In 1999 a film was unleashed that would change the world of teen movies forever.

Then, not satisfied with just one brilliant movie, it spawned more than a decade of just as seriously-funny-but-seriously-gross sequels. The first featured pie-shagging, accidental semen drinking and uncontrollable diarrhoea.

Not one to watch with parents.

Ah American Pie, the film that taught many a late 90s/ early 00s teen a thing or two about sex.


The original starred Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann Willam Scott and Eddie Kaye Thomas as friends Jim, Kevin, Stifler and Finch – four teens on a quest to lose their virginity before graduation.



You might have watched the entire series over, and over, and over again, but we bet there’s still a thing or two you didn’t know.

Here’s 20 things you might not have known about the American Pie movies:

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1. There are eight American Pie films including American Pie Presents The American Mile, American Pie Presents Band Camp, and American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love.

2. Its original working title was: ‘Unfinished Teenage Sex Comedy Which Can Be Made for Under $10 Million That Studio Readers Will Most Likely Hate but I Think You Will Love’. Catchy.

3. The ‘semen’ in the beer Stifler accidentally drank at the house party was really egg whites. And even that made him vom.

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4. Seann William Scott earned $8,000 for his first go at Stifler. He later earned $5million per movie.

5. For the scenes where Jim was turned on, Jason Biggs’ fake erection was actually a foil-wrapped sausage stuck on a pencil.

6. Eugene Levy (Jim’s dad) improvised nearly all of his lines and threatened to quit if the director didn’t let him.

Eugene Levy and Jason Biggs (Picture: Universal pictures)

7. Alyson Hannigan claims she got the part of Michelle because she was called in to her audition right after having had a pee and was still a little flustered from her trip to the bathroom, in typical Michelle style.

8. During her sex scene with Jim, the line: ‘What’s my name? Say my name! Say my name, b****!’ was improvised in the heat of the moment.

9. Jason Biggs’s body double got fired because he showed up to a sex scene with a scar on his stomach so Jason had to film all the sex scenes himself.

10. The apple pie came from Costco.

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11. Christina Milian played a ‘band member’.

12. Ben Affleck’s brother Casey, who also starred in the Ocean’s films, also appears in American Pie as Kevin’s brother (and the one who tells him about the Tongue Tornado).

13. In Jim’s room you can see that there is no ceiling.

14. The first movie made $18,709,680 on its opening weekend.

15. Alyson Hannigan nearly played Mena Suvari’s Heather but preferred Michelle when she read the script.

16. American Pie 2 made $45,117,985 in its opening weekend.

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17. The first film had a budget of $10million, American Wedding had one of $55m.

18. If you did a Google search on the word MILF (careful, now) you’d get over 148million results as it’s now one of the most searched categories for internet porn.

19. Seann William Scott was working at Home Depot at the time he auditioned for the movie.



20. He tried to convince his mum not to see the movie. Instead she went to see it with her church friends. In an interview he revealed: ‘She likes to go into Best Buy and ask “Do you have American Pie? I’m Stifler’s mom”.’

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