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Fridge Brilliance:

  • When Reese tapes a kilo of Colombian bam-bam under his car (actually a bag of Lucky Charms cereal) for Ricky to regain his confidence. What do some call the "War on Drugs"? Prohibition II. How did NASCAR get started? Running moonshine in Prohibition I. Ferrell and the filmmakers were explicitly calling bullshit on the War on Drugs!

Fridge Horror:

  • "Invisible Fire" is an actual phenomenon that occurs when Methanol is ignited, and unlike other types of fire, Methanol fires are completely imperceptible to the naked eye and doesn't produce any smoke, and one of the most memorable Methanol Fire incidents happened at the 1981 INDY 500 where a faulty fuel nozzle burst open and sprayed driver Rick Mears and most of his pit crew with methanol that got ignited by the heat from his cars' exhaust.
  • While Lucy is making Walker and Texas Ranger do community service, she asks "How many times are you going to throw me the radio when I'm in the bathtub?" Throwing electronics into a bathtub while someone in it can easily kill them.
    • Which means it's a damn good thing Ricky's mom whipped them into shape when she did. Without her giving them some much-needed discipline, it's very likely those two could have actually grown up to be full-on criminals.

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