Along Came Polly Trivias

The 1994 earthquake was at 4:31 AM. Very few parents read to their kids at 4:30 in the morning.

Rupert Grint had got the role as Austin, but had to drop the role because he was busy making Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).

When Austin is hanging a "looking for" poster in the high school, it moves around between shots of him talking to his friends.

The necklaces around Carter's neck in his first scene were taped on to his shirt to avoid any noise the microphone would pick up.

When Carter and Sam are hurrying to get back to the diner, they pass the same Jiffy Lube and at least one of the same cars (the Volvo) in the background several times.

The number "609" at the end of Chad Michael Murray's online screen name is the actual area code for the Princeton area, referred to throughout the movie.

When Sam is in Rhonda's house, she is looking through items in a red bowl and says, "Rhonda, you sure do have a knack for taking something simple and making it beautiful." The mask is not in front of the red bowl at this time. She walks over to Rhonda and looks at the dress with her. When the camera goes back to the red bowl, the mask is propped up against it, though neither Rhonda nor Sam had time to place it there.

In the scene near the end at the football game. The ball being used in the game is a regulation college football. It is visible by the stripes on the ball. Regulation college football stripes are visible on only half the ball, while regulation high school footballs are marked with stripes all the way around the football. Additionally, professional league footballs have no stripes at all.

All regulation high school football games across the nation only run in 12-minute quarters. The game starts theWhen Reuben and Lisa enter their honeymoon suite, he drops her as he carries her over the threshold. She falls on her left side, yet it's the inside of her right thigh that is bruised.

After Reuben has used Polly's special "Sponge", he stands at the door with the sponge wrapped in a plastic bag without anything printed on it. The next shot of the bag shows that it has red and blue printing.

When Reuben and Lisa are lying on the beach, there is nothing in the background in the first shot of Lisa, but in the second shot we see people lying on deckchairs, and Claude's boat.

Ferrets do make sounds as heard in the movie; however, generally, they are as quiet as rabbits. However when excited over a new experience or playing with other ferrets or their owner it is quite common to do what owners term "their happy dance" and they often make sounds very similar to that heard in the movie. That said, the "whining" sounds made near the end while "left" behind the closed door to the sidewalk is not normal. Additional ferret fact: California and Hawaii (where the movie was mostly filmed) were/are the only two states where ferrets are totally illegal to own as pets at the time it was filmed.

The movie poster for Sandy Lyle's only film is a direct copy of the poster for The Breakfast Club (1985)

At one point, Jennifer Aniston was shooting "Friends" (1994), Bruce Almighty (2003) and this movie at the same time.

Ben Stiller mentioned while on a talk show promoting the film that the ferret bit him a couple of times during production, including one time latching onto his chin.

As the plane approaches St. Barts, the shadow of the plane can be seen on the water, it is clearly a single engine aircraft, but as it lands and taxies in, it is a twin-engine plane.

When Reuben is playing racquetball with Leland Van Lew, Leland smacks his face into the wall and his mouth begins to bleed. When Reuben points out to Leland that he is indeed bleeding, Leland reaches into mouth and pulls out a tooth. While he does this it is apparent that he is missing a tooth towards the front of his mouth. The next time we see him, he is smiling and he has all his teeth.

Reuben (Ben Stiller) writes a list to compare Polly (Jennifer Aniston) against Lisa (Debra Messing). This is found by Polly and leads to an argument. This is similar to Season 2 of "Friends" (1994) when Rachel (Aniston) is compared to Ross's (David Schwimmer) current girlfriend.

The building Leland van Lew jumps off of in Los Angeles is the AT&T Tower (611 W. 6th Street), designed by William L. Pereira in 1969 as the city's tallest skyscraper.

When Reuben climbs aboard the sailboat when he goes to pick up Lisa after her scuba excursion, he would have had to wade through fairly deep water, yet he arrives on board completely dry.

In the very last scene where Rodolfo the Ferret runs into the palm tree you can clearly see the tracks in the sand of the animatronic ferret's wheels used in all the scenes where he runs

During the film's climactic scene at the Hell's Kitchen Community Center, Reuben's tie is knotted with a deep dimple. Seconds later, outside the community center with Sandy, the tie has no dimple.

During the party scene at the art show, Polly's friend, miming sexual actions with a loaf of French bread, replaces the bread from where she got it, but in the next shot of her, she's still holding the bread.

When Reuben and Sandy are at the pizza place, Reuben rubs the straw paper into a ball, then in the next shot he's wrapping it around his finger.