Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Rick: Isn`t Angus a cow`s name?
Angus: Moo.
[Punches Rick in the face] Angus: I don`t sweat. I rain.
Troy: Put it on a dead guy and bury it.
Angus: I can`t dance. My limbs are lethal weapons. Innocent people got hurt trying to teach me dance.
Angus: I`m still here, adenoid.
Angus: I`m still here, *asshole*! I`ll *always* be here!
[begins to violently push Rick across the dance floor]
Angus: You push me down and I`ll get right back up again, and again, and *again*, and *again* and * again*!
[Rick falls, hitting his head on the steps to the stage]
Angus: I could beat you *right* here, *right* now! But *I don’t want* to be better than you, Rick! *I don’t want* to be better than *anybody*! I want to be who I *am*: a *fat* kid, who`s good at science, and fair at football. That`s who I *am*! I can *live* with it. Why can`t you?
Rick: Because it`s not normal. *You’re* not normal.
Angus: And who is? You?
Rick: You bet your ass.
Angus: And so what? to be normal, we all have to be like YOU? There are 400 people in this room that are *nothing* like you! Some of them are fat, some of them are skinny. Some of them are tall, some of them are short. Some of them have braces, some of them have birth marks, or scars, or frizzy hair, or *ears that stick out*!
[Troy`s head pops up out of crowd]
Angus: But most of them probably walk through these halls *every day*, never telling anybody the truth about what they really want, or need, or believe, because people like you, *normal* people like *you*, have them *terrified* of being who they are. I mean, if *you’re* normal, what does that make them? So which is it, Rick? Are you normal? Or are you just one of us?
Rick: Whatever I am, it`s something you`re never gonna be.
Angus: Thank God.
Angus: I`m still here, asshole!
Troy: Oh, man. That`s what I call getting a slice in the ol` dick pie.
Angus: My grandfather was as smart as they come... when he was awake.
Grandpa: These ARE my teeth!
Angus: I guess - you paid for `em.
Grandpa: Don`t mind what other people think.
Angus Bethune: You don`t know what other people think anyway. Your mind is shot!
[Angus is wearing a plum tuxedo]
Angus Bethune: I look like Moby Grape.
Grandpa: Superman isn`t brave.
Angus: Did you take your pills this morning?
Grandpa: HeHe. You don`t understand. He`s smart, handsome, even decent. But he`s not brave. No, listen to me. Superman is indestructible, and you can`t be brave if you`re indestructible. It`s people like you and your mother. People who are different, and can be crushed and know it. Yet they keep on going out there every time.
[after Angus is announced as the Winter Ball King]
Troy: Holy shit!
Angus: I get this pain in my stomach whenever I see her.
Troy: You get a boner in your stomach?
Grandpa: Why does she talk to me like I`m a child?
Angus Bethune: Why does she talk to me like I`m an adult?
Angus Bethune: You just don`t know how it feels!
Troy: I don`t know how it feels? So you think you`re the only person on earth who wakes up every morning wishing they were someone else?
Angus: You just don`t know how it feels!
Troy: I don`t know how it feels? Do you think you`re the only one who wakes up wishing they could be somebody else?
Grandpa: Meg you`re making everybody crazy, you`re on me all the time about the marrage, you`re all over Angus about the science school crap...
Meg Bethune: Its not crap dad!
Grandpa: Its crap!
Meg Bethune: Its a wonderful opportunity for him, a chance to excel in something he`s really great at. Its good for Angus. Its also an opportunity for him to go someplace where he doesn`t have to account for who his parents are.
Grandpa: Screw what other people think! He doesn`t have to prove anything!
Meg Bethune: Neither does he. This dance thing is a prank. I don`t want him humiliated infront of the whole school.
Grandpa: You know what you`re doing? You`re not giving the boy credit for being strong.
Meg Bethune: Do you know every time he sits down in the cafeteria, the kids jump up like they`re being thrown off the bench? They call him big foot.
Grandpa: He never mentioned that to me.
Meg Bethune: He never told me either. Do you know what they did with his underwear? They ran it up the flag pole just to humilate him. And he gets up and goes back there every single day. Don`t you tell me I don`t know how strong my son is. I know. And if he wants to go to any god damn school where kids won`t slap their belly every time he walks by, then he damn well can.
Grandpa: That was you kid, third grade. Look how you turned out.
Rick: I`d lend you my shirt, but I`m afraid it might rip.
Troy: That`s because it`s cheap... Like your mother.
Trivia
In the original short story, Angus` dad was alive and both of his parents were gay. When the movie was first shot, Angus` mom was straight and his dad was gay. After the final cut, the filmmakers decided to abandon the "gay parents" situation for good. The beginning - and some key scenes - were re-shot with George C. Scott in his present role as Angus` grandfather.
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# Prior to release, the film was cut almost in half in length, deleting many scenes. Some of the scenes were shown on the TNT cable version of the film.
Throughout the film, the band Green Day is referenced many times. Green Day`s then producer Rob Cavallo is the film`s executive producer. This isn`t by coincidence. Cavallo has never produced movies, only albums for Reprise Records.
Weezer was asked to write a song inspired by this film and Rivers Cuomo read the script and wrote two songs: "Wanda" in which he sings from a first persons point of view with lyrics such as: "my mom drives a big rig, and my daddy`s gay" which referenced the the original script, and "You Gave Your Love to me Softly". Only the latter was used.
The original title for this movie was going to be "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune."
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# The shots in front of the school and at the football game were shot at Owatonna High School in Owatonna, Minnesota. The marching band playing during the opening credits is the actual Owatonna High School Marching Band.
James Van Der Beek`s film debut.
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