History Trivia / GorillaInterrupted

* OldShame: The people who worked on the film have little good to say about the experience of making the film or the final project. Bauman recounts how, after showing it to his new roommate, who had never seen any of Bauman's films before, the roommate said to him, "Please tell me that was the worst thing you've ever made." Due to its place as an artifact in RLM history, however, they did work to spruce it up enough to give it a DVD release, although not without including a self-effacing making-of documentary explaining why it's so bad.

* ThePeteBest: WebVideo/RedLetterMedia fans watching this film for the first time will most likely find the presence of Garrett Gilchrist, who would not go on to be a part of the company and has a very different comedic energy from his co-stars, to be strange and distracting. Gilchrist would go on to have some success of his own independent of the group as a film restorer.

* HeAlsoDid: A few years after the film was originally finished, Gilchrist would later be known for producing the acclaimed FanEdit of WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even disregarding the GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion that was later released, this movie is a great time capsule of early-2000s fashion and pop culture.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even disregarding the fact that it was shot on videotape and the GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion that was later released, the movie is a great time capsule of early-2000s fashion and pop culture.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When Jacob is tied to a chair and falls over, he yelps, "Ow, my arm!" off camera. Actor Garrett Gilchrist had actually injured his arm when the heavy metal chair accidentally rolled over it.

* HostilityOnTheSet: The film had an extremely troubled production. A lot of that was due to hostility between Garret Gilchrist and the rest of the cast. He squabbled with Mike Stoklasa by coming to the shoot with a rewritten script, filled with what Stoklasa called "pointless dialogue" that could never get filmed in the time permitted. He ultimately confronted Gilchrist to reassert creative control of the project. The cast generally spent the week-long shoot grumpy, tired and suffering from colds. In the making-of documentary, ''How Not to Make a Movie,'' none of the other cast members had anything good to say about Gilchrist, whose absence from the doc is not addressed. Gilchrist has also made disparaging comments about the others during a livestream.

** Gilchrist's comedic tone, which he admits was an attempt to ape ''Monty Python'', is at complete odds with the edgier tone of the rest of the film. The actors often had difficulty getting scenes to go in the direction they needed to because Gilchrist's improv was on a different wavelength from the others.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Friction between Stoklasa, Bauman and Gilchrist caused some morale issues throughout filming, aided by the fact that they had very little time or money to do anything and were all sick as dogs.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even disregarding the fact that it was shot on videotape and the GeorgeLucasAlteredEdition that was later released, the movie is a great time capsule of early-2000s fashion and pop culture.

** In the making-of documentary, the entire cast appears except for Gilchrist, whose absence is never acknowledged. When they do mention him, it's usually to criticize him. Given Gilchrist's own critical statements about the others, they seem to have parted ways on bad terms.

** In the making-of documentary, the entire cast appears except for Gilchrist, whose absence is never acknowledged.

** In a livestream, Gilchrist claimed that Bauman had cast the actress who plays Julie because he was attracted to her, but [[CannotSpitItOut Could Not Spit It Out]], causing Stoklasa to swoop in on her and create a temporary rift between them. However, this is similar to the actual plot of the film, and Gilchrist has apparently made other claims about Bauman that resemble the plots of Bauman's films.

** Stoklasa asserted directorial authority over the project and wrote a loose, 50-page outline for the film, which called for a lot of improvising to expand. Gilchrist was uncomfortable shooting without a complete script and so arrived at the shoot with a rewritten script filled with what Stoklasa called "pointless dialogue" that would be impossible to complete in the allotted time. After filming the first (heavily rewritten) scene and not understanding what the scene was about, Stoklasa became sullen and withdrawn for a while.
** One scene that Gilchrist had added included his character getting a soda dumped over his head. Stoklasa did not include the scene in the film, but ''did'' include a scene he shot of an alien pointlessly pouring Crystal Pepsi over its face, which seems to be a covert jab at Gilchrist.
** Gilchrist's comedic tone, obviously aping ''Monty Python'', is at complete odds with the edgier tone of the rest of the film. The actors often had difficulty getting scenes to go in the direction they needed to because Gilchrist's improv was on a different wavelength from the others.

** In a livestream, Gilchrist claimed that Bauman had cast the actress who plays Julie because he was attracted to her, but [[CannotSpitItOut Could Not Spit It Out]], causing Stoklasa to swoop in on her and leading to a temporary rift between them. However, this is similar to the actual plot of the film, and Gilchrist has apparently made other claims about Bauman that resemble the plots of Bauman's films.