Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Dewey Finn: I have been touched by your kids... and I`m pretty sure that I`ve touched them. Dewey Finn: Now raise your goblet of rock. It`s a toast to those who rock!
Dewey Finn: I pledge allegiance... to the band... of Mr. Schneebly... and will not fight him... for creative control... and will defer to him on all issues related to the musical direction of the band.
Dewey Finn: You, Freddy, what do you like to do?
Freddy: I dunno.
[pause]
Freddy: Burn stuff?
Theo: You`re out. This is Spider; he`s replacing you.
Spider: What`s up, dog.
Dewey Finn: Now, what makes you mad more than anything in the world?
[sees Billy who has his hand raised]
Dewey Finn: Billy?
Billy: You.
Dewey Finn: Billy, we`ve already told me off. Let`s move on.
Billy: You`re tacky and I hate you!
Dewey Finn: Okay, you see me after class!
Dewey Finn: [teaching Lawrence a handshake] Slap it.
[they smack the palms of their hands together and then the back of their hands together]
Dewey Finn: Shoot it.
[they pretend like their hands are guns and shoot at each other]
Dewey Finn: Kaboot it.
[they pound their fists together]
Dewey Finn: [on sticking it to "The Man"] Yes! But, you can`t just say it, man. You`ve gotta feel it in you`re blood and guts! If you wanna rock, you gotta break the rules. You gotta get mad at the man! And right now, I`m the man. That`s right, I`m the man, and who`s got the guts to tell me off? Huh? Who`s gonna tell me off?
Freddy: Shut the hell up, Schneebly!
Dewey Finn: That`s it Freddy, that`s it! Who can top him?
Alicia: Get outta here, stupidass.
Dewey Finn: Yes, Alicia!
Summer Hathaway: You`re a joke, you`re the worst teacher I`ve ever had!
Dewey Finn: Summer, that is great! I like the delivery because I felt your anger!
Summer Hathaway: Thank you.
Lawrence: You`re a fat loser and you have body odor.
Dewey Finn: ...All right, all right! Now, is everybody nice and pissed off?
Frankie: Miss Mullins, you`re the man.
Miss Mullins: Thank you, Frankie.
Dewey Finn: Ok, here`s the deal. I have a hangover. Who knows what that means?
Frankie: Doesn`t that mean you`re drunk?
Dewey Finn: No. It means I was drunk yesterday.
Freddy: It means you`re an alcoholic.
Dewey Finn: Wrong.
Freddy: You wouldn`t come to work with a hangover unless you were an alcoholic. Dude, you got a disease!
Dewey Finn: Hmmm... hmmm... What`s your name?
Freddy: Freddy Jones.
Dewey Finn: Ok, Freddy Jones, shut up!
Dewey Finn: OK, Ms DumBum ain`t your teacher today, I am, and I have a headache and the runs. So I say, time for recess!
Miss Mullins: Sorry to interrupt, Mrs. Lemmons said that she heard music coming from the classroom.
Dewey Finn: Uh oh, it looks like Mrs. Lemmons is on crack, right kids?
Dewey Finn: ...And Therefore E=MC2, oh, Miss Mullins, come in
Miss Mullins: I`m sorry, to interupt but Miss. Lemmons said she heard music coming from the classroom.
Dewey Finn: Music? Uh, music. I havn`t heard any music. Uh oh, you know what, Miss Lemmons must be on crack, right kids?
Miss Mullins: Uh, well, what`s that?
[Points at guitar]
Rosalie Mullins: I`ve just been informed that all your children are missing.
Patty Di Marco: Thats is so typical Ned, when are you going to stop being a push over, when are you finally going to start sticking up for yousel...
[Ned slams door in Patty`s face]
Dewey Finn: Does anyone play drums?
Freddy: I play percussion.
Frankie: Yea, that`s cause he couldn`t play anything else!
Freddy: Shut up!
Freddy: Are we going to be goofing off like this everyday?
