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• At the beginning of the movie, you see a close-up of flowers on a green field, and then the tanks roll over them. This resembles James Cameron's style (see also The Terminator (1984)).
  
  
• The robots are designed very similar to the large fighting machines in the future battle scenes in The Terminator (1984).
  
  
• Stephanie and Number 5 dance to a scene from Saturday Night Fever (1977) which was also directed by John Badham.
  
  
• This film was originally conceived as a dark high-tech thriller. Number 5 was originally intended to be the villain of the picture: an out-of-control, heavily-armed military robot that had escaped from the lab that had developed him. After several script revisions, the darker elements were toned down and the film became a high-tech comedy.
  
  
• Clips from several scenes not in the theatrical release can be seen during the closing credits, including an altercation between Number 5 and a toy robot and Number 5 in an auto scrap yard.
  
  
• The 3 Stooges short that #5 is watching is the end of Woman Haters (1934)
  
  
• The gangster movie featuring George Raft that Number 5 is watching, and later imitating (using Raft's famous "coin flipping") is Scarface (1932).
  
  
• In the scene when Stephanie finds Number 5 inside her truck, you can briefly see her address on her mailbox just beforehand. The mailbox reads "S. Speck, 3901 Misty Pines Ave".
  
  
• In this film and Short Circuit 2 (1988), Johnny 5's voice is provided by puppeteer Tim Blaney. This casting decision was made due to the director's belief that real-time interaction with the robot prop would make the interaction seem more natural on-screen than if they edited Johnny's voice in during post-production.
  
  
• Many of the little tricks done by Johnny 5 on-screen (like flipping through book pages in a blink of the eye and tossing a washer into the air in a mimic of a scene from an old gangster movie he saw) were done using relatively simple, yet ingenious sleight-of-hand prop effects. For instance, the pages were flipped using an air hose, while the washer was flipped using a piece of string at both ends sideways. Not only did this save money for the producers for the actual robot and the screenplay, but they proved remarkably effective in getting just the right look needed for the scenes.
  
  
• As per the original movie's attempt to portray a living robot in the "real world", every part of Johnny and his brethren was built to have a specific, logical purpose behind them; this was originally a source of contention between the director and the prop designer, the latter of whom insisted on giving Johnny "eyes" to give the character a method of visually expressing emotion. As a result, Johnny's iconic "eyelids" were created, with the explanation that they were sun guards/camera coverings.
  
  
• When this movie was released to Blu-Ray, it was remastered in 1080i high definition, but Blu-Ray quality is usually thought of as having full 1080p resolution.
  
  
• From the first movie to the second, Ben's last name changes.
  
  
• Newton "flips off" Ben (Fisher Stevens) with a mechanical hand. In My Science Project (1985) Vince (Stevens) did a similar gesture to a motorist tailgating him.
  
  
• When Number Five commandeered Ben and the Nova guard's truck, he hums the U.S. Marines anthem.
  
  
• Number 5's full designation is "SAINT Number 5". The acronym SAINT stands for "Strategic Artificially-Intelligent Nuclear Transport".
  
  
• There was a script for a possible third Short Circuit movie written in 1989 and rewritten in 1990, but it was found to be unsatisfactory by the producers, and the project was subsequently scrapped.
  
  

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