This End Up

In one of the opening scenes, Chunk establishes his signature clumsiness by dropping and breaking one of Mrs. Walsh's prized possessions: a porcelain statue of a naked dude.

We're sure she just really appreciates sculpture. Yeah, that's it.

The part that breaks off the statue is the, ahem…part that identifies it as a nude male form. When Chunk glues the missing piece back on, he does so upside-down.

An honest mistake, or a bit of symbolism?

The Goonies are all on the cusp of adulthood. They're getting their puberty on. This is going to mean pimples, growing pains, and everything that's covered in those handy-dandy What's Happening to My Body? books. Suffice it to say that the statue's transformation could be symbolic of the Goonies going from boys to men.

We see them grow up before our very eyes. And this statue visual gag might have been the writer's little nod to the boys' growing maturity.