40 Fun Facts About Little Nicky

Which rock legend appears at the climax of Little Nicky to bite the head off Nicky's brother Adrian?

Ozzy Osbourne is summoned when Nicky smashes a gift from his mother, and the singer spits the bitten-off head into the trap that already holds the other brother.

Which famous basketball team is playing when Nicky's brother Cassius possesses the referee in Little Nicky?

The Harlem Globetrotters hand Nicky his first win: after spotting Cassius on television, he rushes to the arena and tricks him into captivity.

Which famous film director makes a cameo in Little Nicky as a blind deacon who senses the apocalypse?

Quentin Tarantino's deacon cannot see Nicky but feels his presence, and takes it as proof that the end of the world has arrived.

Which NFL quarterback asks Satan for a Super Bowl win in Little Nicky, only to be turned down?

Dan Marino plays himself, and the joke lands because the record-setting Miami Dolphins passer retired without ever being on a championship-winning team.

Which Happy Days star appears as himself in Little Nicky and gets covered in bees twice?

Henry Winkler, television's Fonzie, is swarmed first by Adrian and then by Nicky, one of several cameos he has made in Adam Sandler comedies.

What is the name of the possessed talking bulldog who befriends Nicky in New York in Little Nicky?

Mr. Beefy is an old friend of Satan, and the dog earned the film two Stinkers nominations, one of them shared with Sandler for worst on-screen couple.

What did Cassius hit his brother with in Little Nicky, leaving a disfigured jaw and a speech impediment?

A shovel left Nicky's jaw lopsided, and the closing captions reveal that a second, accidental blow from one finally sets it straight.

Little Nicky lost all five of its Golden Raspberry nominations to which science-fiction flop of 2000?

Battlefield Earth, John Travolta's adaptation of an L. Ron Hubbard novel, won every Razzie category it was nominated in that year.

Which Cruel Intentions star makes a cameo as Holly, Nicky's heavenly mother, in Little Nicky?

Reese Witherspoon took the small part of the angel Holly a year before Legally Blonde brought her much wider recognition.

Which Caddyshack comedian plays Lucifer, Nicky's grandfather and the creator of Hell, in Little Nicky?

Rodney Dangerfield's Lucifer is Satan's own father, and Satan hands his disgraced gatekeeper over to the old man as a punishment.

Which actor from Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver plays Satan, Nicky's father, in Little Nicky?

Harvey Keitel plays a surprisingly fatherly Satan who literally falls apart, losing his ears, while his sons fight over the throne.

Which actress, whose father also appears in Little Nicky as a cardinal, plays Nicky's love interest Valerie?

Patricia Arquette plays the design student Valerie while her father Lewis turns up as the cardinal, and the part brought her a Razzie nomination.

What does Satan give his son in Little Nicky, an object that traps whoever drinks from it?

A silver flask is Nicky's only weapon, and near the end Adrian briefly turns the tables by locking Nicky inside it.

Where in New York does Adrian raise the throne of Hell and start a riotous party in Little Nicky?

Central Park hosts both the party and the brothers' final showdown, which Nicky joins after a detour through Heaven.

Which Rocky star returns as golf coach Chubbs Peterson, now a dance instructor in Heaven, in Little Nicky?

Carl Weathers reprises the mentor he played in Happy Gilmore, where Chubbs dies in an accident, which is why he turns up in the afterlife.

Which fast-food chain earned Little Nicky a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards nomination for product placement?

Popeyes lost that dishonour to FedEx and Wilson, the two brands featured in Cast Away.

Which Saturday Night Live alum plays the referee possessed by Cassius on the court in Little Nicky?

Dana Carvey, a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1986 to 1993, is credited simply as Referee, and his possessed official spends the game handing out outrageous calls.

In Little Nicky, Nicky's loyal followers John and Peter are devoted fans of which kind of music?

Heavy metal fans John and Peter swear loyalty to Nicky after he traps a brother, and they end the story partying in his old bedroom in Hell.

Which famous critic gave Little Nicky two-and-a-half stars and judged it Adam Sandler's best movie so far?

Roger Ebert found the Nicky character intriguing, though he still lamented Sandler's lack of finesse and his vocal quirks.

Little Nicky opened at number two in North America behind which hit film, then in its second week on top?

