50 Fun Facts About The Hangover

Who directed all three Hangover films?

He also cameos in the first film as "Mr. Creepy", the man in the elevator, and later directed Joker.

At which Las Vegas hotel do the friends book their suite?

Years later guests were still asking the real front desk whether Caesar lived there and if the hotel was pager-friendly.

What is Stu Price's profession?

Which makes waking up minus a tooth all the more painful; the gap was real, since Ed Helms had a dental implant removed for filming.

What animal do the trio find in their bathroom the morning after?

The scenes used trained animals with handlers digitally erased, earning an "Outstanding" rating from the American Humane Association.

What vehicle does the valet bring round when the friends ask for their Mercedes?

The car itself is a vintage Mercedes-Benz W111 lent by Doug's future father-in-law, Sid.

What drug does the hospital reveal the friends were dosed with?

Alan spiked their drinks thinking he was giving them ecstasy to guarantee a good night.

What is the name of the escort Stu marries in Vegas?

Lindsay Lohan discussed the part with the director but was passed over as too young for the role as written; Heather Graham played it.

Who is discovered naked in the trunk of the Mercedes?

Ken Jeong needed his wife's permission to do the nude scene, and jumping onto Bradley Cooper's neck was improvised on the day.

Which real-life celebrity turns up at the suite demanding his tiger back?

The boxer, the tiger, the baby and the police cruiser were all added when the director rewrote the original $2 million script.

How much in poker chips does Chow accuse the friends of stealing?

Doug turns out to have had the original chips all along, revealed on the drive home in the wrecked Mercedes.

Which casino skill does Alan use to win the money they need to pay off Chow?

The scene was shot at the Riviera, which has since been demolished, and Alan wins $82,400.

Where do Phil, Stu and Alan finally find Doug?

The drug dealer's offhand remark that roofie takers end up on the floor, not the roof, is what makes Stu figure it out.

The friends meet Chow to swap the chips for Doug in which location?

The "Doug" Chow hands over turns out to be the drug dealer who sold Alan the wrong pills.

The original script was inspired by what real event involving a producer's friend?

Producer Tripp Vinson blacked out in Vegas and came to being threatened over the bill; writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore built the plot around it.

For roughly how much did the writers sell the original script to Warner Bros.?

The director and Jeremy Garelick then rewrote it heavily, but WGA rules kept the credit with the original pair.

How many days of principal photography took place in Nevada for the first film?

The budget was $35 million; the wrecked suite was actually a soundstage build, though the real Caesars lobby, pools and roof appear.

Which scene did Ed Helms improvise after the director noticed a piano in the real suite?

Helms later admitted on The Graham Norton Show that he had to be tutored to play the piano for it.

Why did Stu's missing incisor look so convincing on screen?

No prosthetics or effects were needed; the gap was his own.

The director wanted the actors shocked with a real what, until studio lawyers stepped in?

The scene has the trio volunteering as demonstration targets to get their car out of impound.

Which Flo Rida song plays over the end credits of the first film?

The soundtrack also features The Dan Band, the foul-mouthed wedding band that recurs across the director's films.

The Hangover broke a near-25-year US record for R-rated comedies held by which film?

Adjusted for inflation, though, it still earned less than half of what the Eddie Murphy film took.

Which animated film did The Hangover narrowly beat for the number-one spot on its opening weekend?

The studio had expected to finish third behind both Up and Land of the Lost; a strong Sunday flipped the result.

What major award did the first film win?

Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars, while Time's Richard Corliss dismissed it as "practically Bro-Magnon".

On DVD and Blu-ray the film became the best-selling comedy ever, taking a record from which movie?

It sold more than 8.6 million units in its first week and outsold Inglourious Basterds.

Critics most often compare the premise to which earlier comedy about two guys retracing a trashed night?

Both feature a trail of clues, a missing car, strippers, wild animals and a gang chasing the heroes for something they don't know they have.

In 2018 Hasbro released a Hangover-themed parody of which board game?

Players have to locate a missing friend somewhere in the city after a wild night out.

