Prior to writing the script, Arndt read in a newspaper about Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to a group of high school students and saying "If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.
Antes de escribir o guión, Arndt leu nun xornal que o actor e gobernador de California Arnold Schwarzenegger, nun discurso ante uns escolares, dixo: «Se hai algo neste mundo que me dea noxo, son os perdedores.