Easter egg: Select and watch any choice from the "Special Features" menu. When you return to the menu, the characters leading to the "Special Features" will change.
Rat Race (2001)
1 easter egg
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Starring: John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson, Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Amy Smart, Kathy Najimy, Vince Vieluf, Lanei Chapman
Continuity mistake: When Tracy visits her boyfriend in the helicopter, she starts to throw random objects at his truck. Watch her first throw where she cracks the back window, you'll notice that the front bonnet is dented although nothing has hit the bonnet yet. If you believe something might have been thrown before that, when she throws the second and third object there is no dent where that one was. (00:46:25)
Donald Sinclair: I can do anything. I'm eccentric.
Trivia: At the beginning the two brothers are in the casino taking quarters out of a feed the children donation box. It's ironic that they should get the gold coin with the quarters and race to Silver City and end up giving the money to the Feed the Children Foundation and the end.
Question: Besides being played for comedic effect, would getting the coin toss wrong have really mattered?
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Answer: It really would have mattered. This was over time and the winner of the coin toss gets the ball first. In 2001, NFL overtime was sudden death where a field goal wins the game. So having the ball first is a huge advantage. The messed up coin toss seems to be a joke about the 1998 Thanksgiving game between the Lions and Steelers where the ref messed up the coin toss in overtime because he heard the Steeler's player's call wrong. The Lions ended up getting the ball and winning. Not to mention that many people who bet on football games also bet on the coin toss.
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