Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[marc]

Champ's line "I will take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again" is a paraphrase of a line from the comic book series "Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future", where Dare's nemesis, the Mekon, makes an identical threat against Dorothy Dare.

[tamara]

DIRECTOR CAMEO (Adam McKay As a custodian.

[fred]

During an October 2019 AV Club interview with Tim Robbins, he mentioned that he agreed to take the small roles in High Fidelity and Anchorman (even though he knew he would be paid very little for them) because they promised to make him a custom wig for each of the roles, both of which he got to keep after filming ended. Robbins said that he still owns both wigs as of 2019, and he often uses them in Halloween costumes.

[mathew]

A good portion of scenes from the trailers were omitted from the final cut. These scenes include Burgundy taking a bullet for Veronica, and a later shot of him and her emerging from a television van to a cheering crowd, with Burgundy visibly showing a bandaged wound. The line where Ron asks Garth about his divorce while at a party, is also missing. Other shots cut include Ron walking into a filing cabinet and falling over, alternate dialogue when Ron asks Veronica what her dream is, Veronica and Ron tackling each other on the conference room table, collapsing (with Ron shouting "Let's make a baby!"), Ron admiring his own billboard, Ed Harken asking what a "lead" is, sitting by a poolside, standing by the side of the road with a long beard and guitar on his back trying to hitchhike, and others.

[jesus]

Ron Livingston auditioned for the role of Brian Fantana.

[tamara]

The YouTube group "LetsPlay" parodied the famous fight scene in a series of videos in 2016. The video featured members of YouTube channels Achievement Hunter, FunHaus, Cow Chop, The Creatures, ScrewAttack, and Kinda Funny. Each channel released a video featuring themselves as the protagonist, with each one culminating in the same fight. Notably the "idiot" member of each group took the role of Brick by switching sides during the initial teasing.

[liam]

Will Ferrell has played flute since elementary school.

[jeffrey]

When the in-studio monitor shows the rolling credits during Ron and Veronica's banter, two of the credited writers listed are Jon Hamm and Adam Scott, both of whom are close friends of Paul Rudd.

[stephanie]

Steve Carell, David Koechner, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black appeared in The Office (2005).

[javier]

Ron Burgundy's license plate is "IM #1."

[ray]

Jerry Minor: The bass player at the Spanish restaurant, where Ron plays the flute, is Will Ferrell's Saturday Night Live (1975) co-star.