Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Difference between revisions

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Mike tells Rat to play side one of ''Led Zeppelin IV.'' Cut to the date with Stacy, wherein the song playing is "Kashmir"... from ''Physical Graffiti.'' Rat got so nervous about the date that he put in the wrong album.

** [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: According to Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's DVD commentary, the real reason for this was that due to a music licensing snag, the producers were unable to gain clearances to use any songs from ''Led Zeppelin IV.''

** Apart from the obvious ([[Phoebe Cates]], [[Judge Reinhold]], [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]), [[Forrest Whitaker]] plays the gigantic black football player whose car Spicoli wrecks and who goes on to decimate the opposing football team.

** This movie has three that eventually won Best Actor Oscars (Whitaker, [[Sean Penn]], and [[Nicolas Cage]]).

* [[High School Dance]]: The film features one of these at the end, with considerably few of the cornier aspects.

* [[I Am Spock]]: For a long time after the film was released, people frequently addressed Ray Walston as Mr. Hand. Walston was very grateful for this because up until that time, he felt that he was too closely associated with his prior role of Uncle Martin in ''[[My Favorite Martian]]''.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The scenes dealing with Stacy tend to invoke this trope.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer makes Forest Whitaker's character out to be much bigger than it is.