Fast Times at Ridgemont High

 Jodie Foster was considered to play Stacy in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), but was not interested in the role due to her commitment at Yale. Both Brooke Shields and Ellen Barkin also reportedly turned down an offer to play Stacy. At the end of the film, the credits state that Jeff Spicoli rescued Brooke Shields from drowning.

When Stacy meets Ron Johnson at Perry's and he asks her how old she is, she tells him she's 19 - a lie, as the character of Stacy was supposed to be 15. However, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh was, in reality, 19 when the movie was filmed.

Prior to the film's August release, a news story reported that the July 5, 1982 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) bulletin had granted "Fast Times" an X-rating, due to a love scene between Stacy Hamilton and Mike Damone, which featured full-frontal male nudity. As the picture was "the first major studio film in some time" to be given an X-rating, Universal agreed to edit the scene, allowing the MPAA to re-issue the film as R. Leigh explained that teenage test audiences had found the scene "too graphic," and the actress expressed her disappointment that the re-cut version eliminated the sense of awkward hesitancy between the two characters, who weren't ready for Love.