Here's An Oral History Of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' From 'EuroTrip'

This was a piece that published at Uproxx on August 17, 2018, which has been deleted from the internet. So here it is again. There are two things I remember distinctly about putting this piece together. First, that it took a surprisingly long time, which is a big reason I want it to exist again. I remember my editor always checking in on Slack, asking, "What are you working on this week?" And for over a month straight this would always be part of my answer. And it didn't help he had no idea what I was talking about since he had no relationship with the motion picture EuroTrip. So, for him, I was wasting a significant amount of time writing a 3000 word history of, not the movie EuroTrip (a movie that finished fifth at the box office the weekend it was released, behind Welcome to Mooseport), but one song in the movie EuroTrip. This is why I tell people I truly did like working at Uproxx.

The other thing was I desperately wanted to talk to Matt Damon for this piece. I had interviewed Matt Damon twice in my life and I thought, maybe, that might help me convince his publicist to let me have a couple minutes to talk to him about "Scotty Doesn't Know." I probably emailed Damon's publicist five times over the course of a month. As you might expect, I never heard back. I didn't even get an email giving me "the hard pass." Perhaps a request from the guy who asked Damon, "In Oceans 12 Tess knows she looks like Julia Roberts so does that mean Linus knows he looks like you?" didn't have much of a chance.

Anyway! Here is an oral history of "Scotty Doesn't Know" from the movie EuroTrip as it originally published.

DON’T TELL SCOTTY BUT HERE’S AN ORAL HISTORY OF ‘SCOTTY DOESN’T KNOW’

Back in 2000, Road Trip, a movie starring Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott and Tom Green, became a bit of a sensation, making a whole lot of money off of a pretty small budget. Four years later, even though it was a completely different creative team, the raunchy EuroTrip was released in theaters billed as “from the producers of Road Trip.” EuroTrip would wind up having a higher budget and would make considerably less money than Road Trip. (It is actually very difficult to find someone who actually saw EuroTrip in theaters.)

Then a strange thing happened…