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• One detective in the scene at the police station with Ben Stiller says, "I'm Detective Stabler, this is Detective Krevoy." These names are a reference to the film's producers, Steven Stabler and Brad Krevoy.
  
  
• Football star Steve Young was originally supposed to play the part of Mary's secret love. However, as a practicing Mormon, he declined, due to the nature of the movie.
  
  
• Ted brings Warren a baseball autographed by Tony Conigliaro. Conigliaro played for the Boston Red Sox in the 60s and was seriously injured when he was hit in the face by a pitched fastball, echoing Warren's accident in the previous montage.
  
  
• The high school scene in the beginning was shot at Plantation's City Hall in Florida. Upon seeing a rough cut of the film, and displeased with the raunchiness, city council members requested that Plantation not be acknowledged in the credits.
  
  
• The character "Patrick Healy" is also the name of the associate producer.
  
  
• The reporter in the closing credits speaking to chest-holding Ted is from Providence's WJAR NBC-10.
  
  
• Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins, performed together in Kingpin (1996) which was also directed by The Farrelly Brothers.
  
  
• When Ted goes out to pee after talking with the hitchhiker, he encounters many homosexuals. Almost all of them are crew members.
  
  
• The film involves two guys fighting over a girl named Mary. In another Farrely Brothers film, Dumb & Dumber (1994), two guys also fight over a girl named Mary in the second half of the film.
  
  
• Cameron Diaz and Lin Shaye were mooned by one of the Farrelly brothers during the filming of the scene in which the two actresses were looking downwards out of the window Puffy had jumped out of.
  
  
• On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), Cameron Diaz admitted being the body inside the bag carried by the hitchhiker, played by Harland Williams.
  
  
• The dialogue between Mary and Ted about how there aren't enough meats on cones was originally written for an episode of "Seinfeld" (1990) that never aired. The Farrelly Brothers liked it and bought it for use in the movie.
  
  
• Dropping Ted on the stretcher wasn't scripted. When it happened, they cut to make sure Ben Stiller was okay and then thought it was so funny they left it in.
  
  
• The studio was initially reluctant to allow Ben Stiller - the Farrelly Brothers' first choice - to star, so the brothers decided upon a then unknown Owen Wilson instead. When the studio was even more reluctant to let Wilson star, they agreed to allow the Farrellys cast Stiller.
  
  
• Bill Murray, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vince Vaughn were all considered for the role of Pat Healy.
  
  
• In the beginning of the film, it says "Cumberland, Rhode Island". This is an actual town in Rhode Island where the Farrelly Brothers grew up.
  
  
• The scene with the homosexuals is staged in a South Carolina Rest Stop (with South Carolina trooper decals and uniforms). This is based on a real case where Troopers discovered that the stops where being used as meeting places for homosexuals to meet and have anonymous sex. The troopers learned this after arresting a South Carolina state offical "in the act" at one of the stops.
  
  
• Many of the extras in the background are the friends of the Farrelly Brothers.
  
  
• Cameron Diaz's father was on set during filming, so the Farrellys decided to throw him in the movie. In the scene where Ben Stiller is released from prison after being wrongfully accused of murder, Cameron's dad is the inmate in the front with a beard and long hair jeering at Ben.
  
  
• The hotel where Ted stays in Miami, the Cardozo, is a real hotel, owned by Gloria Estefan.
  
  
• Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
  
  
• This movie is dedicated to the memory of Ryan Mone, West Tisbury, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Patrick Healey was the name of the National District Attorneys' Association spokesman in the book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
  
  

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