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Billie Joe's Facts
 Billie
Billie Joe used to have a nose ring, but he took it out because it kept getting caught on his guitar.
Billie Joe sometimes suffers from panic attacks and aniexty.
Billie wears Jockey underwear.
Billie also plays the harmonica, mandolin, drums, and the piano.
It has been said that Billie Joe is a registered member of Poetry.com. I've heard his name is B. Armstrong.
At age 15, Billie tried to go to an Operation Ivy concert, but he was refused entry. One of the members of the band heard
he wasn't allowed in, so they came out and personally esorted him into the show.
Billie is a vegetarian.
Billie drives a blue 67 Ford Fairlane.
The album Insomniac is called with that name because Billie Joe didn't sleep at night. His son (Joey) cried all night,
so Billie would write a lot of songs. Another way it is said that they got the name for Insomniac I s that when Billie Joe
came to Winston Smith the guy who made the cover for it to see what it was like Billie Joe thought that it was really cool
and he asked Winston Smith how long it took him to do it and he said about 36 hours and Billie Joe said "man you must have
been tired " and Winston Smith said "to really I'm kind of an Insomniac".
It's rumored that Billie Joe's mom mispelled his name on his birth certificate because she was high (from the drugs given
to her during childbirth).
Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.
Billie's trademark first guitar is named Blue, and was given to him by his father before he died. Blue is now retired,
but Billie has several replicas of the guitar.
Billie Joe has been rumored to have been romantically linked to Winona Ryder.
When Billie was younger he put 409 in his teacher's coffee. (409 in Your Coffeemaker)
Billie Joe's nickname in high school was "Two Dollar Bill" because he sold joints for two dollars.
Billie Joe's mother spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate. Not because she was high with illegal drugs, she
was loopy because of the massive amounts of painkillers in her body to ease childbirth.
One reason there was such a long break between Nimrod and Warning was because Billie Joe was at a rocky point in his marriage
and needed to spend time at home.
For the video for Jaded, because the lyrics are about being stoned and how you feel when you're stoned. Billie decided
to get high while shooting the video just to get the feel for the song.
Billie Joe recently went on a diet claiming he was looking at hisself in older footage and said he looked like a fat Elvis.
In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them.
Billie Joe got his guitar, Blue, when he was 11 years old. It was the last present from his father before he died.
Billie Joe and Adrienne spent their honeymoon at Berkley's Claremont Hotel, which is a short distance from their house.
The first time Billie Joe kissed Adrienne he went home and wrote 2,000 Light Years Away.
In the Minority video, Billie Joe is running around with the cape on and Mike throws a hand to trip him. The hand is given
the peace sign. When it hits him it nocks off the pointer and gives the middle finger.
Billie Joe's birthday is on the same day as National Cabbage Day.
Billie likes playing the drums most out of the piano, harmonica, and the mandolin.
Billie occasionally wears nail polish.
Billie and Mike recorded the vocals for "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" simultaneously, to save money, and Lawrence
Livermore gave them the $1000 needed for the album.
In the "Kerplunk" inlay, it also thanks Addrienne Nesser, now Billie's wife.
Billie had to be forced to doing the 'walking across the road almost getting hit by cars' stunt on the Walking Contradiction
video by Tré. Billie said "Tré scared me into it. I was so scared..I thought I was gonna die right there with all the cameras
on me..Well I can think of worse ways to die".
Billie Joe's favorite food is vegetarian lasagana and root beer.
It's an old tradition of Billie's that at every one of his concerts he kisses a guy.
The song 'Who Wrote Holden Caufield?' is actually about a character, Holden Caufield, from J.D. Salinger's book "The Catcher
in the Rye", one of Billie Joe's favorites.
Billie Joe thinks that Staind's lead singer sounds like Cher.
Billie Joe hates Slipknot. He said that the masks "Are so fucking retarded", and one time, a fan threw some screwed up
mask on the stage, and when Billie Joe picked it up he looked in disgust and said, "Were not fucking slipknot, you asshole!"
Billie Joe doesn't like Eminem.
When original drummer John Kriftmeyer (aka Al Sobrante) left Green Day, he didn't tell Billie Joe. Billie Joe found out
he was leaving through a friend. So when Green Day replaced John with Tre, Billie Joe returned the favor by not telling John
directly that he was being replaced. Billie Joe doesn't think that Green Day would have had as much success if John was still
in the band.
Billie Joe played football for John Swett High School in Crockett, CA.
If you turn the volume up and listen very closely to Good Riddence you can hear Billie-Joe say the f word in the beginning.
Billie uses Jermac Styling Spritz to get his hair good and crunchy.
In Going To Pasalacqua at the very beginning right before you hear Billie sing "Here we go again" you can hear someone
cough. Also, in Prosthetic Head after the bridge and when it's just a soft guitar then Billie Joe starts sining right before
he does you can also hear someone cough then too.
Billie has a guitar made with with different parts called Frankenstein.
Billie Joe's brothers that introduced him to "punk" were named Matt and Eric.
On the "1,000 Hours" record they spell Billie's name as "Billy".
Billie's had his blue 67 Ford Fairlane for ages, it's even featured in Christie Road "Standing on my beat up car". When
Billie first earned enough money with his music, he had the car primered.
Billie Joe when talking about future plans said he would become a soccer team coach.
The first album Billie Joe bought as Elvis Presley's "The Sun Sessions".
In the song "Sick Of Me" on Shenanigans, right before billie joe says "Like a dog...." you can hear him fart.
Billie Joe likes to take books on tour.
Billie Joe Armstrong was Rancid orginal second guitarist for a while, before Lars Fredricksen joined up.
The electricians tape on Billie Joe's large cutaway on Blue is there because some dude knocked into him at one of their
first gigs and he dropped the guitar, causing it to crack from the strap lock down. He then later taped it up.
On Common Riders first EP, Billie Joe had played lead on it and sang. Common Rider was Jesse Michaels (ex- OPIV) last
band.
"80" is short for Adrienne (it's also her nickname).
In Brain Stew after the drums start playing Billie Joe makes a noise kinda like "uhhhh" but you can barely hear it.
Billie Joe got expelled from 2 schools.
In early 2001 Billie Joe was mugged at gunpoint and is now terrified of guns.
Billie Joe get's thanked by Tony Lovato on Mests album "Destination Unknown". He says "Billie Joe Armstrong - it's because
of you so many great bands were created".
Mike Dirnt's Facts
 Mike
Mike took the picture of himself in the Nimrod booklet.
Mike smoked his first joint with his mom's friend.
Mike wrote the bassline for Longview while he was high and forgot it the next day.
Mike was born with a heart problem and sometimes has panic attacks.
Mike's adoptive parents divorced when he was 6.
When Green Day first got started, their tour bus was an old bookmobile van that Mike's dad bought and fixed up.
Billie and Mike recorded the vocals for "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" simultaneously, to save money, and Lawrence
Livermore gave them the $1000 needed for the album.
Mike once rented a small part of Billie's house to live in during high school.
Mike got mistaken for a ambushing fan at Woodstock 1994, and a security guard kicked him and knocked a couple of his teeth
out.
Mike actually believes that one day dogs will take over the world (remember the Dookie cover?)
Mike has a sister named Myla.
Mike Dirnt is the part-owner of Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe in Emeryville, California. Emeryvillie is between Berkeley and
Oakland.
Mike and Billie Joe are both wearing work shirts that say "Chuck" in two music videos, Mike in Basketcase and Billie Joe
in Redundant.
Mike Dirnt completed a years worth of college courses after high school.
On the back cover of the green day booklet for Dookie, there is a picture of Mike Dirnt looking in the mirror. If you
look in the mirror, you can partially see the person taking the picture.
Mike likes donuts and hotel coffe, and Starbucks coffee as well, maybe just coffee in general.
On how to live like a rockstar (on MTV) Stuck With Me is played, and they show a clip of Mike trashing his bass into an
amp.
On the "Top 50 Greatest Teen Icons" show on VH1, the part on Carson Daly, they show a clip of Carson hugging Mike and
you can see Billie and Tre also. In another part, they also play "Good Riddance".
On MTV's History of the Mosh Pit, Green Day is featured in some of it and Mike makes fun of people moshing to When I Come
Around.
Mike is a vegetarian.
Tre' Cool's facts
 Tre'
Tre once milked a dog because he wanted milk for his coffee, and the house he was staying in didn't have any.
Tre was class president for a time when he was in high school.
Tre is the only person to ever climb the Universal Studios ball (their trademark) in Orlando, Florida. He climbed the
ball at the 1998 MTV Music Awards.
Tre loves to golf.
Tre only has one testicle. He lost the other one in a tragic unicycle accident. He was riding it on a stage at a high
school near his home town when suddenly he fell off the stage and landed on the unicycle. His testicle went inside his body,
and the doctor examining him took one look and said "hmm... translucent scrotum..."
Tre played violin in the second grade.
Tre's dad built Lawrence Livermore's house.
Tre actually went to a clown college before the band got big which explains his wild antics.
Tre uses the same drumkit, Slingerland, as the drummer from The Who does, which is Keith Moon. This is also of course
Slingerland, and oddly the two drummers have the same wild and crazy stage antics.
Tre's name was given to him by the owner of Lookout Records Lawrence Livermore when Tre played in the band "The Lookouts".
In the Last Ride In video, Tre plays the accordian part to DUI, but you can't hear it very well.
In an interview on Trio, Tre has said that if he were any female celebrity he would be "that chick from the Golden Girls,
because she's old and loose".
Tre once caught a shark on accident, and after beating it with a baseball bat multiple times, it finally died when he
hit it with the stump of the bat.
Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids.
In an interview, they were asked what kind of music they liked, and Tre answered, " I like Fisher Price music, nursery
rhymes, and the alphabet song"................Mike "seconded the motion".
In the Walking Contradiction video Tre is chased by a bread truck.
Tre's dad was a Vietnam helicopter pilot.
Tre likes his shoes.
On MTV's Wildest moments of the VMA's there's a short Clip of Tre with David Grohl from The Foo Fighters (and previously
from Nirvana) singing to Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People".
Tre' Cool was only 11 yrs old when he joined The Lookouts...
Band Fact's
 Green Day
Dookie's original title was Liquid Dookie, but they changed it because they thought it was too gross.
New copies of Dookie are made without Ernie on the back. That's because Sesame Street threatened to sue Green Day.
In 1995 or so, the video for 'Longview' was critiqued on the popular MTV show, Beavis & Butthead. 'Basketcase' was also critiqued on the "Spanish Fly" episode of Beavis and Butthead.
When Green Day was recording songs for Insomniac, they were trying to think of an appropriate name for the song Stuck
With Me. The band recorded the song now called "Do Da Da" around the same time, and that song was originally called "Stuck
With Me", because those words actually appear in that song. But, there was a studio mix-up, and someone labeled the third
track on Insomniac "Stuck With Me". When the band discovered the error, they felt the name was appropriate for the song and
kept it. Later, they decided to release the real "Stuck With Me" as a b-side, so they gave it the nonsensical name "Do Da
Da".
"The Grouch" (on nimrod.) was originally titled "Happy Grouch".
"Haushinka" was originally written for Kerplunk, but at the time they didnt like the sound of it. So they excluded it
from the album then when Nimrod came they decided to include it.
The Insomniac cover art (created by Winston Smith) is called "God Told Me to Skin You Alive."
The corner of Stuart and the Ave. is the corner of Stuart Street and Telegraph Avenue in Berkley, California.
Five of Green Day's mainstream albums all begin with drums.
The video for "Redundant" has the same scene playing over and over again behind the band, hence the name "Redundant".
On the Insomniac cover, there are three skulls which are supposed to be the 3 skulls of the 3 members of Green Day, and
in order to see the third one you have to look in the flames and hold the paper at an angle in order to see it properly This
technique was used back in the Renaissance.
Before Rivers Cuomo, from Weezer, actually knew how to write a song he studied the songwriting techniques of Kurt Cobain
and Green Day. Weezer would probably be nowhere without Green Day.
In the Minority video, Billie Joe is running around with the cape on and Mike throws a hand to trip him. The hand is given
the peace sign. When it hits him it nocks off the pointer and gives the middle finger.
Weird Al Yankovic covered Basketcase in his song "Alternative Polka", which is on the album Bad Hair Day.
In the "Kerplunk" inlay, it also thanks Addrienne Nesser, now Billie's wife.
The lyrics that are scratched out inside the "Nimrod" cover are actual lyrics that were taken out.
Green Day hates ska except for the band Operation Ivy.
Billie, Mike, and Tre did all of their own stunts in the "Walking Contradiction" video including a scene were Billie almost
gets nailed by a car.
In the "Kerplunk" credits, they thank some guy named "Brainstew".
If Billie Joe and Mike could play any movie role in history, they would both choose Austin Powers. Tre would prefer to
be Cat Woman.
All By Myself, the hidden song on Dookie, was recorded at a party.
The Kerplunk inlay thanks Jason Relva (J.A.R.).
The 'My Adventure with Green Day' story in 'Kerplunk!' says it was written by 'Laurie L.' The name Laurie L is actually
a tribute to Laurence Livermoore of Lookout records.
In the Kerplunk! thank yous, they thank a guy named Eggplant, who appears in the Laurie L. story--he was a real person.
He wrote a 'zine called "Apsolutely Zippo', in which you can also find stories by Claude (also in the story) and even by Billie
Joe himself.
When Green Day toured in the Bookmobile they used as a bus, people would acutally ask them if they had books to sell.
On the dookie cover, the right side, on one of the building's it's written 'Twisted Dog Sisters'--this was the name for
an actual group of girls from Berkely.
Pat Hynes is a well known Berkely artist who did the liner notes for both Dookie and Kerplunk.
In the thank you's of Rancid's CD 'Let's Go!', they thank both Billie Joe and Addriene. Billie also wrote the song 'Radio'
on that cd.
The album Kerpluk! is dedicated 'in loving memory of Gravy'.
The video for Basketcase was originally supposed to be in black and white.
The intersection where most of the action happens in the "Walking Contradiction" video is Centre St. and 7th St. in Los
Angeles.
Green Day recorded a show for MTV, but it couldn't be shown on MTV before 10pm because it was said that Billie was too
out of it and he could possibly scare young children.
Green Day cursed the second most times on Behind the Music (27 times) which is fifty less than the leader, Oasis.
Jay Leno's Tonight show band plays a cover of Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise". You can hear some of it before they go
to a commercial break. Also, Dave Lettermen's band with Shaffer, regularly plays Basketcase with the horns! It sounds cool,
but you can only hear it as they are coming OUT of the commercial break!
Good Charlotte thanks Green Day in their latest release, "The Young and the Hopeless". Benji from Good Charlotte has a
small Green Day sticker on his guitar. He told me [Courtney] himself when I met him that he has been a Green Day fan for almost
9 years.
Sum41 also thanks Green Day in their CD, "All Killer, No Filler".
On the Slappy! 7" record, if you look closely on the rim of the artwork on the A Side, you can see that is says, "Might
Bleed Today".
On the Kerplunk cd, there's a song called Who Wrote Holden Caulfield, and on the Screeching Weasel cd, How to make enemies
and Iritate people, Theyre's a song called I wrote Holden Caulfield.
