Useless Movie Trivia For
The Goonies
Memorable Movie Quotes
Mikey: Goonies never say die!
Sloth: Hey, you guys!
Mikey: Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.
Data: Pinchers of Peril... saved by my Pinchers of Peril!
Mama Fratelli: The only thing we serve here is tongue! You boys like tongue?
Mikey: Sorry, Dad, we had our hands on the future, but we gave it up just to save our own lives.
Trivia
Richard Donner kept both One-Eyed Willie's head and a model for the ship.
The pirate ship was entirely real. All the shots were filmed in the ship. After the film, it was offered to anyone who would take it. No one wanted it, so the ship was scrapped.
When the boys are sitting in the living room watching MTV, they weren't actually watching the Cyndi Lauper "Good Enough" video, which was developed six months after filming wrapped up.
When the Fratelli brothers argue Anne Ramsey really slaps Robert Davi. She was told to hit him as hard as she could.
Jeff Cohen got the chicken pox after he got the role of Chunk. He showed up to the set anyway, afraid that they would have replaced him otherwise.
Jennie Lew Tugend, assistant to director Richard Donner, has a small role as Data's mom in the finale.
"Shit" or "bullshit"is uttered 19 times, not counting the line "Holy S-H-I-T!"
Director Cameo: [Richard Donner] the gray-haired sheriff on the quads as the Goonies exit the cave with the ship.
The last name of the brothers who are chasing the Goonies is Fratelli. Fratelli means "brothers" in Italian.
The newspaper article photo of Chester Copperpot is actor Keenan Wynn.
When Chunk and Sloth head down through the grate to follow the gang and the Fratellis, Sloth is wearing an Oakland Raiders T-Shirt. John Matuszak, who played Sloth, was a former Oakland Raiders football player.
The kids who played the Goonies were allowed to bring some of their families into the final scene where they are reunited.
When rocks are falling from the cave ceiling, Jonathan Ke Quan (Data) screams "Holy S-H-I-T!" He said he spelled the expletive because his mother made him promise not to use any bad language in the movie.
John Matuszak's make-up took 5 hours to complete. One of the eyes (which was out of place on the face) was mechanically operated off-screen by remote control. Someone would count down, and Matuszak would blink his other eye in synchronization. The cast was told not to get him wet in scenes outside of the pirate ship. Unfortunately, he got wet, delaying filming for an entire day.
According to director Richard Donner in an interview with "The Directors", producer Steven Spielberg instructed the cast members to act cold and distant toward Donner on the last week of filming which puzzled him. Shortly after filming wrapped, Donner went to his beach house in Hawaii, ran into a frenzied neighbor who took up his entire day. When he arrived home, the entire cast was there with Donner to celebrate with a cookout. Spielberg flew them over to Hawaii on the promise that they not speak a word of the surprise to Donner, which prompted them to act the way they were on the last week of filming.
Mostly shot in sequence. Total production took five months.
For one line of dialogue, Corey Feldman had to dub in the name of fast-food chain Godfather's Pizza when Straw Hat Pizza refused participation in the film.
Jeff Cohen thought of his mother dying to generate tears during his "confession" scene with the Fratellis.
The Goonies Oath that was cut out goes as follows: "I will never betray my goon dock friends / We will stick together until the whole world ends / Through heaven and hell, and nuclear war / Good pals like us, will stick like tar / In the city, or the country, or the forest, or the boonies / I am proudly declared a fellow Goony."
According to Sean Astin, he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. Several years later his mother discovered it, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.
One-Eye Willie's unspoken full name is actually William B. Pordobell.
In the original version of this film, the woman hired by Mikey's mother is a Hispanic named Rosalita (Lupe Ontiveros), and Mouth helps Mrs. Walsh by translating her commands into Spanish. In the Spanish version of this film, Rosalita becomes an Italian woman named Rossanna. The Italian used by the Spanish dubber is much better than the Spanish used by Corey Feldman.
The name "Rube G" can be seen painted on the contraption that opens the yard gate for Chunk near the beginning of the movie. This is in reference to Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who drew whimsical machines that achieved simple results in difficult ways.
Robert Davi, who is a trained opera singer, came up with the idea where he sings to Sloth.
During filming Steven Spielberg and Richard Donner sent the boys to the Dodger Stadium for Michael Jackson's Victory concert.
