Gaines replaces Sherman's girlfriend in the first film, Carla Purty, because the actress who played her, Jada Pinkett, left due to marrying Will Smith, her pregnancy, and later her signing on to the sequels to The Matrix.
Professor Sherman Klump is a fictional character portrayed by actor Eddie Murphy in the 1996 film The Nutty Professor and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, similar to the Julius Kelp character played by Jerry Lewis in the original film.
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Oedekerk would take a hiatus from directing major films productions for the rest of the 1990s, but continued to write screenplays, including Patch Adams (1998), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002) (which he directed, wrote and filled the starring role), Bruce Almighty (2003) and Barnyard (2006).