50 Fun Facts About The Hangover

Who directed all three Hangover films?

Todd Phillips took almost no fee for the first film in exchange for a share of its profits, a bet that earned him tens of millions when it grossed $467 million.

At which Las Vegas hotel do the friends book their suite?

Caesars Palace staff were still hearing the film's check-in line "Did Caesar live here?" from real guests four years after its release.

What is Stu Price's profession?

Stu the dentist is so cowed by his girlfriend that he tells her the bachelor party is a wine-country trip to Napa.

What animal do the trio find in their bathroom the morning after?

A Bengal tiger, which turns out to belong to a celebrity; the friends get it home by drugging a steak and loading it into the back of the Mercedes.

What vehicle does the valet bring round when the friends ask for their Mercedes?

A police cruiser: the friends had stolen it during the lost night, and two officers later arrest them for the theft.

In The Hangover, what drug does a blood test show the friends were dosed with?

Rohypnol was in their drinks because Alan thought he was slipping everyone ecstasy to guarantee a good night; his dealer had sold him the wrong pills.

What is the name of the escort Stu marries in Vegas?

Jade turns out to be the mother of the baby in the closet, and by the end Stu has arranged a proper date with her.

Which comedian plays the gangster found naked in the trunk of the Mercedes in The Hangover?

Ken Jeong made the scene wilder than written: his gangster leaping out of the trunk naked was not in the script.

Which real-life celebrity turns up at the suite in The Hangover demanding his stolen pet back?

Mike Tyson knocks Alan out with one punch, then forgives the trio after his security footage shows them leading his pet away in the small hours.

Chow accuses the friends of kidnapping him and stealing $80,000 worth of what?

Poker chips: Doug reveals on the drive home that he had Chow's $80,000 all along, after his friends had scrambled to raise the money overnight.

Which casino skill does Alan use to win the money they need to pay off Chow?

Card counting at blackjack: Alan had studied a book on it during the drive to Vegas, and he wins $82,400 in a single session.

Where do Phil, Stu and Alan finally find Doug?

On the roof of the hotel: his friends had carried him up there asleep as a prank and forgotten him, and Doug threw his mattress onto a statue as a signal.

In The Hangover, the friends meet Chow to make the exchange for Doug in which location?

The Mojave Desert handover goes wrong: the hooded "Doug" Chow delivers is Black Doug, the dealer who sold Alan the wrong pills.

Producer Tripp Vinson inspired The Hangover's script by doing what at his own bachelor party?

Vanishing for the night: Tripp Vinson blacked out in Las Vegas and came to in a strip club, being threatened over a very large bill.

Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore later wrote and directed which comedy?

Bad Moms was the pair's own film; they had sold the Hangover script for over $2 million, then seen it heavily rewritten while the screen credit stayed theirs.

In The Hangover, Stu's girlfriend Melissa once cheated on him with a bartender working where?

On a cruise ship: Phil keeps calling the man a bellhop or a sailor, and Stu wearily corrects him each time that it was the bartender.

In The Hangover, while the friends wait for a sedative to work on the animal in their bathroom, what does Stu do?

Sings at the piano: the number became known as Stu's Song, and Ed Helms followed it in Part II with his own words to a Billy Joel tune.

Why did Stu's missing tooth look so real in The Hangover?

Ed Helms removed a dental implant: the tooth had been false since he was a teenager, so it was simply taken out for the shoot.

At the police station in The Hangover, schoolchildren get to try out which weapon on the friends?

A Taser: agreeing to be targets for the officers' demonstration is the price of an early release and getting the Mercedes back from impound.

Which Flo Rida song plays over the end credits of the first Hangover film?

Right Round plays as the photos of the lost night, which the friends agree to view just once before deleting, roll past in the end credits.

The Hangover broke a near-25-year US record for R-rated comedies held by which film?

Beverly Hills Cop, the Eddie Murphy hit, had led since 1984; The Hangover took the US record with $277 million, and its own sequel then outgrossed it worldwide.

Which animated film did The Hangover narrowly beat for the number-one spot on its opening weekend?

Up looked the winner on Sunday's estimates, but The Hangover's Sunday take beat projections and the final count put it ahead by under $1 million.

Which major award did the first Hangover film win?

The Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy went to a film made for about $35 million with stars who were barely known when it was shot.

Which comedian plays Alan, the bride's socially awkward brother, in The Hangover?

Zach Galifianakis plays him as a loner so keen to belong that he slices his own palm in a bid to make the others his blood brothers.

The Hangover's premise has been likened to which 2000 comedy about two friends retracing a forgotten night?

Dude, Where's My Car? also follows friends who wake after a blackout to find something important missing, then chase a trail of clues with a gang on their heels.

In The Hangover, schoolteacher Phil funds his Vegas weekend with money collected from his pupils for what?

A field trip: Phil gathers the cash in class, then slips it all into an envelope marked Vegas before his friends pick him up.