Dewey Finn: We`re not goofing off. We`re creating musical fusion.
Freddy: Ok, so are we going to be creating musical fusion everyday?
Dewey Finn: Yes.
Freddy: Cool!
Dewey Finn: In the words of AC/DC: We roll tonight... to the guitar bite... and for those about to rock... I salute you.
Michelle: Mr. S? We came up with some names for the band.
Dewey Finn: All right, hit me.
Eleni: The Bumblebees?
Dewey Finn: No, it`s too sissy.
Eleni: The Koala Bears?
Dewey Finn: No, what are you talking about? It`s too sissy.
[Dewey sees Miss Mullins]
Dewey Finn: Hey, Miss Mullins.
Michelle: How about, Pig Rectum?
Rosalie Mullins: Michelle!
Dewey Finn: It`s a science project.
Dewey Finn: God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants. Please give us the power to blow people`s minds with our high voltage rock. In your name we pray, Amen.
Dewey Finn: [raising his first three fingers] Read between the lines!
Freddy: Come on man, we`re on a mission. One great rock show can change the world... look out the window...
Dewey Finn: [seeing bus and students] No way! That`s so punk rock.
Billy: You`re gonna talk to me about style? You can`t even dress yourself... look at that bow tie.
Dewey Finn: Don`t you be talkin` about my bow tie.
Dewey Finn: Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can`t win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you`re just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don`t know the Man. He`s everywhere. In the White House... down the hall... Ms. Mullins, she`s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he`s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock `n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don`t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome `cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
Dewey Finn: So, how long`s the job?
Miss Mullins: as much as a few weeks
Dewey Finn: so how much we talkin here?
Miss Mullins: We pay our subs $650 a week so if you could let Mr Schneebly know that`d be great.
Dewey Finn: Hold on a second I think I hear him coming in. NED! PHONE!
[fidgets with phone]
Dewey Finn: [impersonating Ned] Hello this is Ned Schneebly.
Dewey Finn: Does any one have any food?
[no one raises their hands]
Dewey Finn: No, you`re not gonna get in trouble. I`m hungry.
Dewey Finn: Sell my guitars? Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?
Dewey Finn: Look the first thing you do when you start a band is talk about your influences. That`s how you figure out what kind of band you want to be. So who do you like? Blondie?
Marta: Christina Aguilera
Dewey Finn: Who? No. Come on. What? You, Shortstop.
Leonard: Puff Daddy
Dewey Finn: Wrong. Billy?
Billy: Liza Minnelli?
Dewey Finn: Ms. Mullins, would like to get a cup of coffee with me?
Rosalie Mullins: You`d like me to get a coffee with you?
Dewey Finn: Yeah, I would.
[Cuts to a waiter holding beers]
Rosalie Mullins: Are you sure you don`t sell coffee here?
Waiter: [In squeaky accent] Uh-huh, I`m quite sure.
Rosalie Mullins: The thing is, Mr. Schneebly
Dewey Finn: Please... call me Dewey.
[Realising his mistake]
Dewey Finn: Ned. Ned. I was thinking of my other name. My middle name.
Tomika: [explaining why she is nervous] They`ll laugh at me.
Dewey Finn: What? Why would they laugh at you?
Tomika: I dunno... because I`m fat.
Dewey Finn: Tomika... Ok, you`ve heard of Aretha Franklin right? She`s a big lady. But when she sings, she blows people`s minds! Everyone wants to party with Aretha! And, you know who else has a weight problem?
Tomika: Who?
Dewey Finn: Me. But when I get up there and start doing my thing, people worship me! Because I`m sexy, and chubby, man.
Tomika: Why don`t you go on a diet?
Dewey Finn: Because I like to eat! Is that such a crime?
[improvising an educational song]
Dewey Finn: Math is a wonderful thing. Math is a really cool thing. So get off your ath, let`s do some math. Math, math, math, math, math. Three minus four is?
