Add toppings on pizza after ordering pizza?
I watched E.T., 1982 film. In the beginning of the film, several boys were playing a game on the table.
They ordered pizza over the telephone and one of these boys was given money and asked to go out and wait for the pizza.
As the boy goes out for the pizza, another boys says to the boy,

"Plenty of sausage and pepperonis!"
"Everything but the little fishies."

I don't understand. Why would the boys tell him about the toppings of pizza that they already ordered.
You can tell about toppings when you order pizza, right? It didn't seem that they were trying to kid him.
That's why I got puzzled. What do you think?

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Add toppings on pizza after ordering pizza?
I watched E.T., 1982 film. In the beginning of the film, several boys were playing a game on the table.
They ordered pizza over the telephone and one of these boys was given money and asked to go out and wait for the pizza.
As the boy goes out for the pizza, another boys says to the boy,

"Plenty of sausage and pepperonis!"
"Everything but the little fishies."

I don't understand. Why would the boys tell him about the toppings of pizza that they already ordered.
You can tell about toppings when you order pizza, right? It didn't seem that they were trying to kid him.
That's why I got puzzled. What do you think?

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Most likely it is a movie mistake. Maybe it was an earlier take where they did not order the pizza by phone and that the other kid had to pick it up instead of having it delivered and they forgot to edit this in the final movie. It happens quite often in movies and would be considered a continuity error. You can check this sort of things at www.imdb.com. They have a section that is called Goofs, so maybe it is mentioned there. Hope this helps!

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I think you are right to be puzzled. It doesn't make sense. You can't add toppings to a pizza after the fact. I think Angie's right, that it's just a mistake.

Yes, she's right:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/goofs

"Elliott is given money and told to wait for the pizza guy outside, indicating that the pizza is ordered and is on its way. But a line or two later, the boys ask him to make sure he orders lots of pepperoni and sausage. He is then seen outside meeting the driver at the foot of the driveway."

You'll see dozens of other goofs listed there. In the old days, people only saw movies once or twice in a theatre. Nowadays, when everyone has DVDs, fans watch movies over and over again and can spot even the smallest errors.

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i'm also i was confused . i really i dont know

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