Continuity mistake: Rob Lowe is introduced to Brian Doyle Murray as Benjamin Kane. In the credits Lowe is billed as Benjamin Oliver.
Visible crew/equipment: When Wayne and Garth are playing street hockey, there are two cars that interrupt their game. Look in the reflection of the second car, you can see a very long boom mike.
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie in the scene where Garth is stabbing a doughnut-person with a hockey stick shaped pencil, the eraser changes from pink, when he's stabbing it, to blue, when it's standing on its own.
Continuity mistake: When Wayne is interviewing Vanderhoff on his show. He takes the liberty of placing some humorous slogans on the back of the question cards. However, the one about goats returns to the front of the pile when the camera cuts to a more distant shot and Wayne puts the cards down.
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie when Wayne is driving to Cassandra's music video there are a lot of cars right before the policeman pulls Wayne over to spoof Terminator 2. But all the cars are driving behind him and next to him are gone when the pulls Wayne over.
Continuity mistake: When Wayne, Garth, Cassandra and Benjamin are at Benjamin's apartment, The level of Cassandra's champagne when she is standing out on the balcony is low. Cassandra then walks inside and sits on the sofa, where the level of champagne in her glass is higher, without anyone giving her a refill. (this is from a video viewing)
Factual error: When Wayne and Garth drive to Milwaukee, they leave Chicago, the sign reads Wilson Ave, when they announce their arrival - a very similar shot pops up reading Wilson Ave.
Audio problem: Near the end of the movie when the band is playing the song for the guy in the limo when shes singing the chorus to the song the voice changes from the original song to her voice.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Wayne and Cassandra are driving to the music store to buy the guitar, Cassandra crosses her legs in the car and you can see that they are bare. When they get to the shop, she is wearing pants.
Audio problem: At the loft party, while Cassandra is singing the song Touch Me there is a moment where Wayne turns to the camera and says "God, she's amazing." While Wayne is saying this the audio track plays an extra beat which throws the track out of sync just as Terry walks up to Wayne, causing Cassandra's mouth to not match the lyrics.
Audio problem: When Wayne plays the "May I help you?" riff on the black guitar to get the clerk's attention, he ends the riff by manipulating the whammy bar. However, rather than the "scooping" sound that comes from manipulating a whammy bar, the sound heard is actually trilling (rapidly alternating between two or more notes on the same string).
Revealing mistake: A jump cut is visible when Frankie Sharp starts receiving the show in his limo. Notice how his feet shift slightly when the image changes.
Factual error: When they are driving around listening to Bohemian Rhapsody in Garth's car they are supposedly in Aurora, IL but Cermak Plaza is in Berwyn, Satchel's is in Cicero and the White Castle is in Lyons. All these towns are an hour away from Aurora.
Continuity mistake: When Wayne and Cassandra are driving together, Wayne's hands are at the 10 and 2 positions on the steering wheel, visible over the dashboard. However, the views from the driver's view out the windshield do not show Wayne's hands on the wheel.
Deliberate mistake: When Wayne begins playing the "Excalibur" guitar, the clerk stops him and directs him to a "No Stairway to Heaven" sign. The problem is that the guitar riff Wayne started playing sounded nothing like "Stairway to Heaven" so the clerk had no reason to interrupt him. Evidently the intro to "Stairway" was actually played in the theatrical version of the film, but its exclusion in the home video release makes the scene rather dubious.
Continuity mistake: When Garth is holding the air ratchet gun, he's facing to the left. However every time the camera shot goes back to Wayne, Garth is in the background instantly facing the car. Then when it cuts back to Garth, he's turned 90 degrees again.
Answer: You presumably haven't seen Terminator 2. The actor playing the cop is Robert Patrick, who played the shape-shifting T-1000 in that movie, who masqueraded as a policeman for most of the film. The T-1000's mission was to track down and terminate a boy - hence the "have you seen this boy" line that he says to Wayne.
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