It was a scene filmed in reshoots for a movie no one was ever going to see.

So the new producers that I met with said, “You write rap?”

I said, “Yeah, I’ll write a rap.”

And I kept remembering the saying, “Never let them see you sweat.”

Well, sweat was just pouring down because it was so hot and horrible!

I do the rap and there’s this dead silence.

And one guy goes, “I like it.”

And then they all go, “Oh yeah, we like it.”

And I remember the choreographer was like, “Do this.”

I’m like, “Really?

I was like, “God that feels really uncomfortable.”

INGBER: The scene included that I thought Rhet was really, you know, rad.

BLAKE: There wasn’t a lot of continuity or through-line.

I don’t think that the script was really sweated over a whole lot.

ROBYN LIVELY (LOUISE):Mandy and Noah were really reluctant to do it.

I did feel a little bit like, “How am I going to do this?

This is going to be embarrassing.”

“[But I thought] screw it.

Nobody’s ever going to see this!

It’s going to be ridiculous regardless.”

And so we did.

And in all honest, I think that’s probably part of the charm of it.

LIVELY:I thought they were great and I thought it was cute.

BLAKE: Here’s an interesting thing.

The voice in “Top That” is not me.

I was shocked the first time I heard it.

I was like, “That’s not me.”

I don’t know if anyone, maybe until today, knows that that is not my voice.

[Mandy and Noah] were actually doing the vocal to a pre-record.

It probably played for a week.

BLAKE: But it started popping up again; I think it ran on the Disney Channel.

and I’m like, “Oh my God, really?

You saw that?”

She runs up to me and says, “Oh my God, ‘Top that!'”

and starts saying the lines and knows all the music and I was like, “Wait what?”

I had no idea.

That was that moment when I thought, seriously?

This little movie I did is catching on.

INGBER: Once the internet happened, it exploded.

So many people do parodies and tributes of it.Jack Antonoff did one.

It felt really cool to bea joke on30 Rock.

And I’m thinking, “That’s not happening.”

I didn’t have a real grasp on the lyrics, which I think was kind of better.

BLAKE: My personal favorite is the one that Andy Samberg did with his company Lonely Island.

They basically did abehind-the-music documentaryof me and those two guys.

The Dude-itude, they dubbed it.

They did this whole intense breakdown of that scene and its power and why it’s so enduring.

And it’s always the … most wonderful, sweetest reaction.

And that’s why I love it so much, and it’s so near and dear to me.

INGBER: I’m surprised that “Top That” is the iconic scene from the movie.

There’s a part of me that thinks that Louise’s amulet actually workedeverybody loves it so much!

BLAKE: It’s just had this very bizarre afterlife that seems to keep growing.

It’s funny because for years I was really embarrassed about it.

And then I just gave it up.

People love it for whatever reason.