Fun Big Lebowski Facts

To help get you fired up for tonight's movie, here's some Big Lebowski Fun Facts:
-The Dude never actually bowls in the movie.

-The Dude says "man" 144 times in the movie, an average of about 1.5 times per minute.

-Porn Star Asia Carrera co-stars with Bunny Lebowski in Log Jammin'.

-The character of Walter was partly based on John Milius, the writer/director of Conan the Barbarian (1982).

-Of all the different personalized bowling shirts Donny wears throughout the film, none of them bears his name.

-The Jellies sandals that Jeff Bridges wears in the movie were his own.

-Peter Stormare's character, Uli Kunkel, is seen ordering pancakes at a diner. This could be a reference to Fargo, in which his character anxiously wants to eat at a pancake house, but never gets to.

-Walter's eulogy to Donny concluded with the phrase "Good night, sweet prince". This is the same phrase Horatio used after the death of Hamlet in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

-A clip of Jeff Bridges saying "I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino..." was played on arena screens when former Philadelphia Wings player Tom Ryan, who sports ridiculously long dreadlocks and was affectionately known as the Dude, scored a goal or fought during a game.

-The F-bomb is dropped more in the Big Lebowski than in Goodfellas or Scarface.

-The license plate of Bunny's red convertible spells "LAPIN", which means rabbit in french.

-The movie is loosely based on the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.

Fun facts courtesy of imdb.com and wikipedia.