Jonah Hill, twice Oscar nominated and now a director, was on a Belushi-like track; 21 Jump Street is offered as his apex, after Moneyball changed opinions, though this may be the movie he is remembered for.
Jonah and his peers are thoughtful fans of earlier movies who planned their careers.
This is definitely an Apex Mountain for Michael Cera, with Juno the same year and Scott Pilgrim in 2010.
His 2010s dip is attributed to not wanting fame and choosing smaller indie parts as an art-house fan; Molly's Game and Twin Peaks show a possible second life in a White Lotus-style series, though at 33 he is too young for the part mentioned there.
Research aside: Martha MacIsaac was 23 and Cera 17 during the sex scene.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is raised with an unclear "absolutely, yeah," then credited with more career than expected (Role Models, Neighbors, Promising Young Woman) and a good essay about being trapped as McLovin.
Rogen's 2007 was massive and his mogul career since (shows, weed line, books, pottery, Sony hack, fighting Ted Cruz) is the most impressive of the group; Long Shot shows his ideas, and his apex is probably Neighbors.
Pineapple Express got greenlit because of his stardom, from a generation that wanted to make its own Midnight Run or Lethal Weapon; producer Craig is asked about it and it is predicted as a late-300s episode, 383.
Comedic cops could be at Apex Mountain since the subgenre faded after this; Observe and Report was darker, and 21 Jump Street is offered by Craig.
Apex for flipping a boner into the waistband is asked as a question.
A joke Apex for Dartmouth credits the movie for Ringer staffers going there.
Goldschlager vodka was not a real vodka; Goldschlager is called an evil liquor, and a modern version would be marketed with an NFT.
The Hawaiian driver's license has got to be the peak, a cultural wave with shirts of it; one host's son Ben has a McLovin license flag from Amazon covering a window.
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.
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.
On Becca, the preference goes the other way: surprise that Martha MacIsaac did not have a bigger career.
Bill is asked whether Jennifer Lawrence would make it more interesting next to Emma Stone; the reply is Becca should be more bookish and on Michael Cera's speed, not a second high school babe.
A bigger actress for Michael Cera's mom is suggested with a garbled name ("Carla Gino, Gagino"), and that would be great.
The movie is perfectly cast and too precious to revise.
