Short Circuit/Trivia

"Ben: Bakersfield, originally. Newton: No, I mean your ancestors. Ben: Oh, them. Pittsburgh."
 * Fake Nationality: Fisher Stevens, who played Ben, is very, very white. Not Indian. Lampshaded when Newton asks where's he's from.

"Fred: "Well, I left mine in the Mercedes!""
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Max is the creator of the SAINT robots.
 * Technology Marches On:
 * In the second movie, when Johnny Five first meets Benjamin, he happily shows off all his newest features, including among them "500 megabytes of storage". 500 megabytes was indeed a lot of hard drive space in 1988, when Short Circuit 2 was in theaters, but ten years later, we know that Johnny has about enough memory to store a decent but by no means flawless copy of the movie he currently stars in.
 * The Italian adaptation got a Lucky Translation here. Translated back into English, Johnny 5 says he has "improved memory, 500 megabytes online", without any mention of storage, which leads viewers to think he was talking about RAM, not hard drive space. Of course, technology has still marched on from computers with 512 megabytes of RAM, but it took a lot more time.
 * For a more justifiable version of this trope, see Benjamin's lament that neither he nor Fred is carrying a phone.


 * What Could Have Been: A Short Circuit 3 was planned, in which Johnny would have entered himself in Battlebots! to gain money.