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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Grey trousers of a crew member at the bike's secret hiding place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee Wee enters the bike's secret hiding place, the "spotlight" in the background behind the bike is clearly just a backdrop.
  
  
• Continuity: The action behind Pee-wee when he briefs his friends on the stolen bicycle.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: A sound guy is visible in the window at the concession stand at the rodeo, when Andy chases Pee-wee.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the bike race at the beginning, the shadow of a car is briefly visible.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bicycle chase scene where a studio guard pursues Pee-Wee, the guard pulls one of the tassel handles off Pee-wee's bike. In the close-up shot, Pee-Wee presses a button that causes a handle without a tassel to spring out. When they cut back to the wide shot, the tassel is back as well.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the rodeo scene, the back end of the mechanical bull Pee-wee is riding is briefly visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During the robbery briefing in Pee-wee's basement, the shot of his dog "Speck" shows Dotty's feet in the background. Dotty does not arrive at the meeting until later.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Pee-wee and Simone watch the sunrise they enter a red dinosaur, but exit a green dinosaur, because it's being lit with a red spotlight.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of the chase scene on the studio lot, the security carts are unplugged from the wall as if they were electric carts, but then they are heard making noises as though they were gas-powered.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pee-wee and the guy who escaped from prison are saying "the law" back and forth, the scenery to the right of Pee Wee changes abruptly from a lush meadow with trees to a huge rock wall.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Snow-capped mountains in the background in various Texas scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pee-wee enters the magic shop, the image is flipped (most likely to facilitate being able to read "Mario's Magic Shop" on the shop door), as a result, the hanky in his suit pocket appears on the right-hand side of his suit; however, it is always on the left-hand side elsewhere in the film.
  
  
• Continuity: In Pee-wee's breakfast machine, the orange juice in the jug under the dinosaur goes from nearly empty to about 3/4 full between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Just before the bull jumps over the gate after Pee-wee rides, you can see the crowd change in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pee-wee waves goodbye to Simone, his hand is waving near his face, but in the next shot, the hand is above his head.
  
  
• Continuity: When the 1959 Edsel convertible goes over the cliff, the rear quarter windows go from being down, to up, and then down again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee Wee removes his bike chain from its container, the chain is clearly seen begin fed through a hole in the bottom. This is only visible in unmatted fullscreen home video.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Pee Wee is driving Mickey's car past the road warning signs, the signs are clearly seen attached to carts on rollers coming towards the camera. This is only visible in unmatted fullscreen home video.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: On Stage 6, after Pee Wee gets his bike and leaves the set dressed as a nun, the security guards unplug four golf carts. In subsequent scenes, the golf carts sound like they're gas-powered.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee-wee's breakfast is being made, the orange being squeezed in the juicer is clearly a foam-rubber ball.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Twisted Sister is seen filming their music video at Warner Bros. Studios, someone is seen following the car with a boom mic. However, the band is using the pre-recorded album version of the song for the music video. Thus, the boom mic is unnecessary.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bulls are actually attracted to movement, not red.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pee-Wee is dropped off by Large Marge at the truck stop, folks at the diner there inform him that she was really dead. They point to a plaque with her picture saying she died that very night 10 years ago - January 11, 1974. The weather throughout the movie shows lots of green vegetation, and living plants, not the characteristics of January weather.
  
  
• Continuity: The date at the truck stop is established as being January 11, yet only a few days later a Day of the Dead parade is seen taking place while Pee-Wee is in San Antonio. The Day of the Dead is November 2.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee Wee is making a telephone call in "Texas," the payphone is clearly labeled with a California Bell logo.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee Wee is running away from the studio security with his bike one of the guards pulls off the handle with streamers on it. A new handle appears with no streamers attached to the handle. During the rest of the getaway you see that both handles have streamers attached.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Pee Wee knocks the motorcycles over, one of them has no cap on the gas tank.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pee-Wee is making breakfast, when "Abe Lincoln" flips the fourth and final pancake which sticks to the ceiling, you can see the pancake hit the ceiling and bounce to the side, revealing that the filmmakers simply dropped pancakes on the floor then inverted the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Pee-Wee attacks Francis in a pool at the beginning of the film. When he emerges from the water his face is a little wet but his clothes are completely dry.
  
  
• Continuity: The positions and number of the visitors to the park change in every shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pee Wee leaves the park and is driving his bike down the road, there is a red classic Mustang on the right side. In the next frame, we see Pee Wee coming down the same road from the same angle, but there is now a blue car where the Mustang was.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Pee Wee plays Tequila in the Apache Bar juke box, he doesn't put in any money.
  
  
• Continuity: When PeeWee and Simone are inside the dinosaur talking it is clearly night time, but when the shots cut back to Andy listening at the door, his ambient lighting shows that these shots were taken during the day.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Mickey goes through listing activities in the "big house", he says "lift weights" twice.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The obvious dummy used as an extra for Large Marge before the animated expression.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Pee-Wee goes to get his bicycle from it's hiding place at the beginning of the movie, you can briefly see a crew member's hand inside the left side of the door.
  
  
• Continuity: As Pee Wee is rescuing the animals from the burning pet shop, He brings the dogs out and tells them to "sit." In a close up shot, they in fact do sit on command but in the very next shot from further away, the dogs are all scattered about the sidewalk walking around.
  
  
• Continuity: When Francis goes to open the bathroom door, he is wearing a striped towel around his waist, however, in the very next shot, he is seen holding the towel in his hand.
  
  

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