Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That`s the kind of person that`s worth sticking with. Well, it`s not easy, that`s for sure. Now, I may not have the best track record in the world, but I have been with your stepmother for 10 years now and I`m proud to say that we`re very happy.
Well, it`s kind of skanky. Isn`t that what you girls call it? Skanky? Skeevy?
Are you having boy troubles? Because I gotta be honest with you; I don`t much approve of dating in your condition, `cause well... that`s kind of messed up.
Yum, this pretzel tastes like a freaking DONUT!
Can I use the facilities? Because being pregnant makes me pee like Seabiscuit!
Hey, yeah, uh, I`m just calling to procure a hasty abortion. What? - Can you just hold on for a second, I`m on my hamburger phone.
Uhhh, I hate it when adults use the term "sexually active." What does it even mean? Am I gonna like deactivate some day or is it a permanent state of being?
Bleeker`s mom was possibly attractive once, but now she looks like a Hobbit. You know, the fat one, that was in the Goonies.
Like it would be friggin` sweet if no one hit me.
Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked... it`s just noise.
You seem to be getting pregnanter these days.
She gave you... your own room in... in your whole house? For your... for your stuff? Wow, she`s got you on a long leash, Mark.
I never realize how much I like being home unless I`ve been somewhere really different for a while.
Yeah I came as soon as I got that ultrasound goo off my pelvis. It was crazy actually, my step-mom verbally abused the ultrasound tech and we got escorted off the premises.
Katrina`s not my girlfriend alright? And I doubt she gave you the stinkeye that`s just how her face looks, you know? That`s just her face.
I was thinking more, like, graphic designer... mid thirties, you know, with a cool Asian girlfriend who, like, dresses awesome and rocks out on the bass guitar. But I don`t want to be too particular.
When I see them all running like that, with their things bouncing around in their shorts, I always picture them naked, even if I don`t want to. All i see is pork swords.
I named my guitar "Roosevelt"-not Ted, Franklin. You know, the cute one, with polio.
I`m not crying, I`m just allergic to fine home furnishings.
Oh. My wife ordered one of those Tony Little Gazelles off the television... I don`t know about that guy. He doesn`t look right.
Trust me, you don`t. I actually have to wear a bra now and I have to rub this nasty cocoa butter stuff all over myself or my skin could get stretched too far and explode.
Yeesh, they sound like a cult, is what the sound like! And besides they already have three kids. They`re just like greedy little bitches!
hat`s a wise choice because I knew this girl who like had this crazy freak out because she took too many behavioral meds at once and she like ripped off her clothes, and dove into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and was like, "Blah I am a Kracken from the sea!"
Liberty Bell, if you put one more Baco on that potato, I`m gonna kick your little monkey butt.
: Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.
You should try talking to it. `Cause, like, supposedly they can hear you even though it`s all, like, ten-thousand leagues under the sea.
Oh, *wicked* pic in the PennySaver, by the way. Super classy - not like those people with the fake woods in the background. Honestly who do they think they`re fooling?
Next time I see that Bleeker kid I`m going to punch him in the wiener.
Yea, if I could just have the thing and give it to you now, I totally would. But I`m guessing it looks probably like a sea monkey right now and we should let it get a little cuter.
Excuse me. I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you`ve got in your stomach is Taco Bell.
As far as boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He is the cheese to my macaroni. And, I know that people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce, but... I guess normalcy isn`t really our style.
Yeah, I`m a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale.
No, I don`t like Katrina. She smells like soup. Have you ever smelled her? I mean, her whole house smells like soup!
Like I`d marry you! You`d be the meanest wife ever, okay? And I know that you weren`t bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, and then `The Blair Witch Project` was coming on Starz and you were like `I haven`t seen this since it came out and if so we should watch it` and then `but oh, no, we should just make out instead la la la`
Yea, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom I can think of so many cooler things to do that night. Like, you know what Bleek? I might pumice my feet, uh, I might go to Bren`s Unitarian Church, maybe get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice, you know? Cause all those things, would be exponentially cooler than going to prom with you.
That ain`t no Etch-A-Sketch. This is one doodle that can`t be un-did, Homeskillet.
No... I mean for real. `Cause you`re, like, the coolest person I`ve ever met, and you don`t even have to try, you know...
You should`ve gone to China, you know, `cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
The-the baby? I don`t really know much about it other than, I mean, it has fingernails, allegedly.
I`m sorry. I`m sorry... And if it is any consolation I have heartburn that is radiating in my knee caps and I haven`t taken a dump since like Wednesday... morning.
Wait... No! I mean, can`t we just, like, kick this old school? Like, I have the baby, put it in a basket and send it your way, like, Moses and the reeds?
Oh, you think you`re so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? Well, my five year old daughter could do that and let me tell you, she`s not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed. So why don`t you go back to night school in Mantino and learn a real trade.
How do you know I`m so poisonous? What if these adoptive parents turn out to be, like, evil molesters?
