Half-Assed Internet Research
Filming locations; penis drawings; MPA objection; drunk sex scene; F-word count; real Coke party
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- The school exterior is El Segundo High School; the mall scenes were at the Fox Hills Mall, later Westfield Culver City, possibly defunct; the opening convenience store is in Culver City.
- Per Wikipedia, the McLovin liquor store is in Glendale, though it looks like the Hillhurst plaza with the drawing room near Nathan Fielder's Dumb Starbucks.
- The donuts were at the California State University Northridge campus, and the bar is near L.A.X. though it looks like a Valley bar.
- The restaurant Fogell names was Rogen and Goldberg's favorite in Vancouver.
- David Goldberg, Evan's brother, made close to a thousand penis drawings, only a handful used; the MPA objected to one Becca holds.
- Michael Cera and Martha MacIsaac actually got drunk for their aborted sex scene, per the Ringer piece.
- Guesses at how many times the word fuck is used include at least 200 and 13, with garbled figures around producer Craig (280, 176) and "over 202".
- The Coke scene is based on a real party Rogen and Goldberg attended at 14 to say goodbye to a local stand-up; everyone did blow, and per Goldberg the house belonged to a little person and a bodybuilder couple and there was a pig.
- The Ringer piece is a reservoir of anecdotes, such as Cera falling out of a tree early in the shoot; a 15th-anniversary oral history next year is predicted, maybe by The Ringer.