FYI:
The whole opening
and lines are an homage to American Beauty.
The camera was
mounted on the back of a bike and Nathan rode it as I ran behind.
When Nathan and Nic arrived to film that day, Nathan thought we were
filming him first, so he was fully dressed in his outfit. While he
was riding, a woman in a mini-van stopped and just stared us down, when
Nathan said, "Quit gawking at me you bitch!" She drove off.
I waved to Mr. Hill
as I was running.
We must have done
at least 3 separate takes of Nic handing the juice to Josh because Josh
kept drinking all the juice. The first one was the worst because
it was just a 10 second section where Josh was drinking the juice and
Nic's jaw started to drop.
The scenes of
Pee-Wee were put in for a reason. First, the song was already
going to be in the episode, and I though it would make more sense if it
was because Josh was watching the movie on TV. The last shot of
Pee-Wee with the lion, was foreshadowing that bad things were about to
come, specifically to Nic on his bike ride. The whole next episode
was going to be Nic on his bike that would explode if his speed dropped
below 11 mph, but was cut.