Line #11 Trivia/DumbAndDumber


1	* BreakthroughHit: For The Farrelly Brothers.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling:
3	** Harry and Lloyd are supposed to be in Aspen, Colorado in the second half of the movie. However, a careful viewer will notice that they're actually in Breckenridge, not Aspen. While both towns have ski resorts, Breckenridge has one main street where shops and restaurants are located with cross streets descending the hills on the east and west sides of the valley feeding into the main drag, whereas Aspen is spread out across many blocks with rather busy traffic.
4	** In the scene where Harry and Lloyd are on the bed in the presidential suite, crying and blowing their noses with money, they are watching a commercial for Pacific Bell. If they are in a hotel in Aspen, there is no way they would have seen that commercial on a hotel TV when the ad is clearly for a company that serves the west coast. (U S WEST, now [=CenturyLink=], was the Baby Bell in Colorado.) Then again, given that they're in a fancy resort in the Rocky Mountains, they almost certainly are watching satellite TV rather than cable or broadcast.
5	** The skiing scenes were clearly shot at Copper Mountain, not at an Aspen ski area. You can tell because the lift operators obviously wear Copper Mountain uniforms, not Aspen uniforms. Copper Mountain is over two hours drive from Aspen.
6	** The airport scenes in Rhode Island were filmed at Salt Lake City International Airport. In addition, Park City, Utah, doubles as Aspen during a few scenes set in town. Lloyd and Harry's apartment building is located in Salt Lake City, as is the building where Lloyd picks up Mary to drive her to the Airport. Finally, the building in Lloyd's dream sequence where he gives Mary her briefcase (and takes a peek at her rear) is La Caille, a gourmet restaurant and winery located just outside of Salt Lake City.
7	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JimCarrey was originally offered the role of Harry and was told that it had more drama. He chose the role of Lloyd because it had more laughs.
8	** Harland Williams was also offered the role of Harry before being cast as a cop.
9	* {{Corpsing}}:
10	** During the "Most Annoying Sound" scene (which was ad-libbed by Jim Carrey), it's obvious that Mental is trying very hard not to laugh.
11	** Before the camera cuts to a close-up of Mike Starr (Mental), you can see Jeff Daniels start to laugh when the noise starts.
12	** Jim Carrey is actually the worst victim of corpsing in that scene, laughing at his own joke before he even tells it.
13	** The waitress in the restaurant where Lloyd is trying to revive a dying Mental was doing a bad job of not breaking into laughter.
14	* CreatorKiller:
15	** Thanks to the Disney/ABC deal killing any chance at success it had, the ''Dumb and Dumber'' cartoon would be the last Saturday morning cartoon made by Creator/HannaBarbera, which spent the rest of its (official) existence primarily as a production house for Creator/CartoonNetwork.
16	** While ''Dumb and Dumberer'' director and co-writer Troy Miller remains a prolific television director, he has no further theatrical film credits to his name.
17	* DawsonCasting: Creator/EricChristianOlsen and Derek Richardson, despite playing teenage versions of Lloyd and Harry in ''Dumb and Dumberer'', were 25 and 26 years old respectively during filming. To a lesser extent, this also applies to Creator/RachelNichols, who was 21 years old.
18	** Also Lloyd and Harry are both supposed to be in their late 20s in ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Creator/JimCarrey was close enough to that age, having been 31 when he made the movie, but Creator/JeffDaniels was 38 meaning he'd have been about 10 years older than Harry. This is doubly true in ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'' where Creator/KathleenTurner played Frada Felcher, who would've been in her late 40s at the time, at the age of 59.
19	* DoingItForTheArt: The studio didn't want Creator/JeffDaniels to be in the movie so they low-balled him a salary of only $50,000. However, Daniels was so enthusiastic about the project and the opportunity to star in a comedy that he took the deal.
20	* DuelingDubs: The original and most widespread Brazilian dub was made in São Paulo, while the TV debut earned another dub from Rio. The leads of the latter returned in the sequel.
21	* DyeingForYourArt:
22	** Lloyd's chipped tooth is real - Creator/JimCarrey had chipped his years previously, and had it uncapped for this film.
23	** Creator/JeffDaniels also got his hair naturally frizzy that way by not conditioning, blow drying, or combing his hair for two months.
24	* EnforcedMethodActing: Jim Carrey's early life was hard because his family struggled with poverty, even living together in a van for a while. When Lloyd had to give a similar monologue about his life being in a rut, Jim teared up for real because it hit so close to home.