Production Designer J. Michael Riva said in a National Public Radio interview that before shooting the first scenes with the prop map, he thought that it looked good but not old enough, so in his hotel room, he aged it with coffee and (when he couldn't find paint) his own blood.
Near the end of the movie, Data says something in Chinese and Chinese subtitles are shown. The subtitles translate to "He is a big strong man".
During Chunk's (Jeff Cohen) confession scene, one thing he admits to is pushing his sister Edie down the stairs and blaming it on the dog. Cohen's real-life sister is named Edie.
The bats were made of crumpled, black pieces of crepe paper that were shot out of an air cannon.
More than 900,000 gallons of water was used in the movie.
The oil substance shot out of Data's slick shoes was made of glycerin, water and food coloring.
One Eyed Willie's ship, The Inferno, was 105 feet long and took 2-1/2 months to construct. It was modeled after Erroll Flynn's ship in The Sea Hawk (1940). The sails required more than than 7,000 square feet of material. Some of the ship's rigging was recycled from the Pirates of the Caribbean ship at Disneyland, which was being renovated at the time.
June 7th was officially declared "Goonies Day" by the Mayor of Astoria (where the movie was filmed) during the 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010.
Goofs
During the chase with the Fratellis, the police shoot three bullets into the back of the jeep. When Chunk finds the jeep at the restaurant, the bullet holes are in completely different places.
When Chunk stops the car and speaks with one of the Fratelli brothers, one Fratelli is singing while his reflection in the mirror is smoking a cigarette.
As One-Eyed Willy's ship leaves the cave, the rocks that fall into the water float.
When the pressure builds up and Troy is launched off the toilet by large amounts of water, you can easily see the platform he is sitting on and the pipe that pushes the platform up. Also, he is wearing red underwear on the toilet.
Strings that hold the bats can be seen.
After the Fratellis pull the kids out on the deck of One-Eyed Willie's ship, Mouth has a mouth full of jewels. When Data shoots the suction cup dart at Mama Fratelli's gun and it starts to pull him toward her, Mouth's mouth is open and no jewels are there; in the next shot they are back.
When the Fratellis are about to make everyone walk the plank aboard the Spanish ship, we see that Sloth is wearing boots. When the Fratelli brothers try to distract him by making him jump rope, there is a close-up of his feet in which he is shown wearing sneakers.
They break the hole in the wood on the pirate ship, with jagged edges. Later, when Mikey looks back down the hole to the others, the hole is perfectly square.
When Andy makes the first mistake on the bone piano, a huge hole appears and Mouth almost falls in. When she makes the second mistake, another hole appears and Brandon almost falls in, but the first hole has gone, and only reappears when the puzzle is solved.
When Mikey's dad tears up the contract and tosses the pieces into the air, you another extra bunch of pieces are thrown up in the same direction, a second after the initial throw.
Troy reads "Guns & Ammo" on the toilet. At first, the headline reads, "The 2nd Amendment Means What it Says." Seconds later, it reads "40 Years of Weatherby Rifles."
In the underground tunnels, Mama Fratelli never appears wet, even though they would have chased the Goonies through the waterfall at the wishing well and down the water slide tunnels to arrive at the ship.
When the kids ride to the restaurant, Chunk begs everyone for a Baby Ruth that he supposedly doesn't have. When he meets Sloth, he offers a Baby Ruth.
When Troy's father and his associate drop off the foreclosure paperwork, you can hear rain, and they're both holding umbrellas. When Brandon walks down the sidewalk to them to pick up the paperwork, their umbrellas aren't wet. Neither is the car behind them, and neither Brandon or the paperwork gets wet.
If the pirate ship is completely walled-in underground, where is the light coming from?
When the kids come across the dead explorer, they pull a baseball card from his wallet. The card is Lou Gehrig from the 1973 Topps collection. However, they mention that he has been down there dead since the 1930s.
The dead guy in the freezer blinks twice.
The plumbing for a relatively modern building found in the lost tunnel indicates that someone had to have been there fairly recently, thus the tunnel is not unknown in the local area.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $19,000,000
Gross: $61,389,680
Filming Locations
Astoria, Oregon, USA
Bodega Bay, California, USA
Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA
Stage 12, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Stage 15, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Stage 16, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Stage 28A, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA