Useless Movie Trivia For
National Lampoons Van Wilder
Memorable Movie Quotes
Van Wilder: Write that down.
Van Wilder: Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Van Wilder: Her name's Naomi. That's "I moan" backwards.
Van Wilder: You shouldn't take life to seriously. You'll never get out alive.
Van Wilder: if you're always thinking about the future, then you kinda forget about the present.
Taj: Is that all you people think about? Now, I admit I applied for this job because I wanted to cut loose and shake my rump, but I do not believe that this dilemma can be solved by partying.
Trivia
The poem that the Literature professor reads for Van's final is Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
Michael Olowokandi, Darius Miles, Quentin Richardson, and Lamar Odom, who were all players on Coolidge's basketball team, were real life teammates at the time in the NBA on the Los Angeles Clippers.
When Taj is trying to study while watching a girl's breasts he is actually writing about the history of Hungary the sixteenth century, after the Battle of Nándorfehérvár (1521) and Mohács (1526).
In Gwen's parents house, Van Wilder says about Richard "If he is here, who's running hell?" The same line was used by Richard Ruccolo's character in "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place" (1998), which Ryan Reynolds also starred in.
In the scene where Van Wilder is talking to the basketball team he is seen wearing a hat with the Volkswagen logo on the front. Which is a V above a W - Van Wilder's initials.
Goofs
The calculus equation, *Integral*(dx/(x-x^)4/3)))=3Ln((x^(1/3))/(1-x^(1/3))+C, has no solution. In the movie, they say x=6, however, that is not the answer.
When Richard and Gwen are finished having sex, he puts his pants on while he's still lying on the bed. In the next shot he gets up and puts his underwear on again.
When Gwen calls Van toward the end of the movie and he unplugs the phone, you hear a dial tone on her end of the phone. If you unplug a phone, the person on the other end will just hear it continue to ring. It would not disconnect the call.
In The Credits
A couple of deleted scenes play on during the end credits including makeout
scene outtakes and others.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $6,000,000
Opening Weekend: $7,302,913
Gross: $21,005,329
Filming Locations
Los Angeles, California, USA
Marymount High School - 10643 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA
Royce Hall - 340 Royce Drive, UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada