Colin and AJ’s Christmas Sleepover

We started talking about the concept of a sleepover-themed Christmas party in early March of 2024. The dream version of this idea would include us renting out a large house or mansion of some kind where people could come and actually spend the night. But of course no one we know would be willing to do that and AirBnb has a policy against parties anyway, so that idea was scrapped.

The sleepover theme remained, though, and was centered around a Colin and AJ parody of some sort of sleepover movie. A movie we might’ve had on DVD in middle school or high school and watched with friends at sleepovers.

The first of these we thought about was Ocean’s Eleven — to be transformed into O’Brien’s Eleven, about Colin and AJ assembling a band a multi-talented thieves to infiltrate a rival’s Christmas party and win back the love of a girl. But this failed to stand up to even one watch-through.

Superbad was next on the list. AJ hadn’t seen it since high school — probably at a sleepover — and Colin hadn’t ever seen it, but after one watch-through it was clear that a lot of elements would fit. Colin and AJ could be grafted onto Jonah Hill and Michael Cera humorously. Jack and Danny could be the cops. And at the end of the whole movie was a big party–in our it would be a Christmas party.

Early in the planning phases of this concept we wanted to actually screen two movies. A boy sleepover movie (like Superbad) and a girl sleepover movie (like Mean Girls). Each would be 20-30 minutes. But despite some digging into Mean Girls and other sleepover movies popular with girls of that era, we never found a plot to graft ourselves into. So we focused on Superbad alone.

In increasingly typical Colin and AJ fashion, we waited as late as we could to start truly working on it and basically threw the movie together between mid November and the party on December 19th. We mixed the movie’s audio together, changed a couple of lines we had doubts about, and finished the last effect shot on December 18th.

Supernaughty marked the first time we’ve left an actor’s performance in tact in one of our overdubs. Fogell’s lines remain the voice of Christopher Mintz-Plasse in our version. His unmistakably mid-pubescent teenage boy voice cracks and laughs felt too unique to try to recreate. So we pulled a Peter Jackson and used (shitty free online) AI software to isolate Fogell’s voice throughout the movie. We also used this process to preserve a lot of the original film’s interstitial music.

Another notable element of the process was the sheer vulgarity of Superbad. This was part of the initial appeal (“haha won’t it be funny to hear us saying these vulgar things”) but quickly became something we worried people would find upsetting. We spent a lot of time trying to strike a balance with it, which is detailed in one of the subsections below.