Summer Hathaway: Negative one.
Dewey Finn: That`s right. And six times a billion is?
Marco: Six billion?
Dewey Finn: Nailed it. And fifty-four is forty-five more than what is the answer, Marta?
Marta: Nine.
Dewey Finn: No, it`s eight.
Marta: ...No, it`s nine.
Dewey Finn: ...Yes, I was testing you... it`s nine. And that`s a magic number.
Dewey Finn: Those that can`t do, teach, and those that can`t teach... teach gym.
Dewey Finn: You don`t have to worry about me because I`m a hard-ass. And if a kid gets out of line, I got no problem smacking them in the head.
[Dewey plays the song in the jukebox]
Rosalie Mullins: I LOVE THIS SONG!
Dewey Finn: Really?
Rosalie Mullins: Yes! Stevie Nicks!
Dewey Finn: Yeah... Stevie!
Rosalie Mullins: You know she came to town and she did a concert and she was just so... wild! Oh my gosh! Oh!
Dewey Finn: Yeah, she put on the best show I`ve ever seen. And she is so much better live than she is on the album!
Rosalie Mullins: Yes, oh my gosh! No comparison!
Dewey Finn: You know, I`d like to take the kids to a concert.
Rosalie Mullins: Concert?
Dewey Finn: There is one at the end of the month... but you have a policy about field trips.
Rosalie Mullins: Would it be... educational?
Dewey Finn: Would it be educational? It would be VERY educational they play Beethoven and Mozart and stuff.
Rosalie Mullins: Maybe we can make an exception!
Dewey Finn: YES!
Rosalie Mullins, Dewey Finn: [singing the Stevie Nicks song while doing a high-5] Sings a song, sounds like she`s singing whooo! Baby whoo! Said whooo!
Rosalie Mullins: Well I went today, maybe I will go again... TOMORROW!
Dewey Finn: Dude, I service society by rocking, OK? I`m out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!
Dewey Finn: Those kids have a rare blood disease: "Stick-it-to-da-man-noisis".
Battle of the Bands director: What`s that? I`ve never heard of it.
Dewey Finn: You`re lucky. Because it`s hell.
Dewey Finn: Katie, what was that thing you were playing today, the big thing?
Katie: Cello.
Dewey Finn: Ok. This is a bass guitar. And it`s the exact same thing but instead of playing it like this you tip it on the side... cello, you got a bass.
Dewey Finn: Give me a platform. Let`s rock, let`s rock, today. Now do it to me.
Lawrence: Let`s rock, let`s rock, today.
Dewey Finn: That`s good. Slap it, shoot it, ka-boot it.
Dewey Finn: [showing Lawrence a long, complicated handshake] Let`s, rock, let`s, rock, today.
Dewey Finn: I`m a teacher. All I need are minds for molding.
Dewey Finn: And we`re gonna start a revolution ok? And You`re gonna be a funny little footnote on my epic ass!
DeweyFinn: Its gonna be a really tough project, you`re gonna have to use your head, your brain and your mind too.
Summer Hathaway: Groupie?
Dewey Finn: What`s the matter?
Summer Hathaway: You want me to be a groupie?
Dewey Finn: Well... a groupie`s an important job.
Summer Hathaway: I researched groupies on the Internet.They`re sluts!They sleep with the band!
Dewey Finn: No, that`s not true. They`re like cheerleaders.
Dewey Finn: Who are you babe? This is my apartment babe.
Patty Di Marco: Oh oh, not if you don`t pay your rent, it`s not.
Freddy: Rock isn`t about getting an A. Sex Pistols never won anything.
Lawrence: [to Freddy] You`re an idiot.
Freddy: Shut up!
Lawrence: You shut up!
Freddy: You wanna go?
Tomika: You touch him, I`ll shove those sticks down your throat.
Dewey Finn: Listen! You can`t leave. You haven`t heard our band.
Battle of the Bands director: Sorry, the bill is full. We`re already overbooked.
Dewey Finn: No, let us just play one song. We`re all here, we`re ready to go.
Battle of the Bands director: [looks at the kids] Who are they?
Dewey Finn: They`re my band.
Battle of the Bands director: Kids? What is this, some kind of gimmick?
Dewey Finn: No, it`s not a gimmick. I know, they`re kids, but they`re awesome. Just listen!
Battle of the Bands director: Look, thanks for comin` down, but you`re really not what we`re looking for.
Dewey Finn: [throws his chair across the floor] You listen to me! These kids have worked their little fingers to the bone just to play one song for you so you just sit down, shut up and listen!
Battle of the Bands director: Sheila, call security.
Spider: You`re hot, you`re so hot...
Miss Mullins: What? Are you warm?
Leonard: You mean we`re not in the band?
[backstage]
Female Security Guard: Sorry. To get in, you`ve got to be in a band or have a pass.
Miss Mullins: I am principal of the school`s band.
Female Security Guard: Oh, right on.
Dewey Finn: [Assigning positions to the band members] Lead guitar... Zack Attack. On bass... Posh Spice. On keyboards, Mr. Cool. And on drums, Spazzy McGee. OK, Blondie, Brace Face, you`re singing backup. All right, Tough Guy, Shortstop, Fancy Pants, get over here. You`re on security detail.
Billy: Can I be the band stylist instead?
Dewey Finn: Of course you can, Fancy Pants. OK. Carrot Top, Roadrunner, Turkey Sub, we`re gonna have a lot of equipment... And you three...
[looking at the three tiny girls]
Dewey Finn: groupies... As for me, I will be singing lead vocal and shredding guitar.
Dewey Finn: No you`re not hardcore! Unless you live hardcore! And the legend of the rent was way hardcore!
[during a jam session that takes place over the film`s closing credits, Zack performs a "face melter" on his electric guitar. Dewey appears next to him with his face contorted]
Dewey Finn: Dude, is my face okay? I think you melted it off.
Dewey Finn: Summer, you`re the class whatever. Go to the board
Summer Hathaway: Factotum
Dewey Finn: Factotor
Mrs. Lemmons: Would you care to join us, Mr Schneebly
Dewey Finn: Yeah
Mrs. Lemmons: Did I say that correctly? "Schneebly"
Dewey Finn: Actually it`s "Schnayblay"
Dewey Finn: And today`s assignment in class...
Alicia, Marta, Tomika: ...kick some ass!
Dewey Finn: I`ll have the rent by the end of the week, go tell the mayor.
Lawrence: [telling off Dewey as Mr. S] You`re a fat loser and you have body odor!
[awkward silence]
Dewey Finn: [when Ned asks him to sell one of his guitars] Would you tell Picasso to sell one of his guitars?
Patty Di Marco: Oh, my God! He`s an *idiot*!
Trivia
Miranda Cosgrove is very musical compared to her character Summer Hathaway who could not sing.
The big posters in Dewey`s bedroom are of the The Sex Pistols, The Who, and New York City rock band Evil Jake. They were included because set designers photographed lead singer Mike Jacobs` apartment as research on how struggling musicians actually live, and Dewey`s apartment is partially modeled on Mike`s.
Stunt men were used to catch Jack Black at the end for the stage dive (just in case).
Stephen Frears was originally approached to direct.
Writer Mike White is actually not a fan of classic rock. The basis of the movie is actually used so Jack Black could perform his own favorite music
The idea for the movie came when writer Mike White moved into an apartment next to Jack Black. White would often find Jack Black running naked through the halls or blasting much of the music featured in the movie at full volume.
The script originally called for Jack Black and Joan Cusack`s characters to fall in love following their outing to the bar.
In the photo that Dewey holds up of his and Ned`s old band, the other person is Richard Linklater, the director.
Ned`s old band, Maggotdeath is a reference to the metal band, Megadeth.
