After he is bestowed with God's powers, the license plate of Bruce's car reads "ALMITY-1".
When Bruce pulls out the drawer with his files in God's office, there is a file marked "Farts" in the drawer.
The movie is set in Buffalo, New York because Jim Carrey grew up in Toronto just north of Buffalo and watched WKBW-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News as a kid. In those days, Eyewitness News was anchored by Irv Weinstein who was famous for his staccato delivery and use of alliterative phrases like "Pistol Packing Punks" and "Buffalo Blaze Busters". Irv was the first news anchor to use the Phrase "It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your children are?"
When Jim Carrey turns on the TV in the beginning of "Bruce Almighty", the man who appears on the screen is John Murphy, the real-life sports director for WKBW-TV in Buffalo.
When Bruce and God first meet, God wants him to help clean the floor. Bruce makes an excuse as to why he can't right now, but says (ironically, since he's going to the seventh floor) "I'm free on the seventh, at seven", which is just like in the Bible, where it is said that God created earth in six days and was "free" on the seventh.
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