98 Fun Facts About Dumb and Dumber

Which sibling filmmakers made Dumb and Dumber as their first feature?

The Farrellys shared the writing, with Peter credited as director; in 2019 he collected the Best Picture Oscar for the drama Green Book.

What are the full names of the two main characters in Dumb and Dumber?

Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne are played by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels; Steve Martin and Martin Short had both turned down the part of Lloyd.

In which city do Lloyd and Harry live at the start of Dumb and Dumber?

Providence, Rhode Island, is home turf for the film's directors, who grew up in the state and set off three of their first four road-trip comedies from there.

Where are Harry and Lloyd driving to return the briefcase in Dumb and Dumber?

Aspen, Colorado, is where Mary has flown; Lloyd sells Harry on the trip as 'a place where the beer flows like wine'.

What is Lloyd's job at the start of Dumb and Dumber?

Lloyd is a limousine driver; he drives Mary Swanson to the airport, falls for her on the ride, and abandons the limo to chase her through the terminal, where he tumbles off a jet bridge.

What is Harry's job at the start of Dumb and Dumber?

Harry is a dog groomer running the Mutt Cutts mobile service; he loses the job after arriving late to a dog show with his clients' pets smeared in food.

Who plays Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber?

Lauren Holly, then known for the TV series Picket Fences, plays Mary Swanson; she and Carrey married in 1996 and divorced the following year.

At the charity gala in Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd's stray champagne cork kills which bird?

A snow owl, one of the rare birds the benefit is being held to protect, is killed when the cork flies across the room.

What happens to Harry's parakeet in Dumb and Dumber?

It is decapitated by one of the crooks searching the apartment; Lloyd then sells the headless bird, its head taped back on, to blind Billy in apartment 4C.

What is distinctive about the van Harry drives in Dumb and Dumber?

It is shaped like a dog: the van carries the pair west until Lloyd trades it away behind Harry's back, and it came back in the 1995 cartoon under the name Otto.

What do Harry and Lloyd slip into the hitchhiking crook's burger in Dumb and Dumber?

Chili peppers, the diner's 'atomic' ones, go in as a prank; the crook had planned to poison the pair, and in the panic they feed him his own rat poison as medicine.

In Dumb and Dumber, which state do Harry and Lloyd cross all night after Lloyd's wrong turn?

Lloyd takes a wrong turn while Harry sleeps and drives all night into Nebraska; Harry wakes to find they have travelled about a sixth of the way across the country in the wrong direction.

What does Lloyd trade the van for in Dumb and Dumber?

A minibike is all Lloyd gets for the van, and the two ride it together the rest of the way into the mountains.

In Dumb and Dumber, what does Lloyd slip into Harry's drink in revenge for the ski date?

Laxatives, a heavy dose of Turbo Lax, go into the cup after Lloyd learns Harry took Mary skiing; Harry is caught short at her house, where the toilet is broken.

Who is revealed as the mastermind behind the kidnapping in Dumb and Dumber?

Nicholas Andre, a Swanson family friend played by Charles Rocket, engineered Bobby's kidnapping and is furious to open the briefcase and find the money replaced with Lloyd's IOUs.

In Dumb and Dumber, Beth, the woman Harry chats up at a gas station, is revealed to be what?

An FBI agent on the kidnappers' trail, Beth has Harry fitted with a bulletproof vest, which saves him when the mastermind shoots him at the hotel.

Which real NHL star plays the trucker Sea Bass in Dumb and Dumber?

Cam Neely, the Boston Bruins' Hall of Fame winger, came back as Sea Bass twice: in the directors' later comedy Me, Myself & Irene and after the credits of the 2014 sequel.

How much was Jim Carrey paid for the film?

Jim Carrey was paid $7 million, a fee the studio agreed to after Ace Ventura: Pet Detective became a surprise hit in February 1994.

Roughly how much was Jeff Daniels paid for Dumb and Dumber?

Jeff Daniels accepted about $50,000, a lowball offer the studio made in the hope that the dramatic actor would refuse; his agents warned him the role would end his career.

