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Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Boom mic visible (1) |
Character error (1) |
Continuity (9) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Factual errors (1) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (1) |
Revealing mistakes (6)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Farmer Ted is driving Caroline around she says, "Looks like rain! Time to put the top up!" her mouth is just laughing, not speaking.
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Boom mic visible
When Sam is talking to her mom in the kitchen, you can see the shadow of the boom mic on the cabinet between them.
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Character error
When Samantha is in independent study, the questionnaire that she is filling out says "CONFIDENTAIL" on the top.
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Continuity
When Sam is lying on the couch, talking to her father, her blanket changes positions.
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When Caroline and Jake are slow dancing at the school dance, Caroline's hair changes between shots.
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When Jake Ryan goes to Sam's house looking for her, and Long Duck Dong answers the door, the hot water bottle Long is holding moves from the top of his head to the side of his neck, and back.
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Sam puts a can of Diet Coke on her lunch food tray in the school cafeteria, but when she enters the lunch room with her friend, she clearly has a regular can of Coke on her food tray.
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Jake won't let Ted drive his car, a Porsche, because Ted doesn't know how to drive a stick (manual transmission). Near the movie's end, Jake sees Ted and Caroline in the church parking lot and stops his Porsche to look. When he continues forward and turns into a parking space he can be seen bringing the shifter backwards. This would indicate an automatic transmission. A manual transmission would require him to shift forward, into first gear.
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When Long Duck Dong answers the door the top left glass is clear and the right is frosted, then the left becomes frosted after opening the door. From the outside.
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When Jake puts Carolyn in the Rolls Royce, he clearly puts her legs inside the car. Yet before he lets Ted leave he puts her legs in before he shuts the door.
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When the grandparents are in Samantha's room sleeping and the phone wakes them up, the phone is in one position, Grandma hangs it up, and the receiver is different than before. Then when they answer it again it is in a different position. Then they have the phone on the bed.
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In the night scenes with the Rolls Royce, Caroline's hair has not been cut yet. The same is also true when she is talking to Jake in the church parking lot near the end of the movie.
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Crew or equipment visible
When Jake Ryan and his friend are doing fake pull-ups in the gym, and they pull back, you can see the dolly track. (Full-screen version only)
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The scene where Samantha gets off the bus and is talking to Randy through the bus window you can see the extras who got off the bus in the reflection of the of windows.
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Factual errors
The character Long Duk Dong is referred to as a "Chinaman" throughout the film, however the incidental music and sound effects played during his scenes are all Japanese music, including the pop song "Turning Japanese". Moreover, in the tree scene, Dong is wearing his clothes and hair in traditional Japanese fashion while shouting "banzai" (a Japanese military expression). Whether or not these goofs were meant by the producers to be an intentionally ambiguous stereotype of Asians is unknown.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When the second nerd is removed from the seniors' trunk, it appears the senior is lifting out a dummy, but in fact, the actor just stiffened his body. You can see him blinking.
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Revealing mistakes
When Caroline shows Farmer Ted the locks of hair that got cut off, they are much longer and darker than the section missing from the back of her head.
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When Caroline steps out of the Rolls-Royce, you can tell that she stepped onto a box or platform before walking off.
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In the school auto shop when Farmer Ted tries to get into the car with Sam, he can't open the door because it is locked and Sam had to reach over to unlock the door for him. There is no door post for the lock to engage, so even if the door was locked, it would still swing freely.
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When the family is leaving for the wedding, the grandparents all pile into the car, but it was not large enough to accommodate the group. Grandma Baker squats near the passenger door to create the impression that she is sitting in the car. However, when the car is backing out of the driveway, you briefly see her curved back remain stationary while the car moves away from her.
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In the opening sequence, a geek is having trouble opening the pad lock on his locker. When the locker is finally opened, some of the objects that fall out are obviously falling from overhead and not from the locker.
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When Ted and Carolyn are driving down the road, just after she makes the top go up and down, there is no rear view mirror. There is a bracket for one, but no mirror.
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