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** Music/JerryGoldsmith had originally been selected to score the movie, but had to drop out at the last minute due to health reasons. Music/ElmerBernstein (who coincidentally composed the score for the unrelated 1960 movie ''The Rat Race'') composed a rejected score.

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** Music/JerryGoldsmith had originally been selected to score the movie, but had to drop out at the last minute due to health reasons. Music/ElmerBernstein (who coincidentally composed the score for the unrelated 1960 movie ''The Rat Race'') composed a rejected score.score (which was ultimately finally released by La La Land Records in 2023).
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* ThoseTwoActors: Breckin Meyer and Amy Smart played each other's love interest just the year prior in ''Film/RoadTrip'' which also involved the two characters hitting the road in a race against time.
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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates (in an UncreditedRole).

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/KathyNajimy, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates (in an UncreditedRole).
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** Music/JerryGoldsmith had originally been selected to score the movie, but had to drop out at the last minute due to health reasons. Music/ElmerBernstein composed a rejected score.

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** Music/JerryGoldsmith had originally been selected to score the movie, but had to drop out at the last minute due to health reasons. Music/ElmerBernstein (who coincidentally composed the score for the unrelated 1960 movie ''The Rat Race'') composed a rejected score.
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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates (in an (in an UncreditedRole).

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates (in an (in an UncreditedRole).
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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.Creator/KathyBates (in an (in an UncreditedRole).
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** The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. Website/IMDb claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.

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** The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. Website/IMDb claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.''Film/RoadHouse1989''.
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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Amy Smart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Amy Smart, Creator/AmySmart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.
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** One of the High Rollers in Donald's group pulls a WhatTheHellHero on everyone for exploiting the protagonists - and gets a huge laugh from everyone else.

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** One of the High Rollers in Donald's group pulls a WhatTheHellHero on everyone for exploiting the protagonists - -- and gets a huge laugh from everyone else.
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** One of the High Rollers in Donald's group pulls a WhatTheHellHero on everyone for exploiting the protagonists - and gets laughed out of the room.

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** One of the High Rollers in Donald's group pulls a WhatTheHellHero on everyone for exploiting the protagonists - and gets laughed out of the room.a huge laugh from everyone else.



** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded and pissed [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs on board a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.

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** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded and pissed [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, who get distracted by a busload of Ricky Ricardo lookalikes, he climbs on board a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.
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* FakeNationality: Rowan Atkinson is British and plays the Italian Enrico Pollini.

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* FakeNationality: Rowan Atkinson is British and plays the Italian Enrico Pollini. Averted in the Italian dub, where he's portrayed as British.

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* AwesomeDearBoy: John Cleese declared that ''Rat Race'' was only the second script in his career that made him want to be part of the project just by reading it.



* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: John Cleese described the ''Rat Race'' script as being one of the only two during his whole career that he enjoyed.



* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. Website/IMDb claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.

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* UncreditedRole: ThrowItIn: The Nevada Northern Railway Museum, which stood in for the Silver City train station, was made to feature more prominently because they loved the look of it. The planned two day shoot was extended to six days.
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** Creator/KathyBates goes uncredited for her cameo as the Squirrel Lady.
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The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. Website/IMDb claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.


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** The Cody brothers were envisioned as Expies of Jay and Silent Bob, even offered to Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. They turned it down to make ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''.

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* BillingDisplacement: Vince Vieluf does not appear on the poster, and neither does Lanai Chapman. Both are arguably more important and have more screentime than Tracy - who is on there.
** In the case of Vieluf, his agent tried to pressure the studio to give him top billing, not only did they refuse but they removed him from any promotional material. Vieluf fired that agent soon after he found out.

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* BillingDisplacement: Vince Vieluf does not appear on the poster, and neither does Lanai Chapman. Both are arguably more important and have more screentime than Tracy - who is on there.
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there. In the case of Vieluf, his agent tried to pressure the studio to give him top billing, not only did they refuse but they removed him from any promotional material. Vieluf fired that agent soon after he found out.out.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The various highways the characters end up in along the journey to Silver City, New Mexico were filmed in Calgary. The desert was doubled by Drumheller, also in Canada. Silver City itself was doubled by Ely, Nevada.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: John Cleese described the ''Rat Race'' script as being one of the only two during his whole career that he enjoyed.



** A scene where the cow is thought to be talking.

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** A scene where the cow is thought to be talking.talking (when it's actually Vicky trapped under the cow).


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* PlayingWithCharacterType: Tracy is introduced as one of Amy Smart's typical witty GirlNextDoor roles in the late 90s and early 2000s. Then she discovers her boyfriend cheating and becomes very CuteAndPsycho.


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** An early idea was for the characters to travel to Las Vegas, New Mexico. But they worried it would be too confusing for audiences.
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** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded, and pissed, [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs on board a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Diamond Dallas Page]] who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.

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** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded, stranded and pissed, pissed [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs on board a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Diamond Dallas Page]] by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.
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** One such scene shows what happened to the crooked key maker after he floated away with a cow and a hot air ballon.
** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded, and pissed, [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs onboard a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Diamond Dallas Page]] who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.

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** One such scene shows what happened to the crooked key maker after he floated away with a cow and a hot air ballon.
balloon.
** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded, and pissed, [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs onboard on board a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Diamond Dallas Page]] who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.



* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. The IMDB website claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.