When original drummer John Kriftmeyer (aka Al Sobrante) left Green Day, he didn't tell Billie Joe. Billie Joe found out
he was leaving through a friend. So when Green Day replaced John with Tre, Billie Joe returned the favor by not telling John
directly that he was being replaced. Billie Joe doesn't think that Green Day would have had as much success if John was still
in the band.
The Imus in the Morning show on NPR occasionally plays the first two lines of 'Basket Case' before commercial breaks.
On the Dead Kennedy's cd, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, and on track 9, I Kill Children, it starts out with "GOD
TOLD ME TO SKIN YOU ALIVE", the name of the artwork for Insomniac.
Blink-182 thank Green Day on their Enema Of The State album,
Bad Religion also thank Green Day on their Stranger Than Fiction album.
In an interview, they were asked what kind of music they liked, and Tre answered, " I like Fisher Price music, nursery
rhymes, and the alphabet song"................Mike "seconded the motion".
If you turn the volume up and listen very closely to Good Riddence you can hear Billie-Joe say the f word in the beginning.
In the kerplunk inlay the band thanks a "Osama"!
In Chasing Amy several copies of Green Day albums are visible in the record store scene behind the actors.
In the movie Analyze That an International Superhits Green Day poster is visible in the sons room.
In High Fidelity a girl asks if they have the new Green Day album.
In Angus several Green Day references are made.
In the movie "House Arrest" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollock, the heavy metal kid warns off the police by pretending
to be an electrician saying "there was a problem connecting the main wire to the Green Day connecter."
On an episode of "Do Over" When Joel enters a Star Search-like competition using a hit song from the future, he reevaluates
whether he should become an accomplished musician the honest way or by stealing someone else's material.. NOTE: The song Joel
sings is Green Day's "Time of Your Life".
In the TV series 24 a Warning poster is visible in the daughters room during the first season.
On the Craig Kilborn Show, when guest Matthew Fox appeared he was wearing a Green Day dragon style T-Shirt.
On the last episode of Seinfeld, Green Day's Time of your Life was played.
On Sabrina the Teenage Witch one of the characters bands fictitiously opened for Green Day.
On Days of Our Lives the character Belle has a Warning poster in her college dorm room.
On the Friends episode of Rachel's 30th birthday, and they're showing a clip of Ross' 30th, when he gets the car, there's
an Alternative Press poster with Green Day on it, behind them.
On two different episodes of Friends. outside the coffee shop, CENTRAL PERK, there's a record shop. on one episode there
was a nimrod poster (the yellow circle with nimrod written in it.
On Season 4 of the television show ER had the episodes "Gut Reaction" and "Shades of Gray" that included Green Day's "Good
Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" to go with the storyline of characters nurse Jeanie and the dying boy, Scott Anspaugh.
97.1 The FM talk station in Los Angeles constantly plays Green Day as bumper music during the Tom Leykis Show.
Jim Rome's radio show has been known to play Green Day as intro and outro music.
Toronto's 102.1 'the edge' plays 'last ride in' multiple times every afternoon while doing the traffic report.
On the song 'El Scorcho' (Pinkerton) by Weezer... Green Day is mentioned: "I asked you to go to the Green Day concert....You
said you never heard of them."
On the Sum 41 video for "Still Waiting" a record producer mentions Green Day.
On Tilt's album "Been Where? Did What" Billie Joe is given a credit with Kevin Army for mixing and recording the song
"Worse To Bad."
On 1039/smoothed out slappy hours the band recorded and mixed the record in two day and only cost $675 to record and sold
nearly a million copies.
You can cut up Green Day stickers to read "Gay Nerd."
In Going To Pasalacqua at the very beginning right before you hear Billie sing "Here we go again" you can hear someone
cough. Also, in Prosthetic Head after the bridge and when it's just a soft guitar then Billie Joe starts sining right before
he does you can also hear someone cough then too.
