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Judd Apatow watched the movie "True Romance" and had the idea of Floyd, the beloved stoner character played by Brad Pitt, finally leaving the apartment and getting chased by bad guys. That idea ended up becoming "Pineapple Express".
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Judd Apatow wrote the screenplay for "Heavy Weights," aka the fat camp movie with Ben Stiller.
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Judd Apatow once said, "Basically, my stuff is just John Hughes films only with four-letter words. Nobody made me laugh harder than John Hughes."
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The Simpsons episode "Bart's new friend" was written by Judd Apatow in 1990, but didn't air until 2015.
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Seth Rogen at 16 years old despite a strong academic performance in high school, dropped out and began working for Judd Apatow. He then relocated with his family to Los Angeles. Rogen paid the bills and had become the main wage earner at just 16.
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Cable Guy was originally supposed to be a buddy comedy starring Chris Farley. When Jim Carrey expressed interest the studio jumped at the opportunity and offered him $20 million. Jim then brought Judd Apatow and Ben Stiller on board and they transformed the movie into a comedy thriller.
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Judd Apatow and Steven Brill (writers of the 1995 Disney movie: 'Heavyweights') originally intended for the movie to end in a final standoff with the main antagonist, Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller), losing his mind and threatening to kill the campers with a bow & arrow. Disney rejected the ending.
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In 2001, Judd Apatow was shopping a pilot about failed actors called 'North Hollywood' to ABC starring Jason Segel, Amy Poehler, Judge Reinhold and Kevin Hart. The project died and never saw the light of day.
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Bob Odenkirk and Judd Apatow wrote the infamous SNL sketch starring William Shatner telling a bunch of hapless Trekkies to "Get a life!" at a Star Trek convention
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The movie Heavyweights was written and produced by Judd Apatow
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During the filming of Undeclared, Seth Rogen approached Judd Apatow with his script for Superbad. They read the script with Rogen reading for Seth, 'Jason Segal' reading for Evan, Martin Starr reading for Fogel, and Kyle Gass and David Krumholtz as the two police officers.
