An Oral History of the ‘Pitch Perfect’ Riff-Off, 10 Years On

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It's the 10th anniversary of 'Pitch Perfect' and the Obsessed team is taking a deep-dive into the most beloved scene of all: the Riff-Off.

: [Producers] Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman went to [the University of Pennsylvania], and they had talked about how an a cappella group would just start singing on campus. They’d go into the cafeteria and they’d just start singing. So it was just combining the last word, first word [game] with breaking into song on campus.Pitch Perfect

. In theory it could happen, but in reality, if you had four groups and there were 15 people in a group and they were all amateur singers, getting 60 people to spontaneously not only arrange things and perform them on the spot, but also know the songs and be able to jump in on lyrics—it’s not really a thing that could happen.“Riff-Off” is now synonymous with the Pitch Perfect franchise, but it took a special encounter to come up with the name.

 

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