Charlie's Angels, which had dethroned Meet the Parents a week earlier, kept the top spot while Little Nicky opened with $16 million.

Rob Schneider reprises his Townie character in Little Nicky from which earlier Adam Sandler comedy?

The Waterboy introduced the Townie in 1998, and Sandler later returned the favour by playing the same character in Schneider's own comedy The Animal.

Which former Weekend Update anchor plays Stanley, the gatekeeper of Hell punished by Satan, in Little Nicky?

Kevin Nealon's gatekeeper lets two of Satan's sons slip out of Hell, and Satan retaliates by sprouting a pair of breasts on top of his head.

Which comedian plays the Peeper, a man caught spying from a tree who ends up in Hell, in Little Nicky?

Jon Lovitz's Peeper is felled by a child with a slingshot and lands in Hell, where he is chased around by giant birds.

Which Welsh actor, Spike in Notting Hill, plays Nicky's devious brother Adrian in Little Nicky?

Rhys Ifans took the villain's role just a year after Notting Hill had brought him international exposure.

Which actor and wrestler, the bully Deebo in Friday, plays Nicky's brutish brother Cassius in Little Nicky?

Tommy Lister Jr., nicknamed Tiny, was a professional wrestler as well as a character actor, and also played the president in The Fifth Element.

Which host of America's most-watched prime-time show of 1999-2000 plays himself in Little Nicky?

Regis Philbin was fronting both Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and his long-running morning talk show when he made the cameo.

Little Nicky's closing captions name which late Saturday Night Live star as an aerobics instructor in Heaven?

Chris Farley, who died in 1997 after five seasons on the show alongside Sandler, is named as the instructor Holly falls for in Heaven.

In Little Nicky, what do Adrian and Cassius do to the entrance to Hell as they escape to New York?

They freeze it so that no new evil souls can get in, and without those arrivals Satan begins to disintegrate.

Where in Little Nicky do the hero and his friends set a trap for Adrian that leaves both brothers dead?

A subway station is where Adrian sees through the trick and dives onto the tracks with Valerie; Nicky throws her clear and dies with him.

A Little Nicky tie-in platformer, released in December 2000, appeared on which Nintendo system?

Game Boy Color owners got a platform game developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Ubisoft, sold only in North America.

Which director, who made Mr. Deeds with Adam Sandler in 2002, also directed and co-wrote Little Nicky?

Steven Brill also likes to step in front of the camera, with cameos in all three Mighty Ducks movies and in The Wedding Singer.

Which comedian, the man behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, voices the talking bulldog in Little Nicky?

Robert Smigel kept working with Adam Sandler afterwards, co-writing You Don't Mess with the Zohan and the first two Hotel Transylvania films.

Which This Is Spinal Tap star plays a New York official possessed by Adrian in Little Nicky?

Michael McKean, Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins, was one of several former Saturday Night Live cast members in the film, having spent 1994 and 1995 on the show.

A year after the events of Little Nicky, Nicky and Valerie have a baby son with demonic powers named what?

Zachariah is suspended from nursery school in the closing captions after using those powers on another child's bottle of milk.

At the end of Little Nicky, John and Peter spend their reward on which rock band's old touring airplane?

Led Zeppelin crossed North America in 1973 and 1975 aboard a jet called The Starship, which had the band's name painted on its fuselage.

Little Nicky's only win at the 2000 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards went to Adam Sandler in which category?

Most Annoying Fake Accent was the film's lone win from seven nominations; Sandler's hairstyle and his pairing with the bulldog both lost.

Which studio, which had also released Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer, distributed Little Nicky in 2000?

New Line Cinema spent an estimated $80–85 million on the film, which earned only about $58 million worldwide and went down as a box office bomb.

Which band performs School of Hard Knocks, the single released from the Little Nicky soundtrack album?

P.O.D. opened an album that also featured Cypress Hill and Muse, and the song's music video was included on the film's DVD.

Which Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore co-writer wrote Little Nicky with Adam Sandler and the film's director?

Tim Herlihy wrote Billy Madison late at night at his law firm before becoming Sandler's regular screenwriting partner.

Which college classmate of Adam Sandler plays Todd, the actor who becomes Nicky's roommate, in Little Nicky?

Allen Covert met Sandler while studying theater at New York University, and he gained 40 pounds to play the roommate.