Big Daddy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Big Daddy or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Big Daddy

[charlie]

Allen Covert has appeared in twenty-five Adam Sandler films.

[leo]

Adam Sandler provided the voice of the rollerblader who fell over a stick and yells "Goddamn stick!"

[jim]

During the court scene, Sonny's (Adam Sandler's) father Lenny (Joseph Bologna), while questioning his son's ability as a parent, mentions that he found a bag of marijuana in Sonny's dresser drawer as a kid. Lenny then proceeds to make an example of his son's dishonest nature by mentioning that Sonny tried to tell him they were just pencil shavings. This particular situation was a plot device on Adam Sandler's first comedy album "They're All Gonna Laugh At You" (1993), specifically the track "I'm So Wasted" where a man (Rob Schneider) compliments the quality of a bag of weed he bought from his buddy (Sandler) who reveals that the bag of weed was really just a bag of pencil shavings.

[jeffrey]

Adam Sandler and Jackie Sandler (née Titon) met on the set for this movie. The two went on to get married in 2003 and have two children together.

[phyllis]

The "Scuba Steve" action figure in this movie is a fictional doll made up by Adam Sandler. "Scuba Steve" is based on a doll that Adam Sandler owned when he was a child, called Diver Dan. Diver Dan can be seen briefly in the intro scenes of another Dennis Dugan film, Problem Child (1990).

[janice]

Julian (Cole and Dylan Sprouse), Sonny (Adam Sandler), and the delivery guy (Rob Schneider), while on the couch watching television, they were watching an episode of Columbo (1971). Director Dennis Dugan played a detective on a 1976 episode of that show.

[brent]

Some critics have compared it to a updated version of The Kid which stared Charlie Chaplin.

[alyssa]

While filming, The Waterboy (1998) came out and was a huge success. Noticing the box office, Sony sent a memo to the set, letting the production team and Adam Sandler know that they had extra money to film or expand scenes they felt were lacking. This allowed smaller characters played by Rob Schneider and Steve Buscemi to have greater roles.

[christina]

The young boy, Julian, was not actually one person, but two people; twins used for the movie. Famous from shows like Friends (1994) and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005), Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse played the role of Julian.

[sara]

Based on the evidence given in the movie, Julian's (Cole and Dylan Sprouse's) natural mother is named Jan McGrath.

[jessie]

Adam Sandler's wife, Jackie Sandler, played the waitress in the bar that gets Julian (Cole and Dylan Sprouse) a root beer. This started the tradition of having his wife cameo in almost every Adam Sandler film.

[harry]

Adam Sandler was actually in tears during the scene where Julian gets taken away from Sonny.

[russell]

Scuba Steve was designed and created for the film Big Daddy by artist/director/actor Digger Mesch.

[jamie]

Julian's nickname is 'Frankenstein', 13 years later Adam Sandler was in the animated movie Hotel Transylvania (2012) which was followed by two sequels, as Count Dracula with his longtime friend and collaborator Kevin James as the voice of Frankenstein Monster.

[christina]

The most successful movie of Adam Sandler's career, making over $163 million domestically until the animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) made over $169 million in 2015. It's still his most successful live-action movie.

[amber]

Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse (Julian) lost baby teeth during production and had to be fitted with temporary replacements. Dylan Sprouse's tooth fell out in the middle of a take. Near the end of the movie, just after entering Hooters for his birthday, Sonny (Adam Sandler) makes a reference to Julian about dealing with a missing tooth while holding him, "Hey, You! Still missin' that tooth?").

[cameron]

In the courtroom scene, Mr. Brooks' (Josh Mostel's) attorney is named Ted Castelucci. This is also the name of the film's composer, Teddy Castellucci.

[kyle]

Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse did not actually urinate on the buildings or plants. It was faked with pocket-sized pumps.

[lynn]

The New York Rangers jersey worn by Tommy is that of Adam Graves, a forward who played on the team from 1992 to 2001. Despite having the alternate captain emblem on the chest, The letters G & S were digitally removed from the back nameplate as the producers wanted to avoid paying licensing rights to the National Hockey League Players Association for the use of Graves' name.