Ed faints twice and each time his hat falls off and he reaches for it as he falls. If he had truly fainted, he would be unconscious and unable to do so.
Ralph wonders why anyone will believe Ed's claim of seeing a yellow-bellied sapsucker when according to Ralph, they shouldn't be within 30,000 miles of their location. The Earth's circumference is about 25,000 miles, so the furthest away a yellow-bellied sapsucker or anything else could be would be about 12,500 miles.
Correction: Ralph says there must be no yellow-bellied sapsuckers within 300,000 miles, not 30,000, obviously not a goof, it's just Ralph making an emphasis that those birds aren't anywhere near New York City, so no one would believe Norton saw two of them.
Correction: Ralph says there must be no yellow-bellied sapsuckers within 300,000 miles, not 30,000, obviously not a goof, it's just Ralph making an emphasis that those birds aren't anywhere near New York City, so no one would believe Norton saw two of them.
"Fortune" is an obvious prop, since it never moves during the entire sequence in which it is featured.
The estate was worth $40 million but only $75001 was given out at the reading of the will.