Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
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Charlie: Good morning, angels.
Dylan, Natalie, Alex: Good morning, Charlie!
[one of Alex`s muffins is embedded in the door]
Bosley: What do you call this?
Dylan: Chinese fighting muffin.
Bosley: That`s not funny. A friend of mine took a fighting muffin in the chest; they sent him home in four Ziploc bags.
Chad: Starfish, I would just like to say that I`m honored, honored to see you taking an interest in my work and I also think you`re very pretty and... (sees girls getting scuba gear on) Starfish? Where are you going? Starfish are you going swimming? Where are you going? Where are you going again Starfish? Was it the Chad?
Dylan: No the Chad was great.
Chad: The Chad was great.
Chad: Is it the eggs?
Dylan: It`s not the eggs.
Chad: Is it the boat?
Dylan: No, it`s not the boat, I have to go though.
Chad: Is it the Chad?
Dylan: It might be the Chad.
Chad: The Chad... It`s the Chad!
[Chad falls into the water]
Eric Knox: So where we going, House of Pancakes or The Sizzler?
Vivian Wood: What are you, the cheapest man on the planet?
Chad: The Chad... is stuck.
[Natalie, Dylan, Alex, and Chad are on a boat]
Natalie: Hey Chad, does this thing go any faster? We`re kind of in a hurry, and I could really open her up, and if you wanted me to drive.
[turns to Dylan]
Natalie: I could drive, right?
Chad: I`m sorry, friend of Starfish, but there`s only one captain of this love boat. That captain is me. The Chad.
Natalie: The Chad.
[both Natalie and Dylan are giggling]
Natalie: Chad, captain of the love boat-
Chad: [correcting Natalie] *The* Chad.
Natalie: We`re kind of in a hurry.
Chad: [repeating] *The* Chad.
Roger Corwin: You`re very good. With your hands. I could use someone like you on my staff.
Alex: Thanks for the offer but my hands aren`t going anywhere near your staff.
Vivian Wood: Never send a man to do a woman`s job.
Charlie: Once upon a time there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women with three things in common: they`re brilliant, they`re beautiful, and they work for me. My name is Charlie.
Alex: Jason, I haven`t been honest with you; I`m not a bikini waxer!
Alex: Oh, my God, you`re hit!
Jason Gibbons: No, it`s nothing. I mean the squibs hurt a little when they go off but... what happened to my trailer?
Alex: Jason
Jason Gibbons: Were you in there while that happened? I mean, look at it!
Alex: Jason, I haven`t been completely honest with you. I`m not a bikini waxer.
Jason Gibbons: Bummer. I mean... that was kind of a turn on.
Alex: All right, let`s get one thing straight between us.
Jason Gibbons: Go ahead. We`re way past keeping secrets at this point.
Alex: This is gonna be long, hard and rough.
Jason Gibbons: Sometimes when it`s rough I just get there faster.
Alex: If you don`t diffuse this bomb, Logan, LA is gonna become a new underwater attraction.
Jason Gibbons: Which wire? The red one or the blue one?
Alex: Bump bump baah.
Jason Gibbons: That is not helping.
Alex: Ooh, my muffins.
Jason Gibbons: This is stupid. Why wouldn`t I just yank the wire.
Alex: No honey, the real mechanism is inside encased in a titanium shell, if you trip the external feedback circuit the bomb will detonate.
Jason Gibbons: Wow! You know for a bikini waxer you know an awful lot about bombs.
Alex: Isn`t it amazing how much you can learn off of the internet?
Natalie: Where`s Knox? Is he OK?
Dylan: He`s fine. He`s the bad guy.
Bosley: And I had a really long talk with a squirrel one time, longer in fact than I can with most people.
Eric Knox: I gotta go torture and kill your boss.
Roger Corwin: He said what? Over my dead body? I can accept those terms.
Alex: Your methodologies are antiquated and weak. Your procedures of approval ensure that only the least radical ideas are rewarded. Meanwhile your competition is innovating.
[whip]
Dylan: [quietly] Ow.
Alex: You. What was the last suggestion you made to your boss?
Red Star Systems Techie: I said the coke machine should be free.
Alex: Why?
Red Star Systems Techie: Because caffeine helps us program.
Jason Gibbons: So when do I get to meet this Charlie.
Alex: Well, Charlie`s not a very social person.
Jason Gibbons: But Charlie`s a chick right? I mean, she`s definitely a woman?
Bouncer: Hey you! You wanna dance on stage?
Natalie, Pete: Us? Yeah!
Bouncer: No. Stage is for the ladies.
Natalie: Oh, then you know what? I`m just gonna find a place on the floor.
