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• In 1998 it was reported that Mike Myers would be playing four characters in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), the fourth being Austin's love guru. This character finally surfaced in a starring role in 2008.
  
  
• During the scene where Guru Pitka and Rajneesh are singing More Than Words, the man waving a lighter on Guru Pitka's "hybrid pillow", is a real member of crew. He also appears at the beginning of the movie, after Guru Pitka sings "9 to 5" when he takes his pillow off camera.
  
  
• The scene where Pitka ('Mike Myers') and Jane Bullard ('Jessica Alba') are on the plane and said she turned for advice from gurus when her dad died, is based on a real life situation by Mike Myers after his father died.
  
  
• A snippet of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is played while Guru Pitka ('Mike Myers') and head bobbing Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) are driving in a car en route to Buffalo. This is a quick homage to a scene in Myer's earlier hit, Wayne's World (1992).
  
  
• Used throughout the movie as a faux Indian greeting, "Mariska Hargitay" is the actually the name of an actress. When Guru Pitka greets his followers after his presentation at the Pitka Ashram, Haritay herself appears in a brief cameo scene which makes light of her role as Detective Olivia Benson in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999).
  
  
• There was a real Jacques Lecoq. He was an actor, called the "father of modern mime."
  
  
• There is an extra scene with Kanye West being interviewed at a hockey game to which Mike Myers has brought him. Each time the interviewer gives the microphone to Kanye, Mike Myers leans in and keeps repeating, "Don't say it, don't say it!" Mike Myers was onstage with Kanye West when Kanye made his infamous 'George Bush does not like Black people,' statement.
  
  

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