In one of the Jimmy Neutron episodes Jimmy starts a band with Carl and Sheen and they play the song 'Warning'.
105.7 The Point in St. Louis used the opening riff to "When I Come Around" in an ad for a Sum 41 concert.
On The Donna's cd "Turn 21" they thank Green Day.
In the "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" video, the lamp shade is on the floor (it's lit) and the rest of the lamp is
by the shade (unlit).
Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning all came out in October. Insomniac on October 10th 1995, Nimrod on October 14th 1997, and
Warning on October 3rd 2000.
On the Rottentrolls (childrens tv in UK), Roger, the king of the trolls, sings two lines of Good Riddance as he's walking
along a path.
On Dookie, the song "Chump" ends with the "Longview" beat which goes into song 4 (Longview) like Chump never ended.
On the diary of Avril Lavigne she is listening to Time of Your Life by Green Day in the limo and singin to it.
Green Day had more drummers than just Tre and Al Sobrante. They actually had quite a few! It's just that the only recorded
drummers are those two.
In the movie "High Fidelity" Green Day is brought up between someone working in the record store and a customer.
On the "1,000 Hours" record they spell Billie's name as "Billy".
The real origin of the name Green Day. Ernie from Sesamy Street said the frase Green Day in one of the shows and it kinda
was funny for the guys smoking pot and all. So it became an inside joke with Green Day meaning a pot-filled wasted day. Then
came the song Green Day and also Al Sobrante wrote Green Day on the back of his jacket and it kinda caught on from there and
they decided to use it as their band's name.
Al Sobrante (John Kriftmeyer) was in the band Isocracy.
On either the cover art or booklet art of Kerplunk, Dookie, and Insomniac they're is a gun.
The guitar chords to the blink-182 song "What's my Age Again" are exactly the same as When I Come Around.
1,039 Smoothed out Slappy Hours was recorded in 2 days.
On the back cover of the green day booklet for Dookie, there is a picture of Mike Dirnt looking in the mirror. If you
look in the mirror, you can partially see the person taking the picture.
At the ending of Basket Case on the International Super Hits Album while the sound is fading out there is something said
that doesn't sound like it's supposed to be there.
In the movie "10 Things I Hate About You", Julia Stiles is buying an album. The album is Green day's INSOMNIAC.
On MTV I was watching the Big Urban Myth show and they show apart of the Basketcase video on the show.
You know how it says "Might Bleed Today" on Slappy. Well on the other side it says Cool Slapped Out and on 1,00 Hours
it says No Way! and Too Cool! On 39/Smooth it says Call Back Tomorrow, It's A School Night, We Heart Jake, and Bill, Mike,
John : Loyal Filth Groupies. On the spine it says James, Put Down That Skinhead! Also on the inlay there are three letters.
One to Green Day from a record label asking them to join, One to the record label from John saying no politley and one from
Lawrence Livermore to the record label making fun of them. On the spine of the Kerplunk record it says Say Ouch Before I Hafta
Hurt You! and um Green Day is thanked in NoFx's CD Punk in Drublic and the Frenzal Rhomb song 'Jesus' mentions Green Day.
Sorry about all of that if its annoying. Though you'd be interested. I think that your website should have a section with
all the CD's that thank Green Day in the inlays.
At the end of the song Walking Alone on Nimrod you can hear a glass break and someone says something like "its not like
one thing......".
On the front cover of Insomniac, in the flames,there are hidden pictures. you can find a naked woman, 3 faeries, a skull,
and several other ghosly faces.
In the thank yous In Reel Big Fish's Why Do They Rock So Hard? Green Day are thanked.
In the song "Sick Of Me" on Shenanigans, right before billie joe says "Like a dog...." you can hear him fart.
MxPx thank Green Day on their "Ever Passing Moment" album.
Unwritten Law thank Green Day on their "Oz Factor" album.
The guy from the Time Of Your Life video, is also the dude who plays Carter in ER, he comes up twice in the video.
