Airplane II: The Sequel

Continuity mistake: At the hospital, when Ted paints the flowers the jar by his side turns around between shots, note the handle.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: In the videophone scene, Murdoch's shadow is visible below the screen before the device is turned on.

Revealing mistake: The 'solid fuel' hatch on the shuttle is not burning the coal. The gas jets can just be seen at the bottom of the hatch, and the fire nearly goes out as the shovel blocks the gas.

Continuity mistake: Before Jimmy's dog is shot at, a woman walks behind Jimmy's mom, but then disappears in the immediate shot that follows.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: The doctors who are beating up the patient at the Ronald Reagan hospital are actually hitting the mattress. One of them on the left keeps waiting for the patient to move away to avoid hitting him.

Sacha

Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.

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Trivia: When the shuttle takes off, a piece of music from Battlestar Galactica is played - specifically the music from the Nova of Magadon sequence in Saga of a Star World. The navigator is played by Kent McCord who played Captain Troy on Galactica 1980.

Grumpy Scot

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