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The Surprisingly Dark History of ‘Superbad’s Filming Location

An oft-repeated claim about the 2007 comedy isn’t as accurate as some would have you believe.

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It might not seem like it, but the beloved Jonah Hill-Michael Cera teen sex comedy Superbad is coming up on its 20th anniversary next year. Yeah, as it turns out, Seth and Evan and their buddy McLovin aren’t the same horny, booze-obsessed youngsters you’ve got preserved in your mind from two decades earlier. In fact, the actors who played those characters are now old enough to have high school-aged kids of their own—who, for all we know, could be planning to woo their crushes with alcohol as we speak. But that’s hardly the strangest realization you’ll come to when reflecting back on the film and its history.

To commemorate Superbad’s 10th anniversary in 2017, co-writer Seth Rogen shared a bunch of interesting little-known facts........

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