History Trivia / ThisIsTheEnd

** Creator/JayBaruchel admitted that despite all of the hilarity and the over-the-top nature, making the movie was actually therapeutic, because he felt that some of the arguments and confrontations in the movie were, on some level, things that the actors have actually wanted to say to each other at some point. [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-baruchel-really-wanted-to-be-the-next-jake-gyllenhaal In a 2023 interview]], Jay admitted that he and Jonah Hill didn't get along with each other while working on the film (which certainly helped to sell the animosity between their fictional selves).

* [[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As They Are Cast]]: ''This Is the End'' is about a group of Hollywood celebrities PlayingThemselves in a comedy about the Book of Revelation. Four of the six main cast members (Baruchel, Rogen, Franco, and Hill) are Jewish, which doesn't feature New Testament texts at all.

** Creator/JayBaruchel admitted that despite all of the hilarity and the over-the-top nature, making the movie was actually therapeutic, because he felt that some of the arguments and confrontations in the movie were, on some level, things that the actors have actually wanted to say to each other at some point. [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-baruchel-really-wanted-to-be-the-next-jake-gyllenhaal In a 2023 interview with ''The Daily Beast'']], Jay admitted that he and Jonah Hill didn't get along with each other while working on the film (which certainly helped to sell the animosity between their fictional selves).

** Creator/JayBaruchel admitted that despite all of the hilarity and the over-the-top nature, making the movie was actually therapeutic, because he felt that some of the arguments and confrontations in the movie were, on some level, things that the actors have actually wanted to say to each other at some point. [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-baruchel-really-wanted-to-be-the-next-jake-gyllenhaal In a 2023 ''The Daily Beast'' interview]], Jay admitted that he and Jonah Hill didn't get along with each other while working on the film (which certainly helped to sell the animosity between their fictional selves).

** Creator/JayBaruchel admitted that despite all of the hilarity and the over-the-top nature, making the movie was actually therapeutic, because he felt that some of the arguments and confrontations in the movie were, on some level, things that the actors have actually wanted to say to each other at some point. [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-baruchel-really-wanted-to-be-the-next-jake-gyllenhaal|In a 2023 ''The Daily Beast'' interview]], Jay admitted that he and Jonah Hill didn't get along with each other while working on the film (which certainly helped to sell the animosity between their fictional selves).

** Creator/JayBaruchel admitted that despite all of the hilarity and the over-the-top nature, making the movie was actually therapeutic, because he felt that some of the arguments and confrontations in the movie were, on some level, things that the actors have actually wanted to say to each other at some point.

* TooSoon: Originally, there was going to be a joke where one of the characters said that they had smoked crack with Music/WhitneyHouston. When Houston died, the joke was cut, out of respect, and a different joke was used. In addition, while making the film, Creator/SethRogen and Evan Goldberg were in the process of convincing Music/{{Prince}} to let them use the song "Purple Rain", for when Rogen and Jay Baruchel make their way to Heaven. After Houston passed away, Rogen and Goldberg dropped negotiations with Prince, and instead decided to use Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" in those scenes, as a tribute to her.

* TooSoon: Originally, there was going to be a joke where one of the characters said that they had smoked crack with Music/WhitneyHouston. When Houston died, the joke was cut, out of respect, and a different joke was used. In addition, while making the film, Creator/SethRogen and Evan Goldberg were in the process of convincing Music/{[Prince}} to let them use the song "Purple Rain", for when Rogen and Jay Baruchel make their way to Heaven. After Houston passed away, Rogen and Goldberg dropped negotiations with Prince, and instead decided to use Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" in those scenes, as a tribute to her.

