• License plate on John Milner's (Paul LeMat) car is ``THX-138'' THX 1138 is a film also directed by George Lucas.
• There is a rumor that while George Lucas and a co-worker were editing the film, the co-worker asked Lucas for ``Reel Two, Dialog Two'', which abbreviated to ``R2D2'', a name which surfaced in Lucas' later film Star Wars.

American Graffiti Trivia - #2

• Carol's (Mackenzie Phillips') t-shirt says "Surfboards by Dewey Weber".
• The name of the airline that carries Kurt (Richard Dreyfuss) away is "Magic Carpet Airlines".
• American Graffiti was filmed in only 28 days in the San Francisco Bay area.
• There were about 300 pre-1962 cars used in the film.

1973 Academy Award Nominations

• American Graffiti nominated for Best Picture.
• Candy Clark nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
• George Lucas nominated for Best Director.
• Gloria Katz and William Huyck nominated for Best Screenplay.
• Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas nominated for Best Film Editing.

Some famous lines from the movie...

• "Do you want to end up like John? You can't stay 17 forever." - Steve to Curt
• "I'll love and protect this car until death do us part." - Terry to Steve
• "I just love the feel of tuck and roll upholstery." - Debbie to Terry
• "I was a dirty bird. Carol's not grungy she's bitchin'." - John to Carol
• "Rock 'n roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died." - John to Carol
• "Why don't you go kiss a duck." - Steve to principal
• "Your car's even uglier than I am!" - Carol to Falfa
• "Go ahead, slug me, scar my face. I wouldn't dance with you if you were the last guy left in this gym." - Laurie to Steve
• "Joe College strikes out!"- Peg to Steve
• "Why should I leave home to find a new home?" - Steve to Curt
• "You're the most beautiful, perfect creature I've ever seen and I don't know anything about you!" - Curt to girl in T-bird

Did they make a mistake? Trivia sent in by readers...

• I just noticed for the first time a mistake in the film editing. I'm referring to the scene where Curtis meets Wolfman Jack and asks him to read his message online. At the beginning of the scene, when the camera is taking a long shot, you see Wolfman put the left (his left, our right) turntable arm back on its support. Then a few seconds later, when the camera takes a close-up of Wolfman and he is talking to Curtis, the arm is back on the disk and he lifts it and puts it back on its support again! At the end of the dialogue, the arm is back on the disk!
• The license plate on Steve's Impala and Carol's sister's car are the same.
• Terry the Tiger wore white shoes in the movie, except in one scene when he let Debbie in his car the first time and he had on black and white saddle shoes.
• At 7:18 into the movie on the DVD, you can see the stools at Mel's counter. There are three black ones, a brown one and an orange stool. There had been two black stools and two orange stools earlier in the movie.

GEE
The Crows 
(William Davis/Morris Levy) 

Do do-do do, do-do do, do-do do-do-do 
Do do-do do, do-do do, do-do do-do-do 
Do do-do do, do-do do, do-do do-do-do do 
Love that girl 

O-o-o-o-o Gee, my o-o Gee, well o-o Gee 
Why I love that girl, love that girl 

O-o-o-o-o please, listen to me, hear-hear-hear my plea 
Why I love that girl 

Hold me, Baby, squeeze me 
Never let me go 
I'm not takin' chances 
Because I love her, I love her so-o 

My-my o Gee, well o Gee, my-eye o Gee 
Why I love that girl, love that girl 

O-o-o-o-o please, listen to me, hear-ear my plea 
Why I love that girl, love that girl 

Why I love that girl 

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