House Party was released on March 9, 1990, and became an instant classic. Starring Kid 'n Play, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, AJ Johnson, and the late Robin Harris and John Witherspoon, in a comical tale about two teens who throw a party and have to outsmart bullies and the police while doing it, all while connecting with the coolest girls in school, resonated with fans everywhere, and shot both Kid 'n Play to stardom.

The quotable lines and scenes are endless: the dance routines (hopefully you didn't sprain an ankle trying to do that leg-hop), Harris' hilarious quips ("Bilal? I don't why they named that boy that African name, knowing they from Cleveland!"), the shenanigans of Full Force as Kid and Play's high school bullies (nevermind that they looked 35 in the movie), Sharane's younger brother dumping a whole five-pound bag of sugar in the red Kool-aid, and everybody had Kid and Play's rap battle memorized ("You didn't play, you just got played out!").

Highlighting its cultural impact, in 2022, the Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Here are 6 things you probably didn't know about the classic film.

1. Writer/director Reginal Hudlin wrote the first version of the movie while he was at Harvard.

Hudlin was still a student when he made a short film called House Party! It served as his thesis project and won first prize, $1,500 from the Black Independent Video and Filmmaker's Awards. The win was what he needed to kickstart his big debut movie. He also made a cameo in the film, starring as a burglar.

2. Kid (Christopher Reid) and Play (Christopher Martin) literally met at a house party.

How's that for destiny? The two rappers met at a house party in NYC after Martin heard Reid from across the room. "That's when he began to be on my radar," he said during an interview on OWN'sWhere Are they Now.

3. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince were originally supposed to star in House Party.

Both stars have talked about this before but Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith were initially supposed to star in the film. The reason isn't as altruistic as you might think, however. New Line Cinema successfully sued the duo for using Freddy Krueger's voice on their song "Nightmare On Elm Street" without permission. They had a choice —pay a settlement or be in two New Line movies with their salaries going toward the amount of money they owed. But Jeff said they just weren't into it.

"The first script [New Line showed us] was House Party because if you think about the premise of House Party—one dude was a DJ and the other was a rapper," he told Radio Milwaukee, per CBR.com. "So House Party was set up for Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. We weren't thinking about doing movies back then. They were like, 'What do you think about this?' and we were like, 'Oh, we don't like it.' And 'What about this?' 'Oh, we don't like it. Ha, we out!'"

4. Full Force rewrote a lot of their scenes and added the "we're gonna kick your f-ing ass," chant.

Stab, Pee-Wee and Zilla aka the bullies who tormented and chased Kid throughout the entire movie and then tried to light Play's brick house on fire, were played by Full Force (Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou and B-Fine). But Lou, who'd been a theater buff, said their bully roles were "kinda plain, kinda bland, kinda like with no personality," so they re-worked them to give them some personality.

In an interview with DJ Vlad in 2017, Lou said he rewrote a scene—including adding Pee-Wee's high-pitch nasally voice and his infamous sing-songy declaration to "kick your f--king aa-ass" and showed it to the Hudlin brothers. "We killed it and Warrington Hudlin looked at us and said, 'Keep it!'…. After that, I changed all of our f--king scenes in there," with his brothers' help, Lou said. "They loved everything we did," Anthony said.

5. House Party was the beginning of Martin.

While Tisha Campbell had been in Hollywood for a while, with a prominent role in Spike Lee's School Daze, she met Martin Lawrence on the set of House Party. Of course, the two went on to star in the hit sitcom, Martin two years later.

6. AJ Johnson choreographed Sidney and Sharane's dance scene.

AJ Johnson, a life coach, choreographer, and former In Living Color Fly Girl actually choreographed Sidney and Sharane's dance-off scene against Kid and Play (the latter provided their own moves, including their signature kick).