* TooSoon: Originally, there was going to be a joke where one of the characters said that they had smoked crack with Music/WhitneyHouston. When Houston died, the joke was cut, out of respect, and a different joke was used. In addition, while making the film, Creator/SethRogen and Evan Goldberg were in the process of convincing Music/{[Prince}} to let them use the song "Purple Rain", for when Rogen and Jay Baruchel make their way to Heaven. After Houston passed away, Rogen and Goldberg dropped negotiations with Prince, and instead decided to use Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" in those scenes, as a tribute to her.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Michael Cera asked Music/{{Rihanna}} if he could grope her behind, which she allowed if she got to slap him in return. She slapped him so hard in the six takes they did, that he couldn't take it anymore and had to lie down from the dizziness. Jason Segel's reaction is genuine.

* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/JayBaruchel and Creator/DannyMcBride end up [[spoiler:fooling around with a severed head]]. [[Film/TropicThunder That sounds familiar...]]
** Creator/JasonSegel's complaints about his sitcom show are almost word for word from a previous interview he did about him being tired of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
** They managed to have one scene of Creator/JonahHill, Creator/MichaelCera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse [[Film/{{Superbad}} together.]] Same goes for [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Baruchel, Hill, and Mintz-Plasse]].

* DirectedByCastMember: Seth Rogen's directorial debut.

* ProductionPosse: Most of Judd Apatow's go-to-guys (and one writer) feature in this in one way or another, and it's a minor plot point that they know each other.

** There was also another scene in which [[spoiler:Danny [=McBride=] and James would smoke weed in Hell with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler]] but Seth and Evan deemed that it would have been too much.
** Additionally, Rogen and Goldberg decided not to include any relatives or loved ones in the film to keep it from getting too dark. James Franco suggested including his brother Dave, but Rogen said he would've gotten killed off and it would have been too depressing.
** In a deleted scene, Danny says that he's Muslim. This was likely cut due to potential offensiveness, but it would have been a hilariously random gag.

** Emma Watson was set to appear during Channing Tatum's cameo as Danny McBride's gimp, but the sight of Tatum in a thong freaked her out so much that she refused to be in the scene.

** More cameos would have included Creator/CameronDiaz, Creator/EdwardNorton and Creator/ElizabethBanks. Norton made up for his absence [[WesternAnimation/SausageParty three years later]].

** They managed to have one scene of Creator/JonahHill, Creator/MichaelCera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse [[{{Film/Superbad}} together.]]
*** Same goes for [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Baruchel, Hill, and Mintz-Plasse]].

** In an early version of the script, Creator/DanielRadcliffe was the ''Film/HarryPotter'' celebrity at the party. He turned them down.
*** Doubles as an EurekaMoment, as Rogen said later that it made him and Goldberg realize that the role wasn't as funny as they wanted, and rewrote it.

*** There was also another thing we would have seen in which [[spoiler:Danny [=McBride=] and James would smoke weed in Hell with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler]] but Seth and Evan deemed that it would have been too much.

** According to Evan Goldberg, the original ending was [[spoiler:CreatorMorganFreeman would greet the guys upon entering Heaven, saying he is God, with the real God coming out and saying it's a joke.]]

** In an early version of the script, Daniel Radcliffe was the ''Film/HarryPotter'' celebrity at the party. He turned them down.

** According to Evan Goldberg, the original ending was [[spoiler:Morgan Freeman would greet the guys upon entering Heaven, saying he is God, with the real God coming out and saying it's a joke.]]

** Emma Watson's role was supposed to go to Mila Kunis.
** More cameos would have included Cameron Diaz, Edward Norton and Elizabeth Banks.

** Jay Baruchel and Danny [=McBride=] end up [[spoiler:fooling around with a severed head]]. [[Film/TropicThunder That sounds familiar...]]
** Jason Segel's complaints about his sitcom show are almost word for word from a previous interview he did about him being tired of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.

* DuelingMovies: 2013 saw three movies about the end of the world. This one, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture-Palooza Rapture-Palooza]]'', with a similar theme (and co-starring Craig Robinson), and ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin natch]]), that is more sci-fi in nature.

** Michael Cera too, who plays an arrogant, self-absorbed cokehead instead of the awkward virgin that he is usually typecast as. The best part is that he ''literally'' is playing Michael Cera.