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Best in Show (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• One of the Shih Tzus belonging to Scott and Stefan is named Tyrone. Tyrone is also the first name of the six-fingered Count Rugen, the character Christopher Guest played in The Princess Bride (1987).
  
  
• Gerry and Cookie Fleck's license plate reads "WINKY."
  
  
• The bloodhound is named Hubert. The name for bloodhounds in French are Saint Hubert.
  
  
• Parker Posey actually got real braces for her character to wear.
  
  
• Jane Lynch (Christy Cummings) was also in the 1992 TV movie In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) (TV) (credited as Jany Lynch), which also had a character named Harlan Pepper.
  
  
• The shot of the arena where the dog show is taking place is actually stock footage from the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Sudden Death (1995) which takes place at what is now the Mellon Arena where the Pittsburgh Penguins play, but at that point it was called the Civic Arena. This is why the arena is surrounded by police cars which would be necessary in a terrorist situation, but not for a dog show.
  
  
• Years before work on this film began, Christopher Guest wrote down the words "catalog people" on a piece of paper. That simple idea eventually became Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock's characters in this film.
  
  
• All the scenes featuring numerous dogs went remarkably smoothly. There is only one unscripted bark in the film, heard in the background as Christy and Sherri Ann argue over Christy's makeup backstage.
  
  
• Fred Willard's character Buck Laughlin was based on baseball legend Joe Garagiola, who had co-hosted the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in years past, to similar effect.
  
  
• Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
  
  
• The clocks on the wall behind the reception counter at the hotel are all deliberately set to Eastern Standard Time for the cities of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Miami, and Philadelphia.
  
  
• Real judges and professional handlers were used for most of the judges. The professional handlers also served as technical advisers for the actors in how to handle the dogs in the ring.
  
  

• SPOILER: When the owner of the poodle playing Rhapsody in White was presented with this movie, she didn't read the full script. When she realized that her dog would not be winning 'Best in Show' at the end of the movie, she quickly pulled the dog out of production. The crew had to get a dog that looked similar to the original dog, and spray paint its fur so it looked exactly the same.
  
  

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