While riding the pocket bikes down the hotel stairs, the female's right shoe falls off and she does not stop to pick it up. She is later seen wearing both shoes.
When Linahan is following the suspect, the distance between her motorcycle and his car changes noticeably between shots, and the headlight of the motorcycle is on then off.
The same yellow Datsun Z-car with a black rear spoiler is seen in the beginning sitting in traffic at the crash at the red light, and then when the Cadillac is being pursued towards the end, it appears again. It is shown being passed by the Cadillac twice during the pursuit- the Cadillac passes it, then it is seen pulled to the curb for the police, and then the Cadillac passes it again as if it had not pulled over.
While proper police procedure is shown during the arrest of the couple by covering the rear exit, Poncherello fails to handcuff the male suspect, who had held a police officer at gunpoint during the robbery. Instead, he lets him look at the parking ticket and engages him in casual conversation.
The wiring for the traffic signal controller box is shown to have been disconnected, yet a technician is seen working on the signal itself using an aerial bucket. Traffic signals are controlled by the controller box, so no work on the actual signal would be required to repair the stated damage.
A modern racing pocket bike has a top speed of about 80 MPH with regular versions having a top speed of around 50 MPH. A police KZ1000 had a top speed of about 130 MPH. An older pocket bike could not outperform the police bikes as shown during the pursuit.
The popular ramp vehicle is used for the first crash where the two vehicles go up and over it. The end of the ramp is visible behind the blue car just before the impact. Additionally, a roll cage is visible in the car on the left side of the screen after it lands upright.
The Cadillac Foxes have three members: a singer, a guitarist, and keyboardist; yet when they are playing in the club, the song they are playing very clearly includes a bass guitar. There's no way the two members with instruments could be playing the music heard.
In the parking structure the pocket bikes pass the same parked cars twice even though they are going down one level each time. Additionally, the first car they passed, a brown Datsun 200SX, appears behind them even though they had passed a second car after passing the Datsun. They end up passing this Datsun a total of four times in the parking garage as it appears again as they are exiting the garage. It later appears and is passed twice as they are being pursued. This indicates the same footage was used to save money.
The stolen van fleeing from the police has a television/boxes thrown out the back to slow the police down but wooden debris is seen on the road (just before the car crash) from a previous take.
The pocket bikes would be incapable of performing a jump that spanned the distance shown between the buildings. As was shown when they were practicing the jump with the bikes on the test course at about the same speed, the bikes would cover a few feet. Additionally, since they had no working suspension, upon landing from such a height they would crash and severely injure the rider.
While chasing the stolen van, Poncherello call in an 11-82- an accident with property damage- at Oak and Vine yet never says they are pursuing a stolen vehicle.
Poncherello and Bobby Nelson are seen asking Getraer to allow them to follow up with the singer regarding the stolen van. Contrary to prior occurrences involving non-CHP investigative activity by patrol officers Poncherello and Nelson, to include use of an orangutan, Getraer initially tells them to get back on patrol in West LA since that is their assignment. Unlike the offbeat activity Poncherello and Nelson usually got involved with, the CHP does in fact investigate auto thefts and hit and run crashes. Since the singer had property damaged by the van, the CHP would speak to her and get her information.
When the Cadillac is being towed and is stopped by Poncherello and Nelson, the singer says the battery died and they should not have plugged their guitars into the car for the earlier performance. In the earlier scene, a power cord was shown running across the sidewalk, so the power supplied did not come from the car. If they had drained the battery there, the car would have failed to start there. Had they jump started it, then the battery would have been charging while driving the car.