Matthew Broderick's dance moves were choreographed by Kenny Ortega (later, of Dirty Dancing (1987) fame). Much of it had to be scrapped though, as Broderick had injured his knee badly during the scenes of running through neighbors' backyards. "I was pretty sore", Broderick said. "I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there, but I couldn't do most of Kenny Ortega's knee spins and things like that, that we had worked on. When we did shoot it, we had all this choreography, and I remember John would yell with a megaphone, 'Okay, do it again, but don't do any of the choreography', because he wanted it to be a total mess." "Danke Schoen" was somewhat choreographed but for "Twist and Shout", Broderick said, "we were just making everything up". John Hughes explained that much of the scene was spontaneously filmed. "It just happened that this was an actual parade, into which we put our, unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the Governor."