck on his arm, and another where he would've accidentally invented Main/{{Grunge}} during the first time he did heroin (as a call back to the scene where he accidentally invents punk rock the first time he does cocaine). John C. Reilly notes that with the exception of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' "it's [[DudeNotFunny really hard to make heroin addiction funny]]".
** The scene with Dewey meeting The Beatles was supposed to also have Creator/StephenMerchant play their manager, Brian Epstein. The role was cut because he already had a vacation planned.
** The LSD trip scene was originally entirely different: instead of a ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' homage, it was a more straightforward retelling of the scene where Dewey killed his brother. It came off as MUCH more scary than funny, leading to the aforementioned Trippy Cartoon
** The audition scene with "That's Amore" was originally "Moon River", but Kasdan later discovered that "Moon River" came out in 1961 (seven years after the scene is supposed to be set) and changed it.
** Jake Kasdan mentions in the DVD commentary that he had written a few scenes to show that Dewey's addictions would've eventually led to him getting hooked on heroin: he mentioned one scene where Dewey performed with a needle stuck on his arm, and another where he would've accidentally invented Main/{{Grunge}} during the first time he did heroin (as a call back to the scene where he accidentally invents punk rock the first time he does cocaine). John C. Reilly notes that with the exception of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' "it's [[DudeNotFunny really hard to make heroin addiction funny]]".
** The scene with Dewey meeting The Beatles was supposed to also have Creator/StephenMerchant play their manager, Brian Epstein. The role was cut because he already had a vacation planned.
** The LSD trip scene was originally entirely different: instead of a ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' homage, it was a more straightforward retelling of the scene where Dewey killed his brother. It came off as MUCH more scary than funny, leading to the aforementioned Trippy Cartoon
** The audition scene with "That's Amore" was originally "Moon River", but Kasdan later discovered that "Moon River" came out in 1961 (seven years after the scene is supposed to be set) and changed it.
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* AcclaimedFlop: One of the few parody movies released Post-''Scary Movie'' to actually do well critically, but releasing it during a crowded Christmas season killed the chances of it turning a profit.
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* AcclaimedFlop: One of the few parody movies released Post-''Scary Movie'' to actually do pretty well critically, but releasing it during a crowded Christmas season killed the chances of it actually turning a profit.
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* StuntCasting: Parodied - many of Dewey's buddies are themselves (real life) famous musicians... who are often played by (intentionally) [[WTHCastingAgency ludicrously miscast]] famous actors (such as [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as Buddy Holly and Creator/JackBlack as Paul [=McCartney=]), or famous musicians being played by other actual musicians... who are absolutely at the other side of the musical style (such as Music/ElvisPresley played by [[Music/TheWhiteStripes Jack White]]). Similar to the DawsonCasting example, they intentionally keep referring to themselves by name to underscore the absurdity.
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* StuntCasting: Parodied - many of Dewey's buddies are themselves (real life) famous musicians... who are often played by (intentionally) [[WTHCastingAgency [[QuestionableCasting ludicrously miscast]] famous actors (such as [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as Buddy Holly and Creator/JackBlack as Paul [=McCartney=]), or famous musicians being played by other actual musicians... who are absolutely at the other side of the musical style (such as Music/ElvisPresley played by [[Music/TheWhiteStripes Jack White]]). Similar to the DawsonCasting example, they intentionally keep referring to themselves by name to underscore the absurdity.
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* DawsonCasting: Parodied, given the trend of several biopics (especially musical ones) where this happens, such as then-39-year-old John Goodman playing a teenage Babe Ruth in ''The Babe'', then-34-year-old Creator/DennisQuaid playing an early 20s Music/JerryLeeLewis in ''Great Balls of Fire!'', then-33-year-old Gary Busey in ''The Buddy Holly Story'', wherein he plays Music/BuddyHolly from ages 19 to 22, and Creator/KevinSpacey playing Bobby Darin throughout his adult life in ''Beyond the Sea''. To put the last one in perspective, Spacey was older than Darin was ''when he died'' when he took the part.
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* DawsonCasting: Parodied, given the trend of several biopics (especially musical ones) where this happens, such as then-39-year-old John Goodman playing a teenage Babe Ruth in ''The Babe'', then-34-year-old Creator/DennisQuaid playing an early 20s Music/JerryLeeLewis in ''Great Balls of Fire!'', ''Film/GreatBallsOfFire'', then-33-year-old Gary Busey in ''The Buddy Holly Story'', ''Film/TheBuddyHollyStory'', wherein he plays Music/BuddyHolly from ages 19 to 22, and then-44-year-old Creator/KevinSpacey playing Bobby Darin Music/BobbyDarin throughout his adult life in ''Beyond the Sea''. To put the last one in perspective, Spacey was older than ''Film/BeyondTheSea'', despite Darin was ''when he died'' when he took the part.having ''died'' at ''37 years old''.
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* TrendKiller: While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.
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* GenreKiller: Downplayed. While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.
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* ThrowItIn: All over the place; most notably, when the band confronts Dewey over his shitty treatment of them, Tim Meadows saying "And you never ONCE paid for drugs! ''Not once!"'' was only one of several lines in the script, but he decided to just keep insistently repeating it. The result became one of the film's most quoted scenes.
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* ThrowItIn: All over the place; most notably, when the band confronts Dewey over his shitty treatment of them, Tim Meadows saying "And you never ONCE paid for drugs! ''Not once!"'' was only one of several lines in the script, but he decided to just keep insistently repeating it. The result became one of the film's most quoted scenes.scenes.
* TrendKiller: While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.
* TrendKiller: While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.
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* GenreKiller: Downplayed. While musical biopics are far from done commercially or culturally, this film helped deflate the ''reverence'' surrounding such movies, and provided a very easy template with which to mock them. If there's been an overwrought, too-obvious, or ridiculous moment in any biopic made since 2007, expect the negative reviews to bring up a similar or even identical scene from ''Walk Hard'' for comparison.
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** 59-year-old Cheryl Tiegs plays herself in her early 30s as Dewey Cox's wife. Still, it can be argued that she [[OlderThanTheyLook pulls it off fairly well]].
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** 59-year-old Cheryl Tiegs plays herself in her early 30s as Dewey Cox's wife.wife (in the unrated version). Still, it can be argued that she [[OlderThanTheyLook pulls it off fairly well]].
