Corrected entry: Obvious stunt double for Tommy performing the cartwheel during the "What'd I Say" number at the wedding reception.
Corrected entry: Tommy talks about how the Callahan factory is the only thing keeping the city (Sandusky, Ohio) alive. I guess he forgot about Cedar Point, one of the most popular theme parks in the world.
Correction: While Tommy was exaggerating the factory's importance to Sandusky, Cedar Point isn't open to the public year round. And tourists who come in to visit the park would only patronize business that the blue collar factory worker wouldn't work at or own, so it doesn't help the average working men of the town.
Corrected entry: After "Richard" picks up "Tommy" from the airport, Tommy places M&M's in the dash. You can see a big "69ยข" in magic Marker on the M&M bag.
Correction: Some retailers will mark down or up prices directly on the product using a magic marker rather than a price gun. It is very common, especially with smaller "Mom and Pop" shops.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Trivia perhaps, but if you have to pause to see it, then it's not a valid mistake.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: His pants are brown throughout the whole scene; it is simply the lighting.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: That's presuming she noticed the mistake. While 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 entry: When Paul sprays Tommy with gasoline, you can see a smaller hose tucked into the end of the gasoline nozzle.
Correction: You're supposed to see that hose. It is not a gasoline hose that Paul is spraying Tommy with, it is a water hose used at a nearby car wash.
Corrected entry: When Richard is fixing Tommy's tie, its a clip on. But when they enter the building, it has changed to a regular tie.
Correction: The next scene, it's the same clip on tie. After that is the montage of people saying "no" and in those shots he's wearing a regular tie. But each time it's a different sales call and different tie.
Corrected entry: Tommy is celebrating with his father the recent engagement. First you see them pouring the champagne, then second you hear the champagne bottle being opened. (There is only one bottle of champagne.)
Correction: This isn't how it happens. The cork pops during the transition, then we see one glass already filled and the third glass is being poured. This is a common technique to imply a celebration is occurring and to avoid wasting valuable movie time watching someone pour 3 glasses of champagne.
Corrected entry: When Beverly is on the bed talking with Paul, in one shot her spaghetti strap is down towards her elbows. In the next shot, it is up to her shoulder. The shots moved too quick for her to fix it.
Correction: That's because it fell down on one side, we see her fix it. And the camera was on Paul long enough for her to slip it back on her shoulder.
Corrected entry: The fan on the test engine spins counterclockwise, and before it starts, the angle of the blades is visible and such that it would pull air towards the engine instead of pushing it in the other direction.
Correction: Vehicle engines help pull air through the radiator which would mean it blows air towards engine. This was right in the movie.
Corrected entry: The hooks in the brake pad division (the one Tommy is fighting with) stop automatically when Tommy walks by. He turned them on, but he never turned them off.
Correction: The hooks stopped because the rest of the machines are all turned off so the hooks can't go on to the other machines.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Tommy, Richard and Michelle read the police reports to Paul and Beverly about their scans, Paul tries to escape but is eventually apprehended by the police. Beverly, however, receives a dinner offer from Zalinsky rather than having the police arrest her as well. How could she suddenly luck out knowing that she was involved with Paul's scan the whole time?
Correction: Also, Michelle mentioned that Paul has active warrants out in other states, that's probably why he's the one being arrested.
Corrected entry: The characters mention an airport in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio - there is no airport in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Correction: Not only is there no airport in Cuyahoga Falls, but Sandusky is only an hour and a half away from Cuyahoga Falls. No one would ever fly from one city to the other much less route through Columbus like the ticket agent says.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: Rob Lowe is a main character in the movie playing "Paul", but is not credited at the end of the movie.
Corrected entry: Obvious stunt double when Paul is on the hood of the crash test car.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: Richard vacuums up moths - how many motels have vacuum cleaners in their rooms?
Correction: Not a movie mistake - it's not beyond belief that he could have requested one from reception.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: The shirt is unbuttoned throughout the whole scene. It looks like it is because the television shot is grainy.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Correction: No. That actually was Chris Farley. Farley was known for being very agile for a large man, always doing cartwheels on the set of Saturday Night Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4TqKMSeEI.
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