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• All of the actors who were playing cheerleaders had to go to what they ended up calling "Cheerleader Boot Camp".
  
  
• During the filming of the scene when Torrance, Missy, Jan and Les carpool to a football game, a driver, angry that the film's motorcade was making him late for dinner, attempted to drive the camera truck off the road. It appears the character of Les is just an overly cautious driver who keeps checking his side mirrors. Huntley Ritter is really watching Mr. Road Rage get pulled over by the Highway Patrol.
  
  
• Huntley Ritter performed the Nationals scene with a sprained ankle.
  
  
• The Nationals were filmed in Oceanside, California.
  
  
• The cheer that Missy hears from out of the hotel window is a cheer from Kirsten Dunst's high school alma mater.
  
  
• The Advanced Chemistry textbook that Cliff is studying is not a real book at all. The PHD writer is actually the Assistant Propmaster's name. Though not real, the book is credited at the end of the film as an actual book that was cleared for use.
  
  
• Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union were both cheerleaders in school.
  
  
• Many of the stunts performed by the teams in the national competition, including all stunts more than two bodies high, the fly-overs, and the basket-tosses with head-over-heels rotation, are illegal at the high school level according to the National Federation Interscholastic Spirit Association.
  
  
• The character of Whitney was originally scripted as a peroxide blonde.
  
  
• The vintage rock t-shirts that Cliff wears throughout the film are from director Peyton Reed's extensive collection.
  
  
• Carla Mackauf, who plays Aaron's college girlfriend ("You were a cheerleader?") is a real-life Lakers girl.
  
  
• The character of "Mime" is credited as "Silencio Por Favor", which means "Silence Please"... in Spanish.
  
  
• The three Clover Cheerleaders: Lava (Shamari Fears), Jenelope (Natina Reed), and LaFred ('Brandi Williams') are all members of the singing trio Blaque. They sing the song "As If" which is on the movie's soundtrack.
  
  
• The film Missy watches to get inspiration from is Sweet Charity (1969)
  
  
• The fight song played by the Rancho Carne band at the football game scene is actually the "Cav Song", the traditional fight song used by the University of Virginia.
  
  
• In the final performance, the routine used by the Toros actually do incorporate every dance style Torrance names while coming up with a new show.
  
  
• In the last scene during the Awards ceremony, the "editor of Cheer Fashion Magazine, Ms. Brandi Tattersol", is Director, Peyton Reed's wife.
  
  
• As seen in the movie trailer, additional scenes showing Isis' personal and school life were shot, even giving her a boyfriend, but were eventually cut from the film.
  
  
• Blaque's song "As If" appears during the Toro's final routine. All three members of the group are in the movie.
  
  
• The very last scene to be filmed was the toothbrush flirting scene with Jesse Bradford and Kirsten Dunst.
  
  
• Terri Colombino had three callbacks for the role of Torrance before Kirsten Dunst was cast in the part.
  
  
• The high school pictured in the movie is actually San Diego State University. A statue of the founder of the university can be seen in the shot at Missy's car before Torrance and Missy go to see the Clovers.
  
  
• Clare Kramer and Eliza Dushku (Courtney and Missy, both team members of RCH) starred during separate seasons as villains on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) - Kramer played Glory in Season 5, and Dushku played Faith in seasons 3, 4 and 7. Nicole Bilderback (Whitney) also appeared in the show, in the unaired pilot and in a season 3 episode, credited as "Cordette #1".
  
  
• The high school's name, Rancho Carne, can be translated as Meat Ranch.
  
  
• When the "Clovers" first confront Torrance and Missy of the "Toroes", one of the Clover cheerleaders wants to "beat these Buffy's down" and when the confrontation is over she says that they are being "watched over by an angel". The dialogue in-joke is that Missy played by Eliza Dushku portrayed Faith the Slayer on the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the spin-off "Angel".
  
  

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