40 Fun Facts About Daddy Day Care

Which future star of Maleficent and The Great made an early film appearance as Jamie in Daddy Day Care?

Elle Fanning won the part of Jamie at the age of four, her first role independent of her older sister Dakota.

In Daddy Day Care's final scene, which job has the defeated headmistress Miss Harridan been reduced to doing?

Crossing guard is where Miss Harridan ends up once her pricey preschool closes, and her frantic stop-sign waving soon causes a traffic jam.

Eddie Murphy's Charlie Hinton wrestles in which vegetable costume while promoting a doomed cereal in Daddy Day Care?

Broccoli is Charlie's costume, while his friend Phil suits up as a carrot, and the pair crush a table as they wrestle.

Which actress, an Oscar winner for Prizzi's Honor, plays the strict headmistress Miss Harridan in Daddy Day Care?

Anjelica Huston plays the ruthless head of an expensive, over-academic preschool who schemes to shut her cheaper rivals down.

Which actor took over from Eddie Murphy as Charlie Hinton when the sequel Daddy Day Camp arrived in 2007?

Cuba Gooding Jr. inherited the role, but Daddy Day Camp was panned by critics and won a Razzie as the year's worst sequel.

Which real rock band plays itself at the Rock for Daddy Day Care charity fundraiser in the film?

Cheap Trick turn up as themselves and perform their 1978 hit Surrender at the charity event meant to fund bigger premises.

In Daddy Day Care, a boy named Tony refuses to take off the costume of which DC superhero?

The Flash is the hero Tony wants to be, and Jimmy Bennett, the boy who played him, went on to play the young James T. Kirk on the big screen.

Which actress plays Kim Hinton, the wife who goes back to work while Charlie minds the children in Daddy Day Care?

Regina King plays Kim, years before she won an Oscar for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk.

Which actor plays Marvin, the awkward former colleague hired as the third carer at Daddy Day Care?

Steve Zahn plays Marvin, a reluctant single friend who turns out to have an instinctive connection with small children.

Daddy Day Care reunited Eddie Murphy and director Steve Carr, who had first worked together on which comedy?

Dr. Dolittle 2 came first, in 2001, and one trade review judged the day-care comedy less crude than the Dolittle pictures.

Charlie Hinton is laid off in Daddy Day Care after children reject which vegetable-flavoured breakfast cereal?

Veggie-Os flops so badly in a focus group that angry children hurl their bowls and set upon the costumed mascots.

When Charlie loses his income in Daddy Day Care, his wife Kim returns to work in which profession?

Lawyer is Kim's profession, and her return to work is what leaves Charlie looking after their young son Ben.

Which agency does Miss Harridan tip off in her first attempt to get Daddy Day Care shut down?

Child services sends an inspector, Mr Kubitz, who proves well-meaning and simply lists the problems the dads must fix.

Which Curb Your Enthusiasm actor plays Phil Ryerson, Charlie's best friend and business partner in Daddy Day Care?

Jeff Garlin, Jeff Greene in the HBO sitcom, plays Phil, who loses his job alongside Charlie and joins him in the new venture.

What does Miss Harridan dump into the concession stands to wreck the Daddy Day Care fundraising fair?

Cockroaches go into the food, and she also sets the petting zoo animals loose, so the fair fails to raise enough money.

What is the name of the pricey preschool run by Miss Harridan that Ben Hinton has to leave in Daddy Day Care?

Chapman Academy dresses its four-year-olds in crested blazers, and one reviewer said it came across more like Oxford than a preschool.

At Miss Harridan's elite preschool in Daddy Day Care, four-year-olds take prep classes for which exam?

The SAT prep classes sit alongside tai chi and Freudian readings of Goldilocks on the preschool's timetable.

In the chaos of Daddy Day Care's first days, what do the pillow-shredding children drink?

Bubble solution is the drink of choice, and the children are soon jumping on the furniture and running headlong into walls.

While putting up flyers to advertise Daddy Day Care, what does Phil accidentally staple?

His own hand ends up stapled to a flyer, one of several slapstick injuries for Phil, who is also kicked by a child at a karate dojo.