How did Jim Carrey get Lloyd's chipped front tooth in Dumb and Dumber?

Removing a cap from a real broken tooth was Carrey's own idea: he had chipped it in his school days, and prised the cap off the night before filming began.

Before Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey was best known as a cast member of which TV sketch show?

In Living Color, the Fox sketch show, had Carrey as a regular from 1990 to 1994, the year in which three hit films turned him into a movie star.

Which decoy title got agents to read the Dumb and Dumber script?

A Power Tool Is Not a Toy was a disguise: agents refused to pass on a script called Dumb and Dumber, so the writers retitled it, got it read and then changed it back.

Which famous Colorado hotel stood in for the 'Danbury' in Dumb and Dumber?

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park played the film's 'Hotel Danbury'; the same hotel inspired Stephen King's The Shining after he stayed there in 1974.

Where was the airport scene in Dumb and Dumber filmed?

Salt Lake City International supplied both the terminal doors where Lloyd says goodbye to Mary and the jet bridge he then falls off.

Who composed the score for Dumb and Dumber?

Todd Rundgren, a rock musician rather than a film composer, wrote the score, and the film also plays his 1978 single 'Can We Still Be Friends?'.

Which band's video for 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' featured Jeff Daniels as Harry?

Crash Test Dummies covered a 1992 XTC song for the soundtrack, and their version climbed to number 30 in Britain, well above the original's 71.

What will Lloyd and Harry's worm store be called?

I Got Worms is the name Lloyd proudly tells Mary when they first meet; she begs his pardon, and he explains that it will sell worm farms, like ant farms.

In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd says beautiful women flock 'like the salmon of' where?

Capistrano is famous for its returning swallows, not for salmon; Lloyd mangles the saying while selling Harry on 'someplace warm' that is in fact a ski town.

Which studio released Dumb and Dumber in December 1994?

New Line Cinema took a gamble in letting the first-time writers direct their own script, and saw the film open at number one that December.

Which MTV Movie Award did Jim Carrey share with a Dumb and Dumber co-star in 1995?

Best Kiss went to Carrey and his on-screen love interest; he also won Best Comedic Performance, while he and Jeff Daniels lost Best On-Screen Duo to the stars of Speed.

Who voiced Lloyd in the 1995 Dumb and Dumber animated series?

Matt Frewer, television's Max Headroom, voiced Lloyd in a cartoon that gave the pair a purple pet beaver named Kitty who was smarter than both of them.

What was Dumb and Dumber's 2003 prequel called?

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd cast two new actors as the teenage pair, and neither the original directors nor the original stars had any part in it.

What is the title of the 2014 sequel to Dumb and Dumber?

Dumb and Dumber To reunited both stars and the original directors twenty years on, with Harry searching for a daughter he has just learned he might have.

In the 2014 sequel to Dumb and Dumber, what name does the young woman Harry believes is his daughter use?

Penny is the name her adoptive parents, the Pinchelows, gave her; she was born Fanny to Harry's old flame Fraida Felcher.

How much did Dumb and Dumber To gross worldwide?

The 2014 sequel grossed about $169 million worldwide, opening at number one in North America with $36.1 million despite poor reviews.

Which studio released the 2014 sequel to Dumb and Dumber?

Universal Pictures released the 2014 sequel that November after Warner Bros. passed on it; Red Granite Pictures financed the production.

In Dumb and Dumber, how does Harry finish 'You go and do something like this...'?

Harry finishes with '...and totally redeem yourself!' after Lloyd, who had just traded away their van, rides up on the replacement he got for it.

Given one-in-a-million odds by Mary, how does Lloyd reply?

Mary puts it at 'more like one out of a million', and Lloyd pauses before beaming 'So you're telling me there's a chance!'; the exchange comes when he finally confesses his feelings.

What does Lloyd offer to demonstrate to the hitchhiker in Dumb and Dumber?

Lloyd asks the hitchhiker 'Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?' and then produces it, a long grating wail, with Harry joining in.