At the beginning of Prosthetic Head, there's some scratching noise like when you pull the plug from your guitar in the
amp and it stops once Billie starts singing.
Insomniac was origanally going to be called Tight Wad Hill.
On the cover of Operation Ivy's "Knowledge" the part at the beginning that is said backwards says "Lets get personal"
when played forwards.
Green Day's "Good Riddance(Time of your Life)" was the official theme for the PGA Tour in 1998.
If you watch the latest New Found Glory DVD (the one with the popcorn theme on the front) while interviewing some of the
members on the van, there is a Green Day poster in the background.
In the cover of Operation Ivy's "Knowledge", the record played backwards at the beginning says "Let's Get Personal" when
played forwards.
On MTV's big urban myth show, they were playing the song Warning in the backround for a few seconds and there was like
a half second clip from the dookie video, but all you can see is Tre and Mike's hand.
On the new show on Fox called the Pitts n the girl's room there is a poster of Shenanigans.
That "scratching noise" at the begining of the song, "Prosthetic Head" if you ask me, is someone unlocking a door or some
kinda lock.
Jesse Micheals, ex-lead singer of Operation Ivy did the disc and cover art for 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, Jesse
Micheals and Operation Ivy were then thanked in Kerplunk! along with Tim Armstrong from OPIV.
The band each takes a shot of Vodka before every gig.
The three small pictures inside the 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours covers come from the following: Billie Joe - The picture
comes from the Green Day bootleg, "Radio Daze"; Mike - Its a picture of one of his tattoos.; John - Its a picture adapted
from Zippo magazine.
On an episode of the MTV show "Punk'd", when they were "punking" Wilmer Valderrama (Fez from That 70's Show), at the end
when they told him what happened, a sound clip of Brain Stew can be heard.
The dog on the Slappy E.P.'s name is Mickey, "Slappy" was a nickname given to him by Jason Relva.
In Rancid's "Lets Go" album, they thank Green Day.
If you watch the blink 182 Urethra Chronicles 2, there is a point in which Tom DeLonge talking about dancing, and if you
look in the background you can see a blured-out Pop Disaster poster, which included Green Day.
Green Day has 8 transitional songs. They are Chump/Longview, Brain Stew/Jaded, Uptight/Last Ride In, and Jinx/Haushinka.
In the blink-182 biography, Tales From Beneath Your Mom, in one of the photos, Mark Hoppus is wearing a Green Day
Kerplunk t shirt.
In the George Lopez show,in the girl's room an International Superhits poster can be seen.
Agent 51 thanks Green Day and both Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong in their album "The Red And The Black" The Ataris
listed Green Day as one of bands that influenced them making their album "Anywhere But Here" along with other bands like Bad
Religion, Jawbreaker, and NOFX.
Green Day was mentioned in the new Less Than Jake DVD, specifically mentioning the album Dookie.
In Kerplunk! it says 'In Memory of Gravy...' Gravy was actually Mike's pet cat who died.
In the Foo Fighters CD, One by One, Billie Joe is thanked first.
In the program on Nickelodeon called Brothers Garcia, the son gets a job in a CD store, and you can see the International
Superhits poster in the background, Warning signs, and stands everywhere.
No Doubt's brass section was used in the recording of the album Nimrod.
Reel Big Fish's brass section once toured with Green Day, playing their songs.
on MTV's Top 25 people under 25, a question is asked about who Good Charlotte's influence was, and Green Day was one of
the choices, and they showed a clip of Hitchin' A Ride.
On MTV's "Top 10 songs to break up to" (or something like that) Time Of Your Life got to number 2.
Basket Case was mentioned as number 2 in Kerrang's best videos.
In the MTV movie awards - uncensored, Time of Your Life was played in the background.
In Kirsty's Home Videos (a program kind of like You've been Framed), Stuck With Me is played all the way through in the
background.
On how to live like a rockstar (on MTV) Stuck With Me is played, and they show a clip of Mike trashing his bass into an
amp.
The noise heard at the beginning of the song "Green Day" is a bong, and for those who dont know, a bong is a weed smoking
device.
A traditon at the school "H-B Woodlawn" (grades 6th-12th) from Arlington Virginia is that the entire school sings the
song Good Riddance (Time of your life) every year to the graduating seniors.
Green Day songs are often featured as background music on the tv show Entertainment Tonight, or ET.
At the end of Burnout, you can hear someone laughing.
On the show "Who Knows The Band?", one of the three people on trail for knowing a famous band or musician claims that
Green Day had stayed at his house once on tour. By the end of the show, this turned out to be true.
At the end of every Carrot Top show, a small clip of "Good Riddance" is played.
On the Brothers Garcia's newest episode (Nickelodeon), George is offered a job at the CD store. When a storage door opens
inside, a 'International Superhits!' album ad is posted on it.
Green Day's 'Warning' was played on Men and Motors programme 'Pulling Power' when the Smart Roadster was being reviewed.
On one episode of Drew Carey, in the beginning, members of the cast are repeating like in the video Redundant.
In the diary of Avril Lavigne (on MTV), when they are on the boat, she sings a part of longview and then Longview stars
playing in the background.
The band Kilroy thanks Mxpx, Homegrown, and Green Day on their cd "Squeaky Clean".
Green Day guest voiced on an episode of "King of the Hill", as teens that are good at paintball. Tre was the voice of
the leader, Kane.
On the Saturday Night Live episode when Green Day preforms, Roseanne introduces them wearing a Kerplunk T-shirt.
On Vh1's countdown of the 100 greatest songs in the last 25 years, Green Day's "Time of Your Life" was #78.
On MTV's Wildest moments of the VMA's there's a short Clip of Tre with David Grohl from The Foo Fighters (and previously
from Nirvana) singing to Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People".
In the movie Freaky Friday, theres a Green Day poster in Anna's room.
On an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Colin Mockery talks about Green Day.
In an episode of Step By Step, a college guy's room has the Dookie poster on the back wall.
On MTV's History of the Mosh Pit, Green Day is featured in some of it and Mike makes fun of people moshing to When I Come
Around.
On VH1's Top 200 Pop Culture Icons, when they introduced the Fonze (from Happy Days), they played a clip of 'Minority'
for background music.
The band "All American Rejects" might have gotten there name from one of Green Days songs (probably Reject).
After John Kiffmeyer left Green Day, before Tre came in, a friend of the band joined as drummer for a few weeks, but left
saying he wasn't good enough for the band.
On the Ataris first cd, Anywhere But Here, the Ataris say that without Green Day their songs would be completeley different.
AFI thanks Green Day on their CD Sing the Sorrow.
Dita Von Teese, who is singer Marilyn Manson's girlfriend, appeared in one of Green Day's videos.
The BLACK FORK album ROCK FOR LOOT was produced by Billie Joe. Even though in the insert it is spelled Billy Joe.
There is an old episode of Saturday Night Live where they were playing Jeopardy and Adam Sandler playing a girl. He said
"my favorite band is Green Day!!!" like really enthusiastically.
On MTV 2's 22 Greatest Bands Green Day was number 8.
On VH1' 50 Greatest Album Covers, Dookie was #7.
Billie Joe get's thanked by Tony Lovato on Mests album "Destination Unknown". He says "Billie Joe Armstrong - it's because
of you so many great bands were created".
In School Of Rock, the last scene during the credits, Freddy the drummer is waring a Green Day Warning shirt from the
2001 Warning tour.
In the show "Rock Me Baby" in the background at the radio station where he works under the window theres a Green Day poster.
On the show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, there is an International Superhits poster hanging on the wall on top of the water
cool in Sabrina's workplace.
Green Day's song "Waiting' is played in a episode of The-N's show O'Grady.
Anti-Flag thank Green Day on their Underground Network CD.
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