50 Fun Facts About Dumb and Dumber

Which sibling filmmakers made Dumb and Dumber as their first feature?

Peter directed and co-wrote it with Bobby and Bennett Yellin; the hit launched their careers.

What are the full names of the two main characters?

Jim Carrey plays Lloyd, Jeff Daniels plays Harry.

In which city do Lloyd and Harry live at the start of the film?

Early scenes were shot there, including the skyline and the Big Blue Bug.

Where are they driving to return the briefcase?

The Aspen scenes were actually filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado and Park City, Utah.

What is Lloyd's job at the start of the film?

He drives Mary Swanson to the airport, falls for her, and gets fired for leaving the scene of an accident.

What is Harry's job at the start of the film?

He is fired for arriving late to a dog show with the dogs covered in food.

Who plays Mary Swanson?

She and Carrey won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss and later had a brief marriage.

What is in the briefcase Mary leaves at the airport?

Lloyd thinks it is a lost bag; the crooks Mental and Shay were meant to collect it.

What happens to Harry's parakeet?

Lloyd later sells the headless bird to a blind boy, Billy in 4C; Roger Ebert admitted the joke made him laugh out loud.

What is distinctive about the van Harry drives?

The Mutt Cutts van gets traded partway to Aspen; the cartoon later named it Otto.

What do Harry and Lloyd put in the hitchhiking crook's burger?

Mental had planned to slip them rat poison; the peppers aggravate his ulcer instead.

Which state do the boys drive through all night after Lloyd's wrong turn?

Police were waiting for them on the road to Colorado.

What do they trade the van for?

It breaks down on the way home, leaving them to walk back to Rhode Island.

What does Lloyd put in Harry's coffee in revenge for the ski date?

The result unfolds in Mary's broken toilet, one of the film's most notorious scenes.

Who turns out to be the mastermind behind Bobby Swanson's kidnapping?

The Swanson family friend, played by Charles Rocket, is furious to find the ransom replaced with IOUs.

Beth, the woman Harry flirts with at the gas station, is revealed to be what?

She fitted Harry with a bulletproof vest before the showdown.

Which real NHL star plays the trucker Sea Bass?

The Boston Bruins winger returned as Sea Bass in the 2014 sequel.

How much was Jim Carrey paid for the film?

Ace Ventura's success gave him leverage; Jeff Daniels got roughly $50,000.

Roughly how much was Jeff Daniels paid?

New Line offered the low fee hoping the dramatic actor would say no; his agent warned the role would kill his career.

Which actor was proposed as Carrey's co-star before New Line balked at his fee?

Cage wanted $2 million more; Oldman and Cage were reportedly the original choices for the pair.

Roughly how many actors turned down the role of Lloyd?

Steve Martin and Martin Short were among them.

How did Carrey achieve Lloyd's distinctive front teeth?

He chipped it in a childhood fight and had it capped; the crown came off for filming.

The directors had only heard of Jim Carrey as 'the white guy' on which sketch show?

A screening of Ace Ventura convinced them.

Which filmmaker conceived the idea as 'Ski Nuts', then sold it and removed his name from the credits?

John Hughes sold the concept to the Farrelly brothers and asked to be left out of the writing credits.

Which famous Colorado landmark stood in for the 'Danbury'?

The same hotel inspired Stephen King's The Shining.

Where was the airport scene filmed?

Street scenes were also shot in Salt Lake City, plus Ogden and American Fork Canyon.

Who composed the film's score?

His 1978 song 'Can We Still Be Friends?' also appears in the film.

Which band's video for 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' featured Jeff Daniels as Harry?

Deadeye Dick's 'New Age Girl' was the soundtrack's chart single, reaching number 27.

What was the film's budget?

It grossed $247.3 million worldwide.

How much did Dumb and Dumber gross worldwide?

It opened at number one with $16.4 million on December 16, 1994 and topped the holiday season.

Which studio released the film in December 1994?

The 2014 sequel went to Universal instead, since Warner Bros. by then owned New Line.

Which MTV Movie Award did Carrey and his on-screen love interest win?

Carrey also took Best Comic Performance; he and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.

Who voiced Lloyd in the 1995 animated series?

Bill Fagerbakke voiced Harry; Hanna-Barbera made it for ABC's Saturday morning block and it lasted one season.

What was the 2003 prequel called?

The Farrellys had nothing to do with it; it scored 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.

What is the title of the 2014 sequel?

Set 20 years on, it follows the pair searching for Harry's long-lost daughter.

In the sequel, what is the name Harry's daughter goes by?

Born Fanny to Fraida Felcher and given up for adoption, she is heading to a KEN Convention in El Paso.

How much did Dumb and Dumber To gross worldwide?

It opened to $36.1 million despite negative reviews.

Which studio released Dumb and Dumber To?

Red Granite Pictures produced it; Warner, which owns New Line, passed.

How does Harry end 'Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this...'?

He says it after Lloyd trades the van for the minibike.

Lloyd sums up their situation: 'We got no food, we got no jobs...' and what?

The line follows the discovery of the decapitated parakeet.

What does Lloyd offer to demonstrate to the hitchhiker in the van?

He then makes it, at length.

Who plays Mary's stepmother, Helen Swanson?

Lin Shaye plays the dog-owning client Harry calls Mrs. Noogieburger.

Which crook, played by Mike Starr, suffers from a stomach ulcer?

'Mental' regularly takes medication for it, which is why the pepper prank hits so hard.

What do the boys do at the very end of the film as they walk home?

Their purchases were confiscated and the minibike broke down; Harry says their 'break' will come one day.

How did the Rotten Tomatoes consensus describe Jeff Daniels' turn?

The New York Times called Carrey 'the new Jerry Lewis'.

The Aspen scenes of Dumb and Dumber were actually filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado, and which Utah town?

The snow scenes were shot at Copper Mountain Resort, while the early Providence sequences show off the city's skyline and Big Blue Bug.

Which Deadeye Dick single from the soundtrack reached number 27 on the US chart?

The RCA soundtrack also used composer Todd Rundgren's own 1978 song 'Can We Still Be Friends?'.

How much did Dumb and Dumber earn in its number-one opening weekend?

It went on to $127 million domestically and topped the 1994 holiday-season box office.

In 2000, readers of Total Film voted Dumb and Dumber where among the greatest comedies of all time?

Empire later placed it 445th on its 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies, and Carrey won Best Comic Performance at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards.

Besides Cam Neely, which actor reprised his role from the original in Dumb and Dumber To, as Billy from Apartment 4C?

Original screenwriter Bennett Yellin also returned for the 2014 sequel, which was shot in the autumn of 2013.