Who plays Mary's stepmother, Helen Swanson, in Dumb and Dumber?

Teri Garr, Oscar-nominated for Tootsie, plays Helen Swanson, whose family hosts the charity gala that Harry and Lloyd turn up to in orange and powder-blue tuxedos.

Which crook in Dumb and Dumber, played by Mike Starr, suffers from a stomach ulcer?

Joe 'Mental' Mentalino carries pills for his ulcer; the boys' prank on his burger inflames it, and the pills they then hand him are the rat poison he had meant for them.

What do Harry and Lloyd do as they walk home at the very end of Dumb and Dumber?

Walking home broke after waving off a busload of bikini models who wanted 'oil boys', the two play tag down the highway as the film ends.

What car do Harry and Lloyd buy with the briefcase money in Dumb and Dumber?

Lloyd blows the briefcase cash on a red Lamborghini Diablo, and the pair hit a charity gala in orange and powder-blue tuxedos, leaving IOUs in place of the money.

The ski-town scenes of Dumb and Dumber were shot in Breckenridge, Colorado, and which Utah town?

Park City's downtown is where Harry and Lloyd finally roll into the resort, and the film's ski chalets stand in nearby Deer Valley.

Which Deadeye Dick single from the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack reached number 27 in the US?

'New Age Girl', with its 'Mary Moon' chorus, was Deadeye Dick's only hit, climbing to number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 after featuring in the film.

Which Roy Orbison hit plays over the makeover montage in Dumb and Dumber?

Oh, Pretty Woman plays as Harry and Lloyd spend the briefcase cash on a salon makeover before the gala.

Which comedy did Dumb and Dumber's directors make next, in 1996?

Kingpin sent Woody Harrelson's washed-up bowling prodigy on another cross-country road trip, with Bill Murray among the cast.

Which actor returned in the 2014 sequel as Billy, the blind boy from Apartment 4C?

Brady Bluhm, the blind Billy of Apartment 4C, returned as an adult for the 2014 sequel; original co-writer Bennett Yellin also came back, and the film was shot in the autumn of 2013.

Which Home Alone writer dreamed up Dumb and Dumber as Ski Nuts, then asked to go uncredited?

John Hughes had only the bare idea of two dumb guys on the slopes, and he let the directors take the project on only if his name was never used to sell it.

In Dumb and Dumber, which song do Harry and Lloyd sing a cappella to their hitchhiking passenger?

Mockingbird, a 1963 song by Inez and Charlie Foxx, became one of the film's best-known scenes, yet it was left off the soundtrack album.

After spending the cash in Dumb and Dumber, what do Harry and Lloyd leave in the briefcase instead?

IOUs replace every note the pair blew on a hotel suite and a lavish spree, and the villain is furious when he opens the case at gunpoint.

The director of Dumb and Dumber later won Best Picture and screenplay Oscars for which road drama?

Green Book follows a Black pianist and his Italian American driver on a 1962 tour of the Deep South, and he made it without his brother.

Which cartoon's creators were hired to write the Dumb and Dumber prequel, then returned their pay?

South Park had just made Trey Parker and Matt Stone famous, but scheduling conflicts led them to quit the project and hand the money back.

Which Ghostbusters star has a cameo as Ice Pick in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Bill Murray had worked with the same directors before, playing the bowler Big Ern McCracken, the hero's arch-enemy, in Kingpin.

Which pills do the heroes of Dumb and Dumber give a hitchhiker, mistaking them for his medicine?

Rat poison was what the crook had planned to slip to the two of them, so the mix-up kills him and they simply carry on with the trip.

Which critic gave Dumb and Dumber two stars yet confessed the parakeet joke made him laugh out loud?

Roger Ebert said he laughed so loudly that he embarrassed himself and could not stop, and he called Jim Carrey a true original.

At the end of Dumb and Dumber, a tour bus full of whom offers Harry and Lloyd a job?

Bikini models on a national tour want two oil boys, and the pair turn the job down without realising what they have passed up.

