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Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Sarah Rose Karr (Emma) was Ivan Reitman's favorite kindergartner. "She marched to her own drummer. If she wants to stand, let her stand. If she wants to sit, let her sit."
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The movie was filmed in Astoria, Oregon.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The script for Kindergarten Cop appealed to Arnold Schwarzenegger after he became a father in 1989.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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All of the classroom scenes were shot on a set in L.A. so Arnold Schwarzenegger could be near his family.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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A possible alternate ending would had seen Kimble shot and killed by Eleanor Crisp.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Jason Reitman: Ivan Reitman's son has a cameo as the boy making out with the girl that Kimble interrupts during the real fire drill.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The filmmakers auditioned more than 2,000 children for the 30 kids in Kimble's class.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The character of Emma (Sarah Rose Karr) is named after director Ivan Reitman's own daughter, Emma.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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This is the only Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to date to contain a German word (Kindergarten) in its title. Literal translation: "children's garden" (nursery school).
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Arnold Schwarzenegger speculates that the film could have grossed an extra $25 million if it were less violent. But Ivan Reitman felt like the violence "had to be there or the film would just peter out at the end."
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In the "Police School" scene Kimble says to the class that "It's time now to turn this mush into muscle". The line is a humorous poke at Schwarzenegger himself: he was a champion bodybuilder prior to becoming an actor and politician, where began weight training at the age of 15 and won the Mr. Universe title at the age of 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest several times.
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In most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films he usually says the phrase "I'll be back." In this film, towards the end when he decides to be a teacher, he says "I'm back."
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Filmmakers recruited local Astoria kids to be extras in the school. They were paid $35 a day.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Arnold had a birthday during the filiming of this movie and the cast and crew threw him a surprise party with the kids singing happy birthday to him.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Ivan Reitman invented the five "Reitman Rules of Filmmaking" for the kids: Listen, act natural, know your character, don't look in the camera, and be disciplined.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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In reality, the kids loved Arnold Schwarzenegger . They were constantly climbing all over him like a jungle gym.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted on a gym being assembled while on location in Astoria.
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Throughout the entire movie Kimball continues to assure people that the ferret doesn't bite. Ironically, at the climax of the movie, Dominic is saved when the ferret crawls out of his jacket and bites Crisp in the neck.
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Amber Reaves who plays Kindergarten student Mary, the girl who starts the Gettysburg address, is the younger sister of Tiffany Reaves who plays the girl that Kimble catches kissing a boy(Jason Reitman) during the fire alarm.
Kindergarten Cop - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts