Buckle Up and Overview Out the Solid of Road Day out Then and Now
It's been 25 years since Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott and DJ Qualls piled into the car and embarked on a debauched Road Day out for a ridiculous trigger in Todd Phillips' 2000 comedy.
The ideal arrangement to top Jason Biggs doing it with a pie…?
Such was once absolutely the inquire on countless directors' lips after the field administrative center success of American Pie, which spurred the urge to possess theaters with debauched hijinks that audiences—and younger gentlemen in particular—would bag humorous.
Todd Phillips perfected that system over the direction of the '00s, starting with 2000's R-rated Road Day out, a raunchy comedy cranked as a lot as 11 about a rather traditional college scholar (Breckin Meyer) who hits the avenue to intercept a sex tape starring him and a one-evening stand (Amy Clear)—or is she?—that was once by probability mailed to his girlfriend (Rachel Blanchard) at but any other faculty.
And naturally he can't embark on such an essential mission by myself: Phillips, who also wrote the script with Scot Armstrong, packed all of it in, bringing Stifler—from what would rapidly be a entire American Pie franchise—alongside for the chase.
“Clearly with the American Pie motion footage and Road Day out, my guys had been more or much less d–ks,” Scott acknowledged to IGN in 2005. He didn't change into an actor to crank out comedies, but “now I deal with it. I don't actually necessarily mediate I'm a humorous guy, but I deal with the chance to perceive on something that I don't feel I'm basically the most appealing at doing.”
No lower than these dudes know where their car is.
And alongside the style, sex is had, a prostate is probed, French toast gets a dusting of flop sweat and a mouse is molested by Tom Green.
“I bag the term 'imperfect-out comedy' originate of dismissive,” Phillips, ready to scamper to bat for no matter he was once working on since the starting, told the BBC in 2000. “It's very straightforward to be imperfect, it's very laborious to be humorous. I mediate why Road Day out works is no longer attributable to the imperfect stuff, it's attributable to the characters.”
Road Day out made almost $120 million worldwide and achieve Phillips on the bro-comedy blueprint—despite the indisputable truth that, as he would be immediate to point out, every of his motion footage' bros has a purpose.
And 25 years is now not any doubt ample time for about a twists and activates everyone's crawl, so score a load of what these miscreants all stare deal with now that they’ve some steady mileage on the odometer:
Breckin Meyer
After standing out as Travis Birkenstock in Clueless and scoring supporting roles in The Craft, Chase and The Insider, Meyer moved into the starring arrangement in Road Day out as Josh—a cheater (all of it works out in the tip) but the relatively good, traditional one of the bunch. Next up was once the ensemble comedy Rat Tear and he's the instruct of Jon in the Garfield motion footage with Invoice Murray as the sluggish, lasagna-loving cat. A frequent in motion footage and TV, Meyer also starred in the factual dramedy Franklin & Bash with Ticket-Paul Gosselaar and more no longer too lengthy previously seemed in Designated Survivor and The Fix.
He shares two daughters with ex-wife Deborah Kaplan (who directed him in 2001's Josie and the Pussycats.
In early 2024 he and Comfort Meals host Kelly Rizzo went public with their relationship. She was once married to Bob Saget for several years sooner than the Paunchy Dwelling star's unexpected loss of life in January 2022 and has credited Meyer with serving to her grieve.
“He's correct been so supportive,” Rizzo told E! News' Francesca Amiker in October 2024. “Since day one, that's correct been this sort of astronomical element with him. He knew what I went via, and he appreciated it and well-liked it—and persistently likes to discuss Bob.”
Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott had correct performed Stifler in American Pie and would grasp three more turns as the unhinged but effectively-which formulation celebration animal down the avenue. Nonetheless first, he took a flip as Josh's most appealing friend, the mildly unhinged but effectively-which formulation celebration animal E.L., in Road Day out.
Scott dove into his subsequent form-casting with admire, starring in the bromance classic Dude, Where's My Automobile? with Ashton Kutcher and Final Shuttle state (both of which also got here out in 2000), The Dukes of Hazzard, Mr. Woodcock and Objective Units. He also grew to change into up in Veteran College and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Motivate and equipped the instruct of Fracture in four Ice Age motion footage. He has also starred in a sequence of puny motion footage, including the ensemble sci-fi thriller-comedy Southland Tales (audiences didn't actually score it both) and the Courteney Cox-directed Right Earlier than I Chase.
He genuinely hasn't accomplished unheard of TV (his motion footage grasp quietly grossed almost $5 billion collectively in the period in-between), but in 2018 was once solid in Fox's Lethal Weapon to change the fired Clayne Crawford as the resident dwell wire, but the buddy-cop dramedy was once canceled at the tip of its third season.
Scott made a welcome return to darkish hilarity with an arc on the closing season of HBO's The Righteous Gem stones in 2025.
He shares daughter Frankie Rose with ex-wife Olivia Korenberg. They divorced in 2024 after five years of marriage.
Amy Clear
Beth grew to change into out to be the girl for Josh in the tip, never mind the shady cinematic initiating to their relationship.
After Road Day out, which was once preceded by modeling, starring in Varsity Blues and playing Ruby on Felicity, Clear reunited with Breckin Meyer in Rat Tear and co-starred in The Butterfly Originate with Ashton Kutcher. She has seemed in a slew of motion footage, including Obtain a Date With Tad Hamilton, Starsky & Hutch, The Handiest Man, Right Friends (as the article of Ryan Reynolds' lengthy-suffering affection), The Metropolis and the holiday ABC Family classic 12 Dates of Christmas. Later TV work integrated Maron, Regulation & Picture: SVU, MacGyver and the DC Universe net series Stargirl with Luke Wilson.
Clear married HGTV star Carter Oosterhouse in 2011 and they welcomed daughter Plant life via surrogate in 2016.
Paolo Costanzo
Josh's neat-ass buddy Rubin is the aim this avenue outing was once that you just may maybe be ready to contemplate, as he's the one who sent the inferior tape (Josh had also been recording innocent video messages in the abilities sooner than FaceTime and Snapchat) to Josh's girlfriend, Tiffany.
Paolo Costanzo went on to co-star in 40 Days and 40 Nights with Josh Hartnett and then landed the technically plum characteristic of Joey's nephew Michael Tribbiani in the indirectly immediate-lived Friends lunge-off. A steadier gig got here as a celeb of the USA dramedy Royal Ache for eight seasons, after which he had a pivotal characteristic in the HBO series The Night Of and joined the solid of Designated Survivor in season two.
Tom Green
Tom Green's bum isn't on the avenue outing, but his character—Barry Manilow—serves as narrator and college bard. 2000 was once an eventful three hundred and sixty five days for the host of The Tom Green Indicate—he chronicled his profitable therapy for testicular cancer on his standard MTV show, and then seemed as The Chad in Charlie's Angels alongside then-girlfriend Drew Barrymore, whom he was once married to for eight months in 2001 sooner than submitting for divorce that December.
After Road Day out, his supreme movie was once 2001's Freddy Purchased Fingered, but he has written and produced and seemed in every form of productions through the years (including Tom Green's Dwelling Tonight, an forward-of-his-time discuss show he filmed in his dwelling room, and Tom Green Dwell), to boot to accomplished cameos and many instruct work.
Green moved support to his native Canada in 2021, and now shares a sprawling farm with many animals and his fiancée Amanda Nelson.
“I’m now seemingly now not a Hollywood guy,” he told the New York Times in January 2025. “I started to feel deal with I wasn’t being magnificent to my respectable self.”
DJ Qualls
The meek and scrawny Kyle was once a learn about gag in and of himself, but despite the indisputable truth that he had some lows (drinking adulterated French toast being basically the most memorable), he also ended up with Rhonda's leopard-print underpants as a memento from basically the most appealing evening of his lifestyles thus far.
After Road Day out, his movie debut, DJ Qualls starred in his enjoy bro comedy, 2002's The New Man, but is especially identified for supporting appearances in the likes of Hustle & Float and TV reveals including Lost, Prison Minds, My Title Is Earl, The Huge Bang Theory, Breaking Inferior, Supernatural, Fargo and The Man in the High Fort, on which he was once a frequent for 3 seasons.
He also reprised the characteristic of Kyle in 2009's state-to-DVD sequel Road Day out: Beer Pong.
After sharing with an audience that he was once homosexual throughout 1 of his buddy Jim Jeffries' stand-up reveals (in 2013 Qualls starred in Legit, a sitcom co-created by Jeffries), Qualls took to Twitter in January 2020 to jot down, “It is 11:20pm. I correct got here out on stage at a @jimjefferies show in San Diego. Yep, I'm homosexual. Been homosexual this entire time. Drained of caring about what other folks would mediate of me. Drained of caring about what it may maybe well seemingly conclude to my career.”
His most most up-to-date credit score is about a episodes of Chuck Lorre's HBO comedy Bookie.
Mia Amber Davis
None of the aftermath of Rhonda's memorable sex scene, when Kyle's chums tease him, old effectively, but Mia Amber Davis made a splash as the assured, horny-as-hell girl Kyle loses his virginity to on the avenue.
The model and actress went on to a career as a motivational speaker and class advertising and marketing and marketing consultant sooner than she died at 36 in 2011 from a pulmonary embolism following knee surgical operation. She was once married to comic Mike Yard from 2008 till her loss of life.
Rachel Blanchard
Completely good Tiffany remains none the wiser about Josh's unfaithful methods after the tape turns out no longer to be what Josh thought it was once, and they amicably damage up up.
Rachel Blanchard, the aged baby star (The Kids of Degrassi Road, Are You Panicked of the Darkish?) who performed Cher when Clueless was once briefly a sitcom, has since labored alongside a slew of talented actors, but her most recognizable movie since Road Day out is the 2d-cult-classic Snakes on a Plane. She was once also in Adrian Lyne's thriller Deep Water, the movie that briefly brought costars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas together off-digicam.
Her TV work entails Seventh Heaven, Behold Indicate, Psych, Fargo Audience Community's You Me Her and Amazon's hit adaptation of The Summer I Grew to change into Pretty.
In 2014, Blanchard told ABC News that anything else on-line announcing she had a husband named Adrian Brown and two children was once a lie. “That's a rumor,” she stated. “I mediate I grasp an Records superhighway stalker, who started that and then won't grab it down. I preserve having it taken down and he keeps inserting it support up. Nonetheless I don't grasp a husband, I don't grasp two children.”
She has since married composer Jeremy Turner and they’ve a daughter, Maxine.
Anthony Rapp
Anthony Rapp, the star of stage and show who originated the characteristic of Ticket in Rent and Lucas in If/Then on Broadway, can play a chilling villain, including obsessive TA grew to change into cult leader Josh in Road Day out.
Since then his movie credits differ from the indie to bigger fare comparable to 2002 Handiest Dispute Oscar winner A Stunning Thoughts and the 2005 movie adaptation of Rent, and his TV work entails Psych, The Knick, The Right Fight and 13 Reasons Why. He also performed Lt. Commander Paul Stamets on Star Drag: Discovery all the arrangement in which via its five-season flee.
In 2017, Rapp stated in an interview that Kevin Spacey had made a sexual come towards him when he was once 14 and Spacey was once 26, which triggered a spiral of accusations that resulted in Spacey being fired from Dwelling of Playing cards. (Spacey stated he didn't be conscious doing the kind of element, but if he did so whereas under the affect of alcohol, he was once deeply sorry. Rapp sued him for battery and Spacey was once came all the arrangement in which via no longer liable at trial in 2022.)
“I felt execrable for the hundreds of these that had been working on the show,” Rapp stated in 2018, reflecting on how without warning Spacey's career collapsed after he got here forward. The actor told BuzzFeed he was once “relieved” when Dwelling of Playing cards returned for but any other season without Frank Underwood.
In November 2019, Rapp launched that he was once engaged to his partner, Ken Ithiphol. They share two formative years born via surrogate.
Ethan Suplee
The sooner than-and-after of the prominent character actor never gets dilapidated.
Ethan Suplee had already excelled at comedy (basically the most appealing one who can't see the optical illusion in Mallrats; a highschool bully's strongman in Boy Meets World) and drama (as Edward Norton's racist lump of a chum in American History X) by the point he had a puny characteristic in Road Day out as Ed. He has performed a highschool football player in Be conscious the Titans in 2000 and went on to costar in My Title Is Earl from 2005 to 2009.
His movie resume entails The Butterfly Originate, Icy Mountain, Unstoppable, The Wolf of Wall Road, Deepwater Horizon and the Norton-directed Motherless Brooklyn, and more TV work entails Hulu's Chance, the novel Twin Peaks, and Netflix's The Ranch and The Santa Clarita Weight loss program.
In January 2020—after decades of yo-yo healthy eating thought and gaining and shedding hundreds of pounds—he proudly revealed his novel muscled physique. In 2025 Suplee confirmed off his 200-pound weight loss transformation.
He has been married to Brandy Lewis since 2006 and is a father of 4.
Andy Dick
The News Radio star and all-round quirky fellow had a brief cameo as an clearly unfamiliar motel clerk.
Amid several arrests through the years, some of them inviting outrageous publicity and groping other males, AndyDick has been launch about fighting substance abuse that has had him out and in of rehab. Nonetheless no matter the toxic habits, he has stayed busy, having his enjoy sketch show, The Andy Dick Indicate, on MTV for a pair years; turning into a frequent on the dais at celeb roasts; releasing about a comedy albums; and doing a good deal of cameos as an oddball in the likes of Neighborhood, Maron, Workaholics and Netflix's Sense8.
Dick has a son from his first marriage, to Ivone Kowalczyk, and a son and daughter with partner Lena Sved—who got a restraining say in opposition to Dick in 2018, claiming he had gotten belligerent in front of their son, who in flip locked his drunken father out of the house.
Horatio Sanz
As “French Toast Man,” an otherwise unnamed diner cook dinner, Horatio Sanz amiably agreed to present Kyle a novel plate of French toast without powdered sugar, and proceeded to put off the sugar in every outrageous formulation that you just may maybe be ready to mediate of and wait on it support to him.
Sanz had joined the solid of Saturday Night Dwell in 1998 and stayed till 2006, whereas building a resume of puny standout roles in the likes of Boat Day out, College for Scoundrels, Lucky You, Step Brothers, three hundred and sixty five days One and Bachelorette. He's also the instruct of Duncan in Fracture-It-Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Records superhighway. His performing on TV has integrated 30 Rock, Dwelling of Lies, Parks and Recreation, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, New Family, Scorpion, GLOW and The Mandalorian.
In 2008 Sanz revealed that he'd lost about 100 pounds, and later stated on The Tonight Indicate that he'd been working out more and carve out alcohol.
Sanz is peaceable about his non-public lifestyles, but he married his wife Jenn Schatz in 2015.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
A prolific improv comic and star of Mr. Indicate and The Larry Sanders Indicate lengthy sooner than she changed into the unflappable IT wiz Chloe O'Brian on 24, Mary Lynn Rajskub had a brief flip in Road Day out as faculty bus dispatcher Blind Brenda whose intuition (and heart finger) works correct pretty.
She shares son Valentine with non-public coach Matthew Rolf. She filed for divorce in 2019 after 10 years of marriage.
Todd Phillips
Phillips received his initiating directing documentaries (Frat Dwelling achieve him on the blueprint) sooner than making his customary characteristic debut with Road Day out.
“I'm writing but any other comedy,” Phillips told the BBC in 2000. “Nonetheless don't apprehension, it's no longer a teen movie at all.”
Nope, that one was once about adults who initiating a fraternity. After Veteran College he cranked out Starsky & Hutch, College for Scoundrels, The Hangover (to boot to Portion II and Portion III), Due Date and War Dogs.
He also produced A Star Is Born with longtime buddy Bradley Cooper, who in flip was once a co-producer on Joker, which was once nominated for 11 Oscars, including Handiest Dispute and Handiest Director for Phillips. Joaquin Phoenix won Handiest Actor (to boot to every other main award), and Hildur Guðnadóttir won for Handiest Normal Score.
The 2024 sequel Joker: Folie à Deux won two Razzies.
(At the initiating published Can also unbiased 19, 2020, at 1:05 p.m. PT)
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