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EuroTrip (2004)

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• The first time that Michelle Trachtenberg did her bikini scene, she shook out her hair so much that she got dizzy and fell over.
  
  
• Remain in the theater during the credits to see deleted scenes and bloopers.
  
  
• As can be seen in the e-mail scene, Mieke's last name is Schmidt.
  
  

• While doing rewrites for Out Cold (2001), the writers came up with the hot tub scene but decided to use it later in their own movie.
  
  
• Montesito Pictures originally purchased the film under the title "Ugly Americans", but later changed it so fans of Road Trip (2000) (also Montesito) would want to see it.
  
  
• Arthur Frommer's e-mail address, as shown on his business card, is theboss@frommer.com.
  
  
• Scott's email address is scottthomas@scottymail.com
  
  
• At the end of the deleted scenes/bloopers during the credits, the lead singer of the band playing "Scotty Doesn't Know" screams. The scream is from the end of Howard Dean's famous 2004 campaign speech.
  
  
• While filming the nude beach scene, Jacob Pitts would not put his shorts back on, because he was enjoying how uncomfortable it made everyone else.
  
  
• The kegs at the graduation party were filled with real beer. According to the directors, in the scene in which Cooper is thrown behind Scotty after the hot tub incident, Jacob Pitts is quite inebriated.
  
  
• The title of the film was selected by a target group. Other names were "40 Days Abroad" and "What a Frau Wants".
  
  
• The band playing "Scotty Doesn't Know" also wrote and are actually performing the song on the soundtrack.
  
  
• The following domain names: scottymail.com and deutchnet.com have both been registered by the same person located in Michigan.
  
  
• Producers Alec Berg, David Mandell, and Jeff Schaffer bought a bootleg DVD copy of the film in March 2004, a month after the film's release and included some of its footage on the official DVD release as an ironic joke, (they had ripped off a bootlegger) and on the DVD they tell whoever pirated the movie "Fuck you, pirate!"
  
  
• The original text of the email Scotty receives Mieke actually says: Lieber Scott, Ich war ein sehr trauriges Mädchen, als ich hörte, dass deine Freundin Fiona dir den Laufpass gab. Aber vielleicht ist es so zum Besten. Ich war jedenfalls sehr froh darüber! Ich muss für nächstes Jahr eine grosse Entscheidung treffen. Und da dachte ich, da du ja jetzt keine Freundin mehr hast, könnte ich in die Vereinigten Staaten kommen und wir könnten uns besser kennenlernen. Vielleicht könnten wir ein Treffen arrangieren. Bis Bald, Mieke. Translated, this says: Dear Scott, I was a very sad girl when I heared that your girlfriend Fiona dumped you. But maybe it is for the best. I was glad about it, anyway! I must make a big decision about the next year. And I thought, that since you don't have a girlfriend anymore, that I could come to the United States and we could become better acquainted. Maybe we can arrange a meeting. Until soon, Mieke.
  
  
• Jeffrey Tambor and Matt Damon both happened to be in Prague during the shooting of this movie and agreed to cameo on their days off from shooting Hellboy (2004) and The Brothers Grimm (2005) respectively.
  
  
• When the movie arrives in Germany, there is a white sign "automatische afsluiting" and blue sign showing a car being repaired. Both signs are not German, but Dutch. "Automatische afsluiting" means "Automatic locking".
  
  
• The name's of the Dominatrix's man servants are Hans and Gruber a reference to Die Hard (1988) villain Hans Gruber.
  
  
• During the end credits, the Amsterdam youth hostel owner (Joanna Lumley) indicates that a "fire that may occur due to the faulty wiring of the fireworks factory upstairs". She is referring to an actual dramatic explosion of a fireworks factory in the Dutch city of Enschede on 13 May 2000.
  
  
• The word "zussamen" doesn't exist in the German language. The correct word is "zusammen" (together).
  
  

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