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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Scott Aukerman and BJ Porter wrote a draft in the early 2000's which was eventually discarded.
  
  
• There are two references to other songs "Sasquatch" and "Tribute". Jack mentions in search of Sasquatch as being on TV. when in KG's home and on of the first lines of Sasquatch is "In search of Sasquatch - That was a kick ass In search of...” Tribute is referenced at the end when JB and KG can't remember the song they just sang, hence writing "Tribute" to tribute the song.
  
  
• The car chase in the video-game Kyle plays at the beginning ends the same way as the actual car chase at the end of the movie.
  
  
• Stay tuned after the credits for an extra scene. This is the third film featuring both Jack Black and Colin Hanks (the second being King Kong (2005)). In their first joint venture, Orange County (2002), Hanks's character goes to a frat party that proves disappointing. In this film, the character of KG (Kyle Gass) goes to a frat party where he is ridiculed by a frat boy played by Hanks.
  
  
• The "The Audience is Baking" "ad" at the start of the film is a parody of the THX Surround Sound "The Audience is Listening" ad campaign.
  
  
• Upon entering the music store in search of the 'Pick Of Destiny', KG (Kyle Gass) is seen wearing a Trainwreck t-shirt. Trainwreck is a group in which Gass is a vocalist and guitarist (under the pseudonym Klip Calhoun). He also produced the group's 2004 live album.
  
  
• The conversation JB and KG have at the end of film on how they have forgotten the song that defeated the devil is a reference to the song "Tribute" from Tenacious D's self-titled debut album.
  
  
• When KG and JB go to the open mic night for the first time Neil Hamburger is being escorted offstage. He is their opening act for their current tour, which features music from the soundtrack.
  
  
• In the hallway of the Rock Museum you can see a big Foo Fighters sign. David Grohl of the Foo Fighters plays Satan.
  
  
• One of the card's images in the opening sequence is "The Hermit" from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which was also used on the back cover of Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album.
  
  
• The alarm in the Rock and Roll History Museum is the same as the alarm on the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek" (1966).
  
  
• At the start of the movie, when JB's dad (played by Meat Loaf) is tearing down posters, he also tears down a figurine from the Bat Out Of Hell cover.
  
  
• The gang that beats up JB near the beginning of the film was a reference from Stanley Kubrick's movie A Clockwork Orange (1971). They are dressed up as the gang lead by Malcolm McDowell's character Alex.
  
  
• David Grohl, who appears as Satan, also played Satan in the video for the Tenacious D song, "Tribute", which is also referenced in the film. Grohl also lent his talents to several songs on Tenacious D's self-titled CD.
  
  
• The car chase was filmed in and around downtown Long Beach, California. Major portions were shot on Shoreline Drive and the Queensway Bridge, where the final showdown in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) takes place.
  
  
• The car chase ends in front of Uncle Al's Seafood at the corner of First and Elm streets in Long Beach, CA. This is the same intersection where Riggs and Murtaugh blew up a gas station in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
  
  
• In the Guitar Gods section of the museum, when Kyle and JB find the Pick of Destiny, it is residing in a Gibson Angus Young Signature SG Guitar.
  
  
• The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 106 times in this film.
  
  
• In the scene where JB and KG speak to the Open Mic Host (Paul F. Tompkins) outside of the club, there are posters in the background that read "Prostitute Laundry". This is a reference to director Liam Lynch's "The Sifl & Olly Show" (1998) which featured a song with the same title.
  
  
• In the master exploder scene there is a bar patron wearing a 'Great Alaska Bush Company' t-shirt, which is a world renowned strip club in Anchorage, Alaska, and one of Jack Black's favorite places to go when he visits the state.
  
  
• David Grohl underwent seven hours of makeup to be turned into Satan.
  
  
• Until this film, Meat Loaf had not sang in a movie since The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) because he wanted to be accepted in the industry as a serious actor. He even thought that his appearance in "The Pick of Destiny" would "ruin" him, but he took the role of JB's father any way.
  
  
• The guitar played by Satan in the "Beelzeboss" sequence is a custom Washburn guitar designed by Darrel "Dimebag" Abbott of Pantera, presented to him when sales of their "Far Beyond Driven" album reached 100,000 copies sold.
  
  

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