In which country does Stu's wedding take place in Part II?

Determined not to repeat Vegas, Stu holds his bachelor party at an IHOP, which does not help.

What does Stu wake up with on his face in Bangkok?

The design copied Mike Tyson's, and the artist who inked Tyson sued Warner Bros. for copyright infringement over it.

What kind of animal shares the Bangkok hotel room with the trio?

The performer, Crystal the Monkey, is credited as "The Drug-Dealing Monkey" and carries the crucial bank code in her vest.

Who is missing in Part II, with only a severed finger left behind?

The 16-year-old Stanford student turns out to have been stuck in the hotel elevator all along after a power cut.

In Part II, what did Alan lace with drugs, meaning to sedate only Teddy?

He mixed muscle relaxers with his ADHD medication and then mixed up the bags.

Which actor plays Kingsley, the gangster who turns out to be an undercover Interpol agent, in Part II?

The same film also features a silent Buddhist monk in a wheelchair and Bryan Callen back as a Bangkok strip-club owner.

Which actor's cameo as a Bangkok tattoo artist was filmed and then accidentally cut from Part II?

The part was first meant for Mel Gibson, whose casting caused a backlash; after the cut, Nick Cassavetes reshot the scene.

Which 1984 song does the boxer perform at the wedding reception in Part II?

The original was sung by Murray Head and came from the musical Chess.

What was the approximate budget of Part II, more than double the first film's?

Filming started in Ontario, California, before moving to Thailand, where a stuntman was seriously injured in a traffic accident.

What animal does Alan accidentally decapitate on a low overpass at the start of Part III?

The pile-up and the argument that follows lead to his father Sid dying of a heart attack and the intervention that kicks off the plot.

Who plays Marshall, the crime lord who takes Doug hostage in Part III?

Melissa McCarthy also joined the third film in a small role as Cassie, the pawn-shop owner Alan falls for.

According to Marshall, Chow hijacked half of a gold heist worth how much?

The gang gets three days to find Chow, who is hiding out in Tijuana after a Thai prison break.

Which Arizona town doubled for Tijuana during the filming of Part III?

The production also shut a stretch of California's Route 73 toll road for the freeway giraffe scene.

How does Chow escape from the penthouse suite in Part III?

Stu catches up with him on the Strip and locks him in the trunk of Marshall's limousine.

Which film beat Part III to the top of the box office on its opening weekend?

The trilogy closer grossed $362 million worldwide, the lowest of the three, against a $103 million budget.

What is the collective nickname the four friends give themselves?

Alan coins it in his rooftop toast; the third film's plot hinges on the Wolfpack seeking help for him after his breakdown.

Which pro skateboarder plays Neeco, the high-speed tuxedo delivery man?

His band Revolution Mother was also invited to write a song for the film.

Which real Las Vegas building had a fake facade built on it to serve as the wedding chapel?

The place was known as Hostel Cat at the time; the Wild Wild West stood in for Jade's home and has since been demolished.

How much weight did Ed Helms say he lost making The Hangover?

The hardest day, he said, was Chow's crowbar attack after the car crash, when a few punches and kicks actually landed.

Director Todd Phillips has a cameo in the first Hangover film as which character?

Phillips appears briefly in an elevator as 'Mr. Creepy'.

Which actress was in talks to play Jade in The Hangover but was passed over as too young?

Lindsay Lohan discussed the role of Jade with Todd Phillips; Heather Graham was ultimately cast.

Which Las Vegas entertainers appear as themselves in the photo slideshow of the first film?

Wayne Newton and Carrot Top turn up in the end-credits photos of the lost night.

Which director replaced Liam Neeson as the Bangkok tattoo artist in The Hangover Part II?

After Neeson's cameo was accidentally cut, Nick Cassavetes was re-cast; the part had first been envisioned for Mel Gibson.

In Part III, Chow trades a gold brick at a Las Vegas pawn shop for how much, far below its value?

Pawn shop owner Cassie reveals Chow took just $18,000 for a brick worth about $400,000.