on the zoom call, but muted

CAPTION

He's no Barry Bostwick

Saw a replica of his bike at the Alamo last month.

Tell me about your big "but", Simone.

In the scene where he's first locking up his bike, did they put back the crop where you can see the chains coming up from underneath the basket on the bike? I was irate when I saw they had "fixed" that at some point.

The tracks on the signs when Pee Wee was driving were also a fun "error."

@trey it was a matting error when they aired it on tv. From a random Redditor "This is an "open matte" error.

I think we're all aware of the 16:9 theater format versus the home television 4:3 format issues. Often films were filmed on a frame that captured 4:3 but matted to be 16:9. The camera would have markings to tell the director where the matte would go and usually anything in this space was seen as irrelevant as it would never be seen.

One way that was found to make widescreen movies into 4:3 was to open up the matte -- effectively, remove the matte and restore the original 4:3 frame underneath. The upside to this is that you don't lose any information and don't have to do pan and scan. The downside is that sometimes things that were never meant to be seen end up in the frame."

We still mock a HS friend that after viewing this in the theater announced, "I laughed two times. I know because I counted."

@trey, the criterion page lists the aspect ratio as 1.85:1, so that likely covers margin stuff visible the broadcast/VHS version. (i remember reading somewhere that they shot it open matte in a more-tv-shaped 4:3 aspect ratio with the intent of cropping/covering segments of the negative for final presentation, but it was forgotten when transferring to VHS.) i agree that it’s a good gag, though, intentional or not. i’ll try to remember to report back on it when i get the disc

@1f2frfbf while i was writing that comment, i was trying to think of what else got through that open-matte with the VHS/ broadcast presentation and that was it!

oh whoops, it took me too long to type the comment and someone beat me to it!

@trey also, the curvy road signs going by you could see they were rolling on tracks

@dapete in the basement?!