Trivia / EuroTrip

• Box Office Bomb: The film had a budget of $25 million and got a worldwide total of $20 million. It did however do very well on DVD.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Scotty Doesn't Know" is probably the first thing most people know about the movie nowadays.
• California Doubling: Being filmed in Prague, it kinda explains why we can see the Coliseum from the Vatican (which is impossible in real life).
• Covers Always Lie: Michelle Tractenberg taking off her bikini is all over the DVD covers despite having a very much secondary role in the movie (and doesn't actually succeed in removing it at all).
• The Danza: Scott "Scotty" Thomas is played by Scott Mechlowicz.
• Dawson Casting: Of the four main actors only Michelle Trachtenberg was still a teenager — even Kristin Kreuk was in her 20s playing a 16-17 year old. Even Jessica Boehrs, who played Mieke, was in her 20s. This is why we never get to see Jenny topless from the front.
• Follow the Leader: The movie was made to cash in the successes of Road Trip and Old School.
• Non-Singing Voice: Matt Damon isn't singing "Scotty Doesn't Know," he's just lip-syncing Chris Baird's vocals on the original Lustra recording.
• Real Life Writes The Hair Style: Matt Damon shaved his head for his cameo as he was also preparing to shoot The Brothers Grimm, for which he'd need to wear a hairpiece. He decided that this was a two-for-one opportunity, as he'd get to dramatically alter his appearance to look more like a rocker and he'd be more comfortable beneath his wig.
• Surprisingly Lenient Censor: Despite all the political incorrectness in the film, there was one scene that was just too much for the studio, referred to by producers as "The Anne Frank sex scene." In the scene — never filmed but available in script form on the original DVD, they claim — Cooper finds a flyer for a sex club called "The Secret Room" and accidentally misidentifies the house of Anne Frank as the club. ("He asks somebody, 'Is this The Secret Room' and they go, 'Yes, it will change your life,'" Berg recalled.) Encountering a big line outside, Cooper assumes he has found the correct place, but instead of waiting, he goes through a backdoor. Once he discovers a small room with a small bed, he decides to get naked and wait for a sex worker — but soon after finds himself exposed in front of a tour group. (To make matters worse, Anne Frank's only living relative was a part of the tour group.) And as if that wasn't enough to horrify the studio, the scene also had Cooper reaching for a small mannequin — one guess as to whom it was modeled after — and covering his private parts with it, resulting in an unintended sexually explicit visual for the tour group. The producers wrote the Club Vandersexxx scene to replace this scene once it was nixed.
• Technology Marches On: In the film, people use blocky cell phones, VCRs and emails before social media had an upsurge.
• Uncredited Role: The film was directed by all three of its writers, Jeff Schaffer, Alan Berg and David Mandel, but Schaffer is the only credited director per director's union rules. The three put their names in a hat and picked one out at random to decide which of them would get credit.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In the original script (found on the DVD), there was a character named Adam Lane, the class valedictorian and Cooper's favorite Butt-Monkey (he refers to Adam as "Adam Lame", and even got other people to call him that), who would tag along with Scotty's group during their trip, and served as their tour guide. Adam also spoke in a fake British accent. In the final version, Adam was cut, and most of his traits (minus the fake British accent) went to Jamie.
  • Also in the original script, while in Amsterdam, instead of going to Club Vandersexxx, Cooper asked for directions to a brothel called "The Secret Room", and he did find the place. What he didn't know is that he actually went to The Anne Frank House, where he made out with an Anne Frank mannequin, thinking that it was a sex doll.
  • There's also a deleted subplot involving French waiter Jean-Luc chasing Scotty's group across Europe for not paying the dinner bill. Jean-Luc appeared in the deleted scenes.
  • Instead of him being hired by Frommer's, Jamie's story would have ended on a downer note; in the film's stinger, it was revealed that he joined the Legionnaires, still distraught over how he kissed his own sister.
  • Arthur Frommer would have played himself but he turned it down due to the raunchy script.
• Working Title: Ugly Americans. Dreamworks changed it to cash in on the success of Road Trip.

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