When Stan has to take over filming Taxi Driver in "The Best Christmas Story Never", he tries to keep John Hinkley Jr. infatuated with Jodie Foster so he will try to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. When he criticizes Robert De Niro's performance, De Niro walks off the set, leaving John Wayne to take the role of Travis Bickle. John Hinkley Jr. is so unimpressed by the resulting film he is completely turned off of Jodie Foster.