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• Jim Carrey chipped his tooth years earlier, but had the cap removed for the film to make his character look more deranged.
  
  
• Production was shut down in Salt Lake City for a week when Jim Carrey had surgery for a gallstone.
  
  
• After the guys pull the bill-paying stunt on Sea Bass, Harry asks Lloyd where he got that idea. Lloyd tells him that he saw it in a movie. This is a reference to the movie Something Wild (1986) in which Jeff Daniels does the same thing to Ray Liotta.
  
  
• Harry and Lloyd are named after the (silent) comedy star Harold Lloyd.
  
  
• In order for Jeff Daniels to attain Harry's frizzy hair, during filming he was instructed to wash his hair only, and not to use conditioner, blow dry it, or even comb it.
  
  
• The restaurant scene (with Seabass) was filmed in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. However filmmakers originally wanted to film this scene at a restaurant in Wiggins (about 15 miles west of Ft. Morgan) but after viewing the script the owner refused.
  
  
• When Harry and Lloyd are in the car and Lloyd asks if he wants to hear the most annoying sound in the world was not originally in the script (you can tell by the look on Jeff Daniels' face).
  
  
• In the scene where Harry & Lloyd are escaping the "gas man", when they are running out to the dog van, there is a guy in the background urinating against a wall.
  
  
• Film debut of Harland Williams.
  
  
• In the bar scene in Aspen, the line "No way... that's great. We've Landed on the moon!" was not in the script but made up by Jim Carrey on the spot during shooting.
  
  
• The bikini girl played by Anna Åberg actually speaks Swedish in the bikini bus scene. She greets with "Hej allihopa" (Hey everybody) and says goodbye with "Hejdå" (Bye).
  
  
• Among the many writings on the gas station bathroom stall are: "Why are you looking up here when the joke is in your hand?", "Bye Bye William Frawley", "NAMBLA Rules", and "Why the hell is everyone so goddamned angry?".
  
  
• The poster in Harry's and Lloyd's living room depicts Bo Derek in the movie 10 (1979).
  
  
• The sports car Harry and Lloyd purchase is a Lamborghini Diablo. The car was made available by Lamborghini Aspen.
  
  
• Steve Martin and Martin Short both turned down the role of Lloyd.
  
  
• The last name of Harry's ex-girlfriend, Fraida Felcher, is also the name for an act, so obscene, it cannot be described here.
  
  
• During the men's room stall scene, when Lloyd checks the time, the close up of his wristwatch reveals it to be a "Casino Alarm Chronograph", suggesting it is a fake of the already, very inexpensive brand, Casio; it also lacks any of the dials found on a real chronographic timepiece, along with the 5,6, and 7.
  
  
• Jim Carrey was initially offered $700,000 to appear in the film. However, the offer went in the same week that "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" opened at number 1 at the US box office, so by the time Carrey's agents had renegotiated with the film's producers, his salary had upped itself to $7 million, almost half the film's budget.
  
  
• Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman were the original choices to play Harold and Lloyd.
  
  
• When this went to the top of the US box office, it gave Jim Carrey the distinction of being the first actor to have 3 films go straight to number one in one year.
  
  
• Rob Lowe was also up for the part later taken by Jeff Daniels.
  
  
• The wristwatch Lloyd looks at was an enlarged prop place on a dummy wrist - freeze frame clearly shows it is plaster with hair glued on.
  
  
• This is the second movie released in the same year in which Karen Duffy plays a character named "Shay". She also played a character named Shay Stanley in Blank Check (1994)
  
  
• Bennett Yellin's initial draft of the script was apparently so disjointed that it had gained a negative reputation among film investors. After the script was re-written, it was pitched to producers under the fake title "A Power Tool Is Not a Toy", in order to get them to even read it.
  
  

• SPOILER: Jim Carrey refused to shoot an alternate ending of Harry and Lloyd getting on the bus with the Hawaiian Tropic girls.
  
  
• SPOILER: An alternate ending scene was filmed where Barney the bellman offers Harry and Lloyd the job of babysitting his grandson, who turns out to be the blind boy to whom Lloyd had sold his dead parakeet.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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