Line #26 Trivia/OsmosisJones


1	!!The Film:
2	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
3	** As [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/455/495/00b.jpg this post]] points out, [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] makes a split-second cameo in a crowd scene. There actually is a protein called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin Pikachurin]], but it wouldn't be discovered [[HilariousInHindsight until 2008, 7 years after the film premiered.]]
4	** When Ozzy infiltrates a meeting of germs at The Zit, he makes mention of a pathogen named Mad Cow who's performing in an upcoming pro-wrestling event. The intended reference was to Mad Cow Disease, specifically the prion that causes it. As the commentary notes, the writers found out that Mad Cow is the name of a real wrestler (he performed on the European circuit from 1995-2006).
5	* AdoredByTheNetwork: It frequently aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork in the 2000s.
6	* BeamMeUpScotty: For reasons unknown, some people associate the phrase "ladies and germs" with this movie.
7	* BoxOfficeBomb: With a gross of $14,026,418 against a $75m budget, ''Osmosis Jones'' was one of the more expensive bombers from 2001. Fortunately, it recouped its losses on home video and WB even allowed its [[WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix TV show spin-off]] to happen.
8	* ColbertBump: The film received a major resurgence [[MilestoneCelebration 20 years later no less]], due to the ''UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic'', mostly because the main villain is a virus that tricks Frank's body to think it's a common cold until it becomes fatal.
9	* CreatorBacklash: In a 2017 interview with Hannibal Buress, Creator/ChrisRock admitted that the film didn't turn out as well as he'd hoped and believed that, in hindsight, it would have worked better as a fully live-action movie, as the Farrelly brothers' style of comedy doesn't really lend itself well to animation.
10	* {{Defictionalization}}: There's a throwaway line about the "National Chicken Wing Festival" in Buffalo, New York. There was no such festival at the time the film was made, but [[http://www.buffalowing.com/ they went and made one]] specifically because of it, complete with wing eating contest and "Miss Buffalo Wing" competition."
11	* DeletedScene:
12	** Ozzy and Drix move to See World, which is the eye as the earlier explained to Drix about Frank.
13	** Inside the nose, Frank was picking it as Ozzy and Drix find a place to be secure from the finger.
14	** Ozzy and Drix drive to the Heartburn lane as Frank burped so they could go to the uvula. This version has the word "hell" used instead of "heck" as in the final cut.
15	* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie was originally planned to be PG-13, but almost all of the swearing, a scene of Ozzy visiting sperm cells, and several more violent scenes were cut or dubbed over to be more kid friendly. This is considered by fans to be '''''the worst''''' decision made in production. Some have questioned on what the movie [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been]] if it was PG-13. Some have believed that Warner Bros had trouble on deciding to market this as an animated comedy for adults or an animated kids' movie.
16	* GeniusBonus: They visit the Chicken Pox virus at one point. Varicella zoster, the virus that causes chicken pox, can linger in the human body for years and cause shingles in some adults.
17	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Warner Bros. couldn't figure out if the movie was a family film or an action buddy cop film, so they just dropped it to an [[DumpMonths August weekend]] to ensure its failure.
18	* StarDerailingRole: This movie and ''Pootie Tang'' did Creator/ChrisRock's acting career no favors. Bar the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' franchise, most of his acting roles since have been in films he's conceived and directed himself.
19	* ThrowItIn: When Ozzy comes back from The Zit, he accidentally calls Leah "Brandy" before quickly correcting himself. Creator/ChrisRock flubbed his line, having briefly forgotten that he wasn't talking to Leah's voice actress Brandy Norwood, and this made it into the finished film because the director thought it was funny.
20	* TroubledProduction: Surprisingly ([[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot given]] [[WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant the studio's]] [[Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction track record]]) not the case for the animated sequences (that were finished ahead of schedule) but more for the live-action sequences which had no director or a star actor and it took a considerable amount of time acquiring both, until fairly late into production when Bill Murray was cast and the Farrelly brothers stepped in to direct. This was also one of the reasons the film was delayed from its summer 2000 release to the summer of next year.
21	* VindicatedByCable: It didn't do so well in the box office, but its become well-known thanks to home releases, cable reruns and [[FromEntertainmentToEducation showings in classrooms]].
22	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
23	** In the original script and in early cuts of the movie, a scene was featured when Osmosis and Drix go to the Gonad's Gym. It involved them talking to the "exercising" sperm cells. The scene was cut in order to stay family friendly. The Gonad's Gym logo does appear on Drix's suitcase during a scene in the police station locker room.
24	** Also, the script reveals that Osmosis went to a family reunion when he was young. At that time Frank went to the doctors to have some blood removed, possibly in a blood drive. The needle drew out all of Ozzy's relatives, apparently leaving him all alone, which adds to his lone wolf status in the film. The ending has Frank getting a blood transfusion to save his life, with [[ChekhovsGun his own prior blood]]. And Ozzy's family returned to Frank, in a parody of the returning abductees in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. This was revealed in the DVD commentary.
25	** In an early press release and promotional reels, Frank was a construction worker instead of a Zoo keeper.
26	** Creator/WillSmith said he was interested in the role of Osmosis, but schedule conflicts prevented that.
27	** According to [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/36185771@N06/albums/72157627761173339 this long series of pictures]], had the film not bombed, there would have been a surge of merchandise based on the movie such as Toys, T-shirts, key chains, and oddly enough, a snot slingshot that shoots fake boogers.
28	*** [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/36185771@N06/8662220576/in/photostream/ The thread also reveals some different designs for the characters]]. Drix was going to have legs, and Thrax (originally named We-Khan) was originally meant to look less humanoid and more virus-like, with three legs, a pointy head, and a large body.
29	** After this movie the Farrelly brothers were going to direct an adult comedy film Party Animals for [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] based on the novel Frisco Pigeon Mambo by C. D. Payne with Creator/SethMacFarlane as the head writer but due to the [[BoxOfficeBomb box-office failure]] of this film the idea was scrapped.

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