Deliberate mistake: At the end, when the applause sign falls on Rocco's mom, it should stop working. (01:10:35)

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Peter Segal
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Fred Ward, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Priscilla Presley

Visible crew/equipment: When the prams roll down the stairs you can see the ignition pipes that shoots out the babies. Clearly visible in the first pram. You also see some sort of ignition smoke from one of the prams after the baby has been "shot" out. (00:02:55)
Frank Drebin: Hey, Rocco. Who's the old bag? She take one in the face?
Rocco: She's my mother.
Frank Drebin: Oh. Mrs. Dillon, your son is a ruthless, sadistic, cold-blooded animal. You must be very proud of him.
Mrs. Dillon: I am.
Trivia: In the credits, after the entry for weapons handler, there's a credit for concealed weapons handler, a Leon Czolgosz. In case you were wondering, Czolgosz was the anarchist who killed President McKinely in 1901 at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo (New York) by concealing a handgun under a bandage.
Question: Even despite the extreme circumstances as presented in this movie, does any producer or director of any live show have any real control over whether a network goes to commercial or not?
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Chosen answer: Yes. Any live show can go to commercial at any time. It's a way to have a check against things going wrong.
Greg Dwyer