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Cast bonding period; Brownsville pie-scene filming; trestle location; long-lens train shot; Singleton homages; Dreyfuss quote; Wheaton's slowed run; $2.37
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- The hosts relay O'Connell's account that the boys hung out and played games for two weeks without rehearsing and that Rob was great with kids.
- The hosts say the barf-o-rama was filmed in Brownsville, Oregon, with pies from a local bakery and filling mixed with large-curd cottage cheese.
- The hosts place the trestle at a California lake near a memorial state park, prompting a Rewatchables pandemic road-trip joke.
- The hosts say a 600-millimeter long lens compressed the image so the distant train looked right behind the boys.
- The hosts relay that Singleton loved Stand By Me and put homages in Boys in the Hood (as spoken), including four boys going to see a dead body and a closing fade-out.
- Dreyfuss is quoted saying he barely remembers the film 30 years later; the hosts call him a prick who should take the W.
- The hosts relay Wheaton's account that he was the weird kid of the four and got picked on by Corey during the shoot, and that he was faster than Phoenix but had to run slowly to lose their sprint.
- The boys' pooled money totals $2.37, a Stephen King number like Room 237.