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• The producers asked 'Dede Allen' to edit the film. She met once with director Todd Phillips to discuss it, but eventually declined the offer.
  
  
• "Don't Give Up On Us Baby", sung by Ken Hutchinson ('Owen Wilson') in this movie, was released in 1977 and sung by David Soul, who played Ken Hutchinson in the TV version of "Starsky and Hutch" (1975).
  
  
• The band that sings dirty songs at Reese's daughter's bat mitzvah is the same band that sang dirty songs at the wedding reception in director Todd Phillips's previous film, Old School (2003).
  
  
• When filming the yacht scenes with Vince Vaughn, director Todd Phillips became very seasick and mentioned that he hated boats. When asked why he included one in his screenplay, he vowed never to write/shoot a scene on boats again.
  
  
• Don Cheadle and Chris Rock were considered for the part of Huggy Bear.
  
  
• The map on the wall in the police chief's office is a map of Los Angeles turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
  
  
• One of the outtakes shown during the closing credits (the scene with the undressing cheerleader) has Starsky (Ben Stiller) blowing on Hutch's ('Owen Wilson''s) face to get his attention off the nude girl. This was a reference to a scene from the TV series in a strip club. The scene was later used in the opening credits of the TV series.
  
  
• About 10 1975-76 Ford Gran Torinos were totaled during production. Only two Torinos from the film were intact. One of them is a genuine 1976 Gran Torino with the Starsky and Hutch paint job, and the other was a base 1974 Torino which had been in storage. In reality, the 76 and 74 Torino which was used in the film was repainted with the white stripe resembling the one used on the TV show. All of the movie Torinos used 15-inch slot mag rims. They're not available new, so the rims mostly came from swap meets, salvage yards, or eBay.
  
  
• Will Ferrell did all of his scenes in one day.
  
  
• Vince Vaughn's character originally had a scene where he sung to his daughter, but it was not allowed in the film because of song rights.
  
  
• When Vince Vaughn slaps Snoop Dogg during the golfing scene, it was actually unexpected the first time. Todd Phillips said, "Snoop went on with the scene and then when it ended he said, 'What the hell was that??'."
  
  
• Vince Vaughn accidentally had his face smashed into fake glass during one take where Ben Stiller arrests him while being dressed as a mime.
  
  
• 8-10 seconds of the three-way kiss had to be cut to secure a PG-13 rating.
  
  
• Originally, Todd Phillips wanted the knife-throwing scene to feature ninja stars instead. But the idea was scrapped when learning that any scene featuring ninja stars would automatically get an 18 Rating in the UK.
  
  
• Ben Stiller actually went to stunt-driver school and did well, but he still wasn't approved to do all of the driving stunts.
  
  
• Todd Phillips was having a hard time finding a blueish 1976 Lincoln for Huggy Bear. When he revealed this to Snoop Dogg, he was surprised to learn that Snoop actually owned a car of the right color and it's his car that appears in the movie.
  
  
• The scene where Ben Stiller and 'Owen Wilson' are wearing their shoulder holsters and the little towels came straight from a "Starsky and Hutch" (1975) poster of Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul doing the exact same thing.
  
  
• Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul (the original Starsky & Hutch) have cameos at the end of the movie, but even though Antonio Fargas (the original Huggy Bear) also expressed an interest at making some sort of cameo, he was not used.
  
  
• Thomas Lennon and 'Ben Garant' did uncredited work on the screenplay for this film.
  
  
• Starsky's Finkle character/disguise at the auction was actually something Ben Stiller had intended on using in his movie Zoolander (2001). Originally Derek Zoolander's agent Maury was to emulate this "Do it, do it" character, especially in the final Derelicte fashion show, when Maury admits his involvement with the conspiracy to murder the Malaysian prime minister.
  
  
• The Finkle character that Starsky (Ben Stiller) portrays originated in "The Ben Stiller Show" (1990). In the show, Finkle would walk up to celebrities and try to convince them to come say hello to his wife by saying, "Do it. Come on. Do it."
  
  
• Vince Vaughn was originally set to play Hutch.
  
  
• Dedicated to Elliott Marks, the Still Photographer, who died on the last day of principal photography.
  
  
• The "New Coke" pushed by Reese is supposed to spoof the alternate formula Coca-Cola introduced in the 80s. When Coca-Cola premiered its original soda, the ingredients included cocaine (it was removed in 1903).
  
  
• When quoting the line "To err is human, to forgive divine" both Huggie Bear and Feldman attribute it incorrectly. Feldman, who alters the line, attributes it to Shakespeare. Huggie attributes it to God (presumably meaning the Bible). The line is actually by Alexander Pope, coming from his poem "An Essay on Criticism".
  
  
• Fred Williamson, who here plays Captain Dobey, has a shared screen history with Bernie Hamilton, the original Capt. Dobey in the "Starsky and Hutch" (1975) TV series. Both Williamson and Hamilton co-starred in the 1970s action features Hammer (1972) and Bucktown (1975).
  
  

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