With 'Sausage Party,' Seth Rogen Takes Back 'DTF' From 'Jersey Shore' (NSFW)
Seth Rogen was in the middle of explaining how Nick Kroll’s villainous character, Douche (you read that right), in the new R-rated animated film Sausage Party evolved from a Jafar-in-Aladdin rip-off to the bro he ultimately became, when the raunch auteur dropped an amazing nugget of pop-culture trivia. “DTF,” the acronym short for “down to you-know-what” made famous by the once-ubiquitous reality stars of MTV’s Jersey Shore, actually originated in Rogen’s 2007 comedy Superbad.
“It allowed us to re-appropriate ‘DTF,’ because that is actually from Superbad,” Rogen told Yahoo Movies during a recent in-studio visit (watch above), which seemed to even surprise his Superbad and Sausage Party costar Michael Cera. “It’s the origin of that.”
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A Jersey Shore star even ‘fessed up as much to Rogen and Jonah Hill. “Pauly D from the Jersey Shore, in a drunken moment, told me and Jonah one night, ‘You know why we say ‘DTF?’ It’s ’cause of that scene in Superbad where you guys are on the field.‘”
“And now we’ve taken back ‘DTF.’ Which means MTV owes us like $100 billion.”
Sausage Party, which also features the voices of Hill, Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, Paul Rudd, and Craig Robinson, is now in theaters.