Pete: [to bouncer] Wait a minute!
[to Natalie]
Pete: This is like Soul Train`s highest honor, I am NOT gonna sit here and let you NOT go up there so yeah, she`ll go.
Natalie: Really? Cause I`ve always wanted to go up there.
Pete: Have a great time!
Natalie: See you in a minute!
Natalie: I have to go. I can`t explain now but will you call me tomorrow?
Pete: Sure.
[Natalie runs off. Runs back, kisses him and runs off again. Pete turns to the bouncers]
Bouncer: Oh, you bad!
Bouncer: Yeah, you bad!
Pete: Finally you guys warm up a little.
Dylan: And that`s kicking your ass!
Dylan: Figures that I would find the perfect guy, and he would already have the perfect girl.
Natalie: Do you know how hard it is to find a quality man in Los Angeles?
Natalie: They don`t call me balls out Natalie for nothing.
Natalie: [to UPS guy] I signed that release form,so you can just feel free to stick things in my slot.
Natalie: Alex! Don`t let him get away!
[Vivian Wood steals Natalie`s cell phone from her while she`s talking to her friend Pete]
Vivian Wood: Is this the famous Charlie?
Pete: No, this is Pete.
Chad: Good morning Starfish.
Dylan: Good morning Chad. Sweet Chad.
Dylan: Hold that thought.
Chad: Where are you going, Starfish and Friends?
[a film version of "T.J. Hooker" (1982) is playing]
Mr. Jones: [sighs] Another movie from an old TV show.
Natalie: Hey! I like that guy!
[During Natalie`s dream scene]
Natalie: Eduardo, move me.
[ordering at the drive through]
Dylan: I`ll have three burgers, three French fries and three cherry pies. What do you guys want?
Eric Knox: You`re a woman, you`ve got female intuition, *and* you`re a detective... and you didn`t know this was going to happen?
Alex: What do you know, a guy who speaks Natalie.
Alex: Flip your hair.
Natalie: What?
Alex: Flip your goddamn hair.
Pasqual: You crazy bastard!
Dylan: [as Mr. Jones] I think you mean crazy bitch.
Alex: Let`s see if I can win the teddy bear!
Pete: I`ll get tickets.
Natalie: I love tickets!
[mocking Eric Knox]
Dylan: I don`t know how to make chicken... jerk.
Natalie: Wait you guys, I`m not a yoyo!
Eric Knox: You know they say that in death all life`s questions are answered. Will you let me know?
[Knox shoots Dylan out the window]
Natalie: Oh!
[making bird noise]
Natalie: It`s a sitta pygmaya. A pygmy nuthatch! They only live in one place. CARMEL!
[first lines]
Flight Attendant: I said, "Look, lady, it`s not the seats that have gotten smaller, it`s your ass that has gotten bigger."
[last lines]
Dylan: To Charlie.
Alex: To Charlie.
Natalie: To Charlie.
Bosley: To Charlie.
[falls over]
Bosley: Let me toast you ladies, with some ice cubes!
Trivia
The script was re-written at least 30 times until one was deemed "acceptable" by the producers and director.
A total of 18 different writers worked on this film.
An argument between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu shut down filming for a day.
Tim Curry`s first line, "Over my dead body", is one of his trademark lines from his role as Wadsworth in Clue (1985).
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# When Bosley is a prisoner in the tower (near the end of the movie) there is one shot of him sitting and throwing a baseball against the wall, a reference to Steve McQueen in The Great Escape (1963).
Bill Murray`s line about once having had a long talk with a squirrel is a reference to his roles in Caddyshack (1980) and Groundhog Day (1993).
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# At the beginning of the movie, we are shown clips from the Angels` (notional) previous cases. In one, the Angels are seen in prison clothes, chained together. Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore each pull in different directions, and Cameron Diaz, who is in the middle, shouts "I am not a yo-yo!" This scene is an exact replica of one from the original TV series. In "Charlie`s Angels: Angels in Chains (#1.4)" (1976)’Farrah Fawcett` says the Cameron Diaz line.
The role of Alex was originally offered to Angelina Jolie who turned it down after admitting she was not a fan of the original series. It was then offered to Jada Pinkett Smith who declined it to film Bamboozled (2000) instead. Thandie Newton was finally cast but had to leave owing to freak weather which caused the Mission: Impossible II (2000) schedule to overrun. The role was eventually taken by Lucy Liu.
When Natalie is in the Red Star mainframe, she lifts up a computer board where she installs the antenna. The computer board is the motherboard of an Apple PowerMac G3. You can see the FireWire and USB ports and the wave-design back panel.
