Movie  Actor", Bruce Campbell mentioned that McCales crew were rarely  given specific instructions in many scenes other than to follow Tom  Arnold around. He and French Stewart were not given any direction at  all for their sequence in the talent show, so they scripted out a  vaudeville act using Naval and nautical terms all by themselves.  Despite this, most of their sequence ended up playing in the  background while the camera focused on Arnold and Debra Messing.