Fuck ups in "Smokey And The Bandit"

[HopeHoops]

Number 1: when The Bandit picks up the first cop car, it is raining like hell out. He makes a 90 degree right turn (slowing down the cop) and then hops a curb and pulls in behind a small building and turns off the lights - BUT WAIT!!! The roads are dry, it is no longer raining, and his windows and t-roof are open! D'OH!

Number 2: Just after he picks up Sally Field, there's a shot of the speedometer (clearly at the 80mph mark) and she asks, "are we really going 110?" D'OH!

Number 3: There's NO WAY IN HELL the woman with the handle "Little Beaver" could drive a rig. Even with power steering, it takes more arm strength than she could possibly have. On the plus side, she's damn cute.

But it is still a fun movie.

[auntAgonist]

1. Loved that movie

Far removed from reality though :)

As for #3 in your list. I'm very small (female) and not particularly strong and I have NO problem driving a big rig. I drove truck starting in 1979. The very first truck I drove had no power steering. I had to stand up to turn the wheel LOL.

My W series Ford had power steering as did my CL 9000 Ford and Western Star too. The hardest part for me strength and size wise was opening the hood of the Western Star to check the oil :)

:hi:
just my 2cents.

aA
kesha

[HopeHoops]

3. I don't know. She just seemed, well, wrong for the part. My wife's small & very strong.

By small, I mean all of 4'11" and 95 lbs. But she's a 3rd degree blackbelt and can kick the shit out of damn near anyone.

[auntAgonist]

5. I know what you mean :)

Size is very deceiving isn't it? My niece is very tall and thin (picture a model) she too has a black belt in Karate. You'd never guess it. I want her with me if I ever need protecting :)

:hi:

aA
kesha

[CBGLuthier]

2. They also lose the CB antenna when crashing through the football field

And I think a wheel cover may go flying at one point or another.

The first was great but the rest gave The Howling series a run for worst franchise (with a decent start) ever.

[HopeHoops]

4. Yeah, I forgot about that. And Sherrif Justice's car gets a crumpled hood - the bridge out.

In the next scene, the hood is no longer crumpled.

Fun movie.

[auntAgonist]

6. When the cop car is "skidding" backwards

into the creek or river, the back up lights are on.

[seabeyond]

7. my mom had gotten a rootbeer ttop transam the summer that movie came out.

i was in highschool. we went and saw the movie, and she had so much fun with that car... was her midlife (35ish?) crisis. we spent summers taking trips to the beaches of calif in that thing. so many memories. i got my license in it.

[HopeHoops]

8. Curiously, I got mine in a '76 LeMans 4 door - just like most of the cop cars.

It only had a 350 in it, but it could still move out. Parallel parking was a BITCH in that thing!!!

[suninvited]

9. Is has been ages since I have seen that movie

and I wonder if the word beaver had the same slang meaning as it has now back then? Probably not.

I remember the first time I saw Smokey and the Bandit. It was on my senior trip to South Padre Island in 1979 and the hotel we stayed at had HBO. It was the first time I had seen HBO, and it only came on at night and showed Smokey and the Bandit over and over the whole time I was there.

[Iggo]

11. Re: Beaver. Yes, it did. (n/t)

[HopeHoops]

12. OH yeah - it most certainly did!

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. I looked up the etymology of "beaver"...

.
.
.
...and some of the reasons postulated went back to the 19th Century
and some were hilarious (I won't go into them here), but the one I
like was one I read long ago -- that it became popular slang among
reporters and firefighters in the 1930's to alert others to an
upskirt view of a hastily-clothed woman descending a fire ladder.
.
.
.

[HopeHoops]

17. Um, well...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[guitar man]

10. The scene where he makes a U-Turn through the ditch

It very obviously smashes the hell out of the front of the car, but in the next shot, it's just fine.:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

13. I wonder how many Trans Ams they went through filming that. It always looked freshly washed.

They sure chewed through cop cars - including the two 67 Galaxies at the end of the movie (blocking the fairgrounds). I've got a 68 Galaxie fastback and it always hurts to see that scene.

[guitar man]

14. I read somewhere once

Can't remember the exact number but they tore up a bunch of those cars making the movie. I've always wanted to know the details on some of them because they had to have had the engines built up over stock to have given the tire-melting performances in some of the scenes. The stock TAs at 180hp weren't all that lively.

I envy you having that Galaxie fastback. Dad had a 68 xl with the console and the horseshoe shifter when I was a kid, I always thought that was the coolest car...

[HopeHoops]

16. Well, she's got XL side dressing, but she's really a 500.

My grandfather was a life-long Ford mechanic. He liked the XL dressings so he put them on her. She's cool either way. The rear window is like 50 feet long (seems that way at least).

