The opening scene depicts the characters waiting in the wings of the stage with Santos on stage right and Vinick on stage left. In the following scene, the candidates enter the stage from the opposite side, Santos enters from the left and Vinick enters from the right.
When Vinick says: "The same people who told you we were gonna run out of oil by the end of the twentieth century are now trying to scare us with global warming", he forgets to say theories at the end, but Santos still responds "Theories?!".