Tommy Boy corrections

Tommy Boy (1995) - 15 corrections

Directed by Peter Segal, starring Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd

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When Tommy Boy is on the phone with Michelle, Michelle says that Tom has never sold 1000 brake pads in Duluth. Tom could have never sold that much because he died before they started to sell the brake pads. [So, there's no mistake then. If Tom *had* sold 1000 brake pads in Duluth before they started selling them, there would be a mistake, but in this instance, Michelle is just stating the obvious, in an effort to encourage Tommy.]

There's a part of the movie when Richard and Tommy are walking down a street in Sandusky, OH and you can see a Toronto Dominion Bank sign (green)on one of the buildings. This was an oversight as the movie was filmed somewhere in Ontario. A small town like Sandusky would never have a branch of a big Canadian bank. [Sandusky is less than 300 miles from Toronto, the headquarters of TD Bank. TD has operated banks around the world since the 1960s. It is very plausible that they would have a branch in Sandusky.]

Rob Lowe is a main character in the movie playing "Paul", but is not credited at the end of the movie. [While the role is fairly large to note not being credited, the practice is not uncommon. Many more actors and sometimes well known actors forgo their name in the credits for varying reasons (e.g. SAG would require they be paid, contractual obligations etc.).] Corrected by Lummie

Obvious stunt double when Paul is on the hood of the crash test car. [As you'll see in the Holy Schnike Edition, director Peter Segal says Rob Lowe did all of his stunts, except one scene in the water tower that never made the movie.]

When Tommy runs into the glass door after a successful sale, he leaves his makeup imprint on the glass. [He does leave a smudge, but anyone with oily skin, such as a large person who sweats quite a bit, can leave a mark on glass, otherwise, every smudge ever left on glass would only come from a woman, and such is not the case.] Corrected by Jazetopher

When David Spade's character first pick up Chris Farley he tells him he has just put a 440 with a 6-pack carburetor, but later when the hood flies off you can plainly see that it has a regular 2-barrel carburetor and air filter. [He lied, he has no friends and is trying to impress.] Corrected by tw_stuart

In the scene where Tommy's father is showing Chris Farley his new office the name on the door is "Thomas Callahan III" but when Chris Farley is introduded as the new president of the company at the end of the film, he is introduced as "Thomas Callahan, Jr." [There's no mistake here, his full name is Thomas Callahan III, but he is referred to by his friends as Thomas Callahan Jr.] Corrected by tw_stuart

When Richard and Tommy are driving (when Richard is drunk), Richard starts throwing up and Tommy swerves on the road. When you see the front of the car, pause the movie and the stunt guys are visible. [Trivia perhaps but if you have to pause to see it then it's not a movie mistake.] Corrected by tw_stuart

Richard vacuums up moths - how many motels have vacuum cleaners in the rooms? [Not a movie mistake, it's not beyond belief that he could have requested one from reception.] Corrected by tw_stuart

At the end, when Tommy and Zalinsky are on the news, Zalinsky clearly unbuttons his top button and loosens his tie. In the next shot, it's buttoned, then in subsequent shots, it's unbuttoned again. [The shirt is unbuttoned throughout the whole scene. It looks like it is because the television shot is grainy.]

When Tommy is in the bathroom on the aeroplane, he is wearing boxers. However, when he bursts out of the door he is wearing tighty whities, the next shot it's back to boxers. [He wears boxers throughout the scene. Upon going frame by frame, it is his shirt covering the back of the boxers that makes it look like briefs.]

In the scene where Tommy Boy is in the bank and yells "everyone listen up, this will only take a second," the cops get down and throw their guns. The shot of Tommy's feet shows his pants are brown where in the next shot his pants are light khaki/white. [His pants are brown throughout the whole scene, it is simply the lighting.]

In the scene when Rob Lowe is on the girl's computer sabotaging the shipments of brake pads, he gets interrupted by the girl and he abruptly shuts off the monitor, not the computer. Later in the movie we find out that the brake pad shipments were all screwed up and no one knows why. Well, the moment that the girl presumably turned the monitor back on, she would have seen just exactly who was responsible. [Thats presuming she noticed the mistake. Whilst Paul's (Rob Lowe) numbers were quite a change from what was being ordered, there were a large number of orders and it was more likely oversight on her part. When Michelle came into the room after Paul messed up the orders she doesn't see Paul at the computer. Added to that she had no reason at that point to suspect that Paul was trying to sabotage the company so no reason to check the orders.] Corrected by Lummie

In the hotel how does he unzip his boxers with his hands shown clearly on the curtains? [When Richard unzips his boxers only one hand is shown. His left hand is not shown holding the curtain, he must be holding it with his leg or his shoulder.]

When Richard's hair is blown back by the engine fan, the fan must have been mounted backwards because the fan is supposed to blow air ON the engine, not in front of it. [The fan on the motor is correct. Radiator fans are designed to cool the radiator not the motor. Next time you park your car in hot weather and the fan comes on feel the warm air being pushed through the radiator from behind out towards the front of the car.]