Mike Myers and the Love Guru: An Inside Look
I had hoped that this featurette would include some early footage of Mike Myers workshopping his guru character in comedy clubs, but no luck. There wasn't even mention of the Austin Powers movies, where the Love Guru was originally slated to appear. Instead, it's an explanation of who the character is, and who the rest of the characters are, and how great Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake are, and how the Guru Pitka isn't specifically an Indian religious figure, although it's really kind of hard to see him as anything but. Also, Mariska Hargitay talks about how her name became a chant, and how happy she is that everyone will now pronounce her name correctly.

One Hellava Elephant
I was prepared for a cutesy feature about how great the elephant they used in the movie was, but it turns out that for many of the shots, when they only needed the elephant's back, they used a mock elephant. A special effects house in Toronto takes us inside the fake elephant, as well as inside a fake ostrich butt that gets about five seconds of screen time.

Hockey Training for Actors
I'm a sucker for sports comedies, so hockey coordinator Dave Ellis is a favorite of mine for playing a coach in The Replacements, where he complains to the ref that the hero team's stripper-cheerleaders are spanking each other. It turns out he also oversaw hiring all the hockey extras and training Romany Malco and JT to be hockey players for this movie, and he was impressed by Malco's dedication and JT's roller-blading skills. Unfortunately, we don't see Verne Troyer learning to skate, because his one ice-skating scene was cut from the movie (it's here, under Deleted Scenes) and it's entirely CGI. Don't they make skates his size?

Deleted and Extended Scenes
In addition to the one scene of Verne Troyer "skating," there are about a dozen other scenes, some not bad, but most wholly unnecessary. In one, we see an extended version of Stink Mop, where we're introduced to a rival school for gurus, then in a cut call-back we see Pitka meet a cabbie from the rival school, and they have a third-eye fight in the parking lot of a strip club. We also see The Daily Show's Samantha Bee as a Cinnabon cashier (a cameo cut entirely from the final film) and a pre-final game interview with Mike Myers and Kanye West, where Myers desperately tries to keep West from saying anything embarrassing on the air. It's as uncomfortable as it sounds.

Bloopers
The best thing about the blooper reel is that it focuses on the film's secondary characters, including John Oliver as Pitka's manager. Jessica Alba, certainly seems to have had a hard time with her lines, and Myers is always there to tease her or play off of them. However, no one can beat Verne Troyer's off-the-cuff line during the film's credits; when the director says that all he can see in one Troyer-centric shot is asses, Troyer bounces back, "Welcome to my world." Classy.

Back in the Booth with Trent and Jay
This outtakes reel may be worth the price of the DVD. Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan, playing dueling sports commentators (Colbert is a former drug abuser, who later relapses), riff off of one another in a series of awkward and hysterical exchanges. It's only five minutes long, but Colbert getting dragged off the soundstage by security while ranting about how he cannot be burned or drowned seems to last for eight all by itself.

Outtakes
In case Myers explaining and telegraphing his jokes wasn't enough for you, now you can watch him do it six or seven ties in a row, but a little differently each time. Fantastic. Not for those who have recently considered ending their lives.