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Idle Hands (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Cameo: [The Offspring] [The band performing at the Halloween dance.]
  
  
• While Anton is vomiting in the bushes when Pnub and Mick show up, Molly (Jessica Alba) can be seen far in the background, on her balcony, playing a bass guitar. This is a remnant from a deleted scene.
  
  
• Both Eldon Henson's and Seth Green's character names (Mick & Pnub) are based on the SNL skit where Eddie Murphy played an illiterate character named Buckwheat, who sang popular (at the time) songs in a way that he wasn't understood half the time. In one skit, he sings the song "Lookin' for Love" and sings "Wookin' pa nub in a da wong paces..." It can be heard on the commentary that both Mick's and Pnub's names are based on this skit. (If you say "Mick & Pnub" quickly it almost sounds exactly alike.)
  
  
• The dish soap that Anton (Devon Sawa) squirts into his mouth after attempting to smoke Nutmeg and Oregano is real dish soap. Sawa came up with the gag on the spot.
  
  
• Filmed in the same neighborhood as Halloween (1978).
  
  
• When Anton kills the two police officers, Pnub shouts out "Go, go Buffalo". This is a reference to a deleted scene in which Anton remembers the two police officers as "the head and ass of the school mascot, Go, go Buffalo"
  
  
• The trailer contains a scene of Mick and Pnub ascending a heavenly staircase wearing football equipment. This is a scene from the alternate ending included on the DVD.
  
  
• The voice that says "Murder in Bolan" on the newscast that Anton is watching is that of director Rodman Flender.
  
  
• The film, in which the main character kills his parents and his two best friends (albeit not intentionally), was delayed in its release because of the Columbine massacre.
  
  
• Cameo: [Thomas DeLonge] [Drive-Thru employee wearing a sombrero who says "Alright!"]
  
  
• Anton is watching Night of the Living Dead (1968) on TV.
  
  
• Mick and Pnub are watching Dawn of the Dead (1978) on TV.
  
  
• When Anton, stunned after killing his two friends, walks into a support beam in his house, the thudding noise his body makes was not digitally added in after production - this is Devon Sawa actually walking into the solid-wood support beam. Often, when the cast would do a photo shoot or had to re-shoot a scene after this one, Devon would start off by walking into the support beam over and over again to the point that editors working below the stage started to wonder what the noise was.
  
  
• The shirt that Dexter Holland of The Offspring is wearing in the dance scene is AFI, a Californian punk band who started out in 1991.
  
  
• The United States DVD claims to include supplementary production notes, but there are none on the disc or printed inside the cover.
  
  
• Perhaps the reason behind the film's financial failure is due to the fact that it was released ten days following the Columbine High School massacre.
  
  

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