* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $70 million. Box office, $57,719,093. Being released in a crowded summer with films like ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', the latter film Creator/SonyPictures spent all their marketing and focus on, and getting negative reviews for making light of subjects like statutory rape, incest, and child neglect all but made the film flop at the box-office.
* CreatorBacklash: Judging by this comment during their appearance on the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' 40th Anniversary Special, neither Sandler nor Samberg seem to really want to look back on the film.
-->'''Andy:''' And we also made a movie that bombed!\\
'''Adam:''' Why would you bring that up?
* DawsonCasting: Chad is supposed to be Jamie's younger brother, but Creator/MiloVentimiglia is nine years older than Creator/LeightonMeester.
* FakeIrish: Creator/JamesCaan as Father [=McNally=].
* PlayingAgainstType: Andy Samberg is best known for extremely raunchy/goofy characters, but here he's the StraightMan that all the raunchy and goofy stuff happens to.
* RealLifeRelative:
** Creator/EvaAmurriMartino played the younger version of her real-life mother Creator/SusanSarandon.
** Creator/AdamSandler's daughters played the lemonade stand girls.
* RecycledSet: The ''Donnie Burger Story'' scenes were shot on the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' set from seasons nine through eleven, at Sony Pictures Studios.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Justin Weaver, who plays 12-13y/o Donny, actually kinda looks like Adam Sandler as a kid.
* StarDerailingRole:
** Creator/AdamSandler and Creator/AndySamberg survived this disaster of a film, but Creator/LeightonMeester wasn't so lucky.
** Creator/MiloVentimiglia[='s=] career wasn't left untouched either, as it would take ''four'' years for him to finally be able to headline [[Series/ThisIsUs a show]] that lasted for more than one season.
* UncreditedRole: Creator/AdamSandler, Tim Herlihy, Robert Smigel, David Wain, and Ken Marino all did uncredited re-writes of the script.
* WorkingTitle: The film was originally titled ''I Hate You, Dad'' and then changed to ''Donny's Boy'' before the producers finally settled on ''That's My Boy''.
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