While the three girls drive to San Diego, the hamster running in the wheel switches from one direction to another.
The news station would have right to touch and present the cinnamon bun scented candle on air, as it is tampering with evidence left behind from a crime.
It would have been illegal and impossible to drive in the storm without windscreen wipers.
Guest star Willow Geer is listed in the credits as William Geer.