Stripes - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[albert]

The date of the film's release, June 26, 1981, is the same as the date on the Springfield Daily Examiner newspaper announcement of Sgt. Hulka: "ARMY HERO RETIRES" at the end of the film.

[toni]

Warren Oates and John Candy were both in 1941 (1979) although they had no scenes together in that movie.

[chris]

Harold Ramis admitted sneaking in veiled references to the Vietnam War in his early films as a writer/director. In one scene of "Stripes" Bill Murray's character exhorts his comrades, "But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're ten and one!" Ramis said the "one" represented America's loss in Vietnam and was his oblique commentary on the conflict.

[alyssa]

The mud wrestling scene was made up on the spot by Ivan Reitman. John Candy felt uncomfortable during filming, but Reitman talked him through it.

[clayton]

Casting director Karen Rea saw Conrad Dunn on the stage and asked him to read for the role of Francis "Psycho" Soyer in New York.

[willard]

Winger and Ziskey's recruiter, Morgan, carries the rank Army E-7, Sergeant First Class, Infantry, 101st Airborne.