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The script draws on Jason Segel's breakup with Linda Cardellini and three other breakups; one girlfriend dumped him while he was naked; Get Him to the Greek followed two years later with Jonah Hill as a different character; Inside of You was conceived as the worst song a girlfriend's new boyfriend could sing; the naked picture of Mila Kunis was computer-generated; the film is 60 to 70 percent scripted; Segel and Stoller reunited for The Muppets; the buffet waiter is surfer Kalani Robb
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- The film is based on screenwriter Jason Segel's breakup with Linda Cardellini and three other breakups with unspecified women; the naked breakup did not involve Cardellini, but one girlfriend did dump him while he was completely naked, and rather than being devastated he found it hilarious and could not wait for her to leave so he could write it down.
- Get Him to the Greek, the spinoff follow-up, came two years later from director Nicholas Stoller with Russell Brand and Jonah Hill; the hosts have seen it only once against 10 or 15 viewings of this film, listeners have requested it as a rewatchable, and the producer says it stuck with his generation, earning the title Lord of Gen Z.
- Jonah Hill plays a different character in Greek, a newly hired A&R man for Diddy's label who must get Aldous to his tour dates over 24 hours, with Elizabeth Moss a big part of it; one host thinks it would have been funnier as the same character relocated to LA, and one host's kids loved The Babysitter with Jonah Hill.
- The song Inside of You was thought up by Segel as the worst song your girlfriend's new boyfriend could sing in front of you; Russell Brand's on-stage performance of it in Hawaii, bending over into yoga poses, is called incredible.
- The naked bathroom picture of Mila Kunis was created on a computer and was not real, something the publicity was very deliberate about getting out there: real dick, fake breasts; according to Stoller the film is 60 to 70 percent scripted and 30 to 40 percent improvised.
- Segel and Stoller were reunited as screenwriters for The Muppets in 2011, Segel's dream project, and then did The Five-Year Engagement; the buffet waiter who later punches Segel is Kalani Robb, the surfer from Romentum Generation (as transcribed), which the hosts did not catch on first viewing; he seems taller than in life, is memorable bringing the second rum bottle, and was probably just hanging out surfing in Hawaii.