Dumb and Dumber's makers only wanted Jim Carrey after screening which of his films?

Ace Ventura was such a box office hit that Carrey could then negotiate a salary far beyond anyone else's on the film.

In Dumb and Dumber's hotel showdown, what hidden item saves Harry when the villain shoots him?

A bulletproof vest lets Harry play dead on the floor, and when he gets up to fire back with his own gun he does it ineptly.

Racing to return the briefcase in Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd runs straight off the end of what?

The jetway is empty because Mary's plane has already departed, so Lloyd simply drops out of the open end.

Which former Saturday Night Live cast member plays the scheming villain of Dumb and Dumber?

Charles Rocket also played Dave Dennison in Disney's Hocus Pocus, and after the sketch show he often turned up in films as a comic foil.

Which early-1990s MTV VJ plays the crook J.P. Shay in Dumb and Dumber?

Karen Duffy, known on MTV simply as Duff, went on to work as a correspondent for the documentary maker Michael Moore.

Which stand-up comedian made his film debut as the motorcycle cop in Dumb and Dumber?

Harland Williams credits Jim Carrey with bringing him to the directors' attention, after a breakthrough spot on David Letterman's late-night show.

Which Young and the Restless star plays Beth, the driver Harry flirts with in Dumb and Dumber?

Victoria Rowell is credited only as Athletic Beauty, and she was also solving cases on Diagnosis: Murder at the time.

Which actress, later the medium Elise in Insidious, plays Mrs. Neugeboren in Dumb and Dumber?

Lin Shaye became a regular in the directors' comedies, most memorably as the overtanned neighbour Magda in There's Something About Mary.

Which comedy about a cop with two personalities reunited Jim Carrey with Dumb and Dumber's makers?

Me, Myself & Irene cast him as a state trooper whose years of bottled-up feelings bring on a breakdown and a second self called Hank.

The New York Times review of Dumb and Dumber hailed Jim Carrey as the new version of which comic?

Jerry Lewis was the comparison the paper's critic reached for, while another reviewer praised the film as crude slapstick and smart comedy at once.

Which MTV Movie Award did Jim Carrey win on his own for playing Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber?

Best Comedic Performance went to Carrey at the 1995 ceremony, where he and Jeff Daniels were also nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.

Which singer refused Dumb and Dumber his big hit, feeling the offer summed up how the world saw him?

Beck was asked for Loser as the film's theme song and said no, later recalling that the request was a little disheartening.

Which English band first recorded The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, covered for Dumb and Dumber?

XTC released the song in 1992 on the album Nonsuch, written by Andy Partridge, before the cover version became the soundtrack's second single.

Which Nick Cave song, later the Peaky Blinders theme, plays in Dumb and Dumber?

Red Right Hand was brand new in 1994 and became a horror staple through the Scream films, but it was left off the comedy's soundtrack album.

Which reggae-tinged hit plays over the opening credits of both Dumb and Dumber and its 2014 sequel?

Boom Shack-A-Lak by the British singer Apache Indian reached number five on the UK chart in 1993, yet it never appeared on the soundtrack album.

Which actor, the voice of SpongeBob's Patrick Star, voiced Harry in the Dumb and Dumber cartoon?

Bill Fagerbakke was then best known as the assistant coach Dauber on the sitcom Coach, and only later became the voice of a starfish.

In the Dumb and Dumber cartoon, Harry and Lloyd's clever purple pet Kitty is what kind of animal?

A beaver named Kitty was invented for the animated series, and she comes across as smarter than both of her owners.

Which studio produced the Dumb and Dumber cartoon series for ABC in 1995?

Hanna-Barbera made the series, and Bennett Yellin, who co-wrote the film, wrote for the cartoon as well before it was cancelled after one season.

Which other Jim Carrey film, like Dumb and Dumber, was turned into an animated series?

The Mask ran as a cartoon until 1997, comfortably outlasting the Dumb and Dumber series, which was cancelled after one season.

Which future Oscar winner as Churchill was reportedly an early choice for Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber?

