It’s no surprise, then, that it was inspired by a real-life ill-fated jaunt to Montreal from Vermont. Although the trip was not made personally by any members of the Broken Lizard crew, the story has been retold enough times through the five members of the sketch comedy-turned-filmmaking troupeJay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanskethat perhaps the finer details of the event in question have become cloudy. Heffernan, who played the dopey turncoat Rod Farva in Super Troopers and the ironically murdered beer chugger Landfill in Beerfest, recalls a group including Chandrasekhar and a few others getting pulled over on a beer run to our fair country. I played rugby for Colgate University, Heffernan adds. And we did make the trip up to Montreal for some tournament, and there were a lot of strip clubs involved. Paul Soter, the redhead known for playing the more sane characters, recalls the movie intro playing largely true to the real story, with a group of friends carrying considerable amounts of weed and mushrooms driving to a friends cabin for a party

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