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Van Wilder (2002) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The top button of Richard Bagg's shirt during the final exam alternates between open and closed between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Van's doodle repeatedly flips over between shots when Van visits Gwen in the women's locker room.
  
  
• Continuity: Van's right hand is alternately on/off of steering wheel knob between shots when Gwen, with a rain coat on, meets Van in the golf cart.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the nerds are playing Ms. Pac Man, we hear the sound of Pac-Man dying when Ms. Pac Man dies.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The sound made by the buttons on the Sony 900mHz phone that Van uses to call Gwen is of a higher pitch than the sound the phone really makes.
  
  
• Continuity: Gwen's hair moves around between shots when she is walking with Van trying to convince him to let her do the article on him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Richard Bagg defecates in the trash can towards the end, his shirttail alternates from outside the can to inside.
  
  
• Continuity: Taj's right arm when he, Van, and Hutch are riding in the golf cart.
  
  
• Continuity: When Van and Gwen are talking in the ice rink, the positioning of Gwen's face changes from looking at Van to looking down, to looking straight ahead.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Burned money is still legal tender as long as 51% is identifiable. the US treasury has a department that investigates damaged money and will issue replacements for the damaged money. Van shouldn't have to worry about needing more money.
  
  
• Continuity: Gwen's left arm in class before Van hands her a raincoat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Van is getting ready to run the Naked Mile Run, he supposedly takes off his underwear. However, his underwear is still showing after that shot.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Taj is getting ready to give Naomi a massage, she tells him she likes the song on the stereo. Taj replies "It is the White Barry" (meaning Barry White). It's actually a song called "Stumblin' In" performed by Suzie Quatro and Chris Norman.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie their is a kid about to jump to his death at the top of one of the campus buildings. When Van approaches him to talk him down he has his hands crossed behind his back. In the next shot they are on his hips (apparently so that we can see that he has no pants on). One shot later, from the front view, his hands are folded behind his back again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gwen sees Van naked while modeling, she is surprised by how he looks. However, she already knows what he looks like naked because she was at the Naked Mile Run.
  
  
• Factual errors: The calculus equation, *Integral*(dx/(x-x^)4/3)))=3Ln((x^(1/3))/(1-x^(1/3))+C, has no solution. In the movie, they say x=6, however, that is not the answer.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During Van's halftime speech, he says how he is going to invite girls from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts, yet the logo on the basketball court is for the Big Sky, a conference in the Northwestern United States
  
  
• Continuity: When Richard and Gwen are finished having sex, he puts his pants on while he's still lying on the bed. In the next shot he gets up and puts his underwear on again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Van is telling Taj that he can no longer afford to pay for his services, Hutch and the dog change positions many times.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Naomi is taking off her shirt on the bed with Taj, you hear audio of her talking but her mouth is closed.
  
  
• Continuity: In the girls locker room Van Wilder holds up a yellow paper sheet. Seen from the front it is serrated. When clipping to a hind view the paper shifts to having a straight edge.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Gwen calls Van toward the end of the movie and he unplugs the phone, you hear a dial tone on her end of the phone. If you unplug a phone, the person on the other end will just hear it continue to ring. It would not disconnect the call.
  
  

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