Gary Oldman was known at the time for intense parts such as Dracula and the punk Sid Vicious, which makes the reported plan all the stranger.

Why did the studio at first resist casting Jeff Daniels as Harry in Dumb and Dumber?

He was known for drama, so the studio offered a deliberately low salary in the hope that he would turn the part down.

Which Romancing the Stone star plays old flame Fraida Felcher in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Kathleen Turner plays the woman whose decades-old postcard, saying she is pregnant, sends Harry and Lloyd back out on the road.

In the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel, which organ does Harry claim he urgently needs replaced?

A kidney from a blood relative is the excuse for the whole road trip, and Harry admits at the end that he was only pranking Lloyd.

In the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel, where has Lloyd spent two decades faking a catatonic state?

A mental institution has housed Lloyd ever since his heartbreak over Mary, and the whole act turns out to be a prank on Harry.

What is in the box said to hold a billion-dollar invention in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Cupcakes are all it holds, because the scientist who packed the box already knew that his wife was plotting against him.

Which actress was rumoured to film a cameo as a young Fraida in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Jennifer Lawrence is a big fan of the original, but no such scene made the final cut, and the directors said her schedule could not be worked around.

Posters for the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel spoofed which Scarlett Johansson sci-fi film?

Lucy imagined a woman unlocking ever more of her brain, so the parody posters implied that Harry and Lloyd get by on just one percent.

Which former Marine and Daily Show correspondent plays twins in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Rob Riggle plays both a scheming landscaper and his twin, a black ops specialist who takes over after the first brother dies in a train collision.

Which Walking Dead actress plays the scheming wife Adele in the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Laurie Holden was famous as Andrea in the zombie series and, before that, as a mysterious government informant on The X-Files.

In the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel, what is really in the cooler Lloyd brings back from Mexico?

A pork chop is all the cooler holds, proof that Lloyd was scammed when he went abroad to have an organ removed for his friend.

Prosecutors alleged the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel was funded with money stolen from which country?

Malaysia had its state investment fund looted, prosecutors said, and the production company behind the comedy later paid $60 million to settle.

Which Schitt's Creek star plays the crooked Principal Collins in the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel?

Eugene Levy plays a principal who invents a bogus class so that he can pocket a grant and buy himself a condo in Hawaii.

Which future Transformers star plays the school mascot Lewis in the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel?

Shia LaBeouf was a teenage Disney Channel star at the time, and Harry and Lloyd mistake his half-worn horse costume for a centaur.

Which Full House star plays Jessica's horrified father Walter in the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel?

Bob Saget plays a dad who panics when a melted chocolate bar leaves his bathroom looking far worse than it really is.

Which future NCIS: Los Angeles star plays the teenage Lloyd in the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel?

Eric Christian Olsen starred opposite Derek Richardson as the young Harry, and the two were nominated for a Razzie as Worst Screen Couple.

In the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel, Lloyd's adoptive father Ray has which job at the high school?

Janitor Ray, played by Luis Guzmán, takes Lloyd in after the boy has been adopted and handed back several times.

In the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel, the KEN Convention the pair crash is held in which Texas city?

El Paso is where Harry bluffs his way in by posing as a brilliant scientist, a scene one critic compared to infiltrating a TED talk.

Which Australian duo, makers of Walking on a Dream, scored the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel?

Empire of the Sun wrote the score and two new tracks, and also lent the comedy the song Alive from their album Ice on the Dune.

After the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel's credits, what do the pair toss onto a trucker's windshield?

Their milkshakes hit the truck of an old enemy from the first film, who promptly comes bearing down on them in a rage.

Despite its cross-country plot, the 2014 Dumb and Dumber sequel was shot in and around which city?

Atlanta and the rest of Georgia stood in for states such as Kansas, just as the city had hosted the 2003 prequel a decade earlier.

Which Saturday Night Live star plays the lunch lady Ms. Heller in the 2003 Dumb and Dumber prequel?

Cheri Oteri plays the principal's girlfriend and partner in crime, who ends up teaching his bogus class in a tool shed.