The device that the Angels attach to the system in Red Star is a modified Griffin Technologies iMate, an ADB-USB adapter used to connect old Apple Desktop Bus peripherals to newer USB Macs.
The mobile phones the angels use are Nokia 8260.
The Thin Man doesn`t say a word throughout the entire film.
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# When shown as an in-flight movie airlines remove the opening scene of the angels retrieving a bomb from a 747, opening the emergency door, and parachuting out.
Milla Jovovich, Alyssa Milano and Julia Roberts were among the many actresses who were forerunners for the parts of Natalie, Dylan and Alex.
Jordan Ladd was asked to audition for the part of an angel but declined.
The Thin Man, played by Crispin Glover, originally had a speaking role, but Glover didn`t like the lines, so he asked for them to be removed. The director and producer agreed to make it a non-speaking role to give the character a more mysterious feel.
When Dylan falls outside the kid`s house, the two kids are playing Squaresoft`s Final Fantasy VIII (_Fainaru fantajî VIII (1999) (VG)_) (It`s not a two-player game, but they might not actually both be playing - that`s why this hasn`t appeared in the goofs list).
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# The original cast of "Charlie`s Angels" (1976) - Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - were invited to make cameo appearances, but declined. Reportedly, Fawcett said she`d only do it if she were allowed to be the voice of Charlie, and Jackson insisted on playing the villainous role that eventually went to Kelly Lynch. Ultimately, John Forsythe and Smith did appear in the sequel, Charlie`s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)). Smith`s role was uncredited, however.
The girls trained with their martial arts master for three months, eight hours a day.
Jenny McCarthy auditioned for the role of Natalie.
In the German dubbed version, the Angels` "secret language" lines are changed from Finnish to Japanese.
Frank Coraci was once attached to direct.
The white convertible in the movie is a 1969 Camaro RS/SS Indy 500 Pace Car one of only 3,675 made.
The hillside house is modeled after a real California architectural landmark, the Chemosphere House created by architect John Lautner. The entire house was created on a soundstage and was actually much larger and rounder than the original.
Cameo: [Cheung-Yan Yuen] The film`s martial arts choreographer and trainer appears as a fellow passenger on the plane in first class at the start of the film. He can be seen speaking in Cantonese to two pretty women, teaching them to say "thank you".
The song played during the party where Natalie meets Pete for the first time is "Twiggy Twiggy" sung by Japanese group Pizzicato Five.
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# The speaker sitting on Bosley`s desk, through which the Angels hear Charlie`s assignments, is almost the same as the one used in the TV series ("Charlie`s Angels" (1976)). The speaker in the original series had a small "Bell" in the lower corner, the movie version did not.
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# Lucy Liu and Crispin Glover fight in a bell tower, the bell rope is cut, and the bell falls, just missing Kelly Lynch and Cameron Diaz. A similar scene appears in Shanghai Noon (2000), also starring Liu, where a fight takes place on a bell tower and ultimately the bell falls, but on this occasion it`s Liu herself, and Jackie Chan, who just miss being squashed.
In the scene where Drew Barrymore`s character "drops in" on two kids playing video games, it`s the same house used in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which co-starred Barrymore. A poster of the 1982 film is visible on the wall over the television.
The secret language the Angels use is Finnish, though very poorly pronounced. They said in Finnish: Alex: "Onko sinun ja Knoxin välillä menossa jotain?" Dylan: "Ei tietenkään." Natalie: "On vain niin, että suhteet asiakkaiden kanssa ovat tosi huonoja ideoita." Dylan: "Olen samaa mieltä." Translated roughly in English: Alex: "Is there something going on between you and Knox?" Dylan: "Of course not." Natalie: "It`s just that relationships with customers are very bad ideas." Dylan: "I agree." Drew Barrymore`s pronunciation was the best.
Drew Barrymore bought the screen rights to "Charlie`s Angels" (1976) prior to the movie being filmed - a decision that earned her an estimated $40 million for the first film and a possible $80 million for the second.
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# Drew Barrymore was a huge "Harry Potter" fan, even going so far as to read bits of the books to the cast and crew during production. At the beginning of the film, during the clips of previous jobs, she can be seen wearing a Harry Potter disguise, complete with robes, black hair and round black glasses.
Although the "bad guys" use guns in the film, the Angels do not. Drew Barrymore, who was also one of the producers, insisted that the Angels be able to do all their fighting without firearms.
Eric Knox and Dylan Saunder are listening to "True" by Spandau Ballet at his house. The same song is performed at Robbie and Julia`s wedding in The Wedding Singer (1998), which also starred Drew Barrymore.
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Cameron Diaz
(as Natalie Cook)
with Luke Wilson
(as Pete Komisky)
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