Joe Dirt

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1. #001

   The list of names Joe Dirt reads on the tour bus is the same as the names a teacher calls out for attendance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

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2. #002

   When the hot air balloon lands next to the oil derrick, a sign reading "Scotch Oil" is visible. Scotch Oil was the name of the family oil business in Wisconsin belonging to David Spade's friend Chris Farley.

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3. #003

   Roseanne Barr and Gary Busey were originally cast as Joe Dirt's parents. After months of delays, re-editing and reshoots, Roseanne mysteriously left the project one day, so director Dennie Gordon decided to reshoot the scene with Caroline Aaron and Fred Ward.

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4. #004

   The hardtop Joe Dirt drives for most of the film was a replica of a 1969 Dodge Daytona, a limited-production car built for only one year during the late-sixties and early-seventies muscle car era. Only 503 real Daytonas were ever produced.

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5. #005

   Christopher Walken's final witness protection identity is "Gert B. Frobe." Gert Fröbe is the German actor who played the iconic James Bond villain in Goldfinger (1964). Walken played Max Zorin in another James Bond film, A View to a Kill (1985), whose plot resembles that of "Goldfinger."

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6. #006

   Dirt's character was largely based on David Spade's childhood friend Ryan Taylor.

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7. #007

   When Joe Dirt first returns home as an adult, Blake Clark is reprising his role as the mush-mouthed Farmer Fran from The Waterboy (1998).

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8. #008

   All of Dennis Miller's scenes were shot in a single day.

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9. #009

   Although the film is set all over the United States, most of it was shot two hours outside Los Angeles.

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10. #010

    The scene in which Joe is pelted with hot dogs was originally much longer, but negative reactions from test audiences who had connected with the character by that point and hated seeing him abused so much led to the film being shortened.

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11. #011

    The scene where young Joe is left behind at the Grand Canyon by his parents was actually shot not at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona but at the scenic Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah.

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12. #012

    The convertible "Hemi" used in the film is a 1967 Plymouth GTX.

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13. #013

    Kid Rock's character is named "Robby." Kid Rock's real name is Robert Ritchie.

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14. #014

    This was Kathleen Freeman's last theatrical film, in which she played Joe's stepmother. She did voice work for the rest of her career.

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15. #015

    Christopher Walken and Rosanna Arquette had both appeared in Pulp Fiction (1994) previously, but they never shared a scene.

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16. #016

    The scene where they show Joe Dirt about to jump off a bridge is called the Wallace bridge in Los Angeles. It is actually the 4th Street bridge, and Joe is facing south; to the north, behind him, you can see the MTA building near Union Station.

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