The graduation scene in Legally Blonde does not exist in the original cut. Test audiences at a screening rejected the ending, and the filmmakers decided on a reshoot that same night.
By then, Witherspoon had cut her hair short for another film and was already in London. They shot the replacement ending at Dulwich College in London rather than fly back to the US. Luke Wilson had shaved his head for The Royal Tenenbaums by that point, so both leads wore wigs for the entire sequence. The most triumphant moment in the film was a last-minute reshoot, in England, with fake hair.
The Bend and Snap was also invented late. The screenwriters came up with it at a bar, one of them standing up and doing the move on the spot. Toni Basil, the choreographer, built it into the scene from there.
Someone on Backlot just watched it. It holds.
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