And Arnold didn't find the frogs - Maria did. What we didn't realize was that Arnold's wife, Maria Shriver, was visiting that weekend.
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He told us to help him gather up the frogs, and we put them in Arnold's room. "So, of course, Stan assumed Arnold had put the frogs in his room. When Stan got back to his room, after a couple of minutes we could hear him yelling: 'Frogs! Frogs! There're frogs in my room! Who put frogs in my room?' And we stuck our heads in, all innocently, asking, 'Stan, what happened?' He said: 'Somebody put frogs in my room - and I know who did it! Arnold!'" "Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan were always playing practical jokes on each other," continued Landon. Then we hid and stood back to hear what would happen. So some of us went down and gathered up a bunch of these frogs - which were huge, half a loaf of bread in size - and filled the shower stall in Stan's room with them.
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"The hotel where we were staying in Mexico was right at the edge of a forest," Richard Landon recalled, "and on the lawn were hundreds of frogs hopping out of that forest. Working extremely long and hard days and nights in these conditions, Stan Winston's crew found release in practical jokes. Gunfire from Guatemalan rebels could be heard at night, and poisonous snakes often invaded the production camp.