The new gas station seen uses a digital price board which weren't used or popular during that point in the 90's.
The "corn fields" where some of the show occurs and the cops drive through are actually sugarcane fields as this was filmed in Louisiana.
The "ocean" the kids visit is Lake Pontchartrain in Mandeville, La. You can see cypress trees in the near background, which don't grow on any ocean beach in North America.