To avoid a repeat of Vegas, what tame send-off does Stu hold in The Hangover Part II?

A bachelor brunch is all Stu will allow, to Phil's disgust; the precaution fails anyway once the group reaches the wedding resort.

What does Stu wake up with on his face in Bangkok?

A tribal tattoo copied from a famous boxer's face: the artist who inked the original sued Warner Bros. for copyright infringement, and the studio settled.

What kind of animal shares the Bangkok hotel room with the trio?

A capuchin monkey: it runs drugs for Russian mobsters, and Chow has hidden his bank codes in its vest.

Who is missing in Part II, with only a severed finger left behind?

Teddy, the bride's brother, had gone to fetch ice for his severed finger and was trapped in the hotel elevator when the power went out.

In The Hangover Part II, what did Alan lace with drugs, meaning to knock out just one person?

The campfire marshmallows: Alan dosed one bag with muscle relaxers and his ADHD medication, then mixed the bags up, so everyone ate them.

Which actor plays Kingsley, the gangster who demands Chow's bank code, in The Hangover Part II?

Paul Giamatti's Kingsley turns out to be an undercover Interpol agent: the ransom deal was a sting, and he never had their missing friend at all.

Which actor took over Mel Gibson's cameo in The Hangover Part II, only for his own scene to be cut?

Liam Neeson shot the part, but the scene had to be redone after an edit while he was filming in London, so the director called in a film-maker friend to play it instead.

In The Hangover Part II, whom do the trio wheel out of a Bangkok police station, expecting their missing friend?

An elderly Buddhist monk, wearing the lost boy's sweatshirt, is handed over in a wheelchair; he can explain nothing because he has taken a vow of silence.

Believing Chow has died in their room in The Hangover Part II, where do the trio hide his body?

In the ice machine: Chow collapses after snorting cocaine in mid-story, and the trio later find him alive when they come back for his bank code.

What animal is Alan towing home on the freeway at the start of The Hangover Part III?

A giraffe: a low overpass kills it, and the pile-up starts the row during which Alan's father dies of a heart attack, prompting the intervention.

Who plays Marshall, the crime lord who takes Doug hostage in Part III?

John Goodman's Marshall wants the gold Chow stole from him, and holds Doug as insurance while giving the others three days to deliver Chow.

Which comedian joins The Hangover Part III as Cassie, the woman Alan falls for?

Melissa McCarthy's Cassie meets Alan when the friends trace Chow to her shop, and the film ends with the two of them getting married.

Which Arizona border town doubled for Tijuana during the filming of The Hangover Part III?

Nogales, which sits right on the Mexican border, was dressed with a copy of Tijuana's famous street sign when filming moved there in October 2012.

How does Chow escape from the penthouse suite in Part III?

By parachuting off the balcony, Chow comes down on the Strip, where Stu catches him and shuts him in the trunk of a limousine.

Which film beat The Hangover Part III to the top of the box office on its opening weekend?

Fast & Furious 6 won the Memorial Day weekend with $97 million to Part III's $42 million, even though Warner Bros. had moved its film up a day to get ahead.

What collective nickname do the four friends in The Hangover give themselves?

The Wolfpack grows out of a speech Alan reads on the first night: he calls himself a one-man wolf pack that expanded when his sister brought Doug home.

In The Hangover, which Phil Collins hit is the suite's celebrity intruder singing along to when the friends return?

In the Air Tonight: he air-drums along to it, then floors Alan with a single punch.

In The Hangover, what does Alan insist his shoulder bag is called when Phil mocks it as a man purse?

A satchel: Alan's defence is that Indiana Jones wears one, and the bag later causes the trouble with Chow when he picks up the wrong one at the tables.

Which actor plays Phil, the swaggering schoolteacher of the group, in The Hangover?

Bradley Cooper's Phil opens the film on the phone to the bride, admitting five hours before the wedding that they have lost the groom.

The trilogy's director has a cameo in the first Hangover film as which character?

Mr. Creepy is the man the friends meet in a hotel elevator, and the director came back to play him again in Part III.

Which actress met the director about playing Stu's Vegas bride in The Hangover but proved too young?

Lindsay Lohan loved the script, the director said later, scotching the story that she had turned the film down; her age was the only problem.

Which Las Vegas entertainers appear as themselves in the end-credits photos of the first Hangover film?

Wayne Newton and Carrot Top turn up in the camera's stills of the forgotten night, which the friends agree to look through once and then delete.

Which actress plays the escort Stu marries during the lost night in The Hangover?

Heather Graham sat out the Bangkok sequel but came back for Part III, where her character is the contact who leads the friends to Chow's hideout.

In The Hangover Part III, where does Chow trade a gold brick?

A Las Vegas pawn shop: Phil's stolen minivan is found parked outside, and the owner's tip points the friends towards Chow's hideout.