Hot Fuzz/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion to Shaun of the Dead with the fence-leaping scene, now reversed. Also, "What are you thinking?" "...Pub?"
 * The Cornettos.
 * Yeeeeeaaaah boy!
 * Although unlike Shaun, Angel knows what "exacerbate" means.
 * What's the matter? Haven't you ever take a shortcut before? (*thump*)


 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Of course, Shaun/Tim as Nicholas Angel and Ed/Mike as Danny Butterman.
 * Stephen Merchant, co-creator of The Office as P.I. Staker.
 * Retroactive Recognition: (Probably only to people outside the U.K., who wouldn't be as familiar with Stephen Merchant.) Hey Wheatley, have you always had problems with birds?
 * James Bond/Rassilon/Prince Barin owns a supermarket!
 * Boss Tweed / Horace Slughorn/Harold Zidler is the head of Standford Police!
 * The bad guy from The Mask of Zorro is a doctor. He'll deal with it.
 * Yeah, motherfucker.
 * DC Cartwright is played by Noel/Noodle, and DS Wainwright is Simon Ross.
 * Not to mention that the London Metropolitan Police is staffed at the highest level by Phil, Alan Partridge and Tim Canterbury.
 * Sophie as PC Doris Thatcher
 * And there's Argus Filch as Webley!
 * And the truly savvy will recognize Indiana Jones' French, head-exploding rival Belloq as the Reverend.
 * Manny from Black Books is an administrator for the local Police Service.
 * And The Cleaner is the other Sgt. Fisher.
 * Marsha is the pub landlady.
 * Sgt. Howie is head of the NWA.
 * Frank Gallagher directs Romeo and Juliet.
 * Val Barlow is Leslie Tiller, who is also a vampire.
 * Mr. Magpie is George Merchant, the Fridge Magnate.
 * Dr. Channard is James Reaper.
 * Who knew that Michael would leave town, move to King's Landing and take the name Sandor Clegane?
 * The Father Christmas who at the beginning of the film is an uncredited Peter Jackson.
 * And, as stated at the top of the page, Cate Blanchett also has an uncredited cameo as Angel's ex-girlfriend, Janine.


 * Nicholas Angel's service number is 777, also known as the mark of God.


 * A first draft of the script included a female love interest for Angel, called Victoria. She was eventually cut, but many of her lines were transferred to Danny; with few changes.


 * Sandford is the name used for the setting in all police training roleplays. While Hot Fuzz was filmed in the city of Wells, there is actually a town called Sandford a few miles away.


 * Nicholas Angel is named after the musical supervisor for both Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, Nick Angel. Also while researching for the film, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg discovered that a surprising number of police officers were called Nick or Andy; not only adding weight to the main character's name, but setting up the 'Andes' joke with the two Andys


 * Simon Pegg not only underwent weapons training for his role, he lost two stone (around 28lbs) whilst doing so. He also took up jogging, and continued to do so while filming in Somerset.


 * The Somerfield that Skinner runs is not only a real UK supermarket chain, the exterior shots are of the very same store that director Edgar Wright used to work at as a teenager. He's even got a brief 'blink and you'll miss it' cameo of pushing a cage in the background. Unfortunately the shop has since become a Co-operative store.


 * Bill Bailey plays two different characters that share the same service number, 101. One character is seen reading novels by Iain Banks, while the other reads novels by Iain M Banks. They're both written by the same author, the 'M' just shows that the book is science fiction.


 * The blond haired boy stood next to Nicholas Angel in the school picture, the one who Tim Messenger suggests he lets wear his helmet, is called Gabriel, and actually had a bigger role in the uncut version of the film. This can be seen in the deleted scenes on the DVD.

"Danny Butterman: Do you want anything from the shop? Nicholas Angel: Cornetto."
 * Shout-Out: Where do we begin?
 * Forget it, Nicholas. It's Sandford.
 * A blink-and-you'll-miss-it Shout-Out occurs repeatedly with the two guys running the front desk at the police station. One reads nothing but Iain M. Banks and the other nothing but Iain Banks novels. This is a subversion of... something... in that while Iain M and Iain are the same man,
 * "You've always been here." In an inn, too. And his later compatriot is named Danny.
 * There's a bit, that's a homage to Tarantino's favorite shot: from the boot of the car.
 * In the supermarket, the DVD of Shaun of the Dead can be glimpsed for a few frames, with the title 'Zombies Party'.
 * According to the DVD commentary, the Shaun of the Dead DVD was actually the Spanish version of the film, title and all.
 * Another shout out to Shaun of the Dead, when Nicholas and Danny are chasing the shoplifter, they come across a row of fences where Nick says "What, you've never taken a shortcut before?"
 * When a shed full of guns is revealed: "By the Power of Grayskull!". Also said later on when Butterman's film collection is revealed.
 * Outsider cop visits a small town and discovers an evil's cult plot? Sounds like The Wicker Man. Bonus points since Edward Woodward (who played the cop in the original Wicker Man) appears in the film.
 * Well technically, the is not an evil cult, but a Well-Intentioned Extremist association Gone Horribly Wrong.
 * The name of Janet Barker's twins announced at the NWA meeting, Roger and Martin; after the protagonists of the Lethal Weapon series.
 * The use of The Cardigans' song "Lovefool" in the village staging of Romeo and Juliet implies that they've taken their cues from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996).
 * More obviously perhaps, Blower and Draper are using the famous knight/angel costumes from that film. (While the background characters are in period dress), and Juliet uses Romeo's Beretta to commit suicide.
 * The seems to have spring loaded pistols in his sleeves a la Travis Bickle.
 * Looks more like The Mariachi in Desperado
 * The lines in the beginning of Shaun of the Dead.


 * "You've got red on you."
 * In addition to the NWA being a Shout-Out to you-know-what (see Fun with Acronyms), Danny's "Yeaaaahh booooyyyyy!" to the barman before getting drunk with Angel.
 * firing a Winchester Model 1887 - sawn off - is a reference to Terminator2.