Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[carla]

An improvised scene at a record store where Damone tells Spicoli where to find some music was filmed but never used.

[javier]

When Ratner is getting dating advice from Damone in Damone's bedroom, Ratner is wearing a T-shirt for the movie, Popeye (1980) which starred Ray Walston, who played Popeye Senior and then Mr. Hand.

[chris]

Mr. Vargas was based on Clairemont High School biology teacher George L. Jones. Jones kept many animals in class (rattlesnakes, entire beehives, bats), and would regularly take students on strange field trips, such as visiting the San Diego sewage treatment plant, or to watch surgery on pigs at the University of California, San Diego. Jones taught at Clairemont from 1962 to the 1982.

[caroline]

Considered one of the first high school comedies.

[tammy]

Although the real explanation for Ratner's failing to follow Damone's advice about playing side one of Led Zeppelin IV may have actually been caused by the production's inability to license the album in question, there is a story-consistent explanation which actually got laughs from at least some audience members: Ratner is so clueless that he mistakenly plays the wrong Led Zeppelin album on his date with Stacy.

[javier]

Sean Penn was asked to read for the part of Brad Hamilton as well as that of Jeff Spicoli.

[kyle]

The scene where Brad is caught masturbating was later parodied at the end of the video for Fountains of Wayne's hit song, "Stacy's Mom". Coincidentally, Brad's sister's name is Stacy.

[sara]

The mall scenes were shot during the night from when the mall closed at 9:30 to when it opened at 9. The two kids who Damone scalps the tickets to were under 18 and due to labor laws couldn't film past certain hours so they only had a 10 minute window to shoot their scenes.