Right off the top we’re going to address the elephant in the room (pun intended, but you’ll have to have seen the movie to get it): there’s definitely a political correctness factor to this scene, and the whole movie for that matter. Again, Evan comes back at him with, “Who are you, Seal?” Hill, in his breakthrough role, loses his cool in hilarious fashion as Evan and Seth walk off, disgusted with their buddy’s ID fiasco. Evan asks, “What, are you trying to be an Irish R&B singer?” Bizarrely for this scrawny white kid, he claims his second choice would’ve been Muhammed. He can choose any name on Earth for his fake ID and he chooses McLovin. But Fogell’s goes horribly wrong in the eyes of Seth and Evan. The boy's geeky friend Fogell gets a fake ID, a teen movie staple.
In this great scene, a phenomenon was born: McLovin.
Produced by Judd “Everything He Touches Turns to Gold” Apatow and written by a team of childhood friends in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (they wrote it as teenagers, though it was produced years later), the film revolves around two high-schoolers (Jonah Hill as Seth and Michael Cera as Evan) desperate to lose their virginity. Back in 2007, Superbad was a surprise hit and it featured a just as surprising scene-stealer, Christopher Mintze-Plasse in his very first screen role as Fogell.