Which messy parenting chore does Phil shrink from early in Daddy Day Care, even for his own son?

Changing diapers defeats Phil in a flashback set in an expensive restaurant, though he grows more involved as the centre finds its feet.

Where do the two dads first run Daddy Day Care before the business outgrows the space?

Charlie's own home hosts the centre until an inspector points out that a family house cannot take more than 12 children.

At which event does Charlie confront Miss Harridan and win the Daddy Day Care parents back?

A student orientation at her own preschool is where Charlie tells the assembled parents how little she cares about their children.

Which former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor plays Bruce, one of the parents in Daddy Day Care?

Kevin Nealon spent nine seasons on the sketch show, from 1986 to 1995, and later played Doug Wilson in the series Weeds.

Which future Mean Girls actress plays Jennifer, Miss Harridan's hesitant assistant, in Daddy Day Care?

Lacey Chabert plays the reluctant helper a year before Mean Girls, and by the end Jennifer has switched sides to work for the dads.

Which comedian, the voice of an animated therapist, plays the kindly inspector Mr Kubitz in Daddy Day Care?

Jonathan Katz, the star of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, plays the official whose checklists push the dads to raise their standards.

Steve Carr, who directed Daddy Day Care, went on to direct which 2009 comedy?

Paul Blart: Mall Cop paired Steve Carr with Kevin James, who co-wrote the script and played the title role.

In the same year as Daddy Day Care, Eddie Murphy starred in which film based on a Disneyland attraction?

The Haunted Mansion cast Eddie Murphy as a realtor who becomes trapped with his family in the ghostly house of the title.

Which studio first developed Daddy Day Care, then let Revolution Studios take the project over?

20th Century Fox planned to make the comedy later, but Eddie Murphy wanted to shoot it sooner, so the studio let Revolution Studios pick it up.

Daddy Day Care was filmed during 2002 in which American city?

Los Angeles hosted the shoot, and one critic complained that the film's whole world looked as if it existed only on a studio lot.

What runs under the closing credits of Daddy Day Care, giving the boy who plays Ben the final word?

Outtakes roll under the credits, and the last of them belongs to Khamani Griffin, who shared a Young Artist Award nomination with the film's young cast.

In the sequel Daddy Day Camp, which relative does Charlie Hinton call in to drill the unruly campers?

His father, Colonel Buck Hinton, is a strict military man, and the two have to mend a strained relationship before the camp can win.

How did the third film, Grand-Daddy Day Care, reach audiences in 2019, unlike the two earlier entries?

Straight to video was the route for the third film, which swapped toddlers for senior citizens and was the only entry rated PG-13.

Which former child star made his feature directing debut with the sequel Daddy Day Camp?

Fred Savage, once the young lead of The Wonder Years, directed the sequel and was nominated for a Razzie as Worst Director.

In Daddy Day Care, Marvin credits a famous baby-care manual by which author for his insight into children?

Benjamin Spock wrote Baby and Child Care, the best-selling manual that Marvin says gave him his feel for small children.

Which costume designer, later a two-time Oscar winner for the Black Panther films, worked on Daddy Day Care?

Ruth E. Carter was the film's costume designer years before she became the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Which classic slapstick act do the children and adults watch on screen in Daddy Day Care?

The Three Stooges appear on a screen in the film, which serves up plenty of kicks, falls and wacky sound effects of its own.

Under which Sony label was Daddy Day Care released in cinemas, before the sequel moved to TriStar?

Columbia Pictures released the original with Revolution Studios, while Daddy Day Camp went out under the TriStar name four years later.

Which sweetener does Charlie's old employer attach when it offers him his job back in Daddy Day Care?

Double pay comes with the offer, plus a whole division to run, after the firm acts on an idea Charlie had tossed out sarcastically.

In Daddy Day Care, Marvin turns out to understand a boy who has been speaking which invented language?

Klingon is what the boy has been speaking, and Marvin, a devoted Star Trek fan, is the first grown-up at the centre to follow him.

Which future House star plays Bruce's wife, the mother of young Crispin, in Daddy Day Care?

Lisa Edelstein took the small part a year before she began playing Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine, in the hospital drama.