FILM · 1995 · USA

Billy Madison

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1. #001

   During the dodgeball scene, Adam Sandler hit the children with the dodgeball as hard as he could. The editor had to cut quickly after each hit so the children's crying would not be shown.

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2. #002

   Bradley Whitford never watched the film after it was released. According to his brother, however, people would often shout "Business Ethics!" at him, referring to the scene in which his character is forced to debate the topic.

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3. #003

   According to Adam Sandler in I Am Chris Farley (2015), Chris Farley turning bright red with rage in the school bus scene was improvised. Chris drank six cups of espresso before shooting that scene. He would do this on most of his other films to maintain his trademark manic energy.

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4. #004

   Norm MacDonald was drunk during the scene in which his character is stood up.

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5. #005

   When Billy Madison apologizes to Danny McGrath for how he was treated in high school, Danny removes Billy's name from his People to Kill list. All eight of the other people remaining on the list are members of the film's crew.

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6. #006

   The children loved playing with Adam Sandler, often jumping on him and interfering with him.

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7. #007

   In real life, Adam Sandler's mother is a kindergarten teacher. This is her favorite film.

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8. #008

   Tamra Davis was not the original director. Stephen Kessler, whom the studio hired at Adam Sandler's request, began the film. After three days on set, Kessler was fired because he struggled to get good comedy material out of Sandler and was falling behind schedule. Universal hired Davis after liking her work on the Chris Rock comedy CB4 (1993), a previous film she had made for them. When she took over the job she brought in her own cinematographer, but most of the original crew stayed. One scene not directed by Davis was the exhibition scene in which Billy's going to a new class every two weeks is discussed.

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9. #009

   Chris Farley's "good, great, grand, wonderful" line is the same line his character delivers in Airheads (1994).

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10. #010

    If you look closely at the office, you will see real photographs of a young Adam Sandler.

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11. #011

    Adam Sandler actually wrote the role of Eric for Bob Odenkirk. Universal would not allow it; they did not want Adam using the film as an excuse to invite all of his friends.

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12. #012

    Charles Bronson turned down the role of Billy Madison's father.

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13. #013

    The director's assistant posed as one of the Drunk Chicks cover girls.

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14. #014

    In the chlorophyll scene, Adam Sandler laughs at the end of the scene and stays in the shot.

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15. #015

    Darren McGavin was initially unhappy to have appeared in this film because of the bad critical reviews and only moderate box office success, and he regretted it. He initially admitted he did the film only for the money. After the film's video release and subsequent television broadcasts, however, it gained a large cult following and became so popular that McGavin said fans knew him best for this film and A Christmas Story (1983). Because of the cult following, he later changed his mind and said he was genuinely happy to have been in the film, since its popularity had grown and younger generations were beginning to know him as Billy Madison's father.

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16. #016

    With Veronica Vaughn, this means it is the first time Sandler's character's love interest has a "VV" name; the others are Virginia Venit in Happy Gilmore, Vicki Vallencourt in The Waterboy, Valerie Veran in Little Nicky and Violet Valentine in Hubie Halloween. Other Sandler films also have alliterative female names: Lena Leonard in Punch-Drunk Love, Babe Bennett in Mr. Deeds, Janeane Johnson in Reign Over Me, Daisy Danby in Funny People, Mary McGarricle in That's My Boy and Courtney Clarke in Sandy Wexler.

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