Goofs for
Dazed and Confused (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The motorcyclist's shirt. While a similar design was used later by the Misfits, the design (if indeed it's the same skull) ultimately comes from the movie The Crimson Ghost (1946).
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the freshmen girls are being hazed, a red Trans Am is visible in the background with 1982 Camaro/Z28 rims, yet the film is set in 1976.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Mitch goes to purchase beer at the convenience store, a Coke dispenser with a logo first introduced in 1985 is visible.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Reflections visible in the car door when the guys pull up to buy beer.
  
  
• Continuity: When the guys go to buy beer at the gas/convenience store, they pull in about 20 feet away from the building. When the two get out and one stands guard the car is shown next to the store, and then when they run back to the car it is again about 20 feet away. The gun wielding man comes up to the car as they get in and then when they pull away the car is suddenly facing the road.
  
  
• Continuity: It goes from pitch black to twilight and back again several times during the scenes after the baseball game and before the party at the moon tower.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While O'Bannion flunked, the tassel on his mirror could have been purchased before that was known.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When driving to the outdoor party Wooderson and Benny are yelling at each other but the words don't match their mouths.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the driving scene that ends the film, the car that the main characters are in passes an Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was made after 1980, yet the movie takes place in 1976.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflection in classroom window at beginning of movie
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the freshman hazing, Simone is wearing tube socks with tennis shoes. Another girl is seen earlier wearing black pumps with no socks that some have confused with her.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pink and Slater stop by Pickford's house for the "business" there are large gaming dice on the base of the table, gone and then back again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dawson, Pink, and Mitch are cruising around with Pickford, Pink goes to pick up a trash can, but its Dawson's arm that grabs the can. Then Pink is shown in his windup.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the freshmen find out "Edgar got his brother's car," Edgar Pentico is wearing a KISS "Rock and Roll Over" t-shirt. That KISS album was released in November 1976. The movie is set in May 1976.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While one girl uses the word "Madonna" in conversation, this is not a reference to the pop singer.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The catcher's chest protector has pads for his shoulders. These were not made available until the mid-80's.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Hirschfelder is about to get beat up, he runs by a Waste Management dumpster. Waste Management did not exist until the late 1980s.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Pink is throwing trash cans out of the car you can see the wire attached to the car from the trailer it's riding on, also the tires aren't moving.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The 1972 Chevy truck that Benny and his friends drive has a late 1980s steering wheel (the movie is set in 1976).
  
  
• Continuity: When Dawson is talking to the freshman girl, the view from his front has his hands on his knees, but other shots have him with his hands in his lap.
  
  
• Continuity: When O'Bannion is caught by Carl's mother, he's shown holding his paddle with the FAH-Q side visible in his hand, then a shot later, with the O.B./Badass side towards the camera, and then back to the FAH-Q side.
  
  
• Continuity: When the freshman girl is "proposing" to Dawson, she is shown on her knees in one shot, then sitting, then back to her knees.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, Mitch Kramer is making out with the Sophomore girl next to her car and the sun has already come up. When he arrives at home after that has happened, it is still dark outside.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Pink throws the crumpled paper contract after talking to his coach with his right arm. Later after Mitch Kramer's baseball game, an old man grabs Pink's left arm and mentions that "will this arm" be able to throw 1,000 yards this season. Pink also uses his right arm to throw his keys to Wooderson when Wooderson goes to get the rolling papers from Pink's car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pink, Dawson, Mitch and Pickford are in Pickford's car throwing garbage cans at mailboxes, Dawson is first to throw a can followed by Pink. When Pink picks up the trashcan, it is still Dawson's arm and not Pink's. Dawson wears a dark green long-sleeve shirt, where pink wears a lavender shirt.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Mitch's sister, Julie and Mitch are talking at the party, Mitch's sister pats Julie on the back and she stumbles, revealing her "mark" a yellow "t" marked out in tape on the grass so she knows where to stand for the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie when they are smoking a joint on the football field, the long shot shows them all sitting about 20 yards from a large dead patch of grass, but in the close-up, Slater's head is almost in the dead spot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl's mom comes out and catches O'Banion, she orders Mitch and Carl into the house. We see Carl run in front of Mitch, but in the next shot (behind the mom) we see that Mitch enters the front door first.
  
  
• Continuity: O'Banion knocks Mitch and Carl's books out of their hands in front of Carl's house. In the next shot, the books are not on the ground.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When O'Banion and co. are chasing the freshmen, there is a clear shot through the truck window of a mid-'80s Chevy SUV parked on the street behind them.
  
  
• Continuity: When O'Bannion has the paint poured on him, the amount on his face changes from shot to shot
  
  
• Continuity: When Pink is given the pledge sheet by Dawson, outside the door the ground is wet and there is a dark and overcast, as if it has rained. Shots before and after this are dry and clear.
  
  
• Continuity: Jodi says she'll pick up Sabrina at 8:30 p.m., and when she does, it's dark. In late may in Austin, Texas, it doesn't get dark until after 9:00 p.m.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Hirschfelder, Carl and Tommy were walking together just before Carl throws the beer bottle, there is an early '80s Datsun 510 parked at the side of the street.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Simone says, "I did it when I was a freshman, and you'll do it when you're seniors. but you're doing great. Now fry like bacon, you little freshman piggies. Fry!" you can see a reflection in the window of a person crouching down signaling two extras to walk past in the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final scene where the gang is driving down the highway in Wooderson's Chevelle, the shots looking through the windshield into the car show the cowl induction flapper of the Chevelle hood open, if the motor was running the flapper would be closed (unless the engine was under full acceleration). The next shot through the windshield looking down the road shows it being closed.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Carl, Hirschfelder, and Tommy are walking away from a neighborhood street corner. In the background O'Bannion is approaching the corner. Before he passes the tree his duster is an orange color. After he passes the tree, it is a primer gray.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Pink first reads the pledge sheet that Dawson gave him, the word 'committed' is spelled 'commited'.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When O'Bannion, after dumping the paint, drives his car over a patch of grass, you can clearly hear a highly unappropriate tyre squeal noise.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Carl's mother tells O'Bannion to "get the hell off my property," her lips don't match "hell" - in fact, she says "get the fuck off my property."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Hirschfelder and Tommy are jumping from the roof after dumping paint on O'Bannion, the shadow of one of the stunt doubles can be scene even after the actors have jumped up to make their way down to street level.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where O'Bannion jumps out of the car to chase Mitch and Carl, you will hear the sounds of both cars speeding away, but if you actually watch behind O'Bannion, you will see that Benny's truck is still there, even after both tire squeal sounds can be heard, even after the rumbling sounds of the truck starts.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After pouring the paint and jumping off of the roof, when they get into the car, you can see the shadow of the camera men in the grass.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When buying the beer and chatting with the shop worker you don't hear the shop worker crumple the bag to roll the top portion but when you see it the beer is in the bag all ready to go.
  
  

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