All parents` cars are Volvos.
Dewey`s guitar is a Gibson SG Standard.
The finger point and nod that Jack Black teaches Zack is actually a move that Angus Young of AC/DC performs in concerts.
The rock band Led Zeppelin are notoriously hesitant to allow their music to be licensed for commercial purposes. Knowing this, Richard Linklater filmed a plea by actor Jack Black in front of 1,000 screaming fans, imploring the band to let the production use the "Immigrant Song" in the movie. The plea worked and the filmed request is included on the DVD.
The original screenplay was called "The School of Rock", and it was later shortened to "School of Rock". However, the opening credits had already been designed and partially shown in theaters with the word "The" in the title. Director Linklater decided not to digitally remove the extra word from the credits.
Early in filming, an insecure Robert Tsai approached director Linklater and tried to talk him out of letting him be in the film because he felt he wasn`t right for the part. Linklater responded that it was his very insecurity that made him exactly right for the part, and kept him in.
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# The riff of the Darkness song "Black Shuck" is used in the film, but "Growing On Me" appears on the soundtrack. This is because Black Shuck contains the line "Black Shuck, that dog don`t give a fuck" repeatedly.
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# In the film, when the "groupies" approach Dewey at his desk to unveil the band`s name they find him crooning a strange song and strumming his guitar. The song he is singing is the theme to the little known Internet comedy series "Computerman" (2003), starring Jack Black.
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# When asked for his opinion about testing from the other teachers, Jack Black dodges the question with song lyrics including the line "Let the children`s laughter remind us how we used to be". One of the teachers asks if it is from a song, but he denies it. They are in fact from the song, "Greatest Love of All".
The shirt that Freddy is wearing in the end is from Green Day`s 2001 "Warning" tour.
Although the children in the film are supposed to all be the same age, the child actors ranged in age from Kevin Alexander Clark, who was nearly 15 by the time of the film`s release, to Miranda Cosgrove, who has just turned 10 by the time of the film`s release.
Dewey`s nickname for Freddy the drummer, "Spazzy McGee", is a reference to an early draft of the character in which Freddy is a spastic sufferer of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and can be seen taking Ritalin during class.
Miranda Cosgrove, who plays Summer in the movie, can sing. She took about a 45-minute "bad singing" lesson to sing horrible for the song "Memory" when `Jack Black``s character was looking for backup singers.
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# As Dewey heads into the Battle of The Bands contest towards the end of the film he walks through a corridor and past two musicians wearing shades, leaning against a wall. The two are members of The Mooney Suzuki, the band who provide extra instrumentation on the soundtrack.
All the kids really play their instruments, and the backup singers are real vocalists. Jack Black also played a bit of guitar in the movie (for example, when he is teaching "Smoke on the water", "Iron man" and other songs to Zach), but he didn`t do the guitar solos.
A DVD bonus feature reveals that the movie was originally going to be a musical.
In the scene where the class are at the tryouts for the Battle of the Bands contest, Summer and Dewey are on the stage talking to the director. In this scene, when Jack Black`s character gets frustrated, he throws a chair. According to the commentary on the DVD, this wasn`t part of the script and Miranda Cosgrove didn`t know this was going to happen. You can see her react by jumping when the chair is thrown. This is a completely real reaction.
The piece the children play in the band hall is Rodrigo`s "Concierto de Aranjuez".
When Dewey asks Marta to prove she can sing, she sings "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" from Annie. She in fact, starred in Annie on Broadway when she was younger.
Originally in the script, Dewey had supposed to have run the teacher over before she came to school which stopped her from teaching the class for 3 weeks. After, they changed it to her falling in the shower instead.
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# Richard Linklater taught Miranda Cosgrove how to do the screwed mouth face after she finds out what a groupie is and confronts Dewey about it.
Jack Black thought of all the nicknames for the kids.
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Mike White
(as Ned Schneebly)
with Sarah Silverman
(as Patty Di Marco)
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