The biggest problem I've had with her is breaking motor mounts - and that's just with a 390. I had them put the cop mounts in but I still broke those. It might have had something to do with shifting into second at 75 mph - the owner's manual says not to go more than 70 mph in 1st gear. Freaked the hell out of so called "sports cars" doing that. It was fun winning a drag race in just one gear. I quit driving like that about the time I had my first kid but I'll still get a kick here or there blowing the doors off of some punk in my Montana minivan (3.4 V8). Nothing says "deflated ego" like getting blown away by a minivan. :evilgrin:

[guitar man]

18. Dad's XL had a 302

He was driving it one night and didn't know it had a bad temp sending unit, blew the lower radiator hose and by the time he realized it was overheating it was too late. So he set off to look for another engine and bought a 289 from his truck driving buddy that was pulled from a Mustang that his kid had wrecked. Turns out it was a 289 "K" code "Hi-Po" version of the 289. Dad had a blast with that car after he put that motor in it :evilgrin:

[HopeHoops]

19. I had a buddy with a Falcon wagon that had a 289 - damn that thing moved.

[guitar man]

21. The wife wants a 67 mustang

She fell in love with one at a car show that had a 427 side oiler. I told her a 289 would be plenty fast enough for her. :crazy:

[HopeHoops]

22. What the HELL does she want to do? Take to the air? A 390 is PLENTY for a 2-ton car.

I know. My 68 Galaxie fastback checks in at 3.9K lbs empty. She flies as it is. A 289 is a perfect engine for a Mustang. They put 427's in the Galaxies, but that was overkill. In a Mustang it is more like, "would you like some car with that engine?"

[guitar man]

24. She is an unrepentant hot rodder

She currently drives a '95 lincoln mark viii lsc. A while back she took it in for a tune up and told the mechanic that "it doesn't scratch hard enough when it shifts into 2nd"

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

27. My wife's OLD - OLD - OLD aunt had a 69 (or so) Buick Wild Cat (read on)

She took it into the mechanic and told him it had a terrible shimmy and he just had to fix it. He came back from driving it and said, "lady, I had that thing up to 75 and it was smooth as silk."

She replied, "yeah, but get it up over 100 and try it again!"

This was when she was about 80.

[guitar man]

28. ROFL

Back in the 80s I was working for a small engine shop. It was my day to do pickup and deliveries , so I was dropping a mower off at a house after it had been serviced. A lady that had to have been 80 answered the door and led me around to the garage to put her mower in.

She opened the garage door and there sat a gorgeous 1966 dodge coronet. As I rolled the mower past the car, I noticed it had a "426 HEMI" badge on the fender. I asked her if she wanted to sell it and she said " hell no. I went and looked at all the new cars and none of them have the zip that this one does. When I'm getting on the interstate and those shitasses don't want to let me on, I just gun it and get on ahead of the bastards!"

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

31. Sounds like one she was related to my wife ;}

We had a 73 Buick Centurian for a long time (455 4bbl) and my wife loved having that puppy up over 90 - barely idling at that speed.

[HopeHoops]

20. One of the more OBVIOUS ones I forgot - Even in GA, you can't get a custom plate in an hour or so.

Despite only having 28 hours, he still manages to get a new car and a custom plate AND load it in a truck before waking up Snowman. Not possible, especially the custom plate. Now, okay, maybe he had the plate on a different car before that, but that would mean both a trip to the car dealer AND DMV (or whatever Georgia calls it) to transfer it to the new car and he just didn't seem to be in much of a hurry.

[jmowreader]

23. The most important fuckup of all

It's actually a little less than 700 miles from Atlanta to Texarkana--you can do that in 28 hours fairly easily. Use two drivers in the cab and you can make the run completely legal.

Okay, there is the matter of pulling 40,000 pounds of beer with no liquor permits, because you couldn't get one for any state east of Texas if it was a load of Coors.

[Twillig]

25. The empty boxes action movie cliche!

When Snowman and Bandit are fucking around on the forklift and Snowman ejects Bandit onto (into, because they crumple under his momentum) the empty cardboard beer cases!

They really should have made a stuntman take that bump. I'd have more respect for Burt Reynolds today if they did. :-)


"You sumbitches couldn't close an umbrella!"

[jmowreader]

29. Burt Reynolds started out as a stuntman

Then they found out he could act and now that's what he does.

[catzies]

26. Always love the blooper reels in the credits of Burt Reynolds' movies

They always were just a bunch of good friends, hanging out and making movies, laughing the whole time.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. The band is playing Marching Through Georgia on the fair ground when they arrive with the beer.

I always thought that was a curious song to be played in Atlanta by good old boys.