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Character error (1) |
Continuity (8) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Factual errors (1) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (1) |
Revealing mistakes (4)
Character error
During the final scene, Thornton Melon gives a speech as a freshman for the graduating seniors. However, even though he never attended college before, he is wearing not only graduation robes, but doctoral robes.
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Continuity
During the bar fight, Lou lifts up one of the fighters (who is wearing a red shirt and blue jacket). After he's thrown into the jukebox, he's wearing different clothing
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When the football team confronts Derek, Jason is standing more towards Lou near the booth. When the football player picks up Derek, Jason is now behind Derek. In the next shot when Thorton steps in, Jason is back near Lou.
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During the final dive sequence, Chas already has made one dive, but when he is about to make his second dive and gets cramps, his hair is perfectly dry and combed.
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The scenes at the college campus all have the trees in beautiful fall colors except the one in the diving scenes. These trees are all in a healthy summer green.
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When Chas and Valerie first show up at the caveman party, a girl in a pink outfit passes them and leaves the room. The scene then goes to a wide shot of the party, and the girl in pink is sitting on the couch. When it cuts back to Chas and Valerie, they walk into the room and past the couch, where there is no sign of the girl in pink.
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At the final dive meet Coach Turnbull is wearing a striped knit tie, while he is at the judges table explaining that Thornton is an eligible member of the dive team, the stripes on the knot of his tie change.
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During the final dive meet the diver who gets blinded by the mirror courtesy of Derrick has his appearance change from skinny with longer dark hair before the dive to a much stockier individual with short blonde hair during the dive.
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When Valerie and Chas arrive at the caveman party, the saber-tooth teeth on Valerie's necklace are all pointing outward as normal. In her closeup when she says "Jason said it would be great", the teeth on her left are pointed inward toward her chest. They then return to facing out in the next shot.
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Crew or equipment visible
When the party ends and Thornton is swimming a boom mic operator is visible. After he dives in the camera cuts out and you clearly see a boom mic operator in the window behind the pool. He's wearing a red shirt and clearly holding something.
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Factual errors
At one point in the movie, Dr. Barbay (Paxton Whitehead) is lecturing and clearly states that President Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard. That is incorrect. An economics professor should know that FDR took us off the Gold Standard to prevent a run on the banks.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
While there is a clear diving double for Rodney Dangerfield, there is too big of a difference to be accidental, it is clearly a joke.
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Revealing mistakes
When Thornton and Lou are making the Bruce Springsteen sign, the student at the table is supposed to be writing on a poster but the marker is clearly not touching the paper.
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When Jason is at the party before he goes outside and ends up hitting Chas, he is drinking beer from a bottle. When he exits the building, he is holding a can.
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When Thornton makes his first dive of the movie, he exits the pool on the ladder and there is clearly a cut in the film. He exits the pool dry, no water dripping anywhere.
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When Oingo Boingo performs at the party, the music is obviously the pre-recorded studio version of the song.
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