The infamous scene in which Harry uses the broken toilet in Mary’s bathroom and frantically tries to get rid of what was the result of a jealous Lloyd dosing him with Turbo Lax was originally going to be even more gross. “We did trim it a little,” Bobby acknowledged at Loyola Marymount. But not because the studio made them.
“That was our decision, yeah,” Peter concurred. “But yeah, we were pushing it, but they didn’t get it and I remember at the premiere, Bob Shay, who was the head of the studio, gave a toast or a speech up front and he said, ‘By the way, this isn’t why I got into the movie business.'”
Speaking of pushing it, Daniels was really giving the scene his all.
“That was a couple hours of porcelain gymnastics,” the Emmy winner told USA Today in May. “And that close-up when they pop in tight on my red face. I had been doing it so long, I had almost passed out.”