Superbad/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Seth's a would-be rapist.
    • Or an extremely repressed homosexual.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: Seth and his dick drawings, which is never spoken of or mentioned again and is arguably one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
    • Also Seth's fantasies about buying alcohol, which include pulling an eighty-dollar bill out of his sleeve and a full-scale shootout in which he gets his throat slashed with a broken bottle and graphically bleeds to death.
    • The unrated version expands a throwaway moment of Seth trying on tight jeans at a store in the theatrical version to a full, two-minute scene of Seth and Evan discussing the jeans' positives and (mostly) negatives.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The film has a varied and pretty awesome soundtrack, though highlights include "Too Hot to Stop" by The Bar-Kays during the opening credits, "Roda" during Seth's grade school flashback, Curtis Matfield's "PS I Love You" at the end of the film and "Funk Mc Lovin" by Bootsy Collins during the credits.
    • Not to be ignored are "Bustin Out" by Rick James, played as Seth and Evan meet up with Fogell; "Here I Come" by the Roots, played when Seth arrives at the party, and "Pork and Beef" by The Coup (Don't trust the police, no justice, no peace...)
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: McLovin, for good or bad.
  • Memetic Mutation: I AM MCLOVIN.
    • "Fuck my life."
  • What an Idiot!: The asshole with the mullet—exactly what did he hope to accomplish by spitting on the cops?
    • Nothing, but he was a Jerkass to Seth and Evan at the beginning.

'Fogell: Fuckin' cops! No jail can hold ME!!!
Mullet Bully: Fuckin' pigs. (Mullet Bully spits, Officer Slater gets splashed. Slater immediately points his nightstick at the punk.)
Mullet Bully: Oh shi- (Officer Slater swings his baton, knocking the spitting idiot out.)
Officer Slater: Nice mullet, asshole.