The character of Peeves the poltergeist was cast and filmed, then cut.
"I got sent off the set because every time I tried to do a bit of acting, all the lads who were playing the school kids kept getting the giggles, they kept corpsing, so they threw me off.
Well, they asked me to do it with my back to them and they still laughed. So they asked me to do it around the other side of the cathedral and shout my lines, but they still laughed so they said they'd do my lines with someone else. So then I did a little bit of filming, then I went home and I got the money. That's significant. Then a month later, they said: 'Er, Rik, we're sorry about this, but you're not in the film. We've cut you out of the film.' ... But I still got the money. So that is the most exciting film I've ever been in, because I got the oodle and I wasn't in it. Fantastic."
-Rik Mayall said in a 2011 interview
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