Corrected entry: When Bandit uses the CB radio to ask Snowman where he is, and Snowman says "mile marker 85" you can see that "Frog" is driving. Then, when the camera shows Snowman look in the mirror, Bandit is driving. A moment later, it shows that Frog is driving again.
Question: The Bandit and Buford come face to face in the diner. Buford orders a diablo sandwich, and then runs to the door and hollers at Jr and asks if he wants something - when Jr. orders, Buford's response was "We don't have time for that!" - then why even ask Jr to begin with, if that's going to be his answer?
Answer: Junior asks for hush puppies, which are basically deep-fried dough balls...they would probably take a couple of minutes to make. The diablo sandwich, on the other hand, seems to be prepared in advance, since the sheriff gets his seconds after asking for it. Still, hush puppies probably would have been ready by the time the sheriff finishes his conversation with the Bandit.
Answer: Depends what he ordered - if it was something more complicated than a diablo sandwich, they wouldn't have time. Or he's just being a jerk.
Answer: I think he said "Onion rings daddy" - but I guess it would depend on what consists of a Diablo sandwich that is easy to make as opposed to waiting to having the rings made (it's a trivial point, I know...but it's been bugging me).
He said hush puppies.
Question: Does anyone know if the Trans AM and the truck used in the film are still around?
Answer: The trailer appeared in a recent episode of "The Walking Dead"
The trailer on the walking dead episode is a replica it's not the original one used in the movie as the one in TWD is a standard low slung with air baffles the original one doesn't have those and is also refrigerated.
Answer: The original "Bandit" Trans am no longer exists, but one from the second movie is kept at The Performance Car Museum, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The original "Bandit" Trans Am still exists. Burt Reynolds owned it right up to the time of his passing. It was then auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson auction house in Florida and sold for more then half a million dollars. That Trans AM is now in the hands of a private collector and no doubt very well cared for.
Question: Who is the actress that plays the old lady that called herself the Good Witch of the North? Also, did she voice cartoons? I could swear her voice sounded very familiar.
Answer: Don't know if she did cartoon voices, but her name is Nora Meerbaum. She was in Airplane and St. Elmo's fire in the following years though so you may know her from those.
I thought the same thing. Maybe one of the Mrs Clauses in Christmas cartoons.
Shirley Booth voiced the Christmas favorites.
She looks and sounds like Shirley Booth, Mrs. Claus in The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974).
Answer: My guess is the 2-headed bird on the Bugs Bunny with the vampire. I believe the bird's name was Emily. She also resembles Clarabelle or Jennifer Morrison (one of the moonshine sisters) from the Andy Griffith Show episode "Alcohol and Old Lace."
Answer: She was Mother Nature in The Year Without a Santa Claus.
She was Mrs. Claus in the year without a Santa Claus... May have also been mother nature (I don't think so though) from the same show, but definitely was Mrs. Claus.
That's wrong. Shirley Booth voiced Mrs Claus.
Answer: Dorothy Stikney was the other sister.
Question: Carrie mentions that her longest or most serious relationship was eight-and-a-half days with an acid rock singer, that she came home and found in the shower with his mother. Wasn't she about to get married when Bandit found her? Would you not think that she actually had a relationship with him (and didn't she say she was pregnant, therefore, had to get married?).
Answer: She had a relationship with her fiance but in her mind it wasn't serious. She is running away because she is being pressured into marriage with a man she doesn't love. So the statement is accurate, her longest serious relationship was only 8 days.
Answer: Where does she say she was pressured into marriage? - didn't have to really be snarky about it. They pick her up, she says there is a wedding in search of a bride... doesn't mean she was pressured... In fact, there is no definitive statement that she was forced to marry him or didn't love him. All she says is "I'm sorry Junior!" at the end. She just bolted from the wedding... people get cold feet all the time.
Answer: She is running away because she is being pressured into marriage with a man she doesn't love. That implies that there was no declining the proposal.
Answer: Then she could have said no to the proposal (just saying) when it was done (off camera).
So what's your point? The character agreed to the marriage under pressure, then changed her mind and decided to run. Where's the problem?
Corrected entry: The star on Sheriff Justice's car indicates that he is the Sheriff of Montague County Texas. Texarkana is in Bowie County Texas, which is approximately 245 miles east of Montague County.
Correction: Sally Field fled the wedding, and her car was broken down on the side of the road. Sheriff Justice was after her before the Bandit showed up, so the fact that she got 245 miles away before the car either broke down or ran out of gas is not difficult to believe.
The sheriff was also not particularly concerned about jurisdiction throughout the film when it came to apprehending his quarry.
Corrected entry: The Trans Am's tail lights and rims seems to have an identity problem. All through the movie they change from scene to scene.
Correction: This is incredibly unspecific. At least one example of timecodes proof should be provided so it can be verified. Especially since all the Trans Ams used in the film were then-brand-new cars, bought straight from Pontiac. And as such, would have been outwardly identical (their drivetrains are known to have varied).
That's because a couple of 1976 Special Editions are used along with the 1977 that is the principal car in the movie. At least the director kept you from seeing the 76 front which is one of the biggest differences. He must of felt the honeycomb wheels on the 76 would not be as noticeable as the snowflake wheels on the 77. The 76 is most noticeable when Bandit is waiting for Snowman at the Texarkana sign on the side of the road.
Correction: Because it's a reflection, things look reversed. Frog is actually driving the car all along.
Bandit is driving when viewed in the rearview. It has nothing to do with the image being in reverse. Bandit is on the outside of the mirror which would be the driver's seat in the car behind him. That's how a mirror works.
In the scene, they're on a 2-lane road divided by a yellow line. When we see the car in the truck's side mirror, it's on Snowman's right side, meaning on the wrong side of the road. The yellow line is to the right of the driver (in America), so if they're going the wrong way, the yellow line would be to the left of the driver so that the passenger is closest to the yellow line. In the shot of the car in the side mirror, Bandit is closest to the yellow line, meaning he's not driving.
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