25	* MarketBasedTitle: The Japanese title is ''Jim Carrey is Mr. Dummer''.
26	* MissingTrailerScene: Two of them:
27	** ''(when being pursued by the cops)'' "I have an idea. Go..... FASTER!!!"
28	** An alternate take of the "It's okay! I'm a limo driver!" scene, with Lloyd still moving as he says it.
29	* OrphanedReference: A deleted scene explains Lloyd's "I have rapist's wit" line. When Barnard (the Aspen hotel employee seen when Harry and Lloyd pull up in the Lamborghini) confuses Lloyd's sincere request for Boone's Farm as sarcasm, he remarks "you have a ''rapier'' (sharp) wit, sir." Had the scene made the theatrical cut, it would have simply made Lloyd a {{Malaproper}} and given more context to the original line.
30	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JeffDaniels was not a comedic actor before he made this film, but the Farrelly Brothers convinced the studio to let them have Daniels in their movie when they watched ''Film/SomethingWild''. Daniels had done comedic films before (such as ''{{Film/Arachnophobia}}''), but he was often cast as the lead or straight man. This was his first opportunity to actually let his comedic chops loose.
31	* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/JimCarrey and Lauren Holly married after meeting on this film, but it lasted less than a year.
32	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The animated series had the misfortune of premiering on ABC just as it was being acquired by Disney, meaning it and the network's other shows save ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show'' and the already Disney-owned ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' (both of which were nothing but reruns at that point anyway) lost any and all support they might've otherwise had, as executives were more interested in running Disney-owned product.
33	* StarDerailingRole: Averted, thankfully. Jeff Daniels was warned by his numerous people -- including Creator/ClintEastwood, no less -- that if he took the part, his career was over. Never happened.
34	* ThrowItIn: Creator/JimCarrey threw in quite a bit, like "We landed on the moon!" and even "the most annoying sound in the world" (with the latter, you can clearly see Creator/JeffDaniels and Mike Starr trying to hold it together, bracing for whatever Carrey was about to do; [[{{Corpsing}} Daniels fails and loses his shit]] right before it cuts to a close-up of Starr).
35	** Also, "Big Gulps, huh? Alright!...Well, see ya later!"
36	* WagTheDirector: The planned original ending was to have Harry and Lloyd get on the bikini tour bus. Creator/JimCarrey convinced the Farrellys that the ending as filmed would be funnier and fit the two characters better.
37	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
38	** Creator/SteveMartin and Creator/MartinShort were originally approached for the role of Lloyd Christmas before Creator/JimCarrey was cast.
39	*** Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/MikeMyers, Creator/EddieMurphy and Creator/CoreyFeldman were also considered for Lloyd Christmas before the casting of Carrey.
40	** Creator/NicolasCage was initially offered the part of Harry Dunne before Creator/JeffDaniels was cast. However, Cage turned it down due to salary disputes and scheduling conflicts with ''Film/LeavingLasVegas''.
41	*** Creator/WoodyHarrelson, Creator/ChrisFarley, Creator/ChrisElliott, Creator/RobLowe and Creator/CoreyHaim were considered for the role of Harry Dunne as well before the casting of Daniels.
42	** An early draft of the film had Creator/MelGibson as Mary's husband, playing himself in a cameo role. This was going to be a gag because at the time, Mel Gibson was one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs, and somebody like Lloyd Christmas couldn't possibly hope to compete with him.
43	** Creator/JohnHughes wrote an unproduced draft of the script. Due to the deal he made with the directors, his name was to be stripped from the project, including the script.
44	** Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone were originally greenlit to write the script for the prequel, but changed their minds and returned all the money they were given (1.5 million dollars) to New Line Cinema.
45	** [[spoiler:An entire subplot was filmed involving Mary's kidnapped husband Bobby being kept in a wooden shipping crate, but was ultimately discarded. The brief scene where Nicholas and Shay discuss the snow owl incident had originally led into a scene where Bobby manages to escape while still inside the crate]].
46	** Music/{{Beck\|Musician}} had been approached about including "Loser" on the soundtrack, but he refused. He recalled the process:
47	--->I remember getting a phone call one day. My manager said, "There's a film. They want to use "Loser" as the theme song". There was a long pause, and he said, "The name of the film is ''Dumb and Dumber''". And I just remember: That sums up what the world thinks of me at this point. I tried to have fun with it, tried to not take it too serious. But at the same time, it was a little disheartening sometimes.

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