Eurotrip
Matt Damon’sEuroTripsong“Scotty Does n’t Know”isn’t just a catchy papa - touchwood hymn , it helped bring a woman out of a coma too . Released in 2004 , adolescent comedyEuroTripfollows the adventures of four high school graduates – Scotty ( Scott Mechlowicz ) , Cooper ( Jacob Pitts ) , Jenny ( Michelle Trachtenberg ) and Jamie ( Travis Wester ) – as they gallivant through Europe in search of Scotty ’s attractive German pen pal . It was a box seat office bomb , but it ’s become something of a cult definitive thanks in part to a brilliantcelebrity cameoand a song so popular it ’s often seenEuroTripreferred to as the “ Scotty Does n’t Know movie . ”
InEuroTrip’sfirst enactment , Scotty is unceremoniously dump by his cheating high shoal sweetheart Fiona ( Kristin Kreuk ) . Later at a graduation party Scotty brook further mortification when a Blink 182 - way soda pop - punk band run by a pierced , tattooed singer who ’s played by none other than a lip - syncingMatt Damonperform a little ditty called “ Scotty Does n’t roll in the hay , ” which details Fiona ’s unfaithfulness . While the song does n’t on the dot brag poet laureate tier of lyrical genius , the “ Scotty Does n’t sleep with ” lyrics – which admit choice lines like “ I ca n’t believe he ’s so trusting , While I ’m right behind you thrusting ” – sure as shooting get the point across .
Related : Is Matt Damon In The Game of Thrones Premiere ? Real Actor Identity
It ’s one of the best scenes in the movie and there ’s a great story behind howMatt Damoncame to join the cast ofEuroTriptoo . Damon run to college withEuroTripdirector Jeff Schaffer and writers Alec Berg and David Mandel and just pass off to be filmingThe Brothers Grimmin Prague at the same sentence they were shootingEuroTripin the Czech Das Kapital . Schaffer , Berg and Mandel asked Damon if he ’d be up for aEuroTripcameo and the residue , as they say , is cinematic history . But “ Scotty Does n’t lie with ” is n’t just a pop - strong-armer classic – it apparently has the power to make for multitude out of comas too .
According to an interview withUproxx , Nick Cloutman – who play bass in Lustra , the band who wrote “ Scotty Does n’t experience ” and performed alongsideMatt DamoninEuroTrip – he was once told an amazing anecdote about the song . A woman informed him her friend was in a car accident and skid into a coma while being deliver by paramedical when her phone started ringing . The woman just happened to have Lustra ’s “ Scotty Does n’t Know ” as her ringtone and , in her dazed state , started singing along , effectively saving her from fall into a comatoseness .
Clearly , the legacy of “ Scotty Does n’t live ” lives on beyond theEuroTripsoundtrackbut the song is n’t just responsible for bring someone out of a coma . In 2018 , the song was used in an internet joke when Australian prime minister Scott Morrison forget to renew his website domain name and it was snapped up by a troll who take all mention of Morrison ’s policy from the site , replacing the content with “ Scotty Does n’t Know ” play on repetition . And , according toEuroTripdirector Jeff Schaffer , Matt Damon still has the great unwashed come up to him singing the lyric to“Scotty Does n’t Know”nearly 20 years after the movie ’s release . Well , the vocal is a classic .
Next : Why Matt Damon Hated The Bourne Ultimatum
