Universal Pictures didn’t have much faith in the sold the foreign rights for financial security in case it didn’t do well, since some considered it ‘moronic.’ It ended up making over $132 million outside of the US.

The famous apple pie was purchased at a Costco in Long Beach, California.

Contrary to belief, the term MILF was used 4 years before the movie in a 1995 Usenet post.

Adam Herz wrote the screenplay in 6 weeks, and watched ‘Porky’s’ and ‘Bachelor Party’ repeatedly to study the comedy of sex-obsessed high school movies.

The first title was not ‘American Pie.’ Herk titled it ‘Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love.’ During filming the movie was called ‘Great Falls,’ after the high school, but people who watched test screenings said they didn’t like it.

Alyson Hannigan stayed in character after shooting scenes and continued to talk like Michelle by ending sentences with a question mark.

Jason Biggs’ body double was fired because he showed up with an eight-inch scar on his stomach, so Biggs’ had to do the sex scenes himself.

Eugene Levy threatened to drop out unless he could improvise all of his lines because he thought Jim’s dad in the script was a little creepy.

Also one for ad-libbing, Hannigan came up with “What’s my name? Say my name! Say my name, bitch!” on the fly.

It originally got an NC-17 rating until the infamous pie scene was edited down in order to get an R.

Sean William Scott was only paid $8,000 for his playing Stifler, it was his first feature role.

The wrong Blink-182 drummer was listed. Travis Barker had replaced Scott Raynor before they appeared in the film, but Raynor’s name showed up in the credits.

The inspiration for Stifler, Adam Herz’s high school classmate Brian Krebs, ended up going to jail for murder.

The ‘pale-ale’ was just beer with egg whites, which still didn’t taste very good for Scott.

Chris Klein and Seann William Scott were really bad at lacrosse, and tried it for 3 weeks until they let doubles handle the sports scenes.

John Cho was the oldest high schooler in the movie at 26.