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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. The IMDB website Website/IMDb claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.
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* ActorAllusion: Tracy's ex-boyfriend Sean, played by Creator/DeanCain, is fully named in the credits as "Sean Kent". [[Series/LoisAndClark Get it?]]
** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly and cutesy hermit, who turns out to be a psychopath that [[DisproportionateRetribution arranges the doom of people who slight her]], in a nod to her famous role as Annie Wilkes in ''Literature/{{Misery}}''.
** The character played by Creator/JohnCleese is named Donald Sinclair, and owns a hotel. In real life, Cleese stayed at a hotel run by a man named Donald Sinclair, and he found the man so "wonderfully rude" that it inspired him to create and star in ''Series/FawltyTowers''.



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie opens with a song by The Baha Men and closes with an extended appearance by Music/SmashMouth, and a major plot point hinges on pre-9/11 airport security practices. You couldn't get any more [[TurnOfTheMillennium early noughts]] than that if you tried. The cast also consists almost entirely of actors who were either at the peak of their careers or ''only'' ever had careers during the early 2000s.
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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. The IMDB website claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.

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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches with him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. The IMDB website claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.
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** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly and cutesy hermit, who turns out to be a psychopath that [[DisproportionateRetribution arranges the doom of people who slight her]], in a nod to her famous role as Annie Wilkes in Literature/{{Misery}}.
** The character played by Creator/JohnCleese is named Donald Sinclair, and owns a hotel. In real life, Cleese stayed at a hotel run by a man named Donald Sinclair, and he found the man so "wonderfully rude" that it inspired him to create and star in Series/FawltyTowers.

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** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly and cutesy hermit, who turns out to be a psychopath that [[DisproportionateRetribution arranges the doom of people who slight her]], in a nod to her famous role as Annie Wilkes in Literature/{{Misery}}.
''Literature/{{Misery}}''.
** The character played by Creator/JohnCleese is named Donald Sinclair, and owns a hotel. In real life, Cleese stayed at a hotel run by a man named Donald Sinclair, and he found the man so "wonderfully rude" that it inspired him to create and star in Series/FawltyTowers.''Series/FawltyTowers''.



** Creator/JasonAlexander was set to play Zack before Creator/WayneKnight got the role.

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** Creator/JasonAlexander was set to play Zack before his ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' co-star Creator/WayneKnight got the role.
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** The character played by Creator/JohnCleese is named Donald Sinclair, and owns a hotel. In real life, Cleese stayed at a hotel run by a man named Donald Sinclair, and he found the man so "wonderfully rude" that it inspired him to create and star in Series/FawltyTowers.
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** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly but psychotic hermit [[DisproportionateRetribution who murders people that slight her in any way]], in a nod to her famous role in Literature/{{Misery}}.

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** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly but psychotic hermit and cutesy hermit, who turns out to be a psychopath that [[DisproportionateRetribution who murders arranges the doom of people that who slight her in any way]], her]], in a nod to her famous role as Annie Wilkes in Literature/{{Misery}}.
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** Creator/KathyBates cameos as a seemingly friendly but psychotic hermit [[DisproportionateRetribution who murders people that slight her in any way]], in a nod to her famous role in Literature/{{Misery}}.
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* ActorAllusion: Tracy's ex-boyfriend Sean, played by Creator/DeanCain, is fully named in the credits as "Sean Kent". [[Series/LoisAndClark Get it?]]
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie opens with a song by The Baha Men and closes with an extended appearance by Music/SmashMouth. You couldn't get any more [[TurnOfTheMillennium early noughts]] than that if you tried. The cast also consists almost entirely of actors who were either at the peak of their careers or ''only'' ever had careers during the early 2000s.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie opens with a song by The Baha Men and closes with an extended appearance by Music/SmashMouth.Music/SmashMouth, and a major plot point hinges on pre-9/11 airport security practices. You couldn't get any more [[TurnOfTheMillennium early noughts]] than that if you tried. The cast also consists almost entirely of actors who were either at the peak of their careers or ''only'' ever had careers during the early 2000s.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie opens with a song by The Baha Men and closes with an extended appearance by Music/SmashMouth. You couldn't get any more [[TurnOfTheMillennium early noughts]] than that if you tried. The cast also consists almost entirely of actors who were either at the peak of their careers or ''only'' ever had careers during the early 2000s.
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** In the case of Vieluf, his agent tried to pressure the studio to give him top billing, not only did they refuse but they removed him from any promotional material. Vieluf fired that agent soon after he found out.

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Amy Smart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.

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* AllStarCast: Among the actors included in the movie are Creator/RowanAtkinson, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Amy Smart, Creator/WayneKnight, Creator/JohnCleese, and Creator/KathyBates.



** Creator/JimCarrey was considered for a role.




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* Rowan Atkinson is credited as his character Mr. Bean in the [[https://venturafilmes.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/253-tc3a1-todo-mundo-louco.jpg cover for the Brazilian DVD]].

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\n!!Misc:\n* Rowan Atkinson is credited as his character Mr. Bean in ** Music/JerryGoldsmith had originally been selected to score the [[https://venturafilmes.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/253-tc3a1-todo-mundo-louco.jpg cover for movie, but had to drop out at the Brazilian DVD]].last minute due to health reasons. Music/ElmerBernstein composed a rejected score.
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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits.

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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits. The IMDB website claims it's Julie Michaels from ''Film/RoadHouse''.
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* UncreditedRole: The actress that plays Charlene, Shawn's ex-girlfriend (whom Tracy catches him in his pool) is not listed anywhere in the cast credits.

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