Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

2 corrections since 9 Jan '17, 00:00

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Corrected entry: Following the "Large Marge" scene, Pee Wee enters a restaurant with a plaque honoring Large Marge. The dates suggest Marge would have only been 37 at the time of her accident. Alice Nunn would have been 58 at the movie release. The character is portrayed as a woman over 50 years of age.

Adam Hills-Meyer

Correction: It's a bar, not a restaurant, and if there's a plaque honoring Large Marge it's safe to assume she was a long-time, frequent customer. So you've got years of alcohol use aging her prematurely. Truckers in the 80s were often heavy smokers. So you've got years of tobacco use aging her prematurely. Finally, truckers sit in the sun beating through their windows all day every day. So you've got years of UV light exposure aging her prematurely. Large Marge looked like a trucker in her late 30s-early 40s to me.

Phixius

Other mistake: Five pancakes are made and shot onto the kitchen ceiling, yet only one is on Pee-Wee's plate.

Rob245

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Suggested correction: I think it's reasonable to presume that one simply fell down onto the plate while the others remained stuck to the ceiling.

TedStixon

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Continuity mistake: When P.W. is escaping certain trouble somehow his handle bar comes off (with ribbons) a new one is replaced (without ribbons) - cool bike huh? But in the next scene the new handle has ribbons... (01:13:00)

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Pee-wee: Busy doing what?
Butler: He's having his bath.
Pee-wee: Oh, really? Where are they hosing him down?

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Trivia: Just as Pee-Wee walks into the Joke Shop at the beginning of the film (after he chains his bike to the clown), there is a mini-poster of Elvira on the shop's wall. (00:14:25)

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Question: When Pee-Wee offers gum to Francis and Mr. Buxton as a peace offering, what was it with the gum that caused Mr. Buxton to scream?

Answer: It was some sort of gag gum (popular in the past) that either had hot pepper/cinnamon or simply tasted terrible.

Brian Katcher

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