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Who originated the idea for this story anyways? (it was Paul Feig, but does he get any credit?)

I do not see any credit given to Paul Feig. Paul Feig wrote a book in 2002 called _Superstud: Or How I became a 24-year-old virgin_ ... later Judd Apatow and Steve Carell wrote this movie...

Judd Apatow and Paul Feig originally worked on _Freaks and Geeks_ .... See the connection? Sp0 (talk) 17:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The song?

Anyone know the lyrics to the Guatemalan song? All I can catch is:

Cuando ... mi cuarto ... tan de prisa .... partido de futbol
When ...... my room ... so quicly ... football match.

82.36.90.88 11:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

According to the quotes on IMDB: "Whenever they clean my room I can't find anything. Where are you going with such haste? To a football game." --Jitterro 03:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weird

It is rather weird having an article about a film that has not yet been released - isn't this just advertising? A curate's egg 15:51, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not really, there are a lot of articles about upcoming films, sporting events, elections, etc. By the way, I must say that this film is HILARIOUS! -- MicahMN | Talk 02:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What?

"The trailer of the movie has scenes that do not appear in the movie because of an abundance of strong language."
I don't understand. Does this mean the trailer had stronger language than the film did? I just saw the movie, and it's rather hard to imagine stronger language than they used. My best guess is something along the lines of "additional scenes had to be filmed for the trailer, since so many of the film's actual scenes contain strong language." Am I close? -DynSkeet (talk) 15:48, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Agreed - I changed it to what you wrote. Now that I think about it - in the trailer, after the guy says "Just wax that whole Teen Wolf thing off", Carell screams "Nooooooooooo! Kelly Clarkson." I was wondering for a long time why he screamed that. However, I remember seeing a different trailer where he screams "Nooooooooooo! Kama Sutra" or something similar. Was this the one that was in the film while the Kelly Clarkson reference is in the trailer only? (I know - I should go see the damn move. I will do so, just not right this second.) You can watch the "Kelly Clarkson" trailer here to see for yourself. -Hyad 07:39, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

He says Kelly Clarkson in the movie, at least when I watched it he did. When I saw the trailer I thought it was obvious why he screams Kelly Clarkson; it's an insult to Kelly Clarkson that you can use her name interchangably with cuss words.Qutezuce 07:51, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

No. He uses Kelly Clarkson because Kelly Clarkson was a body waxer before she became famous. 137.238.0.5 10:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ironically, I've seen the movie but never saw a trailer. There is a lot of profanity in the movie, however, so I can understand how they might have trouble coming up with 60 seconds of "clean" language for a trailer. -DynSkeet (talk) 12:24, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Did you guys ever stop to think that maybe he said Kelly Clarkson becuase it's a stupid thing to say which makes it funny. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.213.233.162 (talk) 22:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Virgin Count?

"The incorrect hyphenation implies that there are 40 one-year old virgins instead of one 40-year-old virgin."

Erm?

Erm what? Don't tell me this needs to be explained: Compare "40-year-old-virgin" with "40 year-old-virgin."

I have trouble finding the confusion since, no matter the hyphens it still doesn't look plural. Johhny-turbo 04:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Think about it. Saying "40 year-old virgin" is like saying there are forty year-old virgins. It's like saying that there are twenty one-year-old pies instead of saying that there is one twenty-year-old pie. It's a very subtle (but very important) grammatical error.

No. It's like saying there are "twenty one-year old pie", not pies; i.e. it wouldn't make sense. Pluralisation is the key here, not hyphenation.

I'm not sure that English has a commonly-known, consistent rule for hyphenating the "x year old" formulation. But in this case, "virgin" isn't pluralized, so it's not that confusing. 207.229.185.50 09:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

this is freakin hillarious "40 one year old virgins" lol 07:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)07:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)128.54.160.176

208.57.68.160 23:37, 17 March 2006 (UTC)It seems that the ultimate authority for the title should be the fashion in which it appears onscreen in the film itself. I understand the grammatical argument, but one should hardly retitle the Brad Pitt film "Kalifornia" as "California" simply because it is misspelled, to give an example. Similarly, there should be no more correct version of the title than "The 40 Year Old Virgin." -Ben[reply]

Quotes

You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay!

coldplay is great  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.9.15 (talk) 07:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if people would think it was so funny if they'd used the line, "You know how I know you're Black?" Doubt it. But making fun of someone by "insulting" him with the statement that he's gay? Well, that's just funny as hell, isn't it? And then you'll all go out and vote Democrat like you're all intelligent and progressive, right? Pathetic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.206.143 (talk) 21:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

tbh people would probs have laughed just as much if they did use black.81.129.107.189 (talk) 07:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need an entire section on the proper hyphenation of the title?

Uucp 02:15, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

trivia

I removed the line "The screaming exclamation were unscripted (aside from a loose outline of screaming, swearing and then apologizing)." from the triva because its patently untrue if you watch the out-takes. --Patrick Berry 15:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Missing

In between Andy getting his chest waxed and David giving him his "big box of porn", Cal tells him that getting his chest waxed is the gayest thing you can do and he then flirts with Beth. This should be added as I think it's rather significant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freestyle cheddar (talk • contribs) 21:05, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

Speed Dating Girl

Does anyone have any information about the nipple-out speed dater? Retrodouggy (talk) 11:20, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 I do not see any credit given to Paul Feig. Paul Feig wrote a book in 2002 called _Superstud: Or How I became a 24-year-old virgin_ ... later Judd Apatow and Steve Carell wrote this movie...
-Judd Apatow and Paul Feig originally worked on _Freaks and Geeks_ .... See the connection?17:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
+Judd Apatow and Paul Feig originally worked on _Freaks and Geeks_ .... See the connection?   [[User:Sp0|Sp0]] ([[User talk:Sp0|talk]]) 17:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 ==The song?==