History Trivia / BruceAlmighty

* HeyItsThatPlace: Universal Studio's Courthouse Square is used throughout this movie -- it's been in ''dozens'' of productions, but it is most famous for ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* TropeNamer: SmiteMeOMightySmiter

** The original script contains a lot more scenes that didn't make it into the final movie. These include: Bruce answering lots of prayers individually (including God showing him the consequences), Grace's breasts growing twice more (and going back to normal after a prayer), Bruce "pleasuring" Susan right before they go on air, a lot more stories covered during the "A Little less Conversation" montage, such as Bruce discovering Bigfoot, and getting pandas to mate by making them insatiably horny, people confessing their sins to Bruce, and an entire new character called "Bobby", who works at Channel 7, and is damned by Bruce, causing him to become possessed by a demon.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: In Universal's Latin American Spanish dub, Bruce is voiced by the famous Mexican actor/singer Sergio Zaldívar.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://brucealmighty.wikia.com/wiki/Almighty_Wiki Almighty Wiki]]

* ActorInspiredElement: The movie is set in Buffalo, New York, because Creator/JimCarrey grew up in Toronto, Ontario, just north of Buffalo, and watched WKBW-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News as a kid. In those days, Irv Weinstein anchored Eyewitness News and he was famous for his staccato delivery and use of alliterative phrases like "Pistol Packing Punks" and "Buffalo Blaze Busters." Irv Weinstein was the first news anchor to use the phrase, "It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your children are?"

** There was a scene where Bruce motivates a disabled kid to climb some ropes at his school's gym. He also becomes a bully himself, beating up his former tormenter. God reveals to Bruce that the kid was originally gonna grow up to be poet, but now he'll become a wrester, get steroids and manage a muffin shop.
** Similarly, there was a scene where a bankrupt woman got rich from suing a grocery store when Bruce causes her to slip on milk and a lawyer happens to be near. God reveals to Bruce that she would have swallowed her pride and reconcile with her sister. Now, she's living on a condo in South Florida, forever estranging the two.

** People thinking that Bruce only had God's powers for a week. This is never stated, and mid-way through God actually said "You've had my powers for a little over a week now", so this can't be right, as we know Bruce had his powers for several more days at minimum. Even the DVD cover and the TRAILERS make this mistake, as does the title of the Italian dub, "Una Settimana da Dio" (God for a week).

** People thinking that Bruce only had God's powers for a week. This is never stated, and mid-way through God actually said "You've had my powers for a little over a week now", so this can't be right, as we know Bruce had his powers for several more days at minimum. Even the DVD cover and the TRAILERS make this mistake, as does the title of the Italian dub, "Una Settimana da Dio" (A week from God).

** Creator/RobertDeNiro was originally supposed to play God. Creator/JackNicholson was also offered the role.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/SteveCarell, in an early role before his breakout success in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' and ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: An early role for Creator/SteveCarell before his breakout success in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' and ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.

* ImageSource: This film provides the page image for ManInWhite

* ActorAllusion: Bruce turns into Creator/ClintEastwood [[ItMakesSenseInContext at one point]]. Although prosthetics were used in this instance, "Clint Eastwood" was a part of Carrey's facial impersonations routine in his stand-up days.
** Not to mention that the Clint Eastwood character Bruce becomes is Dirty Harry, and one of Jim Carrey's earliest roles was that of Johnny Squares in the Dirty Harry movie ''Film/TheDeadPool''.
** After Bruce and God finish cleaning the floor together in the warehouse, God says "All-lll-righty then" - a little subdued, but a definite reference to ''Film/AceVentura''.
*** There's also the same monkey from ''Ace Ventura'' [[spoiler: that comes out of that hoodlum's ass.]]

* {{Bowdlerised}}: A pretty unfair - not to mention baffling - example in the basic-cable edited version. The girl's dress flying up on the street is abruptly cut out, but all the jokes about the dog peeing (and eventually learning to use the toilet) were left in, as was the line "little anal-dwelling butt monkey." Are we really to believe that a woman's thighs are dirtier than urine or monkey-rape?
** The "I swear my boobs are bigger" scene is often shortened on television.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The scene where God gives Bruce his powers occurs outside. We don't see ''where'' they're at until at the end when a boat drifts by, revealing they're standing ''on'' the ocean. This was clearly meant to be a surprise for audiences, except most trailers and TV spots included the shot of the boat passing by, thus spoiling the gag.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original script contains a lot more scenes that didn't make it into the final movie. These include: Bruce answering lots of prayers individually (including God showing him the consequences), Grace's breasts growing twice more (and going back to normal after a prayer), Bruce "pleasuring" Susan right before they go on air, a lot more stories covered during the "A Little less Conversation" montage, such as Bruce discovering Bigfoot, and getting pandas to mate by making them insatiably horny, people confessing their sins to Bruce, and an entire new character called "Bobby", who works at Channel 7, and is damned by Bruce, causing him to become possessed by a demon.

*** Its also the same monkey from ''Ace Ventura II'' [[spoiler: that comes out of that hoodlum's ass.]]

** There was a scene where Bruce motivates a disabled kid to climb some ropes at his school's gym.

* DeletedScene: Where Bruce causes Evan's nose to bleed profusely while he's on-air, then sets his hair on fire twice. It was left out because it made Bruce ''too'' [[DesignatedHero unsympathetic]], looking like something out of a horror movie.

* ImageSource: This film provides the page image for:
** DivineRaceLift
** ManInWhite

* CelebrityVoiceActor: In Universal's Latin American Spanish dub, Bruce is voiced by the famous Mexican film and television actor Sergio Zaldívar.

*** Its also the same monkey from ''Ace Ventura II'' [[spoiler: that comes out of that guys ass.]]

* DeletedScene: Where Bruce causes Evan's nose to bleed profusely while he's on-air, then sets his hair on fire twice.