Nah... I mean, I`m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
Trivia
Ellen Page suggested that her character Juno would be a fan of the music by Kimya Dawson and The Moldy Peaches.
The hamburger phone in the movie is owned by the writer, Diablo Cody.
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# When searching for potential parents for her baby, Juno says she`s looking for someone cool "like a graphic designer." In real life, both "Juno" star Ellen Page`s father and Diablo Cody`s ex-husband are graphic designers.
The hamburger phone also turns up in Bleeker`s room, and can be seen clearly in the background.
At one point before Juno visits Mark, he is sitting at his computer reading Diablo Cody`s (the movie`s screenwriter) real-life blog, known as "The Pussy Ranch."
The first film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures to gross the $100 million mark at the box office.
The song that Mark and Juno play and sing together is "Doll Parts" by Hole. The song that Bleeker and Juno play together at the end of the film is "Anyone Else But You" by The Moldy Peaches.
The original title of the film was going to be Junebug, but was changed so it would not be confused with the 2005 Amy Adams film of the same name.
The pregnantly rounded minivan driven by Juno is a Toyota Previa. These were last manufactured in 1997, but are still quite common in Vancouver where the film was shot.
It was the highest-grossing film of all five Best Picture Oscar nominees (2008).
Juno was the Roman Goddess of childbirth and marriage.
Bren MacGuff, Juno`s step-mom, has a nail parlor called "Bren`s Ten." This is a reference to the old Bren-Ten pistol, which was Don Johnson`s sidearm of choice as Sonny Crockett in the `80s TV show "Miami Vice" (1984).
The animated opening title sequence was created by a company called Shadowplay and the shots of Ellen Page walking were achieved by having her walk on a treadmill which was later removed.
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# The "pork swords" on the track team were achieved by hanging balls from the inside waist band of their shorts. Director Jason Reitman then asked the boys to kick up their knees as they ran so the balls would bounce.
Director Jason Reitman had intended to make the scene in which Juno loads up her tray in the school lunch line as tribute to a scene in _Animal House (1979)_, which was produced by his father Ivan. But he decided against it because this would have changed the tone of the scene
The tic-tacs that fall out of Paulie`s mailbox were a special effect achieved by hooking a pump to the opposite side of the box just off-screen.
Michael Cera discovered that he could not successfully take a mouthful of tic-tacs and then say his lines. So he simply put the box up to his mouth but didn`t ingest any of the candy.
Shot in 31 days.
The comic book "Most Fruitful Yuki" is not real. It was dreamed up by screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Juno`s handwritten message in Bleeker`s yearbook was actually written by Diablo Cody.
All of the phone numbers begin with 55501 (which are the only numbers now reserved for movie/TV use) except for the number Juno dials early in the movie, which begins with 5555.
In a deleted scene featured on the DVD, Juno and Leah run into Mark at a video store. Director Jason Reitman`s previous film Thank You for Smoking (2005) can be seen on the shelf in the background.
The compact disc from which Mark plays "Superstar," by Sonic Youth, is "If I Were a Carpenter," a 1994 compilation of covers of The Carpenters songs.
The scene where Juno pulls the van over and cries on the side of the road was added after filming had already been completed and Ellen Page had gotten a hair cut. She is wearing a fake ponytail and her long bangs were trimmed into more of a face-frame cut that is visible in the shot.
Ellen Page came up with Juno`s hairstyle of the ponytail with long bangs on the sides of her face and did her own hair every day.
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# It was challenging to show all four seasons within a 30-day filming schedule. Soultions included digitally darkening spring cherry blossoms to look like summer flowers and having crew members off camera throw falling silk leaves for autumn. There was a fluke snowstorm (unusual for March in Vancouver) and three different shots were coordinated that day before the snow could melt. Since fake snow can be expensive to put in a shot, this saved the film considerable money for the winter scenes.
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# Several of the actors in the film have appeared in movie adaptations of Marvel comics. Ellen Page played Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), J.K. Simmons played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man trilogy, and `Jennifer Garner` played Elektra in Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005).
Director Jason Reitman mentions on the DVD audio commentary that several objects in Bleeker`s room, including a Hebrew alphabet poster on his door, a framed Bar Mitzvah certificate on his wall, and a dreidel on his shelf, are supposed to indicate that Bleeker is Jewish.
There is a Korean film by the same name, which also features a young girl who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend of the same age. However, the stories are vastly different.
When Bleeker says the line "She smells like soup", it`s the same reason Mike Myers` character broke up with a girl in So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993).
Jennifer Garner and her real-life daughter, Violet, appeared together in the Mall scene when Jennifer`s character, Vanessa, was playing with her friend`s daughter.
The note that Juno left on Vanessa`s doorstep was written on the back of a receipt from Jiffylube.
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Ellen Page
(as Juno MacGuff)
with Michael Cera
(as Paulie Bleeker)
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