We tore the movie apart and applied some serious Rain Man-level counting to get you these statistics. If you know of more counts, post them on our Facebook page!

    •   0: Donny has a wardrobe of vintage bowling shirts and not one has his name on it.

    •   0: The number of times the Dude is seen bowling ... unless you count when Jeff "The Dude" Dowd rolls behind Smokey in the MARK IT ZERO scene!

    •   1: Rolling Stone Magazine named it the best stoner movie of all time.

    •   4: The number of times John Turturro has appeared in films by the Coens.

    •   5: It “really tied the room together” is mentioned five times.

    •   6: How many times John Goodman and Steve Buscemi have appeared in Coen Brothers movies.

    •   9: The number of caucasians (White Russians) the Dude drinks.

    •   17: How many times it's mentioned that the Dude’s rug was peed on.

    •   15: The M.P.H. at which Walter dives out of the Dude's car.

    •   20: The M.P.H. reached by the modified remote-control car chassis used to film bowling balls.

    •   25: "What the fuck" is the most used word combination with 25 instances.

    •   30: The number of times “shit” is said ("Bullshit" is said 4 times and "Dipshit" twice. "Shithead" and "shitty" are both only used once).

    •   103: Uses of the entire word, "fuck" (see below for the total fuck count)…

    •   147: The number of times the Dude says, “man.”

    •   154: Variants of, "fuckeen," "fuckin'" and "fucking" used (see below for the total fuck count)...

    •   160: The number of times “Dude” is said.

    •   281: The number of F-bombs dropped including 2 trunkated (incomplete) "fucks".

    •   1939: When Raymond Chandler’s novel, The Big Sleep, was released (Coens used it for inspiration).

    •   1957: Unique words in the script.

    •   1973: The model year of the Dude's Ford Gran Torino (The script first called for a Chrysler LeBaron, but it was to small for John Goodman).

    •   1998: The year the movie was released on March 6 (now celebrated as "The Day of the Dude").

    •   2002: The first Lebowski Fest in Louisville, KY (mentioned in the book, Bowling Across America).

    •   2003 When the Hollywood Star Lanes in Santa Monica, CA was (where all bowling scenes were filmed) was razed.

    •   2014: The year The Big Lebowski was recognized by the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry as a, "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film".

    •   12,464: Words in the script.

    •   $150,000: The amount the Rolling Stones' manager, Allen Klein, asked the Coens for the song, “Dead Flowers” (when he learned that the Dude says, "I hate the fucking Eagles," he waived the fee.

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