20 Things You Didn't Know About Clueless

5. A Famous Restaurant Refused To Appear In The Movie

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The movie's restaurant scenes were filmed at Crocodile Café in Burbank, California, but the original script actually called for them to take place at the aptly-named California-based pizza chain California Pizza Kitchen.

However, when the producers sent the company's CEOs the script for their stamp of approval, they immediately refused any filming to take place in their restaurants.

This was largely due to the memorable joke in which Tai (Brittany Murphy) uses a breadstick to make a penis joke.

Rather than cut the gag, the production instead decided to find an eatery more